The Devil Himself! - The Worst of The Epstein Files

0:00 Last week, the Department of Justice finally got around to releasing

0:04 over three million pages of records

0:06 related to their Jeffrey Epstein investigations.

0:10 This massive data dump,

0:11 which includes everything from emails to vacation photos,

0:15 was intended to be the final word on a scandal that has

0:19 lingered over the global establishment like a particularly persistent bad smell.

0:25 The files read like a who's who of the people who run the world.

0:30 We have two US presidents, a rotating cast of British and European royals,

0:35 and almost every significant name in business, law, and high finance.

0:40 Many people who claimed that they only had tangental relationships with Epstein

0:45 were shown to be a lot closer than they had admitted.

0:49 It would appear that the tech elites had

0:51 to invent AI chat bots to replace Epstein.

0:55 But while he was alive,

0:56 he seems to have been the person they turned to to get their questions answered.

1:01 The release of these documents was once again a total mess.

1:05 It's worth noting that unlike Jeffrey Epstein's parties, to open the files,

1:10 you had to confirm that you were over the age of 18.

1:14 On the first day of the release,

1:15 the DOJ website featured a convenient download all button that allowed

1:21 journalists to grab the entire data set all at once.

1:25 Once the department realized that people were actually using it,

1:29 that button was removed,

1:31 replaced by a system that requires you to download files one by one.

1:36 Files have been appearing and disappearing.

1:39 If you read a document and didn't save it,

1:42 there was a good chance that when you went back later, it would be gone.

1:46 A document known as EFTA 01667,

1:51 which contained a list of unverified FBI tips about the US president,

1:57 briefly became the most famous PDF on the internet

2:01 before it was scrubbed from the site the next morning.

2:04 As of this recording, it has not been re-uploaded.

2:08 The DOJ later explained that they were rectifying redaction errors,

2:13 so maybe it'll reappear soon.

2:15 The first big scandal to break was about Bill Gates,

2:19 where we learned about a more practical side to his relationship with Epstein.

2:24 In two frantic, typoritten emails that Epstein sent to his own inbox in 2013,

2:30 he appeared to suggest that Mr.

2:32 Gates contracted an STD from Russian girls and asked Jeffrey to get him

2:38 antibiotics so that he could secretly give them to his then wife Melinda.

2:44 Epstein also claimed to have provided

2:46 aderall to Gates for his bridge tournaments.

2:50 Gates has denied these claims, saying that they are the work of a disgruntled

2:55 liar who was upset at being cut off.

2:58 If it's true though,

3:00 it's a damning indictment of the way the American health care system works,

3:04 where even one of the wealthiest men

3:06 in the world couldn't get a doctor's appointment

3:09 and had to go to a convicted sex offender for his basic health care needs.

3:14 I wonder if Warren Buffett, Gates's bridge partner,

3:18 found it frustrating having to listen him talking

3:21 at a mile a minute all hopped up on speed.

3:24 We'll never know.

3:26 Despite all of the headlines, this wasn't by any means a full release.

3:31 The DOJ said that they had over 6 million pages of records,

3:36 but they've only handed over about three and a half million.

3:40 The missing records include bank and brokerage records along with communications

3:45 with foreign governments and basically the things

3:48 that people were actually looking for.

3:50 Lawmakers have pointed out that the law forbids redacting files

3:55 just to avoid reputational harm or due to political sensitivity.

4:00 The DOJ seems to have treated those guidelines as mere suggestions.

4:05 The redactions themselves are frankly bizarre.

4:09 In many cases, the same document has been

4:11 uploaded multiple times with completely different redactions each time.

4:16 We've seen instances where a case number is

4:19 blacked out in one version but visible in another.

4:22 And the only thing that was supposed to be redacted was victim names.

4:27 My personal favorite was the decision in one file

4:31 to redact the JP from JP Morgan presumably to protect

4:35 the privacy of a multi-billion dollar investment bank

4:39 that has been a household name for over a century.

4:43 On top of that, there's the sheer sloppiness of the work.

4:47 The New York Times and the AP found that the Department

4:50 of Justice had accidentally released unredacted photos of victims,

4:55 including some who had never come forward publicly.

4:59 Once they were informed about their mistake, they pulled those files.

5:03 But it's a bit rich to hear the government talk about protecting

5:07 victims while they're busy publishing their private photos to a global audience.

5:12 while blacking out the names of Epstein's suspected co-conspirators.

5:17 The law also stated that every redaction

5:20 had to come with a written justification.

5:23 So far, those explanations are nowhere to be found.

5:27 Instead, we still have entire 100page files that are just solid black blocks.

5:32 Even for documents held back for national security purposes,

5:37 the DOJ was supposed to provide unclassified summaries.

5:41 another requirement that appears to have been filed

5:44 in the same place they keep the download all button.

5:48 This doesn't actually feel like a true effort at transparency.

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7:15 The Epstein files began with the work of Marie Vilifana,

7:19 the original lead prosecutor,

7:21 who unlike her superiors, actually seemed interested in doing her job.

7:26 By May 2007, Vilifana had put together an 82page prosecution memo and a 53page

7:34 draft indictment that would likely have

7:36 ended Jeffrey Epstein's crimes and abuse.

7:40 Vilifana didn't just focus on the abuse.

7:44 She followed the money, broadening the investigation to include money laundering

7:49 and the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business.

7:53 She subpoenaed Epstein's banks for records about his financial

7:58 activity and even contacted his most important client,

8:02 the billionaire Les Wexner, to ask about their business arrangements.

8:07 Bloomberg reports that this sent Epstein into a total tail spin.

8:12 He fired off a series of typoladen emails to his lawyers

8:16 who began a campaign to have Vilifana removed from the case.

8:21 They argued that her tactics were unduly invasive,

8:25 that she was pursuing baseless claims to pressure

8:28 their client into a plea deal and pressured

8:30 her supervisors to remove her and others

8:33 from the case or throw the case out altogether.

8:37 The most remarkable part of this story isn't that Epstein tried to stop her.

8:42 It's that it worked.

8:44 Despite the prosecutor warning her superiors

8:47 that Epstein was a continuing threat,

8:50 she was ordered to stop her investigation and begin plea negotiations.

8:55 The result was the infamous sweetheart deal overseen by Alex Aosta,

9:01 which not only gave Epstein a few months in a county jail,

9:05 but also provided blanket immunity to any potential co-conspirators,

9:10 essentially turning the US Justice Department into a private

9:14 security firm for Epstein's entire social network.

9:18 You might look at this deal and think, well,

9:21 I guess this happened because he was really politically connected.

9:25 He was good friends with Bill Clinton at this point in time.

9:28 He had visited Clinton in the White House and they'd been

9:31 jet setting around the world for close to a decade by then.

9:35 That doesn't really add up.

9:37 However, as connected as Epstein was,

9:40 he wouldn't have been nearly as connected as Dennis Hastard was.

9:44 Hazard had been a congressman for 20 years and was

9:48 the sixth longest serving speaker of the house in history.

9:52 By the time FBI discovered that he was a serial child monster,

9:56 the statute of limitations had run out on his actual crimes.

10:01 But rather than giving him a sweetheart deal,

10:03 the DOJ used financial technicalities to put him behind bars in 2015,

10:10 convicting him for the way he structured his hush money payments to his victims.

10:16 Political connections don't explain Epstein's sweetheart deal.

10:20 There had to be something more.

10:22 If political connections don't explain how Epstein remained untouchable,

10:27 maybe we should look at his more hands-on approach to reputation management.

10:32 One of the most famous stories about Epstein

10:35 involves Vanity Fair editor and chief Greatton Carter.

10:39 In 2003, while reporter Vicky Ward was working

10:43 on a profile of Epstein and interviewing the Farmer Sisters,

10:47 who had first reported Epstein to the FBI in 1996,

10:51 Epstein decided to take the editorial process into his own hands.

10:56 Early one morning, Carter arrived at his office to find Epstein already there,

11:02 standing alone in the reception area.

11:05 Epstein reportedly spent that morning and many

11:09 subsequent phone calls torturing and berating Carter,

11:13 demanding that he publish nothing

11:15 about Epstein's involvement with teenage girls.

11:18 When the verbal abuse didn't work, the threats became more physical.

11:23 A live bullet was left on Carter's doorstep in Manhattan, and shortly after,

11:28 the severed head of a dead cat was found in the yard of his country home.

11:34 While there was no evidence that this was done by Epstein,

11:37 the message was apparently clear enough that Vanity Fair

11:40 decided to scrub the abuse allegations from the final article.

11:45 While this mobstyle intimidation might have worked on a journalist,

11:50 it's not reasonable to believe that it would have intimidated the FBI,

11:54 who around the same time were busy conducting

11:56 the largest mafia takedown in the AY's history.

12:01 They rounded up 127 members of the five mob families in New York.

12:06 They were hunting down Whitey Bulier,

12:08 who they believed had been involved in 19 murders.

12:12 It's hard to believe that the same

12:14 federal agents who were unfased by violent killers,

12:17 were somehow terrified of a creepy pedo

12:20 whose primary method of intimidation was showing

12:24 up early for a meeting and leaving a dead house pet on a porch.

12:28 It's not exactly the Godfather.

12:31 This leads us to another popular theory that people have discussed for years,

12:36 that Epstein wasn't just a well-connected predator, but an intelligence asset.

12:42 A journalist named Vicky Ward wrote an article

12:44 for the Daily Beast in 2019 which said

12:48 that Alex Aosta told investigators that the case was

12:52 above his pay grade because Epstein belonged to intelligence.

12:56 a claim that he has since denied.

12:59 A newly released document file EFTA000090314 gives us a look

13:07 at why that theory might have had some weight within the FBI.

13:12 This is an FD 1023, a form that the FBI

13:16 uses to record information from a confidential human source.

13:20 According to the attorney general's guidelines,

13:23 a CHS is someone believed to be providing useful and credible information.

13:29 Though the FBI notes that these reports are often unverified raw intelligence,

13:36 this particular source makes some staggering claims.

13:40 They allege that Alan Dersowitz specifically told Aosta

13:44 that Epstein belonged to both US and allied intelligence services.

13:50 The document goes even further claiming that Epstein had trained

13:54 as a spy under former Israeli Prime Minister Ahood Barack.

13:59 The document doesn't just implicate Epstein either.

14:03 The source claims that Dersuits himself was co-opted by MSAD and that MSAD

14:08 would call Dersuits to debrief him after his phone calls with Epstein.

14:13 The document even manages to implicate the White House,

14:17 alleging that Donald Trump had been

14:19 compromised by Israel and that Jared Kushner,

14:22 a former student of Durowitz's, was the real brains behind the operation.

14:28 Now, we have to take these claims with a massive grain of salt.

14:32 One of the strange things about this document is that it refers

14:36 to previous reports which don't appear to be included in the files.

14:41 Based on what I can find online,

14:43 a confidential source can range from a highly placed operative

14:47 to someone who just enjoy sharing gossip on encrypted messaging apps.

14:52 But the fact that the FBI was recording these allegations

14:56 of foreign influence on US officials by Israel, Russia,

15:00 and the UAE as late as October 2020 shows

15:04 that the intelligence angle may not have been just a conspiracy theory.

15:09 But without more information, it's impossible to know.

15:13 If you're looking for a reason to appreciate your own neighbors,

15:17 even the ones who practice the drums at 2 in the morning,

15:20 you might want to take a look at Commerce Secretary

15:23 Howard Lutnik's block on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

15:27 Jeffrey Epstein lived right next door to him in a massive sevenstory townhouse,

15:33 and Bill Cosby lived right across the road.

15:37 Woody Allen lived just one street away and was

15:40 constantly dropping by Epstein's house with his wife/daughter to visit.

15:45 I imagine that living on a street like that you'd hire

15:49 armed guards to bring your kids back and forth to school.

15:53 Lutnik recently gave an interview on a podcast called Podforce One,

15:58 describing how he and his wife once visited Epstein's home

16:02 for a tour around the time he moved into the neighborhood,

16:06 only to be shown a massage room and hear a comment

16:09 so revoling that they decided in the six to eight

16:13 steps it took to get back to their own house

16:15 that they would never be in a room with Epstein again.

16:20 Lutnik forgot to mention in that interview that the prior

16:24 owner of his house had been Jeffrey Epstein

16:27 and that the real estate records show that the transfer

16:31 was listed for $10 and other valuable consideration.

16:36 Now, this was back in 1998 when house

16:39 prices were a lot lower than they are today.

16:42 and it might have been cheap because of the dodgy neighbors,

16:46 but it's still a remarkably good deal for a Manhattan townhouse.

16:51 Howard tells a very compelling story on the podcast of his moral clarity,

16:56 but the files suggest that this wasn't his last runin with Epstein.

17:01 The new documents include emails from 2012 showing Lutnik and his family

17:07 planning a visit to Epstein's private island on their yard.

17:11 Epstein's assistant even sent a follow-up

17:14 email on Christmas Eve that year saying,

17:17 "Nice seeing you." This was four years after Epstein's guilty plea.

17:22 Meaning that Lutnik, who lived right next door,

17:25 would have received the mandatory notification that a registered

17:29 sex offender was his neighbor under New York law.

17:34 Now, in that neighborhood,

17:35 those notifications possibly pile up on your doorstep like takeout menus.

17:40 But it's quite a challenge to maintain the I

17:44 barely knew the guy defense when you're sharing a wall,

17:48 getting killer real estate deals, and visiting his island on vacation.

17:53 Another piece of neighborhood gossip that I haven't seen much news about is

17:58 found in an FBI email summary

18:01 document EFTA 01648951 which contains the allegation

18:08 that Lutnik made his money through Ponzi schemes and money laundering and says

18:14 that Epstein sold Lutnik a home for $10 that was worth millions.

18:19 I've Googled the name of the man

18:21 who made that allegation and didn't find anything.

18:25 Now, Woody Allen does show up a lot in the Epstein files,

18:29 and it seems that he and Epstein were good friends and hung out a lot together.

18:34 There's no evidence in there that Allan

18:37 cheated on his daughter or anything like that.

18:40 So, I suppose that that's good.

18:43 It shouldn't necessarily come as a surprise

18:46 that Jeffrey Epstein's social ponzi scheme,

18:49 as his network is described by the FT,

18:52 eventually found its way into the world of cryptocurrency.

18:55 This brings us right back to Jeff's neighbor, Howard Lutnik.

18:59 Aside from being the current US commerce secretary,

19:03 Lutnik's firm, Caner Fitzgerald,

19:05 acts as the primary custodian for the reserves of Tether,

19:09 the world's largest crypto stable coin.

19:12 Tether was co-founded by Brock Pierce,

19:16 a former child actor from the Mighty Ducks.

19:19 Don't worry though, he's not a child anymore,

19:22 and he successfully transitioned into a career as a crypto mogul.

19:27 The newly released files show that Pierce

19:30 and Epstein were in regular contact for years,

19:34 exchanging emails that jumped between highlevel

19:37 investment advice and more social invitations.

19:40 In one email from 2018, Pierce reportedly invited Epstein to Antigga for a boat

19:47 trip featuring what he described as Ukraine's finest.

19:52 Now, not wanting to jump to conclusions, I did a quick Google search and it

19:57 seems that Ukraine is most famous for borched.

20:00 So, that's probably what Brock was talking about.

20:03 I won't lie, it seems like a terrible idea to eat beetroot soup on a boat,

20:08 but it's not illegal, especially in international waters.

20:13 It appears that through Pierce, Epstein managed to secure a $3 million stake

20:19 in the crypto exchange Coinbase back in 2014.

20:23 This turned out to be one of the few

20:25 times Epstein's financial genius actually resulted in a profit.

20:30 He sold half of that stake in 2018 for $15 million,

20:35 and the remaining half of that position will have

20:38 doubled in value again by the time of Coinbase's IPO.

20:43 While the world of crypto was busy out at sea eating soup,

20:47 the traditional banking sector was having

20:49 a much harder time explaining its own paperwork.

20:54 One of the more interesting parts of this release

20:56 is the inclusion of suspicious activity reports or SRS.

21:01 These documents are pretty much never revealed to the public.

21:05 I can't think of a prior example.

21:08 They aren't entered into evidence in court and you

21:11 can't even access them through a foyer request.

21:14 They are submitted by financial institutions

21:17 to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network,

21:20 a bureau of the Department of the Treasury to report suspected money laundering,

21:25 fraud, or violations of the Bank Secrecy Act.

21:29 It's illegal to disclose to the customer that an S has been filed,

21:34 a concept known as tipping off.

21:37 The files reveal that major

21:39 financial institutions were flagging Epstein's accounts

21:43 for suspected human traffing and money laundering long before his 2019 arrest.

21:49 Last year, a British court heard that Jess Staley,

21:53 then a top executive at JP Morgan,

21:55 had lobbied for the bank to keep Epstein as a client

21:58 in 2011 when other executives considered

22:02 debanking him over their human trafficking concerns.

22:06 The FT points out that while they were worried about having him as a client,

22:12 it wasn't until 2019 that they finally

22:15 filed a suspicious activity report over their concerns.

22:19 The 2019 S flagged transactions with leading Wall Street figures,

22:25 including Leon Black,

22:26 the co-founder of the private equity group Apollo Global Management.

22:32 People have pointed to an email that Epstein sent to himself about Bill Gates,

22:37 the one I mentioned earlier,

22:38 as possible evidence of him bribing his wealthy friends.

22:42 But the best example of using information to leverage a client

22:46 that I could see in the files relates to Leon Black.

22:50 In 2013, when Black seemed reluctant

22:53 to pay an inexplicably large fee to Epstein, Epstein reminded him, "Leon,

22:59 as you're well aware, there's little I won't do for you,

23:03 and a great deal that I've already done,

23:06 both known and some things that will need to remain unknown."

23:10 Black went on to pay Epstein over $150 million for tax

23:16 advice that a congressional committee later

23:19 described as being information that was

23:21 already in the public domain or already provided by Black's lawyers.

23:27 Black has told the press through his lawyers that there's

23:30 absolutely no truth to any allegations of misconduct against him.

23:36 The latest files show that in the years following his Florida plea deal,

23:41 Jeffrey Epstein and his celebrity friends went

23:44 to extraordinary lengths to launder his reputation.

23:48 This wasn't just a matter of hiring a publicist.

23:51 It was a multi-million dollar high-tech effort to convince the world

23:56 that Jeffrey was actually a misunderstood Wall Street renaissance man.

24:01 The man leading the digital scrub was a bizarre character called Al Seckle

24:07 who described himself as a popularizer

24:10 of visual illusions and a cognitive scientist.

24:14 In truth, he had no real qualifications.

24:17 But he somehow managed to marry Isabelle Maxwell,

24:21 Galain Maxwell's sister and the daughter of the press baron Robert Maxwell.

24:27 See was given the job by Epstein of burying articles that used pesky words like

24:33 pedophile and replacing them with headlines about

24:36 Epstein's philanthropic work and his promotion of scientists.

24:40 He wrote to Epstein about how he had hacked Epstein's Wikipedia

24:44 page to swap his arrest mugsh shot for a more dignified photograph,

24:50 a move his team described as an important victory.

24:53 Seek organized an event called the Mindhift Conference,

24:58 which was supposed to be a highbrow gathering

25:00 of Nobel laureates on Epstein's Island in 2011.

25:04 If you could get enough famous scientists to eat soup on your boat,

25:10 people might eventually forget about the 82page

25:13 prosecution memo sitting in a drawer in Florida.

25:17 In a story full of mysterious endings, Seckles is one of the strangest.

25:22 He seems to have died in France in 2015

25:26 after falling or jumping from a cliff near his home.

25:30 Because his death remained unconfirmed by authorities for some time,

25:35 rumors have persisted that he may have faked his own death,

25:39 which for a man who made a career out of visual illusions

25:43 and cleaning up inconvenient online footprints

25:46 would have been the perfect ending.

25:49 The scrubbing didn't stop with Google searches.

25:53 Steve Bannon, the former Trump strategist, worked with Epstein,

25:57 strategizing and filming a sympathetic documentary around 2019.

26:03 The Department of Justice released about 2 hours of this footage in the files.

26:08 Footage which was intended to portray Epstein as a financial

26:12 genius who had simply made one understandable mistake.

26:17 According to the files,

26:18 Bannon even suggested that Woody Allen could help edit the film.

26:23 Epstein's calendar shows nearly 100 scheduled meetings with Allen,

26:28 including trips to a film center specifically to watch Allen edit.

26:33 It's a touching vision of an artistic collaboration,

26:37 a populist media fire brand, and a legendary director teaming up to help

26:42 a convicted sex offender polish his public image.

26:46 Amusingly, some people seem to be falling for this propaganda.

26:51 You can see quite a few positive comments under the videos posted on YouTube.

26:56 Epstein also received a lot of helpful advice from his famous

27:01 friends about how to deal with his PR problems.

27:05 The linguist Nam Chomsky, who described his weekends with Epstein as wonderful,

27:10 advised him in 2019 to simply ignore the growing press scrutiny.

27:15 He characterized the reporting as a form of hysteria.

27:18 A take so tonedeaf it suggests that even the world's most famous

27:23 intellectual can lose the plot when billionaire funded dinners are on the line.

27:29 Even the legal advice was specialized.

27:32 A protetéé of Alan Dersowitz is named Mitch Weber,

27:36 who later worked in the Trump administration,

27:39 emailed Epstein to go over the legality of transporting a minor for the purposes

27:44 of sex to jurisdictions where the age of consent was below 18.

27:49 Katherine Rumler, a former White House attorney,

27:53 gave Epstein advice on what Trump should say if

27:57 he was ever asked about his associations with Epstein.

28:01 And for the final touch of peor polish,

28:04 Sir Richard Branson reportedly suggested a strategy where Bill

28:08 Gates would vouch for Epstein as a brilliant advisor.

28:12 The idea was that if enough people like Gates

28:15 and Branson were willing to look past the slip up,

28:19 the rest of the world would eventually do the same.

28:22 It seems that in Epstein's circle, due diligence didn't mean checking for crime.

28:28 It meant checking if your friends were

28:30 famous enough to make the crimes disappear.

28:33 Now, while everyone has been busy talking about the files,

28:36 it's worth keeping in mind that the official

28:39 position of the US government is unchanged.

28:42 The FBI are saying that their systematic

28:45 review revealed no incriminating client list

28:48 and that they didn't uncover any evidence

28:51 that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.

28:56 It is a remarkably strong statement,

28:59 especially since the Metropolitan Police in London seem

29:03 to have looked at the exact same data,

29:05 but with redactions and reached a very different conclusion.

29:10 Earlier this week, the Met launched a criminal

29:13 investigation into Peter Mandelen for misconduct in public office,

29:18 a charge that in the UK can carry a sentence of life imprisonment.

29:23 Mandolson, who was once the business secretary

29:26 and a key architect of the Labor Party, has long been known as the prince

29:31 of darkness for his ability to survive political scandal.

29:36 But even for him, this might be the end of the road.

29:40 The files revealed that while Mandolen was a serving government minister,

29:45 he was providing Epstein with realtime insight into market sensitive UK policy.

29:51 He sent emails to Epstein containing

29:54 confidential briefings on the 2008 financial crisis,

29:58 including early confirmation of a 500 billion euro bailout and discussions

30:04 on how the UK's banker's bonus tax would be designed.

30:08 This sort of information could have been used for insider trading by Epstein.

30:14 In one email, Mandlesson even suggested that the head of JP

30:18 Morgan should mildly threaten the UK chancellor over those rules.

30:24 The Mandlesson Epstein relationship had a more

30:28 personal financial side to it, too.

30:30 Bank records show that Epstein wired £10,000 to Mandolen's then partner,

30:36 now husband, to pay for an osteopathy court.

30:40 For those of you outside the UK, an osteopath is some sort of a witch doctor.

30:46 In an email from 2009, Mandolen even reminded Epstein to label the transfer

30:52 as a loan to avoid a gift tax filing.

30:56 The fallout from these witch doctor tuition fees has been total.

31:02 Mandolson has already resigned from the Labor Party and the House of Lords.

31:07 Prime Minister Kier Starmer, who appointed Mandlesson as the UK's ambassador

31:12 to Washington despite knowing about the Epstein links,

31:15 is now fighting for his political life.

31:18 This week, Starmer was forced to apologize to Epstein victims,

31:22 admitting that Mandolen had repeatedly lied about

31:26 the depth of his relationship with the financier.

31:30 The fallout isn't limited to the UK.

31:33 In Slovakia, a former foreign minister

31:35 and adviser to the prime minister was forced

31:38 to resign this week after file showed him

31:41 joking with Epstein about gorgeous girls in Kiev.

31:45 In Norway, police have opened

31:47 an aggravated corruption investigation into a former

31:50 prime minister looking into whether he

31:53 received improper gifts and loans from Epstein.

31:57 Even in Turkey, prosecutors have launched an inquiry into allegations

32:02 that children were trafficked into Epstein's network from Turkey.

32:06 It's a striking contrast.

32:08 In Europe and Asia, homes are being raided and senior

32:12 officials are resigning over the contents of the files.

32:16 Meanwhile, in Washington, law enforcement authorities are still insisting

32:21 that there's no evidence of any wrongdoing.

32:24 One might conclude that in the business of political accountability,

32:29 the Atlantic Ocean acts as a very effective filter.

32:33 Elon Musk spent years denying any relationship with Jeffrey

32:37 Epstein while using Epstein's name to attack others.

32:41 He claimed that the photo of him with Chileain

32:44 Maxwell was because she had photobombed him at a party.

32:48 He even used his everything app, which can also be used for tweets,

32:52 to claim that Epstein tried repeatedly to get him to visit the island,

32:58 but that Musk had always refused.

33:00 The new files tell a very different story where

33:03 Elon's name is mentioned more than a thousand times,

33:07 and instead of turning down invitations, he's begging for them.

33:12 One of the funniest entries has Elon emailing Epstein on Christmas morning.

33:17 I imagine as his kids are opening their gifts to say

33:21 that he wanted to hit the party scene and let loose.

33:25 Specifically noting that a peaceful island experience is

33:28 the opposite of what he was looking for.

33:31 Epstein, ever the attentive host,

33:34 warned that the ratio on the island might make Musk's then wife uncomfortable,

33:39 to which Musk replied, "Ratio is not a problem." While Musk

33:44 has since acknowledged the emails are genuine,

33:47 he maintains that they were misinterpreted and that he

33:50 ultimately never set foot on the island due to logistics.

33:54 In another email, Musk seems angry to have been invited

33:58 to an event in New York where diplomats would be present.

34:02 Epstein calms him down by saying that there would be no one

34:06 at his party over the age of 25 and all are very cute.

34:11 After that, we have the artist formerly

34:14 known as Prince Andrew, who at this point,

34:17 King Charles, must be booking in for a car tour of Paris's tunnels.

34:22 The files reveal that Epstein was

34:24 aggressively lobbying his favorite neighbor, Howard Lutnik,

34:28 to give Andrew a job or a lucrative role,

34:31 providing introductions at Caner Fitzgerald.

34:35 It's quite a look at the unseen mechanics of power.

34:39 a royal prince using a convicted sex offender as a head

34:43 hunter to get a job at a grubby Wall Street brokerage.

34:47 While Andrew's brother, King Charles, recently stripped him of his royal titles

34:52 and evicted him from his home at Royal Lodge,

34:55 the files still suggest that the rot went deep.

34:59 Amusingly, Andrew and Sarah Ferguson seem to have invited Epstein along

35:04 with Harvey Weinstein and Galain Maxwell to their daughter's 18th birthday.

35:10 The only thing I can say about that is

35:12 that maybe once girls are over the age of 18, they're safe around that crew.

35:18 We've already seen emails from Andrew

35:21 asking for inappropriate friends and photos

35:24 that the Department of Justice has finally

35:26 released showed the Duke in various compromising positions.

35:31 It seems that whether you're a tech billionaire

35:34 or a member of the British royal family,

35:36 Jeffrey Epstein was the man who you turned to when you wanted to find a party,

35:41 a job, or a way to make the rules of normal society simply disappear.

35:46 While Jeffrey Epstein was busy trying to convince

35:49 the world that he was a philanthropist,

35:52 the latest files suggest that he was also pursuing a much darker,

35:57 almost sci-fi obsession, seeding the world with his own DNA.

36:02 A bombshell email from September 2011 sent by Sarah Ferguson appears to confirm

36:09 that Epstein may have actually succeeded in fathering at least one child.

36:15 Ferguson wrote to Epstein saying that she had heard from the Duke,

36:18 presumably Prince Andrew, that Jeffrey had a baby boy.

36:23 She even expressed hurt in another email that he had

36:27 disappeared and hadn't told her he was having a baby.

36:30 The most horrific piece of evidence is found

36:32 in a document with the serial number EFTA 02731361.

36:40 It reads like a private diary of a trauma written by a young

36:44 victim who describes being treated not as a person but as a biological asset.

36:50 The writer describes being under the constant control of Galileain Maxwell.

36:56 The document is filled with confusion and fear.

36:58 It's really the stuff of nightmares.

37:01 I would strongly advise against reading it.

37:04 The victim describes being made to feel like a human

37:07 incubator and mentions Epstein's obsession with a superior gene pool.

37:13 Most chillingly, she describes giving birth and having a child

37:17 immediately taken away by a man she refers to as Mr.

37:22 M.

37:22 I only got 10 to 15 minutes to hold and feed her before they took her.

37:27 She writes, "She is mine and I want her back." This diary, if that's what it is,

37:34 includes clippings about child trafficking and 21st century slavery.

37:39 It paints a picture of these people,

37:42 Epstein Maxwell, and whoever else was involved,

37:45 who viewed other human beings as mere property

37:48 to be exploited for their own insane ends.

37:52 It's a stark and horrifying reminder

37:54 of the misery these people inflicted on others.

37:58 I'm really not sure what to make of that terrible document.

38:01 And once again, there's no evidence in there that I

38:05 can find showing that law enforcement investigated any of its claims.

38:10 It's worth adding that Virginia Duffrey

38:13 in her postumous memoir told the story of Epstein

38:17 and Maxwell pitching a plan for her to have

38:20 a baby for them while on Epstein Island.

38:24 I've discussed in my prior videos how a lot of people either don't want

38:28 to admit or just can't believe how awful the people in these documents are.

38:33 This seems to be especially the case when their favorite politician,

38:37 celebrity, or tech billionaire was involved.

38:40 As I've said before, this isn't about politics.

38:44 It's not about the right and the left.

38:46 It's about monstrous people who have done terrible things.

38:50 Joe Rogan had a guy on his show a few days ago called Mike Benz.

38:55 I've never heard of him before and had to Google him,

38:58 but it seems that he's big on Twitter and worked for the US Department of State.

39:03 Here's a quick clip about what he had to say.

39:07 I don't think that the majority or anything close to it

39:11 of of the women were technically I mean I I think it was largely

39:16 very young um you know barely legal so to speak but and I

39:21 know that there were cases of underage but I you know I think

39:25 most of it was just most of it was just very very young but not

39:29 not like 20y old not like type thing and then

39:33 yeah remember because this is an international enterprise and many

39:37 of the clients are like uh you know in countries

39:42 that don't necessarily have the same norms about that that we do.

39:45 Um you can very easily see someone getting

39:48 involved in that just because girls juice deals.

39:52 Now I don't have much time to dig into this.

39:54 There's a very good video on a channel

39:56 called Too Lazy to Try that breaks it down,

40:00 but it's a massive mischaracterization of what you'll find

40:03 with even a casual glance at the Epstein files.

40:06 I'm not sure why someone would want to go on the biggest podcast in the world

40:11 to gloss over the horrors of what Epstein and his co-conspirators got up to.

40:16 It's truly revolting.

40:18 The comment section of that Joe Rogan podcast tears this guy apart,

40:23 but it's really wild at this point

40:25 to try and sanitize Epstein and his accompllices.

40:29 Children were horribly abused and some

40:32 of the documents that I've seen were absolutely nightmarish.

40:36 And this guy seems to explain it with the phrase,

40:39 "Girls juice deals." As I get near the end of this video,

40:43 it's worth reminding you of what an absolute monster Maxwell is,

40:49 especially when we know that after her meeting with Todd Blanch,

40:52 her prison accommodations were upgraded,

40:55 and there's even talks of her possibly being pardoned.

40:59 While she might look like a nice lady, smiling in all of the photos,

41:03 her victims describe how she personally joined

41:06 in their abuse and how she inflicted violence upon them.

41:10 One survivor described Maxwell as the person who opened the door to hell.

41:16 Just because someone looks nice and is

41:19 wellspoken doesn't mean that they're a good person.

41:23 I'll wrap up by telling you about a very similar but grubier story from Belgium.

41:29 The Mark Dutro story.

41:31 Mark was an unemployed electrician who abducted,

41:35 abused, and murdered his victims.

41:38 Like Epstein, he was arrested for sex crimes early on, and like Epstein,

41:43 he was led off easy, serving just 3 years of a 13-year sentence.

41:49 He continued on with his terrible crimes as soon as he was released.

41:54 The second time he was arrested in 1996,

41:57 he claimed to be a small part of a much bigger organization.

42:02 One of his accompllices claimed that they

42:04 had been providing girls to government officials.

42:08 Like Epstein, Mark had unexplained wealth, too.

42:11 As an unemployed electrician, he somehow owned 10 properties and had

42:16 a net worth of around 6 million Belgian Franks.

42:20 The case was notoriously poorly investigated.

42:24 At one point after being tipped off, the police searched his home while two

42:29 kidnapped girls were locked in the basement.

42:31 The girls voices were even heard by the police officers,

42:35 but they didn't follow up to work out where they were coming from.

42:39 One of the officers who dropped the ball

42:41 on these early leads was later promoted,

42:45 which did little to quiet the rumors of a cover up.

42:48 Perhaps most inexplicably,

42:50 DNA evidence from the crime scenes went unanalyzed for years.

42:55 And when the original prosecutor began

42:58 making waves and actually following the leads,

43:01 he was pulled from the case and replaced

43:04 by a prosecutor with next to no experience.

43:07 The public anger in Belgium,

43:09 where 300,000 people turned out to protest the mishandling of the case,

43:15 led to the complete reorganization of Belgium's law enforcement agencies.

43:20 So, what have we actually learned from three

43:23 and a half million pages of raw intelligence,

43:25 flight logs, and high society gossip released in the Epstein files?

43:31 Well, depending on who you ask,

43:33 the answer is either everything or nothing at all.

43:37 The Department of Justice is saying that this data dump marks

43:41 the end of the Epstein scandal and that there's nothing more to see.

43:46 Critics and survivor advocates point out that only about half of the 6 million

43:51 files have actually been released

43:53 and that the redaction still need to be explained.

43:57 When reading through the victim statements,

44:00 I'm somewhat reminded of the famous line from The Great Gatsby.

44:04 They were careless people, Tom and Daisy.

44:07 They smashed up things and creatures and then

44:10 retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness

44:14 or whatever it was that kept them together and let

44:18 other people clean up the mess they had made.

44:21 It's a poetic sentiment, but looking through these documents,

44:25 carelessness is a bit too generous.

44:28 The people implicated in this case might not have cared about the victims,

44:33 but it wasn't carelessness that built up this vast crime network

44:37 that was used to inflict misery on its victims and defend the perpetrators.

44:43 It's a terrible mistake, too,

44:46 to confuse the recent government claims of transparency for real justice.

44:51 While the government points to the volume

44:53 of documents released as proof of their openness, these files weren't given.

44:59 They were forced from their grasp by a mounting surge of public anger.

45:04 Now, the people implicated seem to be losing

45:07 their patience with the questions they're being asked.

45:11 Just this week, a reporter in the Oval Office asked President Trump about

45:16 the survivors concerns that the redactions are being used to cover up key names.

45:22 A valid question.

45:23 Instead of addressing it, the president tore into the journalists.

45:28 What What did you say?

45:28 Go ahead.

45:29 What would you say to the survivors who feel like they haven't got

45:32 You are the worst reporter.

45:33 No wonder CNN has no ratings because of people like you.

45:36 You know, she's a young woman.

45:38 I don't think I've ever seen you smile.

45:40 I've known you for 10 years.

45:42 I don't think I've ever seen a smile in my head.

45:44 I'm asking you about survival.

45:45 You know why?

45:45 You know why you're not smiling?

45:47 Cuz you know you're not telling the truth.

45:49 And you're you're a very dishonest organization

45:52 and they should be ashamed of you.

45:55 Ultimately, the Epstein files aren't just a collection of names and stories.

46:00 They're a map of a world where accountability is a luxury that only applies

46:05 to people without a yacht or a $10 real estate deal on the Upper East Side.

46:11 If you found this video interesting,

46:13 you should watch my video on how even typing

46:16 the word Epstein was being blocked on Tik Tok next.

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46:27 Bye.

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