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I think we all know how the story ends.

All of America's top federal authorities

find no evidence of collusion or

conspiracy. There was no client list, no

blackmail, nothing left behind at all.

The banker who spent his career building

a mysterious fortune while he managed

money for billionaire clients that

probably didn't exist while also

trafficking girls to and from a private

island in the Caribbean at the same time

as he hosted some of the world's

foremost politicians, businessmen,

intellectuals, and celebrities as house

guests. He had acted completely alone.

It was all an unfortunate coincidence

and nothing more. The story of Jeffrey

Epstein faded into the past as the world

kept turning.

>> Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?

Epstein?

>> Or at least that's what the story would

have been if there weren't already

mountains and mountains of evidence of

Epstein being not just a psychopath, but

also at the center of a crime ring that

involved the world's most powerful

people procuring victims for them to

abuse together. Even now with the

federal government conflicting

themselves and going back on their word

in regards to his case, the controversy

and mystery around Jeffrey Epstein has

reached a fever pitch. Silence doesn't

make it go away. It's only made the

questions grow louder as people's trust

in our leadership is turning to dust.

But in order to understand how Jeffrey

Epstein was allowed to happen, what made

him the monster he was, we have to go

all the way back to the beginning before

the island, before the fortunes, before

the world knew his name. and we have to

take a much closer look at his life and

the system that enabled him. Jeffrey

Epstein first appears in any public

capacity in July of 1980 when he's 27

years old. But the context is very

strange. There's an article I found from

Cosmopolitan magazine where he was

listed as Bachelor of the Month with a

tiny blurb and a black and white photo

next to it. It says, "Financial

strategist Jeffrey Epstein talks only to

people who make over a million a year.

If you're a cute Texas girl, write this

New York dynamo at 55 Water Street, 49th

Floor, New York, blah blah blah. Because

for the first 20 years of his career,

Epstein garnered only occasional and

brief mentions in the press. He had no

real public recognition at all in the

way that most highlevel bankers might.

And that's because there wasn't really a

sensible explanation as to how he got

there in the first place. Jeffrey Edward

Epste, born in Brooklyn in 1953, was the

son of two working-class Jewish parents

who, by all accounts, were completely

normal. His mother, Pauline, worked a

full-time job as a teacher's assistant

while raising the kids, and his father

worked for the city of New York's parks

department as a gardener. Former friends

and neighbors would use words like

simple, humble, and gentle when talking

about Epstein's parents, his brothers,

and even Jeffrey himself. One former

neighbor would later write that he was a

nerdy little boy. People said that he

was smart, overweight, always smiling,

but mostly quiet. In high school,

Epstein liked algebra and calculus, and

he was on the math team. But his

teammates would later describe him as

not sticking out all that much. But he

was smart enough to graduate high school

in 1969, 2 years early, and he would

then attend Cooper Union College, a very

small school in Manhattan known for

offering completely free tuition. He

studied math there, although after 2

years, he transferred to NYU, but he

ended up leaving there after 3 years

without any college degree at all. But

within two months, Epstein had picked up

a full-time job. Anyway, he had become a

high school math teacher, not just at

any school, but at one of the most

prestigious in Manhattan, a school for

the children of the elites. The students

were the children of highly paid

bankers, developers, politicians, people

that could afford to pay a tuition equal

to $50,000 a year today. By the time he

started teaching at Dalton, Epstein was

almost a completely different person.

Basically, as a teacher, Jeffrey Epstein

was a sleazy scumbag and a bit of a

disaster. In the mid 1970s, students at

one of New York's most esteemed prep

schools were surprised to encounter a

new teacher who pushed the limits of the

school's strict dress code, wandering

the halls in a fur coat, gold chains,

and an open shirt that exposed his

chest. But it wasn't just a willingness

to dress provocatively. It was how he

interacted with students that left an

impression on many of them for decades

after. He was apparently popular among

female students, as many young teachers

might be. But the problem was that he

not only embraced the attention, but

also seemed to have chased after it. The

story goes that at one point he even

started showing up at students parties,

including ones where they would have

been drinking underage. But before this

private school teacher in his mid20s

could ever get involved in something

that might implicate him in a serious

way, Epstein was fired from the Dalton

School for performance issues. He simply

wasn't a good teacher. But at the same

time though, he was able to move his

career in a way that I could only

describe as failing upwards. Because if

you fast forward about 20 years, Epste

was no longer this sort of aimless

college dropout who had a reputation for

being a bit of a creep towards students

at the school he worked at. It was

almost as if Epstein would go on to

become a completely literally different

person. When you look deeper at how

exactly Epste goes from this disgraced

school teacher to flying a jetliner

around the world while he rubs elbows

with the rich and famous, the puzzle

pieces don't really fit together. It

would only be a few months after getting

fired from the Dalton School in 1976

until Epstein found another job.

Specifically, he got hired at the giant

investment firm Bear Sterns as an

assistant to a floor trader. And it's

the second time he did that in just a

couple of years. Because if he did do

one thing right while working at Dalton,

it was impress his students rich and

powerful parents.

Specifically, he was hired off the

recommendation of a student's parent he

had impressed, who also happened to be

friends with Alan Greenberg, CEO of the

bajillion dollar Bear Sterns investment

bank. Greenberg was also known for

coming from a working-class background,

and he liked to hire people with what he

called PSD degrees, poor, smart, and

desperate to be rich. Whether or not

getting his foot in the door was his

original goal while working at a private

school, whatever it was, Epstein had

launched himself up the ladder in a

massive way. And it's kind of weird, but

Epstein's time at this giant financial

services firm. It wasn't all that

different from his time as a teacher.

Within just 4 years there, he gets

promoted from junior assistant to

limited partner, which is a pretty crazy

trajectory for someone with no college

degree. But then just a year after that,

he was actually asked to quit or be

fired during an SEC investigation into

insider trading at Bear Sterns. But for

the rest of the 1980s, he would start or

get involved in a strange series of

businesses that, if we didn't know they

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strangest out of everything he did

during this time was Towers Financial

Corporation, a collection agency that

was in the business of buying consumer

medical debt. While he was hired as a

consultant and paid the equivalent of

$69,000 a month today, the first job he

was given was to start using the company

as a rating vessel for corporate

takeovers. In the 80s, there was this

popular practice of buying a large stake

in a corporation, then firing top

executives, and then downsizing even

further to increase the share value

before selling. Basically, you take over

and ruin a company just to make money

from it. And their first move was to

attempt a takeover of a kind of old

declining airline, Pan-American World

Airways, in 1987. A year later, they

also tried to take over Emory Air

Freight. And while both attempts failed,

that wasn't the problem. The problem is

that they were using money they didn't

actually have. Basically, while this

company was claiming to be a debt

collection agency, they had also raised

half a billion dollars from investors

while promising big returns. They used

the money on private jets, fancy houses,

expensive cars, and their plan for

paying it all back was to attempt those

crazy corporate takeovers that were

supposed to make enough profit to cover

everything. But then when the takeovers

failed, they had nowhere to turn, no

money to repay the investors, and it all

fell apart. And so in 1993, Tower's

Financial would implode after being

exposed as one of the biggest Ponzi

schemes in American history. But when it

came time for his former business

partner, Steven Hoffenberg, to be

deposed and tell his side of the story

in court, he didn't just throw Epstein

under the bus. He basically blamed the

whole thing on him. But by the time the

company collapsed and was being

investigated, Epstein had already been

gone for 3 years. He would never be

charged with anything related to Towers

Financial. Meanwhile, his business

partner Hoffenberg, he would spend

nearly 20 years in prison. I don't think

we have an exact reason why Epstein was

never charged for being on the inside of

one of the biggest Ponzi schemes ever.

One explanation is that Hoffenberg could

have been lying, his testimony during

his case was considered kind of

generally unreliable. He would lie about

a lot of stuff, wouldn't tell the truth.

Another reason is that if Epstein was

never really on the record as being

deeply involved in the fraud because

apparently they didn't use his name for

the trades or whatever it was, it's just

hearsay. You know, we can't really prove

that he's involved in the scam. So, it's

not worth pursuing if they did have

Hoffenberg right in front of them and

they could just punish him. However,

another person would later write that it

was only because of lazy prosecution

that Epstein walked away and that he was

definitely involved as far as anyone can

tell, especially because it's well

recorded that during the peak of the

tower's financial scam, Epstein was

physically accompanying Hoffenberg

around the world on his jet. He was

meeting with investors. He was with him

a lot of the time. And that's because

somehow after walking away from a

moderately high-paying consultant job

and apparently having nothing to do with

the hundreds of millions of dirty money

they made, he somehow pops up again a

couple years later, completely

reinvented like his old self never

existed at all. But the idea that

Epstein's career is just kind of a story

about failing upwards, like I mentioned

earlier, that doesn't even really

explain how he ends up where he did.

Yeah, teacher at a rich private school

might get hired by one of his students

rich parents, okay? But 15 years later,

walking away unscathed from one of the

worst financial crimes in American

history. I mean, seriously, most of us

probably don't remember, but Tower's

financial was absolutely horrible. Even

back in that at that point in his life,

a lot of his situations sound like a

conspiracy. But of course, that's only

one of these really odd stories that

have been told about Epstein's careers

over the years that imply all these

different truths about how he ended up

where he did. Multiple people over the

years, journalists, friends, business

partners, they all recalled Epstein

suggesting or hinting that he worked for

an intelligence agency, although he

never specified which one. But in the

mid to late 80s, during the same time he

was working at Towers Financial, he also

worked with Adnan Kashiki, the Saudi

businessman with ties to the CIA and

MSAD, who is best known for being the

middleman in transferring American

weapons from Israel to Iran during the

Iran Contra affair. Add on to that the

fact that Epstein was later found to

have a fake Austrian passport with

multiple stamps from the Middle East. It

only further paints a very confusing

picture about Epstein's career. There

just isn't a normal sensible conclusion

to this part of Epstein's life. Even

after connecting all the dots, it still

doesn't make sense. He starts off by

dropping out of college without getting

his degree, only to get hired at a

prestigious school that he then gets

fired from for being a bad teacher, only

to then get hired at a hugely

prestigious investment firm that he also

then gets fired from, only to then end

up getting implicated in one of the

biggest Ponzi schemes in American

history that he somehow never faces a

single charge for being involved in.

Along the way, he acquires fake

passports. He does business with arms

dealers in the Middle East. And at the

end of all of it, he's filthy rich. At

every single turn, you see him get not

punished, but actually rewarded for

stealing, cheating, and lying. But the

craziest part of all of that is that

that was just the beginning. In the

late8s, Epstein forms a new company,

Epstein and Co., a wealth management

firm, where he establishes immediately

that he's not going to take any clients

with a net worth of under $1 billion.

and his first client would indeed be a

prolific billionaire. Although the

relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and

Leslie Wexner would only create more

questions than it answers. Less Wexner

wasn't just rich. He was one of the most

successful retailers in modern American

history. After opening his own clothing

store in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio in

1963, he grew his brand, The Limited, to

a 100 stores within 12 years. By the

mid1 1980s, he was purchasing other

brands, one of which was the failing

Victoria Secret, for $1 million. But

within 10 years, by 1992, he grew it to

a value of 1 billion. Over the years, he

continued to buy and start more brands.

Abbercrombie and Fitch, Lane Bryant,

Bath & Body Works, the White Barn

Kendall Company. Basically, if you've

ever stepped into a mall in North

America, you've seen Les Wexner's

businesses. His brands still fill

suburban shopping centers today. But

Leslie Wexner was also a very strange

person. In 1985, the year that he became

a billionaire for the first time, he

began building up his personal brand

with interviews about his businesses,

his life, but the man that the world was

introduced to as the owner of Victoria's

Secret and Abberian Fitch, he seemed to

sit somewhere in the gray area between

spiritual warrior and mentally ill. On

the morning Leslie Wexner became a

billionaire, he woke up worried. But

this was not unusual. He always wakes up

worried because of his debug, which

pokes and prods and gives him the

itchiness of the soul that he calls hins

in Yiddish. Sometimes he runs away from

it on the roads of Columbus, Ohio, or

drives away from it in one of his

Porsches or flies from it in one of his

planes, but then later it comes back

with his first coffee, his first

meeting, nudging at him again. A debug

is essentially translated from Yiddish

as a demon. As the article continues, it

states that Wexner has been with a debug

since he was a boy and that his father

recognized it and referred to it as

churning. He told New York magazine that

his debook makes him wander from house

to house, wanting more and more and

swallowing companies larger than his

own. In other words, it compels him to

accumulate more money and more power

with no end in sight. Wgner also

describes the debbook as an integral

part of his genius. Throughout his

career, he had a habit of cutting people

off abruptly, even longtime friends and

business partners. People would call him

impossible to know. One person who

interviewed him early in his life said

that he acted as if he had met the

devil. At one point, he bought every

property near his mansion in Ohio so no

one could be near him. He even built a

massive estate modeled after an English

manor, complete with secret passageways

and interior surveillance, as well as

walls outside. People would say that it

didn't even seem like he enjoyed being

wealthy. He just craved control of

everything around him. He would

micromanage every detail of the stores

he owned, from the layouts to the fabric

used in the clothes. And this is the man

who would be the first big client of

Epstein's private elite money management

firm. Starting in the late 80s, Leslie

Wexner handed Jeffrey Epstein

practically complete control over his

personal fortune.

If you wanted to be funny, you could say

that Epstein himself was Leslie Wexner's

debug. But in reality, the dynamic that

Epste had with Wexner makes him almost

look like a parasite. Virtually from the

moment that Epste arrived on the scene

in Columbus, Ohio, where Wexner's brands

were based, Mr. Wexner's friends and

colleagues were mystified as to why a

renowned businessman in the prime of his

career would place such trust in an

outsider with a thin resume and scant

financial experience. And it was around

the time that Epstein launched Epstein

and Co. his investment services company

that his life kind of just seems to

completely change all over again for

what feels like the hundth time in a

row. By the early '9s, he's moving like

someone who's in charge of an empire.

He's flying around the world in a giant

jetliner. He's acquiring massive

properties around the US. But at the

same time, his name never shows up in

Forbes. He has no public filings, no

client list, no office. But to the

people around him, it looks like he owns

the world. By the late '9s, Epstein's

doing what I could only describe as

flying too close to the sun. He's

friends with Donald Trump, the Prince of

England, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin

Salam. He even buys a literal island

where he would build an extravagant

compound for hosting parties. But after

a series of conspicuous stunts, one of

which was a trip to Africa on his

private plane with Bill Clinton and

Kevin Spacy as passengers, it gets to a

point where Epstein is too big to

ignore. The media, the general public,

people are wondering how Epste made all

this money, where he came from. What's

the point of everything he does? How he

got to this level of social status is

yet another strange story in this

neverending list of strange stories. And

a big part of it would be this very very

strange story of his connection to the

Maxwell family media empire. Robert

Maxwell was born Ian Ludvic Hyman

Bingaman Hawk. He was a media tycoon

businessman with a really strange life.

After growing up Jewish in a small town

in Romania, almost his entire family was

tragically killed at Awitz. But he ends

up joining the army in France after

escaping and he gets a bunch of medals

for storming a Nazi machine gun tower

and surviving. After the war, he changes

his name to Robert Maxwell, moves to

England, and gets elected into the

British Parliament, but he also quickly

starts building a media empire across

Europe at the same time. Over a period

of around 50 years, he ends up owning

the Daily Mirror. He owns part of MTV in

Europe, the London Daily News. At one

point, he even buys the US-based

McMillan Publishers for over $2 billion

in the late 80s. But throughout his

life, he was also closely linked to

Israeli intelligence. Robert Maxwell

allegedly helped Israeli spies

distribute bug surveillance software to

two of the most important nuclear

research and security facilities in the

US. At the same time, the United Kingdom

would call him most likely a double or

triple agent financed by Russia. He had

known links to MI6, KGB, and MSAD all at

the same time. Anyway, in the early

'90s, Robert Maxwell is deeply in debt.

his companies are struggling and just a

few days before he was scheduled to

default on a $50 million loan, he

apparently fell off the side of his

yacht and drowned in the Canary Islands.

Shortly after that, news comes out that

he had been stealing hundreds of

millions of dollars out of the pension

funds from all the companies he owned to

keep his lifestyle afloat. And his

already tarnished legacy was ruined

forever. But of course, that's not

before he was given a lavish state

funeral in Israel, attended by the prime

minister and president and all current

and former heads of Israeli

intelligence. Point being, though, is

that one of Robert Maxwell's nine

children, Delane, had long been a

prominent socialite in London and New

York. And after her father died and the

family empire collapses in the early

'90s, she ends up living in Manhattan,

where she would end up dating none other

than Jeffrey Epstein. Notably,

Galileain, the daughter of this

internationally known billionaire spy

for Israel, would become the primary

link between Epstein and his powerful

social network. Out of many things she

would do for him, she would be the

person who introduces him to Prince

Andrew, Saudi royals, celebrities,

politicians. Of course, Epstein was

already pretty well connected, but his

relationship with Maxwell was pivotal in

him inserting himself into the upper

echelon of society.

In March of 2003, Vanity Fair journalist

Vicky Ward sets out to write a profile

about Jeffrey Epstein and figure out

what exactly he's all about once and for

all. Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's

high-flying style has been drawing oo

and o's. The bachelor financeier lives

in New York's largest private residence,

claims to only take billionaires as

clients, and flies celebrities like Bill

Clinton and Kevin Spacy on his Boeing

727. But Pierce's air of mystery in the

picture changes. And her point was that

after peeling back his mask of mystery,

something far more alarming than

anticipated would be revealed. Her

research led her to question the idea

that Epstein made all of his money with

an exclusive and private investment firm

where he'd only take on billionaires as

clients. She suggests that Leslie Wexner

is the only client Epstein ever had. But

even more than that, that his business

isn't really how he made his money at

all. What she found made it look like

Epstein really wasn't a genius investor

at all, but probably acquired the

majority of his mysterious fortune from

the tower's financial Ponzi scheme,

which he was far more involved in than

the official story would suggest. She

essentially made him look like a fraud,

a conman with no substantial investing

history, hiding behind the persona of an

elite financial mastermind while

building up a social network to make him

look a lot more sophisticated than he

really was. Even worse than what they

did publish about him is what they

didn't. While she was working on her

profile of Epste for Vanity Fair, Vicky

Ward was approached by two sisters who

claimed that Epste had sexually

assaulted them in the mid '90s. One of

them would have been under 18 at the

time. They had even notified

authorities, although no action was

taken by the NYPD. Allegedly, Epstein

had promised the younger sister that he

could get her access to programs that

would earn her admission to Ivy League

schools she desperately wanted to get

into. For the older sister, he offered

financial support for her art career.

Once he had them alone, they were both

assaulted. Originally, their accusations

were written into his profile in Vanity

Fair. But while Vicky Ward and her team

were working on the story, Epstein

started showing up at their office and

asking him not to include any mentions

of the young women. Not only does Epste

show up at their office, but in that

same week, a bullet and the head of a

dead cat were placed on the front steps

of Vanity Fair's editor-inchief's home.

After that, no mentions of these

accusations were included in the final

article. Vicky Ward would later write

that she was so afraid of Epstein that

she hired security to watch over her

babies in the NICU when she gave birth

prematurely a few months later. But I

think ultimately these profile pieces of

Epstein that painted him as this

mysterious, maybe a little shady, maybe

a little bit of a con artist, m quirky,

whatever. I think in a way it

inadvertently helped him in the end.

Even though they were casting shadows of

doubt over his honesty and his business

ethics, whatever, it wasn't in a way

that raised serious concerns from the

general public because they were leaving

out the evidence, the accusations of

serious sexual crimes they had heard

while working on it. Into the mid200s,

Epstein starts building up a new side of

his persona, something he could really

be known for, and that's being a patron

of science. It gives dimension, right?

Like he's a mysterious businessman who

donates all of his money to science. and

and that kind of makes me poke less

holes in who he is.

>> People sometimes wonder, you know, like

were scientists, you know, hanging out

with him to get with these young women

or something. There are some scientists

like that. They were spending time with

him because he was giving their

laboratories money that they didn't have

to write grants for.

>> Why was he doing that though?

>> He clearly understood social

engineering. He understood that rich

people have they can get anything they

want. Except the one thing they can't

easily control is their reputation cuz

that requires other people's perceptions

and just being rich doesn't make you

necessarily respected. He donated tens

of millions of dollars, some to MIT,

some to Harvard. He would host dinners

with guests like Stephven Hawking,

Martin Oak, Steven Pinker, some of the

most famous intellectuals in the Western

world. He would brand himself as a

science philanthropist interested in

genetics, AI, physics. his donations to

Harvard would exceed $9 million. Maybe

he was trying to build a big support

network. Maybe he was buying friends who

would defend his character in the

future. Maybe his intentions were even

more bizarre than that. At many of his

gatherings, he would talk about a desire

to inseminate large amounts of women at

one time at his ranch in New Mexico with

the aim of breeding a better human race.

But whatever his real intentions were,

his intellectual friends loved him. Or

at least some of them did. Other people

he knew considered him strange,

off-putting, bizarre. People would

describe that Epstein's interest in

science and art seems only centered

around enhancing his persona with no

genuine interest in technical details at

all. While famed mathematician Martin

Noak would call Epstein a genius, Steven

Pinker would later tell a different

story. I found it irritating to talk to

him all the more so because the reason

he was in the conversation was because

he had given money to these various

projects. He likes smooshing with smart

and intellectual people, but he couldn't

really or had very little interest in

exploring actual issues. You would wise

crack, change subjects, or get bored

after a few seconds. Daniel Dennett,

philosopher and cognitive scientist, had

a similar experience. He asked me

manipulative questions as a

conversational gambit. I remember he

said, "Suppose I gave you a billion

dollars. What would you do with it? He

had no interest in my answer. It was

just about showing off his wealth." The

chemist Steuart Pavar attended multiple

of Epstein summits on his island in the

Caribbean and had this to say. He

couldn't concentrate on a subject for

more than two minutes before having to

change the subject because he didn't

know what anyone was talking about and

would blurt out the dumbest things. In

particular, he had an affinity for

posing pseudo deep questions like what

is up or what is down at the scientific

summits he hosted on his island. Favar

recalled that the act eventually wore

thin. After a couple of minutes, because

he had no attention span whatsoever, he

would interrupt the conversation and say

things like, "What has that got to do

with pussy?" And that was another big

part of his persona. Epstein never

married, but his romantic interests were

still a focal point in his social life.

Specifically, he liked young women.

Lawrence Krauss, a longtime friend,

would say that Epstein always has women

ages 19 to 23 around him. Donald Trump

would say in 2002 that Epstein likes

beautiful women as much as I do, and

many of them are on the younger side.

The people who interviewed him in the

early 2000s would note that it was

regular for him to have one or multiple

young models in their early 20s near him

at all times, even during his scientific

summit gatherings. At one point, his

friend Woody Allen wrote him a birthday

note that would include a joke about

Epstein being a vampire with a harum of

young female vampires that work at his

palace. For Epstein and his friends, his

obsession with young women was an open

joke. It was one that they went back to

often on top of that. They weren't

hiding it. It was one of their favorite

go-to lines. But even when you take into

account the fact that Epstein probably

did get a lot of his money from a Ponzi

scheme and he was doing dirty business,

insider trading, like everything in the

book, right? It's also kind of typical.

There are a lot of people who have done

stuff that's way worse than him and we

don't really care. I think we all

understand that billionaire capitalists

become billionaire capitalists by

exploiting, abusing, taking advantage of

the financial system. We expect that.

It's not really considered a sin in

today's society, at least not in the way

that we expect someone to be punished

for it. And we also expect celebrities

to be creeps. I mean, we have Leonardo

DiCaprio. He throws his girlfriends in

the trash when they turn 25. People joke

about that more than anything else.

Like, we don't expect there to be some

serious consequence. Years later, Vicky

Ward, who had originally brought

Epstein's lifestyle into the spotlight,

would write, "If only it had all ended

there. This was what it had been meant

to be, a gossipy piece about a shadowy,

kind of sinister, but essentially

harmless man who preferred track pants

to suits, but somehow lived very large

and had wealthy, important friends, hung

out with models, and shied away from the

press." But it didn't. Because behind

the curtain of money and mystery he

built up, Epstein wasn't just another

con man. And once the mask did slip, it

would reveal horrors on a level that no

one was ready for. The real story of

Jeffrey Epstein was just getting

started. In 1990, Epstein bought a house

in Palm Beach worth a little bit more

than $10 million. For Epste and guys

like him, it wasn't a place to live. It

was a status symbol, like buying a BMW.

If you wanted to be perceived as rich

and powerful and well-connected, it was

almost a requirement to have a place in

Palm Beach. And for 15 years, it was his

second home for parties, networking,

visiting in the winter. But in 2005, his

life in Palm Beach would also become the

center of the unraveling of his life and

reputation. Or at least it should have

been. In March of that year, an

anonymous woman contacts the Palm Beach

Police Department and claims that her

14-year-old stepdaughter had been paid

to strip and massage Epstein. The story

was that the girl who attended a

boarding school for troubled teens had

attracted unwanted attention from other

students when she showed up to school

with $300 in her purse. with other kids

gossiping about her and making a scene.

Eventually, the school police officer

and therapist interviewed her to ask

exactly what was going on. Visibly

distressed, she described that an older

friend had taken her to visit a massive

waterfront mansion, where she was led by

a 25-year-old blonde woman to a bedroom

with a massage table where a man named

Jeff demanded she undress and massage

him. He also sexually assaulted her

during their encounter. When she was

shown a photo of Epste as part of a

lineup, she identified him immediately.

The local police spent over a year

building a case on him, completely

undercover. They interviewed more than a

dozen victims. They found hidden cameras

in his house. They found a large number

of photos of girls throughout his home,

some of which were the girls they had

been interviewing. But it just got worse

and worse without being so graphic that

YouTube limits the video. Jeffrey

Epstein had a network of girls

recruiting dozens of younger teenagers

from all over the Palm Beach area to

give him nude massages and sexually

assaulting them while they were in the

process. The police even found several

girls high school report cards in the

trash at his home. It wasn't just this

one thing. It was starting to look like

his life in Florida was centered around

abusing underage girls. Evidence that he

wasn't just finding victims in the Palm

Beach area, but that there were girls

being flown in from Brazil, Eastern

Europe, and France as well. Possibly

thanks to help from Jean Luke Bernell,

owner of the modeling agency M2C, a

company that Epste had personally

invested in. And so, in July of 2006,

after 13 months of investigating, Epste

was arrested by the Palm Beach Police

for procuring a minor for prostitution.

Epstein ended up pleading guilty to both

of the charges brought on him by the

state of Florida, soliciting

prostitution and soliciting a minor. He

was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

After 13 months in the Palm Beach County

Jail, he registered as a sex offender

and was released on good behavior, only

attracting a little bit of mostly local

press coverage. At the time, it wasn't

really seen as a huge issue. A creepy

rich guy in Palm Beach got caught, did

his time, and the world moved on. Even

stranger though is how it affected

Epstein after he got out of prison once

he was back in New York to rebuild his

old life because it didn't. Epstein's

social circle didn't reject or shun him

for what he had done. Arguably after

jail, he was only more admired by his

peers than he had been before. Almost

immediately after returning home, he

hosted a dinner that would be attended

by journalist Katie Kurrick, filmmaker

Woody Allen, comedian Chelsea Handler,

and more. And then a few weeks after

that, he hosted a birthday party for

Prince Andrew, fourth in line to the

British throne. Some people even

publicly defended him, including

Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist

that Epste had raised money for in the

past. Though colleagues have criticized

him over his relationship with Epste,

Krauss insists, "I don't feel tarnished

in any way by my relationship with

Jeffrey. I feel raised by it." Another

person would say, "I've never condoneed

paying for sex, but if a young lady lies

about her age, it's her own fault." Of

course, though, it wasn't all positive.

One person, the wife of Apostle CEO John

Howard, would say, "All I see here is

that if you have big money or are

famous, you get a pass. Where I'm from,

he would be a social pariah. But the

only thing that gets you shunned in New

York society is poverty. A jail sentence

doesn't matter anymore. It wasn't like

people didn't know what Epstein had

done. It was in the news. They just

didn't care. Publicist Peggy Seagal

would say that I and many others that

know Epstein describe him as brilliant.

His unique mind is what attracts the

world's smartest people to his home.

Last September, with Seagal's help,

Epste hosted a breakfast after Yam

Kapoor. A group of 120 friends brought

their children over for a buffet dinner.

One attendee, a New York real estate

heir, has known Epstein for 35 years and

visited him while he was in prison. He

said, "Aside I've been reading about is

a side I don't know." He said he

considers Epste one of the smartest

people he knows and often asks him for

investment advice. He would say, "Unless

I've seen it, I don't focus on it." Even

his business continued on as it had

before. Nothing changed. In 2015, he

made a big investment in an Israeli

startup founded by ex-prime minister

Ehoud Barack, who would also come stay

in New York apartments owned by Epstein

multiple times, while Epstein would

visit Israel frequently as well. He even

made a connection with Bill Gates, who

supposedly was introduced to him while

looking for donors for the Gates

Foundation in 2014. Again, this is five,

six years after he went to jail. Gates

even flew on Epstein's plane to visit

his house in Palm Beach multiple times.

He's never really given a coherent

explanation as to why

>> uh you know I had dinners with him. Uh I

regret doing that. He had relationships

with uh people he said you know would

give to global health which is a uh

interest I have. Uh you know those

meetings were were a mistake. They

didn't result in uh what he purported

and I cut them off. you know, that goes

back a long time ago now. Uh there's,

you know, so there's nothing new on that.

that.

>> He's not a pariah. He's not an outcast.

I mean, his his friend list is like it's

upgraded from what it used to be. And so

throughout the 2010s, Epstein's case

didn't really affect his life. He

continued doing business, socializing,

living the same as he always had. But if

you fast forward almost 10 years, it's

2018, and the Miami Herald is going to

run a series of articles titled

Perversion of Justice. It's the result

of a years'sl long investigation by

journalist Julie Brown and it throws

literally everything about Epstein's

past into question. One of the things is

that Epstein had spent that last decade

despite the lack of public outcry. He

had been paying millions in civil

settlements to his laundry list of

accusers. The controversy never really

went away. He was just like doing out

massive amounts of money to make people

shut up. And so Julie Brown introduces

this new perspective that the scope of

Epstein's crimes was so much wider than

previously thought that he had not only

gotten off kind of easy, but he had

basically been like actively protected

by the legal system. Most of what she

wrote had already been public

information for a while, but this was

comprehensive and deep. She documented

more than 80 potential victims, all

between the age of 13 and 18. She

interviewed many of them, creating a

cohesive narrative around the way that

the legal system didn't just fail, but

actively protected Epstein from facing

justice. It turns out the story of

Epstein's time in prison was a lot more

complicated than just a year in the

county jail. After Epste was sentenced

to just 18 months, he actually spent

almost no time at all in his cell. He

was allowed to leave the jail on work

release for up to 12 hours a day, 6 days

a week, which was somehow possible

despite being against the county's

policy of sex offenders not getting

those kind of privileges. Honestly,

Epstein basically ran the jail he was

housed at. When he wasn't at work, it

was ordered by sheriffs that his cell be

left unlocked and that he could have

unlimited access to a TV room. Even more

than that, he paid the county directly

to set up a completely private housing

area separate from any other inmates

with deputies being assigned to

accompany him while he was inside the

jail and out at work. One deputy would

later say that he was told his job was

not to monitor or watch Epstein, but

instead to provide security for him.

Even the job he was commuting to, it was

absolute [ __ ] It wasn't for his

financial management company. It wasn't

for any of his pre-existing clients. In

reality, Epstein had formed a nonprofit

called the Florida Science Foundation

immediately before he was sentenced and

he employed himself through it. There's

no documentation on whether or not this

nonprofit served any specific purpose at

all besides helping him get out of jail

all day. They never filed any public

records through the IRS or any other

channels. Epstein would often travel to

various meetings around the Palm Beach

area with a private driver and that the

deputies supposedly assigned to watch

him would often be told to wait outside

of his meeting. After he was released

for good behavior, about 2/3 of the way

through his original sentence, he had

another year of house arrest and

probation to serve before he was

released from the supervision of

Florida's jail system. But even that

would end up looking ridiculous. While

Epste was on house arrest, he was

allowed a list of privileges that were

just so wide ranging it feels ridiculous

to claim he was even on house arrest at

all. He was allowed to fly on his

private jet from home to home, going to

his island in the Caribbean to Manhattan

to New Mexico, all on a regular basis.

When he was at his home in Palm Beach,

he was allowed to take walks around the

beach. He even would go for shopping

trips at the mall. At one point, a

police officer detained Epstein on the

side of the road when he realized he was

out walking through Palm Beach in the

middle of the day when he should be at

home or at work. But his probation

officer would say, you know, Epstein has

permission to get exercise. But even

worse than that, it turns out that

Epstein actually completely avoided the

punishment he was supposed to receive in

the first place. So, while the Palm

Beach detectives were investigating

Epstein in 2008, they quickly started

realizing that what they were looking at

didn't feel like a local issue. It felt

like something that was definitely

crossing state lines at the very least.

And so they alerted the FBI, who also

launched a 13-monthlong investigation

into Epstein's life, along the way,

identifying vastly more potential

victims than the local cops were able

to, toting over 80 young girls that

Epste had made contact with. In the

53page federal indictment that they

compiled, he was facing charges like

transporting minors across state lines

for sex, sexual abuse of minors, child

prostitution, witness tampering, all of

which could have carried a sentence of

decades in prison, if not life. And they

suspected that he wasn't just doing this

in Palm Beach, but was trafficking these

girls to all of his homes, from

Manhattan to New Mexico, from Florida to

his private island in the Caribbean. It

was even suspected that the girls would

often be flown in from overseas with the

help of powerful people he knew in the

modeling industry. So, what they found

wasn't a rich creep. They had discovered

a pedophile with crimes so wide-ranging

that it was likely impossible he was

acting alone. But somehow Epstein was

able to strike a deal with the US

attorneys in Miami that would be so

strange, so lenient that it feels more

like a favor to a friend than the

resolution of a federal sex crime case.

But how how did he outmaneuver the feds?

Because as we know, Epstein ends up in

county jail for just a year, serving a

laughably small sentence. People still

argue today over how this was allowed to

happen. The key figure, though, was Alex

Aosta, South Florida's federally

appointed attorney in the late 2000s. In

his mid-30s, Aosta already held several

presidentially appointed positions under

George W. Bush, including being in the

federal civil rights division fighting

human trafficking. But he was ambitious

and hungry to rise even higher. But when

he was tasked with reviewing the FBI's

investigation of Epstein, instead of

taking the case to trial, Alex Aosta

meets privately with Epstein's team of

infamous lawyers and works out a

nonprosecution agreement. Epste wouldn't

be charged federally as long as he would

plead guilty at the state level. But the

deal went a lot further than that. It

ensured that no current or future

co-conspirators could ever be charged,

effectively shutting down the case if

Epstein would take the hit, even if more

accompllices were discovered. Even more

disturbing, though, Aosta agreed,

despite it being federally illegal, that

the deal could be sealed and hidden from

victims until after a judge approved it.

He was essentially saying, "Yeah, sure.

No one that Epstein has abused is

allowed to know about this until after

it's too late." But the worst part was

that when the Miami Herald expose came

out, Aosta had risen to become President

Trump's Secretary of Labor, one of the

closest cabinet positions to the

president himself. With national

attention suddenly focused on him, his

explanation for the Epstein case was

just strange. It was revealed that

Trump's team knew about this before

hiring him, but Aosta had initially

claimed that he was told to leave

Epstein alone because he might be an

intelligent asset above Aosta's pay

grade. But later, as public outrage

grew, he backpedalled, claiming that it

was just poor judgment before resigning

almost immediately. So, how did Epste

simply walk all over a federal

prosecutor? Part of it was Epstein's

immense wealth. It allowed him to hire

America's most powerful lawyers, Kenar,

Roy Black, Alan Dersowitz, masters of

manipulating the law. For someone like

Aosta, who was highly concerned with his

career trajectory, taking this case to

trial might risk his reputation in

future career if it didn't go the way he

needed it to. Reports suggest that

during the secret hotel meetings with

Epste's lawyers, they pressed Aosta hard

with political implications and

emotional manipulation. He was boxed in.

They even threatened to write a book

about the case if he didn't give them

what they won. But beyond that, he just

didn't handle it properly. Julie Brown's

reporting says, "Among other things,

Aosta allowed Epstein's lawyers unusual

freedoms in dictating the terms of their

own nonprosecution agreement." One

lawyer would say, "The damage that

happened in this case is unconscionable.

How in the world do you, a US attorney,

engage in a negotiation with a criminal

defendant, allowing the criminal to

write up the agreement himself? Even the

former Palm Beach police chief, who had

supervised their investigation against

Epstein, would speak out against how the

FBI handled things. The cops thought

they'd handed prosecutors the easiest

case ever, a slam dunk. The FBI spent

many months painstakingly persuading

some of the women that Epstein had

abused to tell their stories.

Prosecutors in Miami finally honed the

narrative that they would present to a

jury. a startling, sickening tale of an

arrogant millionaire who they say

systematically recruited and sexually

molested barely pubescent girls and

dozens of them. This was not a he said

she said situation. This was 50some

she's and one he and the she's all told

the same story. And so part of the

outrage that explodes after this news

comes to light is the injustice. And

another big part of it comes from the

fact that coincidence or not, the key

figure behind this controversy is now in

the White House. Secretary, were you

ever made aware at any point your

handling of this case if Mr. Epstein was

an intelligence asset of some sort? Um

so that effect

>> so so so there has there has been

reporting to that effect and and let me

say um there's been reporting to a lot

of effects in in in this case uh not

just now but over the years and and

again I would you know I would hesitate

to take this reporting as fact.

>> At one point Epste's lawyers had even

threatened to publish a book about the

case if Aosta didn't let him off easy. I

think ultimately beyond being outright

collusion between feds and Epstein, it

kind of just looks like Epstein used his

wealth to abuse the system. He hired

aggressive lawyers were able to convince

everybody that the case should go away

as quietly as possible. And he was lucky

enough to come up against a prosecutor

who was just using the job as a stepping

stone and cared more about his career

and his optics than right and wrong. But

despite how corrupt the whole situation

was, people also credited Aosta's

negligence for being the exact reason

why Epste's case ever found the light of

day again. As some journalists wrote

that if Aosta had never been appointed

to Trump's cabinet in the first place,

the history of his misconduct in the

case, and therefore Epstein's situation

at all probably wouldn't really be

remembered. Even more, the Miami Herald

article also brought new attention to

dozens of lawsuits that Epste had been

served by his victims in the years

following his prison sentence in the

late 2000s. And with interest in the

case rising, statements from the

countless women he was abusing over the

years would start to tell the story of

just how disgusting and deep his

operation was. One woman would say,

"Something I think is very important to

communicate is the loss of innocence,

trust, and joy that is not recoverable.

The abuse would devalue beyond measure

my ability to form and maintain healthy

relationships in my personal life." He

could not ever begin to fathom what he

took from us. Another victim would say,

"Things happened that were so traumatic

that to this day I'm unable to speak

about them. I don't even have the

vocabulary to describe it." One woman

would talk about trying to jump off a

cliff at Epstein's private island to

escape his abuse. But that article was

only the beginning. A couple months

later, spurred by all of the renewed

public interest in the case, federal

prosecutors realized that Alex Aosta's

deal with Epstein had been a huge

violation of the 2004 Crime Victims Act

all along. And so on July 6th, 2019,

Epstein is arrested at an airport in New

Jersey by the FBI Crimes Against

Children Task Force. That same day, upon

entering his Manhattan townhouse with a

search warrant, they discover thousands

of sexually suggestive photos, some of

which were found to be of underage

girls. It was immediately clear that

after already getting out of prison 10

years earlier, Epstein's activities had

never stopped. Once he was in jail in

Manhattan, Epstein would continue to try

and have his way. After being denied a

$100 million bond, he would engage in

bizarre behavior like paying attorneys

to sit in conference rooms with him for

up to 12 hours, staring at the walls,

and purchasing every snack and drink out

of the vending machines just to toss the

majority of what he had bought in the

trash. But it looked to everyone with

eyes like the crimes Epstein had done

were so bad, so horrifying, so

wide-ranging that there's no way the

people who he surrounded himself with

wouldn't have known what he was doing.

Basically, it was starting to look like

Epstein might be the world's most

well-connected pimp. The general

public's reaction upon realizing that

Epstein was basically allowed to get off

scot-free after the FBI had a 60-page

document about him. The realization that

he was doing all of this while

surrounded by the world's most powerful

and wealthy people. It was kind of like

an insane conspiracy come to life.

Before Julie Brown's reporting on this,

no one really thought of Epstein as

anything more than a rich creep. But the

federal deal allowing immunity for

co-conspirators who are still unnamed.

This was the moment where all of the

puzzle pieces started really fitting

together. And the narrow focus that

people had of him being a bad guy

suddenly pald in comparison to the

realization that he was most likely only

one of many, many bad guys. National

media jumps on it. People are enraged.

Social media is on fire. It's

overwhelming the news cycle. People just

wanted to know how deep this went

because it was starting to look like the

very foundation of our world might be

rotten. There's so many things about him

that people used to call complicated. It

was just look look horrifyingly simple.

And I can't cover every accusation,

victim, whistleblower, cover up, theory,

discovery, and story because that would

take 10 hours. But we can look at his

overall arc and see how this monster

hiding behind the Epstein mask, he was

never all that far below the surface to

begin with. Obviously, we know that

Epstein was kind of always a predator.

As a high school teacher, he was creepy

towards his girl students. Sure. But

fast forward 15 years to his

relationship with Leslie Wexner, the CEO

of Victoria's Secret. He helps build his

yachts, manage his investments, take

care of his home. Epste literally had

power of attorney over Wexner's wealth.

Throughout their relationship, though,

reports start to show up that Epstein

was being accused of posing multiple

times, not as Wexner's money manager,

but as a recruiter for Victoria's

Secret. At one point, allegedly inviting

a model to a hotel room in New York and

assaulting her. At the same time, Wexner

later found that Epstein had grossly

misappropriated his funds during their

business relationship, stealing over $50

million. Even his seemingly normal adult

romantic relationship with Gla Maxwell

would turn out to be a monstrosity in

disguise. For years, Epstein's basically

never seen without her. Their mutual

wealthy socialite couple persona was a

big part of his life. She connects him

to a lot of her famous friends. She

helps him host parties. They mingle

together. But she wasn't just his

partner. She was also his recruiter. and

enabler. Publicly, a sophisticated

Aerys. In private, she was finding,

grooming, and delivering young girls to

Epstein and his friends. She was just as

evil and disgusting as Epstein himself.

And the horrible crimes he committed

wouldn't have even been possible without

her involvement. When he bought an

island near Puerto Rico in the late

'90s, it became the center of his

vibrant social life, a place for

intellectuals, politicians, businessmen

to come together for lavish parties and

scientific summits. But at the same

time, his island was attracting a

negative reputation among locals,

becoming known as pedophile island and

isle of babes by those who live near it.

His plane, which would land frequently

in the Virgin Islands, carrying

younglooking women for him to then take

on a boat or helicopter to his house, it

was nicknamed Lolita Express by the

locals. An employee at the airirstrip

Epstein used, which was not on his

island, would later say that the fact

that young girls were getting in and out

of his helicopter and on his plane and

on his boat, it kind of felt like he was

flaunting it. But it was said that he

always tipped really well and so people

who needed money overlooked it. My

colleagues and I definitely talked about

how we don't understand how this guy was

still allowed to be around children. We

didn't say anything because we figured

that law enforcement were doing their

job and that they were aware. I have to

say that I regret it, but we didn't

really even know who to tell or if

anyone cared. If friends like Bill

Clinton, the former prime minister of

Israel, Steven Hawking, Prince Andrew,

they all gathered there. And I think for

a lot of people, the idea that the true

nature of the island was going

unnoticed, it's hard to imagine. Even

the private island itself became a

fixture of obsession for people

interested in the Epstein case. It was

found to be full of strange buildings.

The strangest of all being a blue and

white striped temple surrounded by

patterns of the far southwest corner

that serves no apparent purpose, but

provokes countless questions anyway.

Rumors of rituals, a doomsday bunker, an

underground layer. Like everything else

in Epstein's world, it represents

everything and nothing. But I think in

the end, like in most cases with Epste,

the mystery was pretty much a cheap

cover for what he was doing in plain

sight. Emerging quotes from people Epste

knew painted him more as an intelligent

yet total and utter fraud who built up

the persona of a genius banker using

funds he had stolen from a number of

sources and then leveraged that money to

buy the loyalty of very influential

people, many of which still saw

narcissism and sociopathy through the

cracks in his mask regardless. And the

fact that he was doing it right under

the nose of America's most powerful

people, I mean, wasn't even right under

their noses. There's years and years of

records of Epste and his friends joking

about his love for young women. It was

funny for them. The Epstein case

exploded all over American media in the

month after he was arrested. Millions of

people were waiting to see just how far

down the rabbit hole might go. Old

documents, interviews, victims, it was

all resurfacing at lightning speed. But

then at 6:30 a.m. on August 10th, 2019,

Epstein is found dead in his jail cell

just 5 weeks after being arrested. But

before a cause of death could even be

announced, the world decided that

whatever had been, he hadn't killed

himself. The official explanation felt

laughable. It had happened just after

his guards fell asleep, and at exactly

the moment the cameras in his cell had

broken. But over the last six years, the

actual specific details around Epstein's

death took a backseat to what he

obviously did leave behind. A long, long

list of lies and secrets. Epste didn't

kill himself became a shorthand for

public distrust around the world. It was

spray painted on walls in Europe,

printed on t-shirts, tweeted by

congressmen. It came to represent the

idea that people like us were being lied

to and that people with money and power

can get away with basically anything.

Because even though Epstein paid the

price of dying for his crimes, it seemed

obvious that everyone else who had been

around him had gotten away with it

forever. Because in a way, when Epstein

died, the case kind of died with him.

Despite the public outcry, there wasn't

really a clear path forward, at least at

first. But then, just a couple months

later, one of Epstein's most

high-profile friends, is suddenly forced

into the spotlight. Prince Andrew,

literally the Queen of England's son,

who's been implicated in dozens of

lawsuits and accusations against Epstein

over the years, permanently resigns from

all of his official royal duties, never

to be seen in a public royal family

capacity again. Another one of Epstein's

close friends, prolific French model

scout Jean Luke Brunell, known for

having his modeling agency directly

financed by Epstein, having traveled on

Epstein's plane over 30 times. He's

arrested at the end of 2020 by French

national police and charged with rape of

minors. And Brunell was also found dead

in his cell, allegedly having hanged

himself before his trial even began. The

Epstein case is a bottomless pit of

horror. One of his most vocal accusers

recently took her own life. Virginia

Roberts, who was trafficked to Prince

Andrew by Epstein and Maxwell as a

teenager after meeting Maxwell at Donald

Trump's Mara Lago spa, spent much of her

adult life spreading the story of what

Epstein had done to her. Just a couple

months ago, she died at age 41 under

what her family called suspicious

circumstances. But while all of this is

horrifying and strange, again, it

eventually all takes a backseat to the

bigger picture. Sure, some people got

caught, but it looks like there were a

lot more people who got away with it.

Epste was both a psychopathic pedophile

and one of the most well-connected men

on earth. So, who was helping him cover

it up and who was outright joining in?

That's what America is still reeling

from years later. Not what we do know,

but what we don't. And that's for one

very specific reason. In the years since

Epstein's death, not one time has any

federal authority given a coherent,

non-conlicting explanation for anything

about him. And somehow, every time

people try, the situation only gets

worse. The government hasn't handled it.

The official narrative is full of

contradictions. The files are still

sealed. No one has ever been held

accountable. The victim and suspect

lists only get bigger and bigger. In the

6 years since Epstein's death, his case

has only grown until it becomes a

garbage fire on the front steps of the

White House itself. At 10 years ago,

Donald Trump's presidential campaign was

built on him being the

anti-establishment, anti-corruption

candidate. He's not a politician. So

that's what's going to allow him to

drain the swamp and expose all the

rotten corruption in Washington. At

least that's what was supposed to

happen. When Epstein gets arrested,

Trump is in the middle of his first term

and the world turns to him to an answer

for what's going on. But not just as the

president, also as one of Epstein's most

well doumented friends. Because Trump

and Epste had been good buddies for a

long time. They had both invested in

property in Palm Beach in the mid 80s.

They were both in the New York money

scene and there are countless photos of

them together throughout the 90s 2000s.

It made sense. Back then, Trump was a

real estate developer and a big media

personality and they were neighbors. In

2002, Trump would write that he had

known Epste for over 15 years, that he

was a terrific guy and that he likes

beautiful women as much as I do and that

many of them are on the younger side.

Flight logs would reveal that Trump even

traveled in Epstein's plane almost 10

times. The story goes that they

eventually had a falling out over some

sort of real estate deal and never

really spoke much after that. But many

years later, now having been elected the

president of the United States, right at

the time when Epstein is back in the

public eye, everyone's looking at Trump

to have some kind of answer. And true to

the anti-establishment persona that much

of his first term was hinged on. And

despite compliments and time spent

together in the past, Trump says that he

never liked Epstein, that he wants a

full investigation into him. In fact, he

would be demanding it. But the years go

by and nothing really ever comes out

besides reports on information that was

already public. Epstein's girlfriend/handler/assistant.

girlfriend/handler/assistant.

She gets arrested after a manhunt that

ends with her being found in a cabin in

New Hampshire. She gets sentenced to 20

years in prison. But still no proof of

Epstein's clients or accompllices or

anything really ever comes up. But

still, the public interest in Epstein

doesn't go away. By last year, Trump's

second campaign is underway and people

are still asking him if he'll release

more information. The conspiracy has

been so powerful and just lacking a

resolution that it doesn't stop. It's

become this symbol of something bigger

that people just need to know about. And

this time with Trump running again, he

promises again that he's going to do

what he can to have all the files opened

up. Months go by, Trump is elected as

president again, and his supporters are

just really asking for him to get

serious and bring the truth about

Epstein to light once and for all. And

so just one month into the second Trump

administration, US Attorney General Pam

Bondi hints that the supposed Epstein

files, including a list of his clients

and accompllices, has just hit her desk

and that they're just days away from

releasing everything they know about him.

him.

>> The DOJ may be releasing the list of

Jeffrey Epstein's clients. Will that

really happen?

>> It's sitting on my desk right now to

review. Um that's been a directive um by

President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm

reviewing JFK files, MLK files. That's

all in the process of being reviewed

because that was done at the directive

of the president from all of these agencies.

agencies.

>> So, so have you seen anything?

>> But when the files are finally released,

they're so heavily redacted and

redundant. It was like they never put

out any new information at all, which in

itself makes people feel more suspicious

than they did before. It was a disaster.

Once again, political media is

explosively angry about these repeated

back and forths without any real

accountability from anyone. This time

though, instead of it just staying in

the news cycle for a couple days to a

week and becoming another classic

example of the idea that nothing ever

happens, the ghost of Epstein starts

tearing the Republican movement apart

from the inside out.

>> Why are you covering up the Epstein files?

>> I am for the release of those records.

A few months later, the Department of

Justice, the FBI, they come out with

this two-page statement concluding that

despite the fact they possess over 300

gigabytes of data and evidence around

Jeffrey Epstein, that he in fact never

had a client list at all, and that there

are no further charges expected against

anyone in connection to Epstein, ever.

And so, I think there are a lot of

reasons why Trump's extremely loyal base

just doesn't really buy his response to

the Epstein situation. He's getting

ratioed on his own social media

platform. his polling is down.

Influencers and commentators that have

always stood by his side start to

criticize the obvious lack of honesty.

>> It's a huge issue and a poll just came

out today that only 13% of those pled

actually think the government is doing a

good job in not covering up something

here. 67% are upset with the way it's

happening, including 60% of those are

Republicans. 56% of MAGA is upset with

that. and only one in five are not

paying attention to this story, which

means that 80% of the American public

right now wants more answers.

>> Trump's response is almost a meltdown.

He calls the renewed interest in Epste a

Democrat hoax, saying that it was made

up by the liberals to make the

Republicans look bad. He lashes out at

his own supporters for even caring about

Epstein at all. He says, "You're not

really MAGA if you want to talk about

this all day." He calls it boring,

phony. He accuses the media of

conspiring against him. It became a

disaster for him quickly. Meanwhile,

he's just kind of standing there

diminishing the whole situation, saying

that he doesn't get why people still

care about Epstein.

>> Are you still talking about Jeffrey

Epstein? This guy's been talked about

for years. Are people still talking

about this guy, this creep?

That is unbelievable.

>> But then, in the middle of it all, the

Wall Street Journal releases an alleged

book of birthday messages from Epstein's

50th birthday in 2003. Some of the

messages were from Epstein's longtime

lawyer friends like Alan Dersowitz. One

was from Leslie Wexner. One was from

Bill Clinton. And one was from Donald

Trump. Allegedly, he included a drawing

of a naked woman and a note about their

shared secrets. The Wall Street Journal,

a notably conservative aligned paper, is

owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns

Fox News. And that's only further proof

that these concerns about Trump

connection to Epstein are happening

across all spectrums of political views.

And since then, headlines have only

gotten worse. Just a few days after

that, the Journal also reports that the

reason why the Trump administration has

been so shaky on their Epstein stance is

because Trump was told in May that his

name specifically is present in the

Epstein files. It even gets to a point

where a congressional committee votes to

subpoena the Trump administration for

all records relating to Epstein in a

vote that was passed 8 to2 with almost

all the panel's Republicans voting in

favor. Basically, the public's belief in

the Epstein conspiracy has become so

strong that it surpasses even the

Republican love for Trump, a previously

impenetrable force of nature in American

politics. I think there was a poll that

showed that only 17% of people approved

of how Trump was handling the situation.

But even then, it still kind of looks

like nothing is really going to happen.

The fact that not even the testimony of

a populist hero of a president could be

considered reliable in relation to the

Epstein case speaks to the betrayal of

trust felt around the country. The

Epstein story has reached the White

House, the symbolic and literal image of

American leadership, and it's turned it

into a vision of corruption and

darkness. It's no wonder why people are

angry. And I think that anger is

reaching across the entire political

spectrum. There's so much evidence, so

much that we don't know that every day

that passes without a resolution, it

keeps making the people in power look

more and more complicit to evil. But you

just can't blame people for wanting to

know who was involved in the Epstein

story. The way that nothing has really

ever come to light, but in fact, it

seems like the government itself is

continuing to try and cover it up rather

than put everything out in the open. It

just makes the distrust get worse and

worse. I think Epstein kind of

represents the final stage of the

breakdown of the social contract.

Obviously, Epstein didn't invent

corruption and abuse, but his story

reveals it in a way that we've never

seen before. It makes the justice

system, the legal system, the idea of

right and wrong, it makes it look like

an idea that you almost have to be

stupid to believe in. The justice system

is supposed to protect people who get

hurt. It's supposed to punish dangerous

people. It's the thing that we're

supposed to believe in as a tool for

good. Something that benefits and

protects all of us. But it genuinely is

difficult to trust that anymore because

clearly if the people in power don't

have to follow the same rules as the

rest of us, the rules just don't exist.

It's just a myth that was never real to

begin with. Jeffrey Epste lived without

rules. He ruined countless girls' lives.

They were silenced, paid off,

threatened. Law enforcement at every

level ignored him while his victims

suffered in silence for decades with

their abuser spending time with

presidents and celebrities of all kinds.

And then when it finally all comes to

light that the president that everyone

believed in specifically because of the

idea that he was for the people as every

excuse in the book except actually

telling the truth, of course it's not

going to go away quickly. And so for as

long as the Epstein story remains

unfinished, for as long as his friends

and associates don't have to answer for

themselves, it's going to keep being

this open wound that represents a

sickening truth about America. That the

rich and powerful don't have to play by

the same rules as everyone else. That

abuse is okay, but only if you have

enough money to threaten your victims

and pay them to be quiet. And I don't

think that's a world that most people

want to live in. The idea of the

ultra-wealthy upper echelon secret

society full of people who don't live by

the same rules or morals as us. It's a

popular idea. It always has been. We

watch movies about it. We imagine what

it would look like. But the reality

that's revealed by Jeffrey Epstein is

actually way more disturbing than people

in masks in a Gothic ballroom in New York. Because it's the people we elected

York. Because it's the people we elected to represent us. It's the people we see

to represent us. It's the people we see on TV. People who live their lives in

on TV. People who live their lives in the open, not hiding in basements, but

the open, not hiding in basements, but standing proudly in front of the entire

standing proudly in front of the entire world. In a world where our leaders no

world. In a world where our leaders no longer have to even pretend to respect

longer have to even pretend to respect the idea of right and wrong, it's a bad

the idea of right and wrong, it's a bad omen for the future. We're supposed to

omen for the future. We're supposed to trust our leaders to maintain the

trust our leaders to maintain the systems of freedom and justice that we

systems of freedom and justice that we all want to believe in. But now, as time

all want to believe in. But now, as time keeps passing, it looks more like a myth

keeps passing, it looks more like a myth from the past than something that ever

from the past than something that ever really existed. A system where the rules

really existed. A system where the rules mean nothing as long as you can pay your

mean nothing as long as you can pay your way out of it. I think we all already

way out of it. I think we all already knew that was the case. But the idea

knew that was the case. But the idea that there's nothing off limits, not

that there's nothing off limits, not childhood innocence, not abuse of the

childhood innocence, not abuse of the federal justice system, the idea that

federal justice system, the idea that right and wrong will lay down and die

right and wrong will lay down and die for someone with money, it disturbs

for someone with money, it disturbs people. It gets into our heads. I think

people. It gets into our heads. I think in a way Epstein's story is about all of

in a way Epstein's story is about all of us. I think it shows us that a society

us. I think it shows us that a society built without accountability isn't

built without accountability isn't really a society at all. It's just an

really a society at all. It's just an illusion waiting to collapse.

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