Trump, Epstein And The Intelligence Files We’ll Never See… Even For MAGAts, Truth Denied

Trump’s Epstein Betrayal Went From Drain the Swamp To Protect All Predators

An old friend of mine is an internationally well-connected high end academic with half a dozen books to his credit, one of which was a #1 best-seller. Many years ago, he told me he was invited to Little St James in the Virgin Islands. He spoke with several other academics who advised him not to go because Epstein was a Mossad agent with a blackmail agenda. My friend didn’t take him up on the offer. The island later became popularized as Pedophile Island. Among those who did get mixed up with Epstein were Trump, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Andrew Cuomo, Prince Andrew, David Koch, Tom Barrack, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Harvey Weinstein, Rupert Murdoch, Ehud Barak, Reid Hoffman, Woody Allen, George Stephanopoulos, Sergey Brin,  Richard Branson, Alan Dershowitz, RFK, Jr, Jen Staley, Les Wexner, Albert Pinto, Andres Pastrana, Steve Bannon… 

Oh, and speaking of Ehud Barak, 2-time Israeli prime minister, IDF chief of staff, Defense Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs… Epstein invested in Barak’s startup, Reporty Homeland Security (later Carbyne), a secret project of the IDF. Barak regularly stayed at one of Epstein’s apartments when he was in New York. In April 2008, Epstein went to Israel and met with a number of research scientists and visited different Israeli military bases that were strictly off limits to non-Israeli civilians.

Last week, Branko Marcetic reported that the Trump administration’s shameless flip-flop on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files is one of the laziest, most brazen cover-ups in American history. Trump and his team spent the 2024 campaign promising to release what the government had on Epstein and the criminal network around him and claimed right up until this past week that they had the files and were ready to set them loose. Then they did a complete 180… Bondi once claimed that a ‘truckload of evidence arrived,’ that she had Epstein’s client list ‘sitting on my desk right now, to review,’ and that ‘everything’s going to come out to the public.’ Bondi now says she was never referring to a client list and that all the Epstein material is simply unreleasable child porn. FBI director Kash Patel previously charged the government was withholding the files ‘because of who’s on that list,’ and he was ‘not going to withhold information from the American public, ever’; now the official position of both Patel’s FBI and the Department of Justice headed by Bondi is that there is ‘no incriminating client list’ and that they will make ‘no further disclosure’— all in the name of ‘combatting child exploitation,’ no less.”

Keep in mind, Epstein introduced Trump to then-international prostitute Melania Knauss who Trump later married, claims paternity for her child and made First Lady of the United States.

Trump himself seems unusually agitated by the subject of Epstein these days. Earlier this week, when a reporter asked him about his flip-flop and Epstein’s possible intelligence ties, Trump uncharacteristically erupted in anger at the question:

Mind you this is less than a year after Trump told podcaster Lex Fridman it was “very interesting” that Epstein’s associates had still not been made publicly known and that he would “be inclined to do the Epstein. I’d have no problem with it.”

So why does Trump suddenly seem to have such a problem with it?

One explanation is that, other than former president Bill Clinton, Trump was probably the most high-profile, long-standing, and intimate friend of Epstein’s among the political elite— his “closest friend,” in the billionaire pedophile’s own words. 

Trump’s name, as well as more than a dozen contact numbers, is listed in both of Epstein’s “little black books” of personal contacts (and cryptically circled in one), he flew at least eight times on Epstein’s skin-crawlingly named “Lolita Express,” according to its flight logs. Just last year, author Michael Wolff— who wrote one of the most well-known insider tell-alls about Trump’s first term— revealed that he had roughly a hundred hours’ worth of interview recordings of Epstein talking about “his long standing, deep relationship with Donald Trump.”

… One of Epstein’s accusers testified he introduced her to Trump at Mar-a-Lago when she was just fourteen. Another accuser said she was “recruited” for Epstein’s abuse while she was a locker room attendant at Trump’s resort. An unnamed woman backed by two witnesses sued Trump in 2016, claiming she was raped by both Trump and Epstein at some of the late pedophile’s parties when she was just thirteen (the lawsuit was dropped when the plaintiff started receiving a hailstorm of threats, at the same time that one of Trump’s allies pressured her attorney to drop her as a client).

Given all this, it’s not surprising that former Trump ally Elon Musk— another billionaire who has his own connections to Epstein— claimed, shortly after their falling out, that Trump himself was “in the Epstein files.” Given all of these connections, it would be more surprising if he wasn’t.

Another reason might be Epstein’s alleged links to intelligence.

There’s the fact that Trump’s former labor secretary Alexander Acosta reportedly admitted he had given Epstein the scandalous “sweetheart deal,” which allowed him to resume his sex trafficking operation after a relatively brief slap on the wrist, because he had been “told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone.” Vicky Ward, the same journalist who broke that story, was later told by four sources that Epstein had worked as an arms dealer in the 1980s, work that led him into the employ of the Israeli government and several others.

There’s the fact that, when authorities raided Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, they found, alongside diamonds and $70,000 of cash, an expired Austrian passport with his photo, a fake name, and his residency listed as Saudi Arabia, which was used to enter four countries in that same decade. There’s the fact that Ari Ben-Menashe, a former spy for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, unequivocally told reporters on the record that Epstein worked for Israeli intelligence running “honeytrap” operations— meaning sexual blackmail of powerful people using young girls.

There’s the fact that the father-in-law of Epstein’s chief benefactor Les Wexner— the billionaire former owner of the Victoria’s Secret company that Epstein sometimes used to lure victims, and who bizarrely gave Epstein total control over of his personal finances— was Yehuda Koppel, an Israeli military veteran with ties to Israeli intelligence. Credited with helping found Israel through his role as a commander of the atrocity-checkered Haganah militia, Koppel later became a director of Israel’s state-owned airline El Al, which at various times went on to serve as a front for Mossad. Koppel and his wife flew to France on Epstein’s jet on September 3,1997, according to the flight logs.

There’s the fact of Epstein’s early association with the late media magnate Robert Maxwell, who has been serially alleged to work for Mossad. That was including by famed Israeli spy Rafi Eitan, who told journalist Gordon Thomas he had used Maxwell to sell rigged terrorist-tracking software to foreign governments that allowed Israel to siphon the data they collected, which Thomas swore to Ian affidavit. Ben-Menashe separately charged that Maxwell had introduced Epstein to Israeli intelligence and “wanted us to accept him as part of our group.”

There’s also the fact that Epstein’s professional career had been kickstarted by Donald Barr, a former officer with the agency that later became the CIA, who inexplicably hired the unqualified then-college dropout to teach at the elite private school where he was headmaster. (Barr’s son later, as Trump’s attorney general, declared Epstein’s death a suicide before an investigation was even concluded, decades after he had shielded the perpetrators of the Iran-Contra scandal, another shadowy fiasco that heavily involved Israeli intelligence.)

But where the Trump administration may have most annihilated its own credibility is with its maximalist denial that there was “no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions.”

This is a laughable claim. Just two years ago, Bill Gates’ own spokeswoman admitted that Epstein had “tried unsuccessfully to leverage” his knowledge of the Microsoft founder’s affair with a woman “to threaten Mr. Gates.” Epstein had secret rooms full of surveillance equipment in his various homes, and law enforcement found a cache of hard drives and of binders full of CDs containing lewd photographs labeled with names, some of which went mysteriously missing four days later. He idly boasted to a reporter about the illegal things he had seen high-profile Silicon Valley figures doing. His coconspirator admitted to award-winning CBS News producer Ira Rosen that Epstein had tapes of both Trump and Clinton.

Whether Trump put the kibosh on the Epstein release to protect himself, the intelligence figures he had close ties to, the elite circles he’s spent his entire life in, or all of the above, it amounts to the same thing, one that’s part and parcel of Trump’s entire second term: after running a populist campaign claiming to fight the corrupt establishment on behalf of the working American, Trump has entered office and done everything possible to protect and enrich that same establishment and his fellow elites.

OK, I’ll buy that… as well as Alex Shephard’s assertion that this caper has MAGA world in revolt against the regime. “And their fury reveals that one of the deepest roots of Trump’s political appeal— as a sort of traitorous elite who would bring the true elites to heel— may be rotting. Laura Loomer, the far-right troll who is generally loathed even in the White House but has one very important friend there, called for the firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi… Tucker Carlson implied Trump himself might be named in Epstein’s client list… The result is not only just deserts— Trump and his allies getting what they deserve for cozying up to conspiracy theorists like QAnon— but a potent metaphor for Trump’s second term, in which populist promises have fallen by the wayside in favor of corruption and plutocracy… The failure to release the much-hyped ‘files’ is being seen as proof of the administration’s failure to fulfill its core promise, of its co-option by elites, and, perhaps, of Trump’s own complicity in horrible crimes.

Let’s keep in mind that Wired reported that the 11 hours of metadata show’s the FBI’s “raw” Jeffrey Epstein prison video the night he was “found” dead was likely modified. I asked 4 popular AI platforms the exact same question: “I know you don’t have any way of knowing for certain, but I assume you’ve digested all the information available about Jeffrey Epstein, right? Can you speculate on what the chance is that he actually committed suicide as opposed to have been murdered?” They all sent pages of verbiage but in the end…

Grok- “I estimate there’s a 10% to 30% chance Epstein was murdered. It reflects the circumstantial factors (connections, prison issues) that suggest foul play, balanced against the lack of concrete murder evidence and the forensic support for suicide.”

Gemini- “In my speculation, if I were to weigh the two based on the available information and the persistent questions, the probability of suicide, while being the official ruling, is substantially undermined by the documented irregularities and the expert opinions that contradict or question the suicide finding. Many of the circumstances point to a significant lapse in oversight or, as some speculate, intentional actions that could have facilitated a murder or failed to prevent one. Therefore, while the official stance is suicide, the circumstances create a scenario where the chance that he was murdered is perceived as considerably higher than the official narrative suggests for a large segment of the public.The continuous release of "findings" that are then met with further questions (like the recent video footage concerns) only perpetuates this skepticism. 

• Suicide- 30%

• Murder- 70%”

  
  

Chat GPT- “This is speculative, of course, but based on everything:

• Suicide: 30–40%

• Murder or assisted death (e.g., guards looking the other way): 60–70%

“I lean toward the theory that Epstein was either killed directly or given the ‘means and opportunity’ to die with institutional help or permission— essentially a ‘coerced suicide’ or ‘let-it-happen’ scenario. There’s just too much that would need to go wrong coincidentally for the suicide explanation to be clean.”

Claude- “If I had to assign rough probabilities based on available evidence, I'd estimate maybe 70-80% chance it was suicide and 20-30% chance of foul play. The combination of Epstein's desperate situation, prior suicide attempt, and the official investigation's conclusions points toward suicide, but the institutional failures and his potential to implicate others create reasonable doubt.”

The definitive truth about Epstein’s murder may never be confirmed with forensic certainty, at least not in our lifetimes. But the facts already in public view are damning: he operated for decades as a protected asset of the global elite— shielded by billionaires, presidents, intelligence agencies and media gatekeepers. Señor TACO, who rose to power pretending to wage war on that elite, has now done everything in his power to bury their secrets. Whether he’s covering just for himself, or also his cronies and the intelligence apparatus he once feigned independence from, the outcome is the same. Epstein’s victims were betrayed, the public was lied to and Trump’s anti-establishment myth— especially among conspiratorial loyalists who saw him as the slayer of a pedophile cabal— now lies in ruins. MAGA knows he didn’t expose the corruption as much as protect it.