Latest / The Vault: The Epstein Files / Was Jeffrey Epstein Working on Behalf of Foreign Governments? (7/22/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
- 0:03Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Whenever you think of Jeffrey Epstein, the first
- 0:07Speaker 1: thing you think of, rightfully so, is that he was
- 0:10Speaker 1: a demented, disgusting, abusive piece of shit. But when you
- 0:16Speaker 1: start digging beyond that, it's very obvious that Jeffrey Epstein
- 0:20Speaker 1: served another function, and that function was an intermediary for
- 0:25Speaker 1: the powerful and connected. Whether that's people in politics or
- 0:30Speaker 1: people in academia, the same rules apply. If you need
- 0:35Speaker 1: something done, you need to hide some money, you need
- 0:38Speaker 1: to intimidate somebody, well, Jeffrey Epstein's the guy you go to.
- 0:44Speaker 1: And now Jamie Raskin, along with other members of the
- 0:48Speaker 1: House Judiciary, have now reached out to the Trump administration
- 0:54Speaker 1: and they're trying to figure out one way or the
- 0:56Speaker 1: other if Jeffrey Epstein was a foreign agent. Now we
- 1:00Speaker 1: know he wasn't registered with Farah Right. So if you're
- 1:03Speaker 1: looking for a documented paper trail, unfortunately you're not gonna
- 1:07Speaker 1: find one. But when you look at the relationships that
- 1:12Speaker 1: he fostered, when you look at all the people that
- 1:14Speaker 1: he was spending his time with, and you look at
- 1:17Speaker 1: the emails, it's rather obvious what Jeffrey Epstein was up to.
- 1:21Speaker 1: And again I'm not just talking about the abuse. I
- 1:24Speaker 1: think that's well established. And whether you believe that Jeffrey
- 1:27Speaker 1: Epstein was trafficking girls to other people or not, I
- 1:30Speaker 1: don't think there's any debate about the fact that Jeffrey
- 1:34Speaker 1: Epstein himself was molesting people. And as heinous as that is,
- 1:39Speaker 1: it's only one part of the story. Because when you
- 1:43Speaker 1: start looking at Jeffrey Epstein's behavior with foreign governments, with
- 1:47Speaker 1: foreign intelligence agencies, it's obvious that only a portion of
- 1:51Speaker 1: this story has been told. So today we have an
- 1:55Speaker 1: article from The Hill and the headline Raskin argues epstein
- 1:58Speaker 1: emails show lobbying on behalf of foreign governments. I mean,
- 2:03Speaker 1: how do you dispute that. Sure, what it looks like
- 2:05Speaker 1: to me, you have Jeffrey Epstein out here working with
- 2:09Speaker 1: all these different people from all these different countries, whether
- 2:12Speaker 1: it's Russia, whether it's Israel, whether it's who the fuck
- 2:16Speaker 1: knows where. But if there was a dollar to be made,
- 2:20Speaker 1: if there was fraud to engage in, you better believe
- 2:24Speaker 1: Epstein's bitch ass wasn't far behind. This article was authored
- 2:29Speaker 1: by Rebecca Beisch. Emails from Jeffrey Epstein to world leaders
- 2:35Speaker 1: indicate he should have registered as a foreign agent. How
- 2:38Speaker 1: judiciary Democrats argue, including messages showing he sought to capitalize
- 2:42Speaker 1: on his relationship to President Trump. One even if him
- 2:47Speaker 1: and Trump weren't quote unquote friends, then do you really
- 2:50Speaker 1: think a guy like Epstein's not going to try and
- 2:53Speaker 1: utilize that friendship or the remnants of it to try
- 2:56Speaker 1: and get a little bit further, to try to get
- 2:58Speaker 1: a little bit more. Because remember, when we're talking about Epstein,
- 3:02Speaker 1: it was always about a little bit more, whether that
- 3:04Speaker 1: was abuse or money, it was always about a little
- 3:08Speaker 1: bit more. In a letter to top Trump administration officials,
- 3:12Speaker 1: Representative Jamie Raskin said the communication from the deceased sex
- 3:16Speaker 1: offender that have been publicly released show significant conversations that
- 3:20Speaker 1: raise serious questions about the extent to which he wielded
- 3:24Speaker 1: his ties to President Trump in dealings with foreign governments. Yo,
- 3:30Speaker 1: that is the legitimate question, and that goes for other
- 3:33Speaker 1: people besides Trump. Remember we had Jeffrey Epstein lobbying the
- 3:38Speaker 1: White House on behalf of Les Wexner back in the
- 3:41Speaker 1: day when Bill Clinton was the president. Was he registered
- 3:45Speaker 1: then so, look, this is a rabbit hole that goes
- 3:48Speaker 1: really deep. And of course Trump's the guy that's at
- 3:51Speaker 1: the sticks right now. Trump's the guy that's running the
- 3:54Speaker 1: cover up right now. And people would do themselves a
- 3:57Speaker 1: big favor if they understood that this has been going
- 4:00Speaker 1: on for decades and what we're watching now is just
- 4:03Speaker 1: the latest portion of it, the newest season, if you will,
- 4:06Speaker 1: same writers, just new actors. Epstein has long come under
- 4:11Speaker 1: fire for his significant foreign ties and has been trailed
- 4:14Speaker 1: by conspiracy theories he was a spy, accusations Vice President
- 4:18Speaker 1: Vance referenced last week in telling podcaster Joe Rogan that
- 4:23Speaker 1: the financier surely must have had connections to American and
- 4:27Speaker 1: Israeli intelligence at the highest levels. Well, the director of
- 4:32Speaker 1: the CIA, Bill Burns, was a regular at Jeffrey Epstein's
- 4:36Speaker 1: house at wud Barrock, one of Jeffrey Epstein's best friends.
- 4:39Speaker 1: So where's the conspiracy there, Well, here's a hint. There
- 4:43Speaker 1: isn't one, because all of that's true. Now, does that
- 4:46Speaker 1: mean that Jeffrey Epstein was some super spy for Israel?
- 4:49Speaker 1: Of course not. I've told you that from the jump
- 4:51Speaker 1: he wasn't. Jeffrey Epstein had no allegiance to any country,
- 4:54Speaker 1: to any person besides Jeffrey Epstein. He was a middleman.
- 4:58Speaker 1: Remember in the movie shot Shank Redemption, you had Morgan
- 5:02Speaker 1: Freeman's character read and he would tell everybody, look, I
- 5:06Speaker 1: can get you whatever you need. That's the same role
- 5:08Speaker 1: that Jeffrey Epstein functioned in. And all the other stuff
- 5:12Speaker 1: was just the icing on the cake. But Epstein's real
- 5:15Speaker 1: role was to be the middleman, get deals moving come in,
- 5:20Speaker 1: make sure that there's you know, loopholes so you don't
- 5:23Speaker 1: have to pay taxes, that kind of thing. That's what
- 5:26Speaker 1: Epstein was up to. That was his function, and that's
- 5:29Speaker 1: what made him so valuable, and that's what Congress should
- 5:32Speaker 1: be asking people like Leon Black about or Les Wexner.
- 5:39Speaker 1: The letter from Raskin makes no such claims, but argues
- 5:42Speaker 1: that even if I'm paid, will, work performed by Epstein
- 5:45Speaker 1: would have required registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act FARA,
- 5:50Speaker 1: as required of all HU lobby on behalf of foreign governments.
- 5:54Speaker 1: I mean, look, I get what mister Raskin's trying to
- 5:56Speaker 1: do here, but there's not going to be any documentation
- 5:59Speaker 1: of Eppste signing any kind of FARA documents and registering
- 6:04Speaker 1: as an agent. That's literally counter to what he did.
- 6:09Speaker 1: Epstein was an undercover type of dude, right, wasn't somebody
- 6:12Speaker 1: that was out in the forefront with somebody behind the
- 6:15Speaker 1: scenes manipulating things and using proxies like Prince Andrew and
- 6:19Speaker 1: Leon Black. That's what Jeffrey Epstein did, and that's what
- 6:23Speaker 1: he excelled at. We find substantial evidence that mister Epstein
- 6:27Speaker 1: acted to advance the interest of the government of Saudi
- 6:30Speaker 1: Arabia and Kuwait, advised the government of Russia on how
- 6:33Speaker 1: to shape its dealings with President Trump, worked as an
- 6:36Speaker 1: ongoing consultant for Ehud Barrock, the former Prime Minister of
- 6:40Speaker 1: the Government of Israel, and repeatedly capitalized on his long
- 6:43Speaker 1: term friendship with President Donald Trump to sign up business
- 6:47Speaker 1: from these and other foreign governments and actors. In the
- 6:50Speaker 1: aftermath of President Trump's first election without registering as a
- 6:54Speaker 1: foreign agent, Raskin wrote, well, that's all pretty interesting, But
- 6:59Speaker 1: how about we look get the seed money that he
- 7:01Speaker 1: gave to the Clinton Foundation as well? Can we do that?
- 7:03Speaker 1: Is that going to be part of it? It should
- 7:05Speaker 1: be all of it. Matters Notoriously sparing with his type
- 7:10Speaker 1: of written words. Mister Epstein did not set forth as
- 7:12Speaker 1: plans and interactions with foreign dignitaries and state actors in detail,
- 7:17Speaker 1: but our examination of available evidence has already revealed damning
- 7:21Speaker 1: indications of mister Epstein's activities on behalf of foreign states. Yo,
- 7:26Speaker 1: I didn't need to do a whole investigation to know that.
- 7:29Speaker 1: All you had to do was follow along with the
- 7:31Speaker 1: story just a little bit. Normal people don't have the
- 7:35Speaker 1: kind of ties that Jeffrey Epstein had, and it doesn't
- 7:40Speaker 1: matter if you're some big, fancy business man. The only
- 7:42Speaker 1: way you get the kind of rolodex that Epstein had
- 7:45Speaker 1: is if you were moving in those circles on a
- 7:47Speaker 1: regular basis and you prove yourself useful. The letter asked
- 7:53Speaker 1: the Justice Department to turn over files referencing Epstein and
- 7:56Speaker 1: a number of countries as well as weather. DOJ ever
- 7:59Speaker 1: launched a far investigation into the financier, and if not,
- 8:03Speaker 1: on what basis. The dj declined to initiate such investigations.
- 8:08Speaker 1: The DOJ did not respond to request for comment. I
- 8:11Speaker 1: got really bad news. They're not going to investigate their
- 8:15Speaker 1: own asset, and I know people don't want to hear it.
- 8:18Speaker 1: They want it to be the Massad. They wanted to
- 8:21Speaker 1: be the evil Jews who are responsible. But I'm here
- 8:23Speaker 1: to tell you Jeffrey Epstein was a Frankenstein created right
- 8:28Speaker 1: here in America, and anybody who tells you any different
- 8:31Speaker 1: is running interference for Jeffrey Epstein for whatever reason. Now
- 8:35Speaker 1: we can talk about the role the Masad played as
- 8:38Speaker 1: far as using him and utilizing his ability, because that happened,
- 8:42Speaker 1: for sure. But if you think that the israelis the
- 8:45Speaker 1: Massad created Epstein and then protected him in America, I
- 8:49Speaker 1: really don't know what to tell you, honestly, because that
- 8:53Speaker 1: is as far from the truth as it gets. In
- 8:56Speaker 1: exchanges over Saudi matters, Epstein sought to ferry a message
- 9:00Speaker 1: to Crown Prince Mohammed ben Salmon, saying that he was
- 9:03Speaker 1: happy to become a financial confidant to the Kingdom of
- 9:06Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, writing, whatever entity suits you, I'm happy to
- 9:09Speaker 1: represent KSA interests. So that really just goes directly into
- 9:15Speaker 1: the face of what these idiots like Ian Carroll want
- 9:18Speaker 1: to tell you. Oh, they'll give you a little bit
- 9:22Speaker 1: of truth, right, They'll sprinkle a little truth in their bullshit,
- 9:25Speaker 1: But then they run off on these tangents, these narratives,
- 9:28Speaker 1: and these narratives have nothing to do with transparency or
- 9:31Speaker 1: getting justice for what happened with Epstein. What they're trying
- 9:34Speaker 1: to do is slam the gavel down, the mallet on Israel. Again,
- 9:38Speaker 1: that's all they care about. That's it, not the survivors,
- 9:41Speaker 1: not holding institutions accountable. So that's why you see them
- 9:45Speaker 1: focus so much on Israel. And look again, I'm not
- 9:48Speaker 1: telling you that Israel didn't play a role. They did,
- 9:51Speaker 1: but they were not the ones who created Epstein. And
- 9:53Speaker 1: if you think that Jeffrey Epstein was some kind of
- 9:55Speaker 1: super spy for the Masad, you have totally and utterly
- 10:00Speaker 1: lost the plot. The committee has no response from Ben Salmon,
- 10:04Speaker 1: only an email from Epstein in which he said he
- 10:06Speaker 1: had received numerous gifts from the Prince, carpets and all,
- 10:10Speaker 1: and told his assistant the Saudis would be arranging his accommodations.
- 10:15Speaker 1: Can you imagine what kinds of depravity Epstein was up
- 10:17Speaker 1: to over in Saudi Arabia? I wonder if any Instagram
- 10:20Speaker 1: model showed up. And other emails, Epstein boasted of helping
- 10:25Speaker 1: Russian figures approach Trump. In one case, writing that Russia's
- 10:29Speaker 1: United Nations representative Battali Cherkin, saying the leader understood Trump
- 10:33Speaker 1: after our conversations. It's not complex. He must be seen
- 10:38Speaker 1: to get something. It's that simple. Before a summit between
- 10:42Speaker 1: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump, Epstein wrote the Council
- 10:46Speaker 1: of Europe Secretary General Thorburn Jaglind, telling them, I think
- 10:50Speaker 1: you might suggest to Putin that Russian Foreign Minister Sir
- 10:53Speaker 1: Jay Lavrov can get insight on talking to me. And
- 10:56Speaker 1: I assure you that conversation was to benefit Jeffrey Epstein
- 11:00Speaker 1: nobody else. In Another exchange with a figure whose email
- 11:07Speaker 1: is fully redacted also seems to indicate Epstein was communicating
- 11:11Speaker 1: with Kuwaiti officials, with the sender asking for advice on
- 11:15Speaker 1: how to communicate with them, and Epstein asking what they
- 11:17Speaker 1: were hoping to gain from the US. Just a loan predator, folks,
- 11:22Speaker 1: Just a guy that's sitting around looking at weird Internet
- 11:25Speaker 1: videos and every now and then, you know, abusing somebody.
- 11:30Speaker 1: But that was it. He had no connections to intelligence,
- 11:33Speaker 1: no connections to the wider world. What are you a
- 11:37Speaker 1: conspiracy theorist? A good word about the Emir's effort the
- 11:42Speaker 1: host the Yemen piece talk will be great, I think,
- 11:45Speaker 1: and if a peace agreement was signed in Kuwait, that
- 11:48Speaker 1: would be thumbs up, the sender replied. The letter also
- 11:52Speaker 1: details Epstein's work for Israel, a relationship largely focused on
- 11:56Speaker 1: navigating dealings with Russia, though Raskin said Epstein also funneled
- 12:00Speaker 1: information about US officials the former Israeli president, mister Barak
- 12:05Speaker 1: and advised on strategy to lobby the Obama administration to
- 12:09Speaker 1: take a harder stance towards Iran and Syria. Look, there
- 12:14Speaker 1: is no doubt that Jeffrey Epstein was working hand in
- 12:18Speaker 1: hand with Israel. There is no doubt about it. But
- 12:21Speaker 1: we have to be honest about the role. We can't
- 12:24Speaker 1: just look at it and say, oh, well, here it
- 12:26Speaker 1: is look using in the macade. It's much deeper than
- 12:29Speaker 1: that and much more nuanced. Dude was a free agent.
- 12:33Speaker 1: Whoever was paying Epstein was in and it didn't matter
- 12:37Speaker 1: what kind of information or if it was harmful to
- 12:39Speaker 1: America or Israel or insert country here, as long as
- 12:43Speaker 1: there was enough zero's at the end of the transaction.
- 12:46Speaker 1: That's all this dirt bag cared about. Beyond his entanglements
- 12:50Speaker 1: with foreign leaders. Raskin accuses Epstein of benefiting from his
- 12:53Speaker 1: close friendship with Trump, noting that numerous people wrote to
- 12:57Speaker 1: the financier asking for help securing a political appointment, and
- 13:01Speaker 1: that he frequently was in touch with former White House
- 13:03Speaker 1: advisor Steve Bannon. The tenor of the emails clearly indicates
- 13:08Speaker 1: he possessed influence in the Trump world, Raskin wrote, pointing
- 13:12Speaker 1: to one email in which Epstein wrote to Bannon referencing
- 13:15Speaker 1: he just spoke to one of the country's leaders that
- 13:17Speaker 1: we discussed, adding we should lay out a strategy plan. Well,
- 13:22Speaker 1: couldn't the same be said about Catherine Ruemler when she
- 13:25Speaker 1: was very close to Obama inside of the Obama White
- 13:28Speaker 1: House while at the same time advising Jeffrey Epstein. You
- 13:31Speaker 1: see where I'm going with this, right, it is not
- 13:33Speaker 1: a one party problem. Stop it. That kind of shit
- 13:38Speaker 1: is causing great harm to this case. And that's why
- 13:41Speaker 1: I've told you from the beginning not to fall for
- 13:44Speaker 1: that trap. These Democrats they don't really care about justice either.
- 13:49Speaker 1: They care about trying to make their point. They care
- 13:51Speaker 1: about trying to utilize this as a weapon, and that's
- 13:54Speaker 1: what they've been doing from the very beginning, and that's
- 13:56Speaker 1: why you don't see accountability and real talk. How many
- 14:00Speaker 1: of these Democrats have you heard talking about getting rid
- 14:02Speaker 1: of the NPA. We can get rid of it tomorrow.
- 14:05Speaker 1: We just had another woman come out and say that
- 14:07Speaker 1: she was abused while Epstein was on work release. That
- 14:11Speaker 1: puts him in violation of the NPA. Okay, so let's
- 14:14Speaker 1: get rid of it right now today. Bunch of big talk,
- 14:20Speaker 1: but never any walk. And that goes for all these clowns.
- 14:23Speaker 1: Given the information mister Epstein possessed about President Trump and
- 14:27Speaker 1: diseasy access to high level officials in President Trump's inner circle,
- 14:31Speaker 1: mister Epstein's relationship with foreign leaders, including adversaries, post a
- 14:35Speaker 1: major national security of liability. Raskin wrote, these messages raised
- 14:40Speaker 1: many questions about the full extent of Jeffrey Epstein's interactions
- 14:44Speaker 1: with foreign governments and what information he may have fed
- 14:48Speaker 1: to foreign powers about the president. Well, that's legitimate, and
- 14:52Speaker 1: I agree with that. Who knows what he was saying,
- 14:55Speaker 1: what kind of information he was passing on, And that's
- 14:57Speaker 1: why it's important that the American people, for the themselves,
- 15:00Speaker 1: get a look at all of this and in a
- 15:02Speaker 1: perfect world, that's what would happen, but unfortunately that is
- 15:06Speaker 1: not the world we live in. So all we can
- 15:08Speaker 1: do is keep the pressure on and until we get
- 15:10Speaker 1: some answers, keep those flags of discontent waving, all right,
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