The Devil Himself! - The Worst of The Epstein Files

Last week, the Department of Justice

finally got around to releasing over

three million 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 tangental

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's

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 one by one. 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 01667,

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, typoritten emails that

Epstein sent to his own inbox in 2013,

he appeared to suggest that Mr. 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 aderall 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

health care 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 health care 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 million

pages of records, but they've only

handed over about three and a half

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 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 multi-billion 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 100page 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

appears to have been filed in the same

place they keep the download all button.

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Epstein files began with the work of

Marie Vilifana, the original lead

prosecutor, who unlike her superiors,

actually seemed interested in doing her

job. By May 2007, Vilifana had put

together an 82page prosecution memo and

a 53page draft indictment that would

likely have ended Jeffrey Epstein's

crimes and abuse. Vilifana 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 tail spin. He fired off a series

of typoladen emails to his lawyers who

began a campaign to have Vilifana

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 Aosta, 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'd been jet

setting around the world for close to a

decade by then. That doesn't really add

up. However, as connected as Epstein

was, he wouldn't have been nearly as

connected as Dennis Hastard was. Hazard

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

monster, 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 Greatton Carter.

In 2003, while reporter Vicky 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

publish 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. While this mobstyle

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 AY's history. They

rounded up 127 members of the five mob

families in New York. They were hunting

down Whitey Bulier, who they believed

had been involved in 19 murders. It's

hard to believe that the same federal

agents who were unfased 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

Vicky Ward wrote an article for the

Daily Beast in 2019 which said that Alex

Aosta 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 EFTA000090314

gives us a look at why that theory might

have had some weight within the FBI.

This is an FD 1023, a form that the FBI

uses to record information from a

confidential human source. According to

the attorney general's guidelines, a CHS

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

Dersowitz specifically told Aosta 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 Ahood Barack. The

document doesn't just implicate Epstein

either. The source claims that Dersuits

himself was co-opted by MSAD and that

MSAD would call Dersuits 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

Durowitz'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 enjoy sharing gossip

on encrypted messaging apps. But the

fact that the FBI was recording these

allegations of foreign influence on US

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 in the

morning, you might want to take a look

at Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik's

block on the Upper East Side of

Manhattan. Jeffrey Epstein lived right

next door to him in a massive sevenstory

townhouse, and Bill Cosby lived right

across the road. Woody Allen lived just

one street away and was constantly

dropping by Epstein's house with his

wife/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. Lutnik recently gave an

interview on a podcast called Podforce

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 revoling 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.

Lutnik 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 runin with

Epstein. The new documents include

emails from 2012 showing Lutnik and his

family planning a visit to Epstein's

private island on their yard. Epstein's

assistant even sent a follow-up email on

Christmas Eve that year saying, "Nice

seeing you." This was four years after

Epstein's guilty plea. Meaning that

Lutnik, 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

takeout menus. But it's quite a

challenge to maintain the 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 email summary document

EFTA 01648951

which contains the allegation that

Lutnik made his money through Ponzi

schemes and money laundering and says

that Epstein sold Lutnik 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 Allan 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 Lutnik. Aside from

being the current US commerce secretary,

Lutnik's firm, Caner Fitzgerald, acts as

the primary custodian for the reserves

of Tether, the world's largest crypto

stable coin. Tether 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 Pierce and Epstein were

in regular contact for years, exchanging

emails that jumped between highlevel

investment advice and more social

invitations. In one email from 2018,

Pierce reportedly invited Epstein to

Antigga 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 borched.

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 million 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 SRS. 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 foyer request.

They are submitted by financial

institutions to the Financial Crimes

Enforcement Network, a 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 S has been filed, a concept known as

tipping off. The files reveal that major

financial institutions were flagging

Epstein's accounts for suspected human

traffing 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 S 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 email 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-million dollar 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 Seckle 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 Isabelle Maxwell,

Galain Maxwell's sister and the daughter

of the press baron Robert Maxwell. See

was given the job by Epstein of burying

articles that used pesky words like

pedophile and replacing them with

headlines about Epstein's philanthropic

work and his promotion of scientists. He

wrote to Epstein about how he had hacked

Epstein's Wikipedia page to swap his

arrest mugsh shot for a more dignified

photograph, a move his team described as

an important victory. Seek organized an

event called the Mindhift 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 82page 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, 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 2

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 center

specifically to watch Allen edit. It's a

touching vision of an artistic

collaboration, a populist media fire

brand, 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 Nam 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 tonedeaf 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 protetéé of Alan

Dersowitz 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. Katherine Rumler, a 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

peor 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

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 redactions and reached a very

different conclusion. Earlier this week,

the Met launched a criminal

investigation into Peter Mandelen for

misconduct in public office, a charge

that in the UK can carry a sentence of

life imprisonment. Mandolson, who was

once the business secretary and a key

architect of the Labor 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 revealed

that while Mandolen was a serving

government minister, he was providing

Epstein with realtime 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 euro

bailout and discussions on how the UK's

banker's bonus tax would be designed.

This sort of information could have been

used for insider trading by Epstein. In

one email, Mandlesson even suggested

that the head of JP Morgan should mildly

threaten the UK chancellor over those

rules. The Mandlesson Epstein

relationship had a more personal

financial side to it, too. Bank records

show that Epstein wired £10,000 to

Mandolen's then partner, now husband, to

pay for an osteopathy court. For those

of you outside the UK, an osteopath is

some sort of a witch doctor. In an email

from 2009, Mandolen 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. Mandolson has already

resigned from the Labor Party and the

House of Lords. Prime Minister Kier

Starmer, who appointed Mandlesson as the

UK's 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 Mandolen

had repeatedly lied about the depth of

his relationship with the financier. The

fallout isn't limited to the UK. In

Slovakia, a former foreign minister and

adviser 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 with

Chileain Maxwell was because she had

photobombed 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 a thousand 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 email, 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 Lutnik, to give Andrew

a job or a lucrative role, providing

introductions at Caner Fitzgerald. It's

quite a look at the unseen mechanics of

power. a royal prince using a convicted

sex offender as a head hunter 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 rot went deep. Amusingly,

Andrew and Sarah Ferguson seem to have

invited Epstein along with Harvey

Weinstein and Galain 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 DNA. A bombshell

email 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 email 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 Galileain 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.

M. I 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 Duffrey in

her postumous 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 of him 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 mean I I think it was

largely

>> very young um 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 was just

>> most of it was just very very young but

not

>> not like 20y old not like type thing and

then yeah remember because this is an

international enterprise and many of the

clients are like

uh you know in countries that don't

necessarily have the same norms about

that

>> that we do. Um you can very easily see

someone getting involved in that just

because girls juice 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 revolting. The comment

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 accompllices. 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 juice

deals." As I get near the end of this

video, it's worth reminding you of what

an absolute monster Maxwell is,

especially when we know that after her

meeting with Todd Blanch, 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

wellspoken doesn't mean that they're a

good person. I'll wrap up by telling you

about a very similar but grubier story

from Belgium. The Mark Dutro 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 led off easy, serving

just 3 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 accompllices

claimed that they had been providing

girls to government officials. Like

Epstein, Mark had unexplained wealth,

too. As an unemployed electrician, he

somehow owned 10 properties and had a

net worth of around 6 million Belgian

Franks. 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 rumors 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 6 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 journalists.

>> What What did you say? Go ahead.

>> What would you say to the survivors who

feel like they haven't got

>> You are the worst reporter. No wonder

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 in my head.

I'm

>> asking you about survival.

>> You know why? You know why you're not

smiling? Cuz 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. If you found this video

interesting, you should watch my video

on how even typing the word Epstein was

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