Last week, the Department of Justice finally got around to
releasing over 3,000,000 pages of records related to their
Jeffrey Epstein investigations. This massive data dump, which
includes everything from emails to vacation photos, was intended
to be the final word on a scandal that has lingered over
the global establishment like a particularly persistent bad
smell. The files read like a who's who
of the people who run the world. We have two US presidents, a
rotating cast of British and European Royals, and almost
every significant name in business law and high finance.
Many people who claimed that they only had tangential
relationships with Epstein were shown to be a lot closer than
they had admitted. It would appear that the tech
elites had to invent AI chat bots to replace Epstein, but
while he was alive, he seems to have been the person they turned
to to get their questions answered.
The release of these documents was once again a total mess.
It's worth noting that unlike Jeffrey Epstein parties, to open
the files you had to confirm that you were over the age of
18. On the first day of the release,
the DOJ website featured a convenient Download All button
that allowed journalists to grab the entire data set all at once.
Once the department realized that people were actually using
it, that button was removed, replaced by a system that
requires you to download files 1 by 1.
Files have been appearing and disappearing.
If you read a document and didn't save it, there was a good
chance that when you went back later it would be gone.
A document known as EFTA 0166067, which contained a list
of unverified FBI tips about the US President, briefly became the
most famous PDF on the Internet before it was scrubbed from the
site the next morning. As of this recording, it has not
been re uploaded. The DOJ later explained that
they were rectifying redaction errors, so maybe it'll reappear
soon. The first big scandal to break
was about Bill Gates, where we learned about a more practical
side to his relationship with Epstein.
In two frantic typo written emails that Epstein sent to his
own inbox in 2013, he appeared to suggest that Mister Gates
contracted an STD from Russian girls and asked Jeffrey to get
him antibiotics so that he could secretly give them to his then
wife Melinda. Epstein also claimed to have
provided Adderall to Gates for his bridge tournaments.
Gates has denied these claims, saying that they are the work of
a disgruntled liar who was upset at being cut off.
If it's true, though, it's a damning indictment of the way
the American healthcare system works, where even one of the
wealthiest men in the world couldn't get a doctor's
appointment and had to go to a convicted sex offender for his
basic healthcare needs. I wonder if Warren Buffett,
Gates's bridge partner, found it frustrating having to listen him
talking at a mile a minute, all hopped up on speed.
We'll never know. Despite all of the headlines,
this wasn't by any means a full release.
The DOJ said that they had over 6,000,000 pages of records, but
they've only handed over about 3 1/2 million.
The missing records include bank and brokerage records, along
with communications with foreign governments and basically the
things that people were actually looking for.
Lawmakers have pointed out that the law forbids redacting files
just to a avoid reputational harm or due to political
sensitivity. The DOJ seems to have treated
those guidelines as mere suggestions.
The redactions themselves are frankly bizarre.
In many cases, the same document has been uploaded multiple times
with completely different redactions each time.
We've seen instances where a case number is blacked out in
one version but visible in another, and the only thing that
was supposed to be redacted was victim names.
My personal favorite was the decision in one file to redact
the JP from JP Morgan, presumably to protect the
privacy of a multibillion dollar investment bank that has been a
household name for over a century.
On top of that, there's the sheer sloppiness of the work.
The New York Times and the AP found that the Department of
Justice had accidentally released unredacted photos of
victims, including some who had never come forward publicly.
Once they were informed about their mistake, they pulled those
files. But it's a bit rich to hear the
government talk about protecting victims while they're busy
publishing their private photos to a global audience while
blacking out the names of Epstein's suspected Co
conspirators. The law also stated that every
redaction had to come with a written justification.
So far, those explanations are nowhere to be found.
Instead, we still have entire 100 page files that are just
solid black blocks, even for documents held back for national
security purposes. The DOJ was supposed to provide
unclassified summaries, another requirement that appeared have
been filed in the same place. They keep the download all
button. This doesn't actually feel like
a true effort of transparency. As a comment on one of my
earlier videos said, Oh no, they're finding needles.
Quick, add more. Hey.
The Epstein files began with the work of Marie Villafana, the
original lead prosecutor, who, unlike her superiors, actually
seemed interested in doing her job.
By May 2007, Villafana had put together an 82 page prosecution
memo and a 53 page draft indictment that would likely
have ended Jeffrey Epstein's crimes and abuse.
Villafana didn't just focus on the abuse.
She followed the money, broadening the investigation to
include money laundering and the operation of an unlicensed money
transmitting business. She subpoenaed Epstein's banks
for records about his financial activity and even contacted his
most important client, the billionaire Les Wexner, to ask
about their business arrangements.
Bloomberg reports that this sent Epstein into a total tailspin.
He fired off a series of typo laden emails to his lawyers, who
began a campaign to have Villafana removed from the case.
They argued that her tactics were unduly invasive, that she
was pursuing baseless claims to pressure their client into a
plea deal, and pressured her supervisors to remove her and
others from the case or throw the case out altogether.
The most remarkable part of this story isn't that Epstein tried
to stop her, it's that it worked.
Despite the prosecutor warning her superiors that Epstein was a
continuing threat, she was ordered to stop her
investigation and begin plea negotiations.
The result was the infamous sweetheart deal overseen by Alex
Acosta, which not only gave Epstein a few months in a county
jail, but also provided blanket immunity to any potential Co
conspirators, essentially turning the US Justice
Department into a private security firm for Epstein's
entire social network. You might look at this deal and
think, well, I guess this happened because he was really
politically connected. He was good friends with Bill
Clinton at this point in time. He had visited Clinton in the
White House and they've been jet setting around the world for
close to a decade. By that.
That doesn't really add up. However, as connected as Epstein
was, he wouldn't have been nearly as connected as Dennis
Hastert was. Hastert had been a congressman
for 20 years and was the sixth longest serving Speaker of the
House in history. By the time FBI discovered that
he was a serial child molester, the statute of limitations had
run out on his actual crimes. But rather than giving him a
sweetheart deal, the DOJ used financial technicalities to put
him behind bars in 2015, convicting him for the way he
structured his hush money payments to his victims.
Political connections don't explain Epstein's sweetheart
deal. There had to be something more.
If political connections don't explain how Epstein remained
untouchable, maybe we should look at his more hands on
approach to reputation management.
One of the most famous stories about Epstein involves Vanity
Fair editor and chief Graydon Carter.
In 2003, while reporter Vicki Ward was working on a profile of
Epstein and interviewing the Farmer sisters who had first
reported Epstein to the FBI in 1996, Epstein decided to take
the editorial process into his own hands.
Early one morning, Carter arrived at his office to find
Epstein already there, standing alone in the reception area.
Epstein reportedly spent that morning and many subsequent
phone calls torturing and berating Carter, demanding that
he published nothing about Epstein's involvement with
teenage girls. When the verbal abuse didn't
work, the threats became more physical.
A live bullet was left on Carter's doorstep in Manhattan,
and shortly after, the severed head of a dead cat was found in
the yard of his country home. While there was no evidence that
this was done by Epstein, the message was apparently clear
enough that Vanity Fair decided to scrub the abuse allegations
from the final article. Well, this mob style
intimidation might have worked on a journalist.
It's not reasonable to believe that it would have intimidated
the FBI, who around the same time were busy conducting the
largest mafia takedown in the agency's history.
They rounded up 127 members of the five mob families in New
York. They were hunting down Whitey
Bulger, who they believed had been involved in 19 murders.
It's hard to believe that the same federal agents who were
unfazed by violent killers were somehow terrified of a creepy
pedo whose primary method of intimidation was showing up
early for a meeting and leaving a dead house pet on a porch.
It's not exactly The Godfather. This leads us to another popular
theory that people have discussed for years, that
Epstein wasn't just a well connected predator, but an
intelligence asset. A journalist named Vicki Ward
wrote an article for The Daily Beast in 2019 which said that
Alex Acosta told investigators that the case was above his pay
grade because Epstein belonged to intelligence, a claim that he
has since denied. A newly released document file.
EFTA 00090314 gives us a look at why that theory might have had
some weight within the FBI. This is an FD1023A form that the
FBI uses to record information from a confidential human source
according to the Attorney General's guidelines.
ACHS is someone believed to be providing useful and credible
information. Though the FBI notes that these
reports are often unverified raw intelligence, this particular
source makes some staggering claims.
They allege that Alan Dershowitz specifically told Acosta that
Epstein belonged to both US and allied intelligence services.
The document goes even further, claiming that Epstein had
trained as a spy under former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Barack. The document doesn't just
implicate Epstein either. The source claims that
Dershowitz himself was Co opted by Mossad and that Mossad would
call Dershowitz to debrief him after his phone calls with
Epstein. The document even manages to
implicate the White House, alleging that Donald Trump had
been compromised by Israel and that Jared Kushner, a former
student of Dershowitz's, was the real brains behind the
operation. Now we have to take these claims
with a massive grain of salt. One of the strange things about
this document is that it refers to previous reports, which don't
appear to be included in the files.
Based on what I can find online, a confidential source can range
from a highly placed operative to someone who just enjoys
sharing gossip on encrypted messaging apps.
But the fact that the FBI was recording these allegations of
foreign influence on U.S. officials by Israel, Russia and
the UAE as late as October 2020 shows that the intelligence
angle may not have been just a conspiracy theory.
But without more information, it's impossible to know.
If you're looking for a reason to appreciate your own
neighbors, even the ones who practice the drums at 2:00 in
the morning, you might want to take a look at Commerce
Secretary Howard Lutnick's block on the Upper East Side of
Manhattan. Jeffrey Epstein lived right next
door to him in a massive 7 story townhouse and Bill Cosby lived
right across the road. Woody Allen lived just one St.
away and was constantly dropping by Epstein's house with his wife
slash daughter to visit. I imagine that living on a
street like that, you'd hire armed guards to bring your kids
back and forth to school. Lutnick recently gave an
interview on a podcast called Pod Force One, describing how he
and his wife once visited Epstein's home for a tour around
the time he moved into the neighborhood, only to be shown a
massage room and hear a comment so revolting that they decided
in the six to eight steps it took to get back to their own
house that they would never be in a room with Epstein again.
Lutnick forgot to mention in that interview that the prior
owner of his house had been Jeffrey Epstein, and that the
real estate records show that the transfer was listed for $10
and other valuable consideration.
Now this was back in 1998 when house prices were a lot lower
than they are today, and it might have been cheap because of
the dodgy neighbors, but it's still a remarkably good deal for
a Manhattan townhouse. Howard tells a very compelling
story on the podcast of his moral clarity, but the files
suggest that this wasn't his last run in with Epstein.
The new documents include emails from 2012 showing Lutnick and
his family planning a visit to Epstein's private island on
their yard. Epstein's assistant even sent a
follow up e-mail on Christmas Eve that year saying nice seeing
you. This was four years after
Epstein guilty plea, meaning that Lutnick, who lived right
next door, would have received the mandatory notification that
a registered sex offender was his neighbor under New York law.
Now in that neighborhood, those notifications possibly pile up
on your doorstep like take out menus, but it's quite a
challenge to maintain that I barely knew the guy defense when
you're sharing a wall, getting killer real estate deals and
visiting his island on vacation. Another piece of neighborhood
gossip that I haven't seen much news about is found in an FBI
e-mail summary document, EFTA 01648951, which contains the
allegation that Lutnick made his money through Ponzi schemes and
money laundering, and says that Epstein sold Lutnick a home for
$10 that was worth millions. I've googled the name of the man
who made that allegation and didn't find anything.
Now, Woody Allen does show up a lot in the Epstein files, and it
seems that he and Epstein were good friends and hung out a lot
together. There's no evidence in there
that Allen cheated on his daughter or anything like that,
so I suppose that that's good. It shouldn't necessarily come as
a surprise that Jeffrey Epstein's social Ponzi scheme,
as his network is described by the FT, eventually found its way
into the world of cryptocurrency.
This brings us right back to Jeff's neighbor, Howard Lutnick.
Aside from being the current US Commerce Secretary, Lutnick's
firm, Cantor Fitzgerald acts as the primary custodian for the
reserves of Tether, the world's largest crypto stable coin.
Heather was Co founded by Brock Pierce, a former child actor
from the Mighty Ducks. Don't worry though, he's not a
child anymore and he successfully transitioned into a
career as a crypto mogul. The newly released files show
that Pearce and Epstein were in regular contact for years,
exchanging emails that jumped between high level investment
advice and more social invitations.
In one e-mail from 2018, Pearce reportedly invited Epstein to
Antigua for a boat trip featuring what he described as
Ukraine's finest. Now, not wanting to jump to
conclusions, I did a quick Google search and it seems that
Ukraine is most famous for borscht, so that's probably what
Brock was talking about. I won't lie, it seems like a
terrible idea to eat beetroot soup on a boat, but it's not
illegal, especially in international waters.
It appears that through Pierce, Epstein managed to secure a
$3,000,000 stake in the crypto exchange Coinbase back in 2014.
This turned out to be one of the few times Epstein's financial
genius actually resulted in a profit.
He sold half of that stake in 2018 for $15 million, and the
remaining half of that position will have doubled in value again
by the time of Coinbase's IPO. While the world of crypto was
busy out at sea eating soup, the traditional banking sector was
having a much harder time explaining its own paperwork.
One of the more interesting parts of this release is the
inclusion of Suspicious Activity Reports, or SAR.
These documents are pretty much never revealed to the public.
I can't think of a prior example.
They aren't entered into evidence in court, and you can't
even access them through a FOIA request.
They are submitted by financial institutions to the Financial
Crimes Enforcement Network Bureau of the Department of the
Treasury to report suspected money laundering, fraud, or
violations of the Bank Secrecy Act.
It's illegal to disclose to the customer.
That an SAR has been filed, a concept known as tipping off.
The files reveal that major financial institutions were
flagging Epstein's accounts for suspected human trafficking and
money laundering long before his 2019 arrest.
Last year, a British court heard that Jess Staley, then a top
executive at JP Morgan, had lobbied for the bank to keep
Epstein as a client in 2011 when other executives considered
debanking him over their human trafficking concerns. the FT
points out that while they were worried about having him as a
client, it wasn't until 2019 that they finally filed A
suspicious activity report over their concerns.
The 2019 SAR flagged transactions with leading Wall
Street figures including Leon Black, the Co founder of the
private equity group Apollo Global Management.
People have pointed to an e-mail that Epstein sent to himself
about Bill Gates, the one I mentioned earlier, as possible
evidence of him bribing his wealthy friends.
But the best example of using information to leverage a client
that I could see in the files relates to Leon Black.
In 2013, when Black seemed reluctant to pay an inexplicably
large fee to Epstein, Epstein reminded him.
Leon, as you're well aware, there's little I won't do for
you and a great deal that I've already done, both known and
some things that will need to remain unknown.
Black went on to pay Epstein over $150 million for tax advice
that a congressional committee later described as being
information that was already in the public domain or already
provided by Black's lawyers. Black has told the press through
his lawyers that there's absolutely no truth to any
allegations of misconduct against him.
The latest files show that in the years following his Florida
plea deal, Jeffrey Epstein and his celebrity friends went to
extraordinary lengths to launder his reputation.
This wasn't just a matter of hiring a publicist, it was a
multi $1,000,000 high tech effort to convince the world
that Jeffrey was actually a misunderstood Wall Street
renaissance man. The man leading the digital
scrub was a bizarre character called Al Sekel, who described
himself as a popularizer of visual illusions and a cognitive
scientist. In truth, he had no real
qualifications, but he somehow managed to marry Isabel Maxwell,
Shalane Maxwell's sister and the daughter of the press Baron
Robert Maxwell. Sekel was given the job by
Epstein, A burying articles that used pesky words like pedophile
and replacing them with headlines about Epstein
philanthropic work and his promotion of scientists.
He wrote to Epstein about how he had hacked Epstein's Wikipedia
page to swap his arrest mug shot for a more dignified photograph,
a move his team described as an important victory.
Segal organized an event called the Mind Shift Conference, which
was supposed to be a highbrow gathering of Nobel laureates on
Epstein's island in 2011. If you could get enough famous
scientists to eat soup on your boat, people might eventually
forget about the 82 page prosecution memo sitting in a
drawer in Florida. In a story full of mysterious
endings, Seckles is one of the strangest.
He seems to have died in France in 2015 after falling or jumping
from a Cliff near his home. Because his death remained
unconfirmed by authorities for some time time, rumors have
persisted that he may have faked his own death, which, for a man
who made a career out of visual illusions and cleaning up
inconvenient online footprints, would have been the perfect
ending. The scrubbing didn't stop with
Google searches. Steve Bannon, the former Trump
strategist, worked with Epstein, strategizing and filming A
sympathetic documentary. Around 2019, the Department of
Justice released about two hours of this footage in the files,
footage which was intended to portray Epstein as a financial
genius who had simply made one understandable mistake.
According to the files, Bannon even suggested that Woody Allen
could help edit the film. Epstein's calendar shows nearly
100 scheduled meetings with Allen, including trips to a film
centre specifically to watch Allen edit.
It's a touching vision of an artistic collaboration, a
populist media firebrand, and a legendary director teaming up to
help a convicted sex offender Polish his public image.
Amusingly, some people seem to be falling for this propaganda.
You can see quite a few positive comments under the videos posted
on YouTube. Epstein also received a lot of
helpful advice from his famous friends about how to deal with
his PR problems. The linguist Noam Chomsky, who
described his weekends with Epstein as wonderful, advised
him in 2019 to simply ignore the growing press scrutiny.
He characterized the reporting as a form of hysteria, a take so
tone deaf it suggests that even the world's most famous
intellectual can lose the plot when billionaire funded dinners
are on the line. Even the legal advice was
specialized. A protege of Alan Dershowitz is
named Mitch Weber, who later worked in the Trump
administration, emailed Epstein to go over the legality of
transporting a minor for the purposes of sex to jurisdictions
where the age of consent was below 18.
Catherine Ruemmler of former White House attorney gave
Epstein advice on what Trump should say if he was ever asked
about his associations with Epstein.
And for the final touch of PR, Polish Sir Richard Branson
reportedly suggested a strategy where Bill Gates would vouch for
Epstein as a brilliant advisor. The idea was that if enough
people like Gates and Branson were willing to look past the
slip up, the rest of the world would eventually do the same.
It seems that in Epstein's circle, due diligence didn't
mean checking for crime, it meant checking if of your
friends were famous enough to make the crimes disappear.
Now, while everyone has been busy talking about the files,
it's worth keeping in mind that the official position of the US
government is unchanged. The FBI are saying that their
systematic review revealed no incriminating client list and
that they didn't uncover any evidence that could predicate an
investigation against uncharged third parties.
It is a remarkably strong statement, especially since the
Metropolitan Police in London seem to have looked at the exact
same data but with reductions, and reached a very different
conclusion. Earlier this week, the Met
launched a criminal investigation into Peter
Mandelson for misconduct in public office, a charge that in
the UK can carry a sentence of life imprisonment.
Mandelson, who was once the business secretary and a key
architect of the Labour Party, has long been known as the
Prince of Darkness for his ability to survive political
scandal. But even for him, this might be
the end of the road. The files reveal that while
Mandelson was a serving government minister, he was
providing Epstein with real time insight into market sensitive UK
policy. He sent emails to Epstein
containing confidential briefings on the 2008 financial
crisis, including early confirmation of a €500 billion
bailout and discussions on how the UK's bankers bonus tax would
be designed. This sort of information could
have been used for insider trading by Epstein.
In one e-mail, Mandelson even suggested that the head of JP
Morgan should mildly threatened the UK Chancellor over those
rules. The Mandelson Epstein
relationship had a more personal financial side to it too.
Bank records show that Epstein wired £10,000 to Mandelson's
then partner, now husband, to pay for an osteopathy cord.
For those of you outside the UK, an osteopath is some sort of a
witch doctor. In an e-mail from 2009,
Mandelson even reminded Epstein to label the transfer as a loan
to avoid a gift tax filing. The fallout from these witch
doctor tuition fees has been total.
Mandelson has already resigned from the Labour Party and the
House of Lords. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who
appointed Mandelson as EU KS ambassador to Washington despite
knowing about the Epstein links, is now fighting for his
political life. This week, Starmer was forced to
apologize to Epstein victims, admitting that Mandelson had
repeatedly lied about the depth of of his relationship with the
financier. The fallout isn't limited to the
UK. In Slovakia, a former foreign
minister and advisor to the Prime Minister was forced to
resign this week after file showed him joking with Epstein
about gorgeous girls in Kiev. In Norway, police have opened an
aggravated corruption investigation into a former
Prime Minister looking into whether he received improper
gifts and loans from Epstein. Even in Turkey, prosecutors have
launched an inquiry into allegations that children were
trafficked into Epstein's network from Turkey.
It's a striking contrast in Europe and Asia, homes are being
raided and senior officials are resigning over the contents of
the files. Meanwhile, in Washington, law
enforcement authorities are still insisting that there's no
evidence of any wrongdoing. One might conclude that in the
business of political accountability, the Atlantic
Ocean acts as a very effective filter.
Elon Musk spent years denying any relationship with Jeffrey
Epstein while using Epstein's name to attack others.
He claimed that the photo of him which Elaine Maxwell was because
she had photo bombed him at a party.
He even used his Everything app, which can also be used for
tweets, to claim that Epstein tried repeatedly to get him to
visit the island, but that Musk had always refused.
The new files tell a very different story, where Elon's
name is mentioned more than 1000 times and instead of turning
down invitations, he's begging for them.
One of the funniest entries has Elon emailing Epstein on
Christmas morning, I imagine as his kids are opening their
gifts, to say that he wanted to hit the party scene and let
loose, specifically noting that a peaceful island experience is
the opposite of what he was looking for.
Epstein, ever the attentive host, warned that the ratio on
the island might make Musk's then wife uncomfortable, to
which Musk replied. Ratio is not a problem.
While Musk has since acknowledged the emails are
genuine, he maintains that they were misinterpreted and that he
ultimately never set foot on the island due to logistics.
In another e-mail, Musk seems angry to have been invited to an
event in New York where diplomats would be present.
Epstein calms him down by saying that there would be no one at
his party over the age of 25. And all are very cute.
After that, we have the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew,
who at this point King Charles must be booking in for a car
tour of Paris's tunnels. The files reveal that Epstein
was aggressively lobbying his favorite neighbor, Howard
Lutnick, to give Andrew a job or a lucrative role providing
introductions at Cantor Fitzgerald.
It's quite a look at the unseen mechanics of power a royal
Prince using a convicted sex offender as a headhunter to get
a job at a grubby Wall Street brokerage.
While Andrew's brother King Charles recently stripped him of
his royal titles and evicted him from his home at Royal Lodge,
the files still suggest that the rod went deep.
Amusingly, Andrew and Sarah Ferguson seem to have invited
Epstein, along with Harvey Weinstein and Jelaine Maxwell,
to their daughter's 18th birthday.
The only thing I can say about that is that maybe once girls
are over the age of 18, they're safe around that crew.
We've already seen emails from Andrew asking for inappropriate
friends, and photos that the Department of Justice has
finally released showed the Duke in various compromising
positions. It seems that whether you're a
tech billionaire or a member of the British royal family,
Jeffrey Epstein was the man who you turned to when you wanted to
find a party, a job, or a way to make the rules of normal society
simply disappear. While Jeffrey Epstein was busy
trying to convince the world that he was a philanthropist,
the latest files suggest that he was also pursuing a much darker,
almost sci-fi obsession, seeding the world with his own DNAA
bombshell e-mail from September 2011, sent by Sarah Ferguson
appears to confirm that Epstein may have actually succeeded in
fathering at least one child. Ferguson wrote to Epstein saying
that she had heard from the Duke, presumably Prince Andrew,
that Jeffrey had a baby boy. She even expressed hurt in
another e-mail that he had disappeared and hadn't told her
he was having a baby. The most horrific piece of
evidence is found in a document with the serial number EFTA
02731361. It reads like a private diary of
a trauma, written by a young victim who describes being
treated not as a person but as a biological asset.
The writer describes being under the constant control of Jelaine
Maxwell. The document is filled with
confusion and fear. It's really the stuff of
nightmares. I would strongly advise against
reading it. The victim describes being made
to feel like a human incubator and mentions Epstein's obsession
with a superior gene pool. Most chillingly, she describes
giving birth and having a child immediately taken away by a man
she refers to as Mr. MI. Only got 10 to 15 minutes to
hold and feed her before they took her, She writes.
She is mine and I want her back. This diary, if that's what it
is, includes clippings about child trafficking and 21st
century slavery. It paints a picture of these
people, Epstein, Maxwell, and whoever else was involved, who
viewed other human beings as mere property to be exploited
for their own insane ends. It's a stark and horrifying
reminder of the misery these people inflicted on others.
I'm really not sure what to make of that terrible document.
And once again, there's no evidence in there that I can
find showing that law enforcement investigated any of
its claims. It's worth adding that Virginia
Dufrey, in her posthumous memoir, told the story of
Epstein and Maxwell, pitching a plan for her to have a baby for
them while on Epstein Island. I've discussed in my prior
videos how a lot of people either don't want to admit or
just can't believe how awful the people in these documents are.
This seems to be especially the case when their favorite
politician, celebrity, or tech billionaire was involved.
As I've said before, this isn't about politics.
It's not about the right and the left.
It's about monstrous people who have done terrible things.
Joe Rogan had a guy on his show a few days ago called Mike Benz.
I've never heard from before and had to Google him, but it seems
that he's big on Twitter and worked for the US Department of
State. Here's a quick clip about what
he had to say. I don't think that the majority
or anything close to it of of the women were technically, I
think it was largely very young, you know, barely legal, so to
speak. But and I know that there were
cases of underage, but I, you know, I think most of it, it was
just most of it was just very, very young.
But not, not like 20 year old, not like 13 type thing.
And then, yeah, remember, because this is an international
enterprise and many of the clients are like, you know, in
countries that don't necessarily have the same norms about that
that we do, you can very easily see someone getting involved in
that just because girls choose deals.
Now I don't have much time to dig into this.
There's a very good video on a channel called Too Lazy to Try
that breaks it down, but it's a massive mischaracterization of
what you'll find with even a casual glance at the Epstein
files. I'm not sure why someone would
want to go on the biggest podcast in the world to gloss
over the horrors of what Epstein and his Co conspirators got up
to. It's truly revolt.
The comments section of that Joe Rogan podcast tears this guy
apart, but it's really wild at this point to try and sanitize
Epstein and his accomplices. Children were horribly abused
and some of the documents that I've seen were absolutely
nightmarish and this guy seems to explain it with the phrase.
Girls use deals. As I get near the end of this
video, it's worth reminding you of what an absolute monster
Jelaine Maxwell is, especially when we know that after her
meeting with Todd Blanche, her prison accommodations were
upgraded and there's even talks of her possibly being pardoned.
While she might look like a nice lady smiling in all of the
photos, her victims describe how she personally joined in their
abuse and how she inflicted violence upon them.
One survivor described Maxwell as the person who opened the
door to hell. Just because someone looks nice
and is well spoken doesn't mean that they're a good person.
I'll wrap up by telling you about a very similar but
grubbier story from Belgium, the Mark Dutrow story.
Mark was an unemployed electrician who abducted, abused
and murdered his victims. Like Epstein, he was arrested
for sex crimes early on. And like Epstein, he was let off
easy, serving just three years of a 13 year sentence.
He continued on with his terrible crimes as soon as he
was released. The second time he was arrested
in 1996, he claimed to be a small part of a much bigger
organization. One of his accomplices claimed
that they've been providing girls to government officials.
Like Epstein, Mark had unexplained well too.
As an unemployed electrician he somehow owned 10 properties and
had a net worth of around 6,000,000 Belgian francs.
The case was notoriously poorly investigated.
At one point after being tipped off, the police searched his
home while two kidnapped girls were locked in the basement.
The girls voices were even heard by the police officers, but they
didn't follow up to work out where they were coming from.
One of the officers who dropped the ball on these early leads
was later promoted, which did little to quiet the rumours of a
cover up. Perhaps most inexplicably, DNA
evidence from the crime scenes went unanalyzed for years, and
when the original prosecutor began making waves and actually
following the leads, he was pulled from the case and
replaced by a prosecutor with next to no experience.
The public anger in Belgium, where 300,000 people turned out
to protest the mishandling of the case, led to the complete
reorganization of Belgium's law enforcement agencies.
So what have we actually learned from three and a half million
pages of raw intelligence, flight logs and high society
gossip released in the Epstein files?
Well, depending on who you ask, the answer is either everything
or nothing at all. The Department of Justice is
saying that this data dump marks the end of the Epstein scandal
and that there's nothing more to see.
Critics and survivor advocates point out that only about half
of the six million files have actually been released and that
the redaction still need to be explained.
When reading through the victim statements, I'm somewhat
reminded of the famous line from The Great Gatsby.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy.
They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated
back into their money. Or their vast carelessness, or
whatever it was that kept them together and let other people
clean up the mess they had made. It's a poetic sentiment, but
looking through these documents, carelessness is a bit too
generous. The people implicated in this
case might not have cared about the victims, but it wasn't
carelessness that built up this vast crime network that was used
to inflict misery on its victims and defend the perpetrators.
It's a terrible mistake, too, to confuse the recent government
claims of transparency for real justice.
While the government points to the volume of documents released
as proof of their openness, these files weren't given.
They were forced from their grasp by a mounting surge of
public anger. Now the people implicated seem
to be losing their patience with the questions they're being
asked. Just this week, a reporter in
the Oval Office asked President Trump about the survivors
concerns that the redactions are being used to cover up key
names. A valid question.
Instead of addressing it, the president tore into the
journalist. What did you say?
What would you what would you say to the survivors who feel
like they haven't? Gotten just worst reporter no
one to see. CNN has no ratings because of
people like you. You know, she's a young woman.
I don't think I've ever seen you smile.
I've known you for 10 years. I don't think I've ever seen a
smile. You know why?
You know why you're not smiling? Because you know you're not
telling the truth and you're you're a very dishonest
organization and they should be ashamed of you.
Ultimately, the Epstein files aren't just a collection of
names and stories, they're a map of a world where accountability
is a luxury that only applies to people without a yacht or a $10
real estate deal on the Upper East Side.
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