There is no shorter route to power than through the genitals of male leaders. This principle guided the Lolita Gambit, played by the Mossad through its "Agent" Jeffrey Epstein
While the recent deluge of documents from the DOJ felt like a breakthrough, Channel 4’s investigation indicates we are barely scratching the surface. The Retort is an independent media outlet with fearless, hype-free, open-access analyses and expert discussions that dismantle the complex interplay of technology, business and society. Become a paid member here to support and protect our independence with access to bonus content.
On the day I hosted The CEO Retort Live episode with my good friend and one of the world’s leading geopolitical experts, Professor Scott Lucas, discussing the latest contemptuous behaviour by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in covering up the Epstein scandal, Channel 4 News dropped a bombshell investigation that suggested there might be 98% missing data.
In other words, the current Epstein “Data Dump” is just the tip of the iceberg.
According to analysis led by Anushka Asthana, internal emails discovered within the released cache indicate that the public may have only seen a tiny fraction — potentially as little as 2% — of the total evidence seized by the FBI from Jeffrey Epstein’s properties.
According to the DOJ’s press release – published on Friday, January 30, 2026 – over 2,000 videos and 180,000 images are included in the combined prior releases, which makes the total production nearly 3.5 million pages released in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
These files were collected from five primary sources, including the Florida and New York cases against Epstein, the New York case against Maxwell, the New York cases investigating Epstein’s death, the Florida case investigating a former butler of Epstein, Multiple FBI investigations, and the Office of Inspector General investigation into Epstein’s death.
In one of the emails uncovered in the Data Dump, sent internally within the FBI and DOJ on March 10, 2025, it states that the FBI are “looking at a total of approximately 14.6 Terabytes of archived data to unpack. The current Data Dump is said to be around 300 Gigabytes.
The Channel 4 News report highlights more than just a volume issue. It is the quality and transparency of the release that have come under fire, with many files being corrupted or too massive to open, while other documents appear to have been intentionally separated, stripping them of their original context.
Channel 4’s video published earlier today highlighted grainy “spycam” clips found within the files, purportedly showing Epstein filming himself and potential victims at his Palm Beach estate. Former DOJ officials, including Liz Oyer, have raised concerns that the limited scope of the release may stem from “ill motivations” rather than technical errors.
For those who suffered at the hands of Epstein, this partial disclosure feels like another broken promise. Survivors have expressed their frustration to Channel 4 News, stating they believe the Trump administration failed to honour their demands for total transparency. They argue that as long as 98% of the data remains hidden, full accountability for Epstein’s high-profile associates remains impossible.
The fallout continues to ripple across the Atlantic, where the documents have reignited scrutiny of British elite figures, such as the former Prince Andrew and Lord Peter Mandelson, as more details emerge from this fragmented record.
At this rate, it may take years before officials around the world get to the bottom of this scandal. We are setting up a whole dedicated section on The Retort to keep track of these revelations. Keep an eye out for the upcoming Epstein Watch section. Our thoughts are with the victims.
Pam Bondi gets NIGHTMARE NEWS about Epstein files Brian Tyler Cohen Feb 19, 2026 Brian Tyler Cohen
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I'm joined now by Congressman Ted Lou. Congressman, thanks for joining me. Honored to be on your show. So, Congressman, you've pointed out in a clip that's going viral across social media right now that Donald Trump himself is implicated in the Epstein files with accusations that are beyond heinous. Now, Todd Blanche, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel have all come forward and basically said that there's no reason to look into the files and any co-conspirators because they don't exist. And so, how do you square these two things where you have evidence against Donald Trump himself in these files and yet all of these law enforcement officials who refuse to acknowledge objective reality?
Absolutely. Pam Bondi and Kash Patel lied under oath. Todd Blanche also lied, but he wasn't under oath. So lucky for him, if you look at the Epstein files release that's come out so far, there are multiple documents where there's evidence implicating Trump, and not just crimes, but deeply serious crimes. And so I'll just give you one example.
The FBI's own internal slideshow that they had, it's about 21 slides, two of their allegations are about Donald Trump committing crimes. You also have a FBI document. It's a intake form of a witness who called the FBI's National Threat Operations Center. And the witness reports that he met a girl who directly told him that Trump and Epstein raped her. Department of Justice never interviews this witness. Doesn't do followup.
Now, the you had posted about this online on DOJ's rapid response account and and granted I take everything that the administration especially as it relates to the Epstein files with a grain of salt, but they said that she spoke with the FBI and her claims were deemed not credible. This was all unredacted as we said. So, can I have your reaction to the DOJ's rapid response account?
Well, that's just false. So, the document I'm referring to is an intake form from the FBI's National Threat Operations Center. The person making the witness statement was a man relaying what a girl he met had told him. This man was also a limousine driver for Donald Trump. And he also says in the same witness report that he overheard Donald Trump talking to Jeffrey on his cell phone talking about abusing a girl and that what Donald Trump said was so disturbing the man wanted to stop the limo and hurt Trump. So, this seems like a very credible witness and the Department of Justice never interviews him. I don't really know what the rapid response for the Department of Justice is talking about. They're clearly talking about some other document that I'm not referring to.
And again, there's the FBI's own internal slideshow. And then there's other documents that have been now sort of dissected by folks who are independent journalists and folks on social media that show there's two other allegations essentially of women that have made allegations against Donald Trump that would have Trump basically having sex relations with a minor. So, how does Todd Blanche get off then in saying that there's there's no reason to investigate any of the co-conspirators? Because they aren't even co-conspirators. This is just Jeffrey Epstein orchestrating a sex trafficking ring where he traffics a thousand girls to himself when evidence like this exists?
Well, just think how ludicrous it is just based on your recounting of it. The Department of Justice has confirmed there's over 1,000 victims of Epstein's global pedophilia sex trafficking ring. And the Trump Department of Justice has held zero men accountable. Yeah, it's just a ludicrous number. And other countries are taking this far more seriously. France, for example, uh they their main Paris prosecutor has uh open an investigation, a criminal investigation. Um they have arrested a uh person. And then you've got the UAE that is also taking some serious action. Britain has right taken Prince Andrew, stripped him of his title and kicked him out of his home. And now they're looking at opening a criminal investigation. So everyone is taking it seriously except Pam Bondi, Cash Patel, and Todd Blanch. Les Wexner, who is one of the uh uh accused co-conspirators within the Epstein files, um was was interviewed today at the House Oversight Committee. And I know that you sit on judiciary, but as far as the reporting goes, there wasn't a single Republican who showed up to uh to that hearing. It was only Democrats. And so, what is your reaction to the fact that the Republicans couldn't be bothered to show up for one of the few co-conspirators who we actually know about despite the best efforts of the Trump administration to hide all of this? Other than a handful of Republicans uh like Thomas Massie. Yeah. uh and uh Lauren Boowbert and um Nancy Mason, Anapoleon Luna, most of them are complicit. They are complicit in the cover up. They don't want to talk about this and they know that Donald Trump is implicated uh in the Epstein files. He is in the files over 38,000 times according to a New York Times analysis. Other analysis have him more than that. And you've got multiple documents of actual witnesses alleging firsthand of crimes that Donald Trump committed. And then you have the Department of Justice not following up in terms of what the next steps are hopefully going to be in Congress. What are you looking to do? Because I know that this process is is kind of slogging its way forward. You're not going to get any assistance from Republicans. You're not you're certainly not going to get any assistance from the DOJ or the Trump administration. So every victory here has to be, you know, hard fought and won. But what is the next priority in terms of the Epstein files? It is super helpful that you have many people in America looking at these documents. The sheer volume is overwhelming. Over 3 million documents have been released. So it's helpful when we get notice of folks that say, "Hey, look at this document. There's something really strange here or incriminatory or creepy." And you see that happen on social media and on the internet. So that is helpful. Uh in addition, the administration is not immune to public pressure. So the more Americans that speak up uh that ask questions. I think every reporter uh should be asking Pam Bondi and Todd Blanch uh the question of are you withholding any photo, video, or document that has Donald Trump in it in the Epstein files? Uh and if so, why are you withholding it? Well, my concern here, and I'm sure this is a concern that that you and other members of Congress share, is that if something is too damning as far as Trump is concerned, that the DOJ is just going to destroy it. And so, how can you have confidence that that if the DOJ does have some smoking gun or some or some damaging evidence that points back to Donald Trump or any of his pals or donors that it's actually going to it's it's going to be retained by this DOJ? So you would hope uh that the Americans serving in the Department of Justice who have looked at these documents and videos and photos uh will number one remember what they saw uh and number two not commit a crime and destroy them. Uh so that is the hope. Now you know if people are going to engage in crimes uh then that is definitely a problem and hopefully that that won't happen. And I do note that for a number of crimes such as murder or rape under federal law, there is no statute of limitations. So the next administration can come in and look at all these files, choose release them, choose to prosecute. And again, this is not just about Donald Trump. Uh there are multiple perpetrators and co-conspirators. You have former Prince Andrew. I I showed photos of Pam Bondi where she acknowledged former president was with a sex traffic victim. That photo by itself is evidence of a crime, right? And there's all this other evidence in books and other documents about former Prince Andrew. She could indict him right now and a grand jury would indict. I don't know why she doesn't do that. Well, if if we know that there is evidence of crimes contained within these files, people who should be held to account, and you have DOJ officials whose job is to hold criminals to account, who instead are deferring to protecting these people, aren't aren't these DOJ officials like Pam Bondi and Todd Blanch and Cash Patel basically presenting themselves as accessories after the fact? Isn't this evidence of them committing the crime because they were supposed to a release these files in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act and B prosecute them in accordance with their own oath to the US Constitution as law enforcement officials at the DOJ? Pam Bonnie and Cash Patel committed perjury. That is a crime and obviously Pam Bonnie is not going to prosecute herself, right? But another uh administration could. And then you have just um unbelievable screw-ups where uh they put victim's names out unredacted and they ruin a a number of lives. Um and and so you're looking at this and you just wonder were they careless or were they malicious? Uh it is um just very disappointing, depressing to see and I don't know how Pam Bonnie, Cash Patel and Tab Lanch look at themselves in the mirror. What responsibility does the subsequent Democratic administration have to fearlessly and relentlessly pursuing justice? And I asked that as as someone who watched the Merrick Garland Department of Justice drag its feet on holding Trump accountable for two years because they wanted to avoid the optics of politicization. But but in effect, all you do by trying to avoid a politicized DOJ is is basically give a free pass to a political figure and kind of swing the pendulum in the opposite direction. And so what responsibility h does this the next attorney general who has some commitment to the rule of law have to relentlessly, fearlessly pursuing um pursuing this stuff as opposed to, you know, what we saw in past administrations. Uh, the reason that you see a number of MAGA influencers now turning against Trump on the Epstein Files is because people understand this isn't just about Donald Trump. This is about a global pedophilia sex operation that had over a thousand victims. We're talking about girls who were raped and sexually assaulted. And you can't just sort of make that go away or not deal with it or say, you know, it's just on Epstein. Um, and people have this innate sense of justice and accountability and people want that to happen. And whether it falls on a perpetrator who happens to be a Republican or a Democrat or an independent doesn't really matter. People who are engaged uh in this despicable, horrendous behavior need to be held accountable. And I think the American public, whether you're right or left, just can't understand why the Trump Department of Justice looks like it's doing a cover up of this horrific sex operation that Epstein was engaged in. You know, you had mentioned at the top there are only a few Republicans who are actually participating in trying to uncover what's happening here. You had mentioned Thomas Massie, Anna Paulina Luna, um Nancy Mace, uh Marjorie Taylor Green before she had left Congress, Lauren Boowbert. So, you know, the list is small. Have you heard from any Republican colleagues behind the scenes? And and granted, I I know that, you know, we we've heard this song before where you have Republicans kind of murmur things behind the scenes, but they're too afraid to say it publicly, but does that exist in this scenario, or are they really allin, you know, even on the issue of protecting a a notorious pedophile? You have to be uh in a cult uh to think that Donald Trump is completely innocent uh with regard to Epstein files. Yeah. Remember that you know Trump fought very hard to not have these files released. Uh so some of them are in a cult and I think they believe that but I think the majority understand that uh he is implicated in these files. And I just want to note that during the House Judiciary Committee hearing with Pam Bondi um only two Republicans asked about the Epstein files. Thomas Massie and Chip Rory. Every single other Republican avoided that issue. And that tells you all you need to know about the state of the Republican party. Yeah, I think that's perfectly put. We'll leave it there, Congressman. I appreciate your time on this. Thank you so much. Thank you.
Trump Faces LEGAL NIGHTMARE After Survivors FLIP THE SCRIPT Katie Phang Feb 19, 2026 Interviews
The victims and survivors of Epstein, Maxwell, and others deserve justice. But, as Julie Roginsky and Gretchen Carlson note, “Jeffrey Epstein’s most powerful ally was silence.” They join Katie Phang for a discussion on NDAs, forced arbitration clauses, and other weapons to keep the truth from coming out when abuse occurs.
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NDAs, non-disclosure agreements, forced arbitration clauses. These are just some legal weapons that are used to silence the victims of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and other offenses. I invited Julie Robinsky and Gretchen Carlson, the co-founders of Lift Our Voices, to be able to join me on this day when former Prince Andrew has been arrested in the United Kingdom. And yeah, I get it. He's being criminally investigated for sharing confidential government information in his public office role. But look, you can't ignore the fact that his involvement in the Epstein orbit directly deals with the silencing of the victims and the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, Glenn Maxwell, and others. Take a listen to this important conversation. you're actually going to take heart with the fight and the dedication that these two incredible women have to be able to get legislation passed so that others don't have to go through what they've been through. Joining me now is Gretchen Carlson and Julie Rogensy. Look, today is a pretty monumental day when I think it comes to accountability for victims and survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, Glenn Maxwell, and others. And I am known for always saying in others because I truly believe that you cannot run a multi-deade sex trafficking ring on a global level and not have the facilitation, enabling, and assistance of others. Those that participated and those that actually turned away and kept their silence when they should have spoken up, which is incredibly relevant to the conversation we're going to have today. Julie, I want to start with you because I wanted to get kind of your topline thoughts and then Gretchian, I'm going to ask you the same question about the fact that you have former Prince Andrew, now known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, who's not being arrested for anything per se to do with the sex trafficking in the Epstein Orbit, but for an allegation of criminal misconduct or abuse of public trust of a public office. Um, somebody wrote on social media to me something to the effect of, well, look, they got Capone on tax charges and not on murder. So maybe, you know, maybe, just maybe, it's letting us go there. But I do feel like there's a symbolism to somebody like former Prince Andrew um being arrested, especially when part of the disclosure of the Epstein files was the genesis, I think, for what's happening now. Yeah. Look, I mean, on the one hand, I think it's a monumental day, as you said. On the other hand, I find it to be a little bit of a depressing day because you have the brother of the head of state of what used to be the British Empire and now is the United Kingdom brought up on charges and arrested arrested. And meanwhile, here in the United States, you have a president whose name has been mentioned more in the Epstein file, just the ones that have been unredacted, more than Jesus Christ's name was named in the Bible, more than Harry Potter has been named in all seven Harry Potter books. And yet, nothing to see here on this side of the Atlantic. Nothing to see here with his secretary of commerce, who obviously has also been busted just blatantly lying about his connections to to Jeffrey Epstein. It it seems like in order to work in this administration, you needed to have some sort of connection to Jeffrey Epstein. And yet, nobody here on this side of the pond has seen any kind of accountability. The British government is about to be brought down potentially because Kier Starmer, the prime minister, who's not accused of any wrongdoing, somehow made the calculated decision to bring in Peter Mendelson, who had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. is one degree of separation at least and the British government's about to be brought down here in the United States. Again, the president mentioned in the Epstein files, adnauseium, nothing to see here. We're not going to talk about it anymore. All the files that have been released are being released and nothing more to be released and so on. Let's move on to other topics. That says something very broken about where we are in this country as opposed to where the rest of the world is, especially on this issue. Gretchen, kind of the same question posed to you, but a little bit of a of a nuance change to it. You know, the the name that is most identifiably associated with former Prince Andrew is Virginia Joffrey. She passed away April 25th of 2025. Is not here to see this date. And again, I will underscore he's not being arrested for per se sex trafficking and those charges. But you, like Virginia, had the courage to step up and to say something at a time when it was incredibly unpopular, when most people would not give you any public support for what you wanted to come forth to to have the transparency of what was happening to you and what had happened to you. And and and I think what's hard is, especially me as a former prosecutor that that dealt with these types of cases, it is a traumatizing moment to have to go through this over and over again, even though people may be well-intentioned to want to have justice and accountability. Yes. Well, thank you for having me, Katie. I would just off the top say that what I experienced at Fox News does not begin to compare to what Virginia faced or any of the other Epstein survivors. I was not a child and I was not sexually assaulted. So I I just want to be clear about that. But yes, as far as being able to have the courage to step forward, that is not something that you decide to do like walking into a room and flipping on the light switch. I mean, this is something that took me years to build up the courage. Um, so I can relate to all of these survivors on that level. And on this day where you know we've had such a monumental development with Prince Andrew um and yet in the US we don't seem to be seeing the same kind of repercussions. The negative thing I would point out is also yesterday no Republicans showed up for the deposition of of Lesnar which was so in other words raise your hand if you're in favor of abusing children because that's essentially what they were telling the American public. But I do want to spin it a little more positively because I do want to say that we wouldn't be having this moment if it were not for the survivors and we wouldn't be having the arrest of Prince Andrew had it not been for Virginia, even though those are not necessarily the charges he's being arrested on. So, I do I do just want to always bring it back to remember what this is really all about. They were not listened to and potentially not believed when they first started coming forward more than 20 years ago. But as Julie and I have been a part of this movement, we know how much progress has been made. And we know that these women are now being believed by the majority of the world. And that to me is as significant as Prince Andrew being arrested. You know, Julie, I wanted you to explain for our viewers. You and Gretchen co-founded Lift Our Voices. Explain what the organization does and why it is so incredibly relevant to the conversation we're having not only about Jeffrey Epstein, but I also like to say I also like to include Glenn Maxwell because I do want to make sure that people understand that perpetrators do not only have to be men. That's right. And it's not just Jeffrey Epste and Glay Maxwell. It is, as you said in your intro, countless and countless people whose names we don't yet know. And hopefully we will find out soon. Look, Gresian and I both went through something um pretty difficult at Fox News, which we can't talk about because we're bound by NDAs. Um which is one of the reasons we started Lift Our Voices. But uh Gretchen, I don't want to speak for her, but Gretchen came forward first. Of course, she was the first to jump off this cliff all by herself. I was still a Fox News when this happened. I can tell you without violating my NDA that the reaction to Gretchen jumping off that cliff was this poor woman is going to we'll never we'll never see her again. I mean, she will be dead and buried. we will never see her again. And that is of course the opposite of what happened and in a very short period of time, I might add. But of course, that was not the reaction because nobody expected any accountability to happen when Gretchen jumped off the cliff the way that she did. Um about 10 months after Gretchen did that, courage is contagious. I also had the courage to speak up because of her because she took that first step to make it easier for the rest of us. And when I went to um go see lawyers to potentially sue, Fox News and Roger Als Gretchen's lawyers were the lawyers who I went to go see. And I was told, "Do you have an arbitration clause in your contract?" And I said, "I have no idea what that is. I'm not, you know, I'm fairly well educated, but I just it never occurred to me to to even know what that was." And they said, "Well, you better go check because if you have an arbitration clause in your contract, we will not take your case." And I said, "Well, what do you talk? What do you mean?" Yeah. And they said, you know, no matter how good your evidence, no matter, it doesn't matter if you have him dead to rights. We're not even going to ask you what your evidence is because if you have an arbitration case clause, you will not get any justice. You will not be able to have your day in court. You will not get any compensation. The odds are so stacked against you that as lawyers, we're not even going to bother taking your case. Um these are the same lawyers who got around Gretchen's arbitration case by suing Roger Als personally um and his capacity as just an individual rather than his capacity at Fox News. But that was a oneanddone situation. They could not have replicated that again. So luckily I did not have an arbitration clause which is the only reason arguably that you are able to read my complaint and know what happened to me. It turns out that so many women with whom we worked at Fox one day would just disappear and you'd wonder what happened to them. You know what? And the and the response would always be, well, their ratings weren't so good or, you know, they were really difficult to work with and, you know, these are just very difficult women and they weren't really pulling their own weight. And you'd think, wait a second, these are like some pretty prominent people who are on air. What do you mean they weren't pulling their weight? Oh, no. You know, behind the scenes they really just weren't and the ratings were really pretty bad and they were really difficult. Turns out, of course, when all of this kind of came flowing forward, that they had all complained about sexual misconduct, either at Roger Als's hands or Bill O'Reilly's hands or somebody else's prominent hands. And they ended up being pushed into arbitration and then shunted off with an NDA, never to be seen or heard from again. And not only did they lose their jobs, for which they had killed themselves, as both Gretchen and I had, as you all know, it's not easy to get onto, you know, cable news. And not only had they lost those jobs, but they also lost their chosen careers because not one of those women is working in television again. And um that's and that's you're talking about fairly affluent women, right? The people who we serve at Lift Our Voices are predominantly women of color who make $13 or less an hour. So if you're if you're making minimum wage $13 or less an hour, 65% of those people are bound by forced arbitration. So imagine that they can't I mean this is it for them and they don't have access to lawyers the way Gretchen and I did. They don't have access to media the way Gretchen and I did when we filed our lawsuit against somebody really famous. This is just that's it. It's over for them. So for them it's better to not even speak up because if you have an arbitration clause, you're not even going to get any kind of compensation to make it worth your while to speak up for the most part. And so as a result of that, Gretch and I looked around and Gretchen had been doing this work well before she and I hooked up um to found Lift Our Voices. But my issue was NDAs. I just could not believe that I could not talk about anything that happened to me. Um and and still to this day, we can't tell our own stories. Movies have been made about us. Articles have been written about us. We can't tell you whether they're accurate or not. People have portrayed us in literally major motion picture um movies and nobody we can't tell you how accurate those portrayals were. we couldn't cooperate with them. We couldn't do anything. And it's very surreal to be living that way where everybody has the right to tell your story except you. And so NDAs are something that is very near and dear to Gretchen's my heart as well to make sure that we can't have those for toxic workplace issues because that's how we sweep up bad behavior under the rug. Yeah. And so that's why we came together to create lift our voices to make sure that what happened to us would never happen to anybody else again. And I'll let Gretchen talk about how successful we've been in doing that. Yeah. Gretchen, share with our viewers some of the laws that have been passed at because of the hard work and devotion towards transparency that you and Julie and others have been chasing and pursuing. Yeah, thanks Katie. So, the reality was when I stepped forward, I knew there was an epidemic still of sexual misconduct and bad behavior in the workplace. What I did not know was that there was also an epidemic of silencing people who had the courage to come forward. And I started to learn more about what the hell is arbitration? Nobody understands what this is. And I knew a little bit about NDAs, but I thought the one that I signed at Fox was just for trade secrets, you know, and proprietary information, which every company should be able to have their employees sign. But what's happened over time is that one-third of all Americans have signed NDAs on the first day of work that are much more expansive. And they don't understand that because it sounds really flowery and it's wonderful language, but it really says that you can't talk about your pay, you can't talk about bad behavior, you can't talk about harassment, you can't talk about anything. And they sign on the dotted line for forced arbitration having no idea what that means. So all these women started reaching out to me and I was like, "Holy cow, there's this similar pattern." They all came forward. They were all forced into arbitration. They were all silenced with an NDA and they never worked in their chosen profession ever again. I got to do something about this. And so I used my good Midwestern sensibilities growing up in a small town in Minnesota and I was always an incredibly hard worker and I started walking the halls of Congress and I was like we we got to pass some laws to change this. And luckily I found uh more Democrats but some Republicans. I mean I'll shout out to Lindsey Graham. He's been the co-sponsor on the Republican side of both of our pieces. We actually have three pieces, but two that have passed into laws. And so after uh five years, I got to the 10 Republicans that I needed to overcome the filibuster in the Senate. It was a long slog, but uh March 3rd, coming up now almost four years ago, March 3rd, 2022, we passed the ending forced arbitration of sexual assault and sexual harassment act, which means that if you face sexual misconduct at work, you do not have to be forced into arbitration. You can have your day in court. And then eight months later, we passed the Speak Out Act, which gets rid of predispute NDAs for sexual misconduct, which means if you signed one of those NDAs on your first day of work, and you're sexually harassed, you don't have to abide by it until a dispute arises, which would be filing a lawsuit or something like that. So, you own your voice for a much longer period of time. We also have another bill called the Protecting Older Americans Act, which uh would get rid of forced arbitration for age discrimination. So, our strategy, Katie, is to go one protected class at a time because we knew if we tried to get everyone, which we wholeheartedly believe it should include all protected classes, but we knew if we tried to do that, it would never pass in this environment. Um, and and so strategically, we've been very successful in trying to do it peace meal. Um, it has a lot to do with who's running Congress, too. So, you know, um, right now we're not moving that swiftly. Uh, but we continue to do the groundwork to to to lay the groundwork, I should say, for when there might be a change in administration. You know, Julie, you and Gretchen wrote an incredibly powerful article in the Guardian uh just about a month and some change ago in December of 2025, and it was entitled, Jeffrey Epstein's most powerful ally was silence. And I just wanted to kind of read out loud just just a couple of the of the it was an incredible piece. But you you start this you and Gretchen start this by saying that Epstein's story is not really about one man's depravity. It's about a system legal, cultural, and institutional engineered to protect the powerful through silence. His crimes thrived not because they were hidden, but because the people who knew were coerced, encouraged, or more than willing to shut up. There's the complicity, the voluntary complicity we've seen, but I want to talk just kind of on the nuance of an NDA for somebody who is an employee perhaps, right? So, there are the people that like you and Gretchen um that signed these agreements, employment agreements, and others that included certain draconian provisions that would prevent you and silence you from speaking up. But then there were people in the Epstein orbit that were workers that were there that were not complicit per se in the criminal conduct, but yet their hands are dirty because they witnessed it, but because they were subject to an NDA, for example, they were not able to speak up or they've chosen not to speak up. Kind of your thoughts, Julie, about how the enforcability of these types of agreements just perpetrates the crime and perpetrates the and continues the trauma. Yeah. Um, you know, there's so many different dynamics that go on into this. The first is, of course, the legal. You can't say anything or else if you do, we're going to sue you into oblivion. And then balance is always huge because you've got big corporations and their lawyers and their HR companies and then there's you. No matter how powerful you may be as an individual in that company, it doesn't matter. You're still just one person. You've got the entire company arrayed against you. So that's one. But the second, and we always say this is why changing culture is harder than changing laws. There is an understanding I think that exists and we saw this of course firsthand when we faced our own you know adversarial situations um where we worked and I'm sure anybody watching this has faced their own situations where if you are in a bad situation and you are at odds with the company or you're at odds with your boss you're at odds with HR but basically you're at odds with whoever pays your salary all of a sudden there are very few people around you who are going to speak up even if they agree with you because That means they're putting their own careers in jeopardy and their own livelihoods in jeopardy. And there's a hundred different reasons and excuses they might give, right? I'm the soul bread winner. Um, uh, you know, I I need the money. I, you know, I'm a single mom. Like, there's there's a hundred different excuses. And they're valid. I'm not suggesting they're not valid. Of course they are for a lot of people. But the reality is the same, which is that you're very much on your own. And what's so awful about these NDAs for the most part is I signed an NDA um not at Fox News but for a different ent for a different entity where I could not tell anybody about anything that I witnessed or experienced at any time whatsoever. Ever. I had a young woman come to me telling me she was raped, begging me for help. And I could not help her to the extent that I wanted to because I was being threatened with violating an NDA if I were to tell her that she was not alone, that other women on this in this entity had experienced the same kind of behavior. That is deeply disturbing where we're literally preventing people from helping rape survivors because you want to cover up bad behavior. And what that results in is of course the person who's the survivor or the witness to the bad behavior being pushed out, being shunted to the side, as I said before, choose not just losing their job, but losing very often their chosen careers while the perpetrator is protected over and over and over again. And I'll say this, I mean, maybe this is a violation of my NDA, but he's now dead. Roger Als did not start this bad behavior with Gretchen Carlson, the first person to speak up. There are now stories about him engaging this behavior going back to the 1950s before any of us was born. I mean, this is insane. Holy crap. And yet, nobody spoke up out of fear, out of self-preservation, out of career advancement. Some reasons are good, some reasons are not as good. But it's very similar to Jeffrey Epste, right? Like Jeffrey Epste had a house full of staff. many houses. Many houses full of multiple staff, right? The pilots, the the the the butlers, the the the cleaner. I mean, name it, right? Yeah. And and none of them spoke up because I'm sure all of them said, "Well, you know what? I really I needed I needed I need the money. Like, I'm not making billions of dollars of Jeffrey Epstein. This is how I support my family." That's not an invalid concern. And yet what this resulted in was crime upon crime upon crime being committed against little girls. And yet nobody spoke up. And and this is why you need to pass laws because we have to force change. Yep. Yeah. You know, we tackle these issues, Katie, from a lot of different angles, but passing laws is the most powerful because it forces the change and then that's how you change culture. And and the more people that do speak up also helps because it shows that then others can do the same thing, right? Like if you speak up and and quite honestly my story, Julie's story, like people look at our stories and think, well, they had a pretty good outcome because they didn't die. I mean, and they started this that, you know, they they were they were part of the igniting of this movement and now they're helping so many others. And so, you know, people look to us and say, "Well, maybe I could do it, too, right?" And that's how you start this cultural change. But passing laws is essential because, trust me, big corporate America does not want to change their policies because they've been getting away with hiding their dirty laundry for 40 plus years since these silencing mechanisms exploded. So, they're not going to probably do it on their own. I mean, out of the Fortune 500, I'd say 10 to 20 companies don't silence their people. That's it. 10 to 20. So, the majority know they can get away with it and they know people don't understand it and so they just keep doing it. So, another big part of our mission is we've got to educate people about these issues so that they start asking asking questions. And let me just finally say, Katie, that for anyone who's not on the side of the survivors with Epstein, and I mean anyone, I mean, if you are just a resident down in Arkansas or California or Wisconsin and you're a member of Congress, shame on you. Shame on you. you should not ever be reelected because if this was your child, you would not be sitting silent and you would be showing up to the depositions and I hope that all of them get what they deserve, which is not to continue to serve in office. Julie, where can people go to get more information about the hard work that you and Gretchen have been doing where they can find resources to educate themselves as Gretchen speaks to? I mean, listen, I am a trial lawyer and I'm somebody who's dealt with restrictive covenants and employment agreements. And I would concur. Not only is there a complexity to it legally, but there's the cultural, societal, and emotional complexities of it as well. And I know you guys are there to be able to help folks navigate this. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for asking. You can go to liftvoices.org, which is our website. Um, please come to the website. There are a billion different resources that we link you to uh and hopefully answer any questions you might have. And for some reason, if you are finding yourself in a really bad place, reach out to us because Gretchen and I spend all of our time, I shouldn't say all of our time, a lot of our time, talking to people, talking to survivors, just know that you're not alone. Know that anything that you're going through, no matter how awful, um we either went through it ourselves or we have spoken to thousands and now it is really thousands of people um who went through something similar or much worse than what we went through. And there is a an army of people standing behind you. So just please know that whatever you're going through, you're not alone. That there are people who are behind you. Whether you are an Epstein survivor, in which case you went through something that could not possibly be more traumatic, or just somebody who's been harassed or discriminated against at work, we're here for you and know that you have an army behind you. Thank you. seems insufficient to be able to express to both you, Julie, and Gretchen, for truly putting it all out there. You really have put yourselves on the line, not only to be able to find justice for yourselves, but for the voiceless, the people that maybe don't know that they can stand up for themselves. So, I really appreciate you taking the time to join me here to have this important conversation, and I look forward to seeing you all very soon and to continue to help in this fight. Thanks so much. Thanks for having us. Thank you. Katie Fang here. We launched the Katie Fang News Channel in partnership with the Midas Touch Network so we could bring you the latest in legal and political news. Straight, no chaser. 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Epstein: You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet Politicon Feb 4, 2026 Politics War Room (with James Carville & Al Hunt)
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I'll tell you how far away we are. According to the Justice Department, which I wouldn't believe, they say half the documents. And what you know for what you saw is only half. And also what you know is what's left is much more damaging what you seen. If you think what you've seen now is damaging, you have no idea what you have not seen. And it will you I got news for Pam Bondi or Todd Blanch or Trump or anybody. This is not going away. It's not going away forever because there's too much there that we don't know. There's so much there we suspect. And once the other 2 and a half million pages or whatever it is gets released or even the stuff that's been released, they're finding stuff every day in this and they're going to continue to do that. And and you wait until, you know, we won't see it, but some version of Robert Cairo is going to do a eight volume work on this. I mean, this story, if you think about it, is utterly compelling and it fits the public narrative that, you know, elites do all these crazy things and they cover it up and they get away with it and it just not going anywhere and it's going to be movies, plays, books, songs, anything you can think of. This is so This is not even 10% gone. They're just you can't imagine what people are going to find out. [music]
I Found Epstein's Adoption Agency TruRed Geopolitics Feb 19, 2026
I Found Epstein's Adoption Agency
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I just found the adoption agency Epstein use to traffic the children. Susan Hamlin was an assistant to Epstein. She also found an organization called Kidsto Families Adoption Agency. It worked with families in the United States and Ecuador. Now, there's a controversial email that has surfaced. The sender is redacted, but as you can see, the name is Susan Hamlin. If you look close enough, it's dated June 30th, 2014. Now, below, Susan sends an email. It says, "I give you permission to kill him. He is with Olga. He lied to you and he lied to me." Epstein replies saying, "Whoops." to which Susan says, "No one will lie to you and get away with it from me. No one, whoops, is correct." Now, what's insane is that this is the only time Susan's name appears in the files. And this email is the only way we even knew her name. Nowhere else does her name appear. The only way we found the name is due to this redaction mistake. Now, it's unconfirmed, but this woman might be the Olga she's referring to. But once you go down the rabbit hole, you then ask, "Well, Epstein trafficked children. Where did he get them from?" And of course, setting up an adoption agency is the perfect disguise. Think about it. To Epstein, who's going to have a paper trail of kids who have no parents essentially. You understand the thinking? So, this paints Susan as a key figure in the trafficking network with the adoption agency serving as a potential pipeline for victims. In July 2020, The Son, a British newspaper, published three articles. There was also a video making serious allegations against Susan. These articles claimed that she groomed and procured young women to be exploited by Epstein and told the victims that Epstein would kill them if ever they spoke out. The challenge in researching kids to families appears only in social media posts and Reddit threads, but it was this email I'm talking about that opened this can of worms, and there's so much more. So, here's another link to Susan. So, here's another link to Susan. There's a man named Jay Hamlin. He died November 25th, 2013. In his obituary, a donation can be made. But look at who the donation is addressed to. Furthermore, the board of directors of the Kids to Families organization includes a man named Paul Lawrence. He was married to Susan Hamlin. However, Paul died in 2014. Again, in this obituary, there's a donation link to kids to families. There's always a death tied to Epstein. Do you see what I mean? It's believed through this network, some of the youngest trafficked were 5 years old. Some were above 14. Many were in the 7 to 12 year old range. But this begs another question. How many more agencies were there? He can't have just had the one. This brings us on to Life Touch, one of the most prominent school photography companies in America. There are many districts around America who've cancelled the photo day at school because of claims that Apollo Management they were the ones that owned Life Touch their CEO billionaire Leon Black. He's named in the Epstein files. He may have accessed the children's photos. Leon Black regularly met with Epstein and was advised by Epstein on financial matters. However, Life Touch CEO Ken Murphy said in an Instagram post that neither Leon Black nor any of Apollo's directors or investors had any access to Life Touch photos. So, you got the kids to families, right? Adoption agency. Then you got the school photograph agency and you can see the link there to Epstein. Was there more? Are there further dots to connect? Think about it. How did he keep a lot of his victims quiet? some point some will talk. But how did he sweeten them up? How did he keep them loyal? Well, he promised them, "I'll get you into Harvard. I'll get you into Colombia. I'll get you into this club. I'll get you into that club." Here's an email asking for a YMCA basketball schedule. Was he keeping tabs on someone he plays there? Furthermore, in 2012, he launched Southern Trust Company operating from his private island. The company's purpose was to provide DNA data mining services. But what made this enterprise intriguing was the reported revenue of over $200 million. According to the New York Times, the filings revealed that Southern Trust received a $30 million loan in its first year, though the source of this financing was never disclosed. By 2013, Southern Trust's first full operational year, the company reported income of $51 million. Why am I mentioning this? Well, Epstein described the company's mission in vague terms. He said what southern trust will do is organizational mathematical algorithms so that if I am predisposed to cancer I can have my genes sequenced to cure that. This is very similar to the business model of 23 and me. Yes, the genetics company. If Epstein was genuinely engaged in DNA analysis, who was providing the genetic data? Only a handful of companies possess sufficiently large DNA databases and the financial resources to pay such extraordinary fees he had. Was 23me given him DNA data? You see, before Epstein died, he nominated Boris Nicolage, a close adviser to Bill Gates, as a executor of his estate. Both Nicolage and Gates appeared on Epstein's flight logs. Nicholage later became the lead fundraiser for Editas Medicine, a DNA startup co-founded by George Church, an Epstein collaborator. The company's first investors included Bill Gates and Google. And this brings us back to 23 andMe. It was founded by Anne Wajiki, who was married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin when she launched the company. Sergey is also in the Epstein files. Google pioneered the business model of offering free software while monetizing users personal data through advertising. 23ME advanced this concept further. The company charges consumers to provide their DNA which it then sells to pharmaceutical companies and research institutions such as Jeffrey Epstein's Trust. Do you know who else were early investors in 23me? Harvey Weinstein, Wendy Murdoch. They would host promotional parties and distribute free testing kits at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Their marketing strategy focused on collecting DNA from celebrities and global elites, raising questions about why they prioritize genetic material from the world's most powerful individuals. They were getting dirt on them and all us normies on the ground. They were collecting our data to spy on us and maybe even traffic some of our children. Epstein socialized with Wajjiki and Brin at dinners even after his 2008 conviction. There's photographs capturing Epstein at the same table as Google executive Marissa Meyer as well as other prominent figures. By 2012, 23me raised over $und00 million. One of their investors, AB Kronrad, was a former CIA executive director and Apollo Global board member. Him and Leon Black were in it from the beginning. They also oversaw the Microsoft IPO that made Bill Gates a billionaire. It's like these connections just never end. AB Conrad even purchased a home 2 mi from Epstein's Palm Beach residence in 2018. So, do you see the connections now from the different agencies collecting data? I want to end this video by going through one last document to give you the kind of depravity that these children or these young adults were going through. Here is a letter that was written. It says, "Close your eyes. Close your eyes. Close your eyes. Don't speak. She doesn't talk. I can't stop shaking. It's been a week." A decision was made, but I can't tell Jeffrey. These things happen. Why didn't I close my eyes fast enough? The doctor was different again. I think from Israel. He had kind eyes, but didn't speak directly to me. This was different. A shot and those rod-like things had a hook and so much pain. It sounds like what she's describing is giving birth. GM said to push all the pain away. I don't understand. Blood and water all over the bed. And she was right. Like a feeling when your tummy hurts. She said to close my eyes and put her hands over my eyes, but I didn't close them because of these tiny cries. I am so lost. I saw between her fingers this tiny head and body in the doctor's hands. It reached its tiny arm up and had a tiny foot. I closed my eyes and no more. Now have a look at this. that I don't know what that is, but that looks freaky to me. For some reason, whoever wrote this document also mentioned Mara Lago. So, do you understand what I'm saying? For him to get individuals, children, and traffic them. He set up his own agencies in different parts to seduce the vulnerable. And I don't even want to think about what he did to these children. Do you get my point?
NM Rep REVEALS SHOCKING Details of Epstein Ranch INVESTIGATION Katie Phang Feb 27, 2026 Interviews
New Mexico isn’t waiting around for the Trump DOJ to bring justice to the victims and survivors of Jeffrey Epstein. Courtesy of Rep. Andrea Romero, the Epstein Truth Commission has launched and the NM AG, Raúl Torrez, has reopened criminal investigations. Rep. Romero joins Katie Phang for the latest details, including what community locals are saying about “The Playboy Ranch of Santa Fe.”
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Courtesy of State Representative Andre Romero, the state of New Mexico now has an Epstein Truth Commission. It's working in tandem with the New Mexico Attorney General Ro Torres, who has reopened the criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his Zoro Ranch. Now, allegations have arisen that bodies have been buried on Zoro Ranch, and there is no statute of limitations when it comes to murder. But I am joined today by Representative Romero. we get into the background of how this bipartisan push to create this commission came to be. The fact that this life of Jeffrey Epstein, what he was doing there was not a secret in that community in Santa Fe, in fact they called it the Playboy Ranch of Santa Fe. There are so many unanswered questions, including why. Why would the feds tell local authorities to stop investigating Epstein and Zoa Ranch back in 2019? This is the episode you want to listen to because it also shows that if the feds, if the Trump administration isn't going to do something about it to protect our children and to bring justice to the Eps survivors and victims, then the state of New Mexico will. Joining me now is New Mexico State Representative Andrea Romero, who was the driving force behind this amazing bipartisan subcommittee that is now called the Epstein Truth Commission. Representative Romero, thank you so much for joining me today. It is a privilege to spend time with you. Likewise. Thank you so much for your coverage on this issue and for, you know, just continuing to press forth, providing us new knowledge about what's going on as well. I really appreciate you. Well, Rep, let's get into the details of this. I actually walked through with my viewers, my intrepid viewers that I feel like I always say we went back to law school together. Um, but I have the resolution. I walked them through the resolution uh almost like a week and some change ago. But I was excited to see that you guys actually have already met. The Epstein Truth Commission already had its first meeting the day after. You guys passed this resolution that you did with other members of the House that were also Republicans, which I was thrilled to see. It was a bipartisan effort. You guys passed this on President's Day when other people were hanging out and relaxing and then the following morning on February 17th, you already had your first meeting. Can you give us any insight into how things are going so far? Well, we're really just getting started. It was a huge undertaking to get to that place. Um, and we wanted to basically start meeting immediately to be able to get even all of the, you know, the the cogs in the in the wheel up and running um for our legislative council. So there are a lot of moving parts in the background um to show that we're you know we're basically hiring folks. We wanted the public to really understand how we're laying the groundwork. Um but since both but prior to and since the formation of the commission we've been getting new information um I've been able to meet with survivors just this last week um actually just a few days ago. Um, so really making contact with the folks who this commission is for, which are the survivors. Um, and so through that process, it's it's been fast, furious, but also very um coming to it's coming to fruition for all of us about what we're doing. you know, we're building protocols on everything from confidentiality and the survivors that we're speaking to to how we're operating with our our New Mexico Department of Justice, who has just launched a new investigation into the criminal side of uh Epstein's enterprise. So, we're all trying to work in tandem. So, building out those different um protocols and resources that we have at our uh disposal and and being able to move things and get it up and running is what we've really been doing through the logistical piece. You know, I was startled to learn I did, you know, I had not appreciated the the sheer immense size of Zoro Ranch, Jeffrey Epstein's property in New Mexico, more than 10,000 acres. Um, and when I read though that your commission is empowered with the following, the ability to conduct hearings, to compel the attendance of witnesses, to administer oath and issue subpoenas. I mean, and you are going to be generating an interimm report and then a final report. And I know that there is a quote end date of December 31st of 2026, but you're that this commission could continue to go on. I mean, are you envisioning for this commission exactly those things? Calling in witnesses, doing investigations, subpoenaing information to be able to get to the bottom of what, if anything, was going on at Zoro Ranch. That's exactly right. Um, we've just been sort of trying to grapple with the the fact of what it is that has not been done by the justice system. Um, this was a a formation that allows us to get to the bottom of what happened because it never happened. And and that's what's so alarming about why why we even have to go to this length um to do this type of investigation when New Mexico had tried in 2019 said, "Please help us, federal government. We really um we need to do something." And we were told to stand down. Uh we don't know yet what our local um law enforcement was doing at that time. I think it's going to be an undertaking for us to understand what was provided to the federal government that was never investigated, never followed through upon. To know that this ranch never had a full-on investigation. Maybe it did. And yet we don't know what files have not been released yet. That's the other concern is that we don't know what we don't know yet. Um and so we're learning new things every day. The fact that we have to do this as a truth commission at all is, you know, um it's alarming that the the justice for the survivors has never been brought. Um but it's it's our calling and as a state house we have this power. It's designated for our legislative body. It's not a new thing. Um it's just very uncommon. Um and so for us it's it's really standing in our power as as representatives of our our our people of our state um who have asked us to to stand in this power. Um and so yeah it's it's it's certainly a journey for us our legislative council many who have been part of any sort of investigation like this hasn't happened since the '9s before that the '7s. And these were you know situations that are very nuanced and so but however it's in our constitution. These are in our state constitutions. Um, and so we will, you know, enact that power when we need it to subpoena, to get folks on the record, to make sure that we have this public record, a government obviously overseeing and endorsing this process. um so that we have this, you know, it's it's it's been crazy that we we haven't had this on the record yet. You know, at a time when the toxicity of our political parties seems to be the common everyday part of our conversation, I want to give a shout out not only to you obviously, but to Mariana Annayia, Andrea Reeb, and William Hall II. Um, were you surprised at the level of bipartisan interest and, you know, to be able to do this? Because, like I said, everybody's fighting. There's so much infighting. There's so much political fighting between parties and yet we've also seen nationally we also have Republican support for the Democrats pushing ahead to try to get transparency for the victims and survivors of Epstein, Glenn Maxwell, and others. I think that's what's so powerful about this story is that it's so uniting regardless of of party. Um there is no partisanship when it comes to people's lives, human suffering, abuse. This unites all of us in the fight for justice. Um I as I started, you know, asking questions when I I really feel like felt like I was late to the Epstein um story. It was last summer where um started picking up on what is this news that keeps referencing Santa Fe? You know, what are we talking about? That's our backyard. Why? Why did he have a ranch in my, you know, in my county with a with a built-in private runway for his jet? But that's a whole other thing, by the way. But go ahead. Yeah. Any questions immediately that he was in and out, in and out, and they kept referencing this Zoro ranch in Santa Fe. That's where I live, you know, and so I was confused. Started talking to people in community. Uh, did you know about this? Oh, yeah. We knew him. Uh, we knew we knew where he went to yoga. We knew where he grocery shopped. Um, this is just people. This is just people in the community. This is just people, everyday people in the community that are like, "Yeah, we knew about Jeffrey Epstein." Yeah, we knew about him. Uh, we, you know, he had a reputation uh about women. His ranch was called the Playboy Ranch of Santa Fe. I mean, these are just common stories that we were hearing um in and about town just starting to open up the conversation. And then as we started digging deeper, of course, there were questions about what happened in 2019. Why was this never investigated when he was indicted and coming to trial in New York, New Mexico was asking questions at that time. And so as I started on the journey of well, why was this never handled? How can we handle this? um was then looking to our legislative process as to how we could come about um bringing you know justice for for the survivors knowing that they were still out there and possibly still in our community and we know folks from New Mexico who have come on the record um as victims of Jeffrey Epstein. so so close to home. Um so horrifying that they have had nobody to go to in the sense of where can I turn for justice? And now that the statutes of limitations have run so crazy to um have be in the position to ask colleagues, would you serve on this commission? What do you think about doing this? Every single person I spoke to, no matter who it was, Republican, independent, Democrat, universally said, "We must do this. We have to do this." And so, unanimously, our House passed this. We we kept it in the House as well because many of our Senate colleagues have been in there for 20, 30 years. So, we're new to this political system in many ways. I've been serving in the House now for 8 years. this new political class of people who have come in more recently do not have these political connections or affiliations that could perhaps um inhibit us from doing the work that we need to do. those were part of why we set it up as just a house commission to make sure that those would not those relationships from the past um with folks that are in the on the records in the records being accused of crimes um that that would not inhibit us um from doing the work. So very strategic. There's a lot of you know background in and how we came to this place but universally in our community has been stop at nothing to get these folks justice. This is about rule of law. This is about justice. This is about fighting for everyday people who have been abused by a system of power, corruption, um that has allowed them to run a muck on our society. And so for us, I think unitedly we're saying we've got to go after everybody who deserves to be sought after. And we have to stop at nothing to bring justice to victims who have suffered the most. And and that's what it's about. It's about our humanity in this story. You know, you and I have now referenced a few times since the beginning of this episode the fact that 2019 was kind of an inflection point for the state of New Mexico. And I want to remind our viewers that back in 2019, the feds, the Southern District of New York, the federal prosecutors there directed New Mexico, it's Department of Justice. And I've explained to our viewers that [snorts] it's not the United States DOJ that's in New Mexico. New Mexico's Department of Justice is the attorney general's office and its own arm of investigation, but that the feds told New Mexico authority, New Mexican authorities to stand down, to not continue to investigate allegations of Epstein and Zoro Ranch. And in fact, the current AG um Rahul Torres, who's been a friend of our channel here and has appeared here, he's ordered that the criminal investigation into allegations of illegal activity at Jeffrey Epstein Zuro Ranch be reopened. and he outlined in his presser from February 19th that again it was stopped back in 2019 after the feds basically said you're not going to be moving forward. What I want to know is, are you guys prepared, both AG Torres and you, and your Epstein Truth Commission, prepared to deal with, frankly, the the throwing up of obstacles by the feds because I know y'all sent a letter, at least the DOJ, the New Mexico Department of Justice sent a letter to Todd Blanch on February 13th saying, "Let's have access to unredacted files." And we've seen when members of Congress, frankly, have tried to get answers from Pamela Bondi at the DOJ. I mean, are you kind of anticipating getting some push back from the feds for what y'all are trying to do? The reality is we don't know. I mean, just two weeks ago, we learned about the tip to um the FBI that was made about bodies being buried at the ranch. This is why this criminal investigation was reopened. There is no statute of limitations on murder in New Mexico. Um, and that's why it's an open criminal investigation. And up until that point, we were saying there's, you know, beyond a reasonable doubt, what can we do? We can only recover documents. Now, we're able to actually look into these things as a criminal investigation. That's the purview of the New Mexico Department of Justice. Thankfully, as I started flagging all together that we're going to do this and we're going to need this information at a certain point, it's better that we start cooperating and talking to each other right away. that helped us establish and then have our meeting day one uh once the establishment of the commission was up and running that we would be working together in tandem. They do the beyond the reasonable doubt the live you know uh crimes that are investigated today. We do the truth and record of holding what happened that where people cannot be held accountable to a specific crime today and so getting that on the record. So, we've been in this u back and forth trying to recover a a a timeline, a story. We know how absolutely uh confusing the files can be. I mean, what does this mean? Who is that? Why are they in the It's we're having to to really uncover this whole story. But there's a there's people in our community. There's folks that worked on this and were told to stand down. So there was a point to which they were they were investigating something serious enough and then told stop right there. We we've got this. So what happened up until that point that they said stop right there. Um we've got this. We don't have an established understanding of what was actually already prodded after already investigated. That's what we're looking for. That's what we haven't found in the files. We had this one tip off of potential bodies being buried and we're already into a criminal investigation. We keep learning things in real time. It feels like every single day since that has happened and how we've been able to thankfully react, but we can't be proactive about something that we just don't know about right now. And that's what's so so challenging about getting this a foot. Um, but thankfully we're all working in tandem now. We're very hopeful. I have nothing but hope that the federal government is going to be cooperative. This is too important. Um I I I hope they understand how critical this is for not only our state, for the nation and the world to know that they're doing their jobs. Um but we'll it's yet to be seen. We'll see. You know, the word accountability is used all day long, every day lately, and I have been expressing my frustration that um you know, the federal government in and of itself doesn't necessarily honor its promise to Americans about transparency and accountability, especially when it comes to the Epstein files. So, to have you kind of be the pioneer on this, Representative Romero, I mean, you really are kind of breaking barriers here because I think this is what we're having to see. We're having to see states saying we have to protect our citizens, right? We have to answer our accountabilities to our residents, to our citizens in our state. And so now we're seeing states like you and you really have just broken this barrier wide open of showing that there can be this work done on a state level that we don't necessarily have to turn our eyes to the feds who may or may not be playing games and offiscating the truth. We can find the truth on our own. Your thoughts? Have you heard from constituents? Have you heard from people about this new Epstein Truth Commission? Are they excited? Are they I don't mean excited in some weird way. I just mean but are they just um just optimistic that at least something's being done? Well, universally we've received support again bipartisanly. This was a unanimous effort. We have Republicans and Democrats in our state house. Everybody asked questions about how are we going to do it? What are we going to do? And how they could support us in this process. And I it's been overwhelming the amount of support and praise for just getting started, you know, and so for me it's it's it's about being so critical about what we need to do. I I'm ex not excited in the way that you were again same way to get to work. Um because again the importance that this carries for so many people across the globe um about getting justice for victims. You know, my hope is to New York is listening, they can do that work. Um, when we think about Florida, when we think about the areas where this was operative, you know, this is something that we can can actually collaborate on together. Our state is certainly doing that. We've we've had um, you know, openly from our governor. If you need law enforcement support, if you need, you know, whatever it is that you need, these this is a big challenge, but we're here for you. Um, and that was the the take-home meeting for the first time, many of his uh victims, uh, in Washington DC this past week. They knew about what we were doing in New Mexico, and they were just so relieved that there was some movement in the right direction. I mean, we were moved. I was just moved to total emotional states just looking in the faces of people that this is who this is for. you know, this truth commission is about people who have suffered for decades in many cases. Um, so yeah, very powerful to have the support that we have and I think for the folks that are working on the inside of this now, um, trying to get this up running and and figuring out how to be able to find the starting points for such a a such a massive undertaking. Um, we really feel empowered uh by our community, by the love and support of of the folks that this is for and certainly um for for getting this to the public um for getting the truth and for having faith in a government that sees people that supports them and that wants to do right by them. Um I want to before you and I part ways, I do want to briefly talk about the State of the Union. You and I just missed each other in Washington DC just a few days ago. you attended the State of the Union as a guest of Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, of whom I am a huge fan. Um, but other guests for Rep. Stanbury included Epstein victims and survivors. Um, your thoughts about the fact that there can be partners, that there can be uh people I mean I would say Representative Sansbury has been one of the loudest advocates that has been pushing for transparency. She has been so blunt about the need for justice in this instance when it comes to protecting our children moving forward as well as giving justice and accountability for those that have suffered in the past. Just kind of your thoughts about the fact that these partnerships can exist. You've now proven it that it can be bipartisan on a state level and you're working with a a federal um you know partner in Congresswoman Stanberry. Yeah. I mean, it's it's so interesting how this has all played out since, you know, we thought about the truth commission, the Epstein uh transparency act has been uh enacted and yet we're still searching for answers. They are our Congress people are some of the only access points to unredacted documents right now while the federal government um is not complying with the requests of our local government and jurisdiction to get the documents unredacted to our Department of Justice in New Mexico. So we have this go-between with our congressional representatives to go to the Department of Justice and review these documents directly unredacted. we're going to have to trickle through so much of this, but they've been at the forefront for many, many, many months um while we've been preparing for this to try to get those answers and to try to get it on the record. And thankfully, we even have a semblance of three million documents to to get through to get us to the point of now we've reopened a criminal investigation. So, all of these things are are so critical to how we're going to get this done. I wish it was out there for folks to to tap into immediately because there are so many internet sleuths out there. Believe me, that's how I got caught wind of Santa Fe being part of this story was because of the folks doing the work to keep this in the news to keep proddding. Um, so thank you to to those folks who have done that incredible work to help us as policy makers, as lawmakers follow through with our duties to do that. And so kudos to you for keeping up the the fight on the coverage that this story does not go away. We've heard that call. Now we're taking action. And so it's it's going to continue. But you know, we have to understand that these systems are so challenging to navigate through. Um, and I hope this Department of Justice federally, um, is hearing that we need these answers and starts, you know, cracking it open for us to be able to get the answers we need. It's been far too long. Um, and certainly the challenges should not exist any longer for us to to have these answers that we need. Listen, once again, you are incredibly gracious, Representative Romero, but listen, the thanks goes to you for using your power. As you said a few minutes ago, you were given this power. You were elected into office to be able to do this for not only your constituents, but for the residents of New Mexico. and the fact that you're doing this. I mean, my thanks to you for being just intrepid and for doing the hard work because I think a lot of people have either turned a blind eye or felt like it was so long ago that it wasn't worth pursuing and you're proving them all wrong. So, I really appreciate it. New Mexico State Representative Andrea Romero, look, the door is open here. You come anytime. You hang out and you let us know what's going on. And I agree there is some internet soouththing going on that it's next level and it has really been a gamecher and I'm grateful for those folks just tirelessly also combing through these files and making it accessible so that we know what's going on. But as I stated at the beginning, it is a privilege to be able to spend time with you. I am grateful and thank you for being here. Thank you Katie. Such a pleasure and we'll have many more updates for you. I'm sure long before our midway deadline in July, I can imagine we'll have things to talk about. Absolutely. Thanks for getting here again. Katie Fang here. We launched the Katie Fang News Channel in partnership with the Midas Touch Network so we could bring you the latest in legal and political news. Straight no chaser. So, if you're a fellow trutht teller, hit that subscribe button and share the word about this channel so we can build a high information America
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We have an Epstein file reveal again. This information came out, and Iran was hit right after it. This is very damning, because it proves that Howard Lutnick is a liar. It proves that Brett Ratner is a damn liar, and it proves that Donald Trump is a liar. All three of them.
This photograph has been removed from the Epstein files. Let me show you something about this photograph. Shout out to Jmail. The DOJ removed this photo of what appears to be Howard Lutnick. You can still access it on Jmail. So Jmail, they basically took all the files from the Epstein files right away, and they put it through Jmail. So, you go to Jmail, and you can still see some of the files that the DOJ removed.
Let's look at this picture, shall we? Here's Jeffrey Epstein in the white shirt, obviously. This guy right here in the blue button-down shirt and the white shorts is Howard Lutnick. They're on an island. See the water? See the sand? This guy over here looks very much like Brett Ratner, the guy who said he never went on Jeffrey Epstein's island. Howard Lutnick said he went to the island with his family, with his kids. Do you see any kids in this picture? Do you see the wife? Right. It's all good. Where are his wife and kids? Where are they at? All I see are dudes. I don't know who was in the orange shirt. And we can't see the guy's face over here. But here's Howard Lutnick on the island with Jeffrey Epstein. And it appears again, this looks like Brett Ratner, who said he never went there with no kids. The DOJ removed this picture, probably because of what I just told you. They're protecting Howard Lutnick. They're protecting Brett Ratner. There was no reason to remove this picture from the files. There are no girls in this picture, but they removed it.
You will also see here something else about Howard Lutnick. You know Howard, who claims so much that he just happened to not be in the towers on 911: "I just happened to take my kid to school that day." Remember we talked about this? So peep this fam. Edie Lutnick, Howard Lutnick's sister, has direct ties to Ghislaine Maxwell. After Epstein was convicted of sex crimes, Ghislaine Maxwell started Terramar, and Edie happened to be a founding member and supporter of the organization. So now we see Howard Lutnik's sister also had a connection to them. Check this out.
This is Edie Lutnick, Howard Lutnick's sister. And what do you know? She has direct ties to Ghislaine Maxwell. In 2012, after Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of sex crimes, Ghislaine Maxwell started Terramar, a nonprofit organization to help protect the high seas. What do you know? Good old Edie just happened to be a founding member, and supporter of the organization. And this is years after Howard said that he had cut all ties with Jeffrey Epstein.
"Years later," my friend. So, do you see this? Still all in the family.
Edie and Howard are close. They're not some distant relatives. Edie Lutnick is a lawyer. She's also the co-founder and serves as the president of the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund that was established shortly after 9/11 at Howard's request to support the families that passed from 9/11. And one of the craziest parts is that just like Howard Lutnick, she just happened to not be in the Twin Towers that day. Howard, his wife, asked him to pick up the kids from school, and in Edie's case, it happened because of a cancelled appointment.
Okay, so let's just stop there for a second. What are the possibilities that Howard Lutnik and his sister just happened to have other things that would keep them out of the towers on that day? We also know that Ghislaine Maxwell from the files was asked to be a part of the 9/11 shadow commission. If you've been following me recently, you also know that Ghislaine Maxwell's sister created a company, software company called Chiliad, which was basically champion to the challenge of what happened with 9/11. Chiliad was connected with the FBI, with intelligence agencies. And so you mean to tell me it just happens to be a coincidence that Howard Lutnick and his sister just happened to not be there on that day? She just happened to have a appointment? He just happened to take his kid to school? Think about that.
One lucky family, and also one that seems to be entrenched in the Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell circle. As always, I want to hear what you think about all of this down below.
So, when I told you that all of these people rolled together, all of these people rolled together and now not all of them, but many of them are trying to say, "I just don't recall. I don't remember even meeting Jeffrey Epstein. I don't know anything about that guy at all." These people been around.
Now here's the damning part about Donald Trump that has just been revealed. Follow me for this one.
https://epstein-emails.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/docs/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031661.pdf From: jeffrey E. [[email protected]] Sent: 2/16/2017 12:21:21 AM To: paul krassner [DELETE] Subject: Re: Trump
i was pointing out that that alleged rape was reported to be at my house with donald and I raping her.
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 7:07 PM, paul krassner <[DELETE]> wrote:
the allegation was not at a pedophile party, it was at my house with me.
to what wording would you suggest I change that?
OMG. Epstein in an email to Paul Krassner with the subject line re Trump. I was pointing out that the alleged assault was reported to be at my house with Donald and I assaulting her. They're going to nuke Iran to bury those files. Check this out. This email is from Jeffrey Epstein. It was sent February 16th, 2017. Says right here to Paul Krasner. Again, if we start at the bottom here at 7:39 a.m., it said the allegation was equal not at a pedophile party. It was at my house with me. To what wording would you suggest I change that response here? I was pointing out that the alleged we're going to say sexual assault is YouTube. The alleged sexual assault was reported to equal e. This is a symbol here. They're using it code for something. Reported my house with Donald and I sexually assaulting her. That email was sent to Paul Krasner. Like I'm not even Justice by Karma says, "OMG, O FMG. How in the hell can this stuff not be investigated?" That's what I'm saying. This is why they are slowly removing things from the files, especially after people start to call it out on social media. That's why I said Donald Trump should be testifying. But he's out there starting wars so that you forget about this. The Epstein class, it gets worse. This is one of the things that has just been revealed. But I want to show you another one. By the way, you can see it here in the files for yourself.
Everybody here surprised - and happy about it. Nobody quite understand why he did it - including myself.Completely opposite to what I was told in the White House. What is he
up to? Spoke with new Syria UN envoy, Geir Pedersen, who used to work for me. Russians very good and kind.
You guys need to understand that he is psychotic. And would not blink twice at encouraging an attack on us . So he can leap to the country.s defense. . mindset. If I go down I m taking everyone with
Could be he doesn't want them there if a much bigger operation might put them in jeopardy . Reminder , he will take everyone down with him, if he feels the end is near. I always urge people not to corner a rat.. they become extremely dangerous and unpredictable
Worse. Because it is not only him, it is his family. Biz etc. , I believe that mueller is making a mistake. And treating him like he is organized crime. . no organized crime leader has.a 1 million man army
They are going drip by drip. But rats go crazy BEFORE the cage closes. Too much time. The republicans are beginning to understand .. I would nt be surprised to see him do things that might encourage a real problem
Sen George Mitchell a very close friend when senate majority leader. Said a budget deal is never done earlier than 11 55 pm on the eve of a shutdown
This has not been removed. We're going to go to page five. Check this out. So, this is from the justice.gov website for the files, guys. What? Watch this. This is 2018, December of 2018, during Donald Trump's presidency. Listen to what they reveal here. Trump is pulling troops out of Syria is a bad sign. He is up to something and it's not good. I'll make this larger so you guys can There we go. Some of these are duplicated as you'll see. We'll continue on. Uh BTW, by the way, I believe that his pulling troops out of Syria is step one. See what I said? Like these files also talk about foreign policy, not just trafficking. It goes on to say here he needs a large diversion. 2018, uh this part here, they're talking about a quote here from uh Toori and Einstein. We can skip that. That's not really relevant to this part of the conversation. But then we get to uh this part right here. The invisible chair. Total diversion, but the right is on to him. Look at this. I'm starting to sound Indian. Total diversion, but the right is on to him. They're talking about Donald Trump during his first term. We don't know who Epstein is talking to because they redacted these names. Then it goes on to say, "Everybody here surprised and I'm happy about it. Nobody quite understood why he did it, including myself. Completely opposite to what I was told in the White House. What is he up to?" Spoke with new Syria UN envoy Gear Patterson, who used to work for me. Russians, very good and kind. Again, why is Jeffrey Epstein focusing on Donald Trump's foreign policy decisions if they were just business partners or interested in business together? Why? Why is he talking about this? It gets crazier. Um, I told you some of these are duplicates because they're resends. You guys need to understand that he is psychotic talking about Trump and would not blink twice at encouraging an attack on us so he can leap to the country's defense mindset. If I go down, I'm taking everyone with. We need to know who this is speaking right here. They're saying that if they were to go down, they're taking everyone with them. And we don't know who said that. See, this is one of the ways that Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed people. I'm still shocked a lot of these people actually said this [ __ ] over email, to be honest. Goes on here. That's a duplicate there. Cornering a rat. never a good idea. Syria shows that I'm no fan of our involvement, but you can't do what he did and how he did it. You see how they're talking about him behind his back? Okay. Could be he doesn't want them there if a much bigger operation might put them in jeopardy. Reminder, he will take everyone down with him if he feels the end is near. I always urge people not to corner a rat. They become extremely dangerous and unpredictable. So now they're saying that Trump would take everyone down with him. Okay, moving on here. the right punching out. One explanation is that he doesn't want them in harm's way if he starts a larger regional issue. You hear this larger regional issue. Take your family out of the house before you blow it up. It's the right move. China, Pakis, Pakistan, China, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Iran. He also might have just decided to trade the Kurds to to Turkey for them standing down on Saudi. The game is on now. Do you guys get what they're saying here? They are saying that Donald Trump Donald Trump is willing to start a regional conflict to divert the attention from himself. And look at where we are today. That was said in 2018. So, some people wonder if it was Steve Bannon who was on these emails. I don't know. They redacted the names, but it says, "My god, is he that cornered?" So, what they were basically saying is that um Trump, if he feels cornered, he is willing to start a regional conflict to get the attention off of him. You guys got to think about something for a second. Donald Trump, you know, back in the day, he was buddy buddy and mentored by Roy Cohen, who was basically another, you know, mob uh associate. When Donald Trump's businesses got into financial trouble, and it did, and he had to, you know, take out loans and to get things back up and going and stuff like that, where' he get that money from? And the people who gave him the money, what did he owe them in return? This is why I say follow the money. It's not even just about if Donald Trump participated in trafficking or sexually abused people. It's that's one piece, but another piece is who did Donald Trump owe money to? Who did he borrow money from? And who did he owe money to? and what did he have to do for them in return? I really think that's how people need to be looking at this. A lot of people are focusing on I don't think that Donald Trump would abuse young girls. I don't think you're looking at the bigger picture. The bigger picture here is following the money. Like I said, the Epstein situation is a global criminal enterprise and they were blackmailing people that they had [ __ ] on. makes you wonder, like I said, they probably blackmailed him, too. And it brings me to this point, you know, I don't know. Someone made this. I thought it was pretty relevant. Would you really prefer all of this to come out? There's a picture there of Benjamin Netany and Yahoo Epstein plus 8 file disconfidential video 2002. And then there's Donald Trump right there sweating validation pending right now. Roana was just questioned about this. Why Donald Trump is not testifying. Listen to this. We have the votes to subpoena Lutnik. I'm not I don't believe we have the votes right now to subpoena uh President Trump because the Republicans uh control the House and I don't think you they would uh vote with us on that. But when Robert Garcia is chair of the oversight committee, we will have those votes. And the Clinton rule means that Donald Trump and his family members should testify. By the way, he should do it voluntarily. I mean, he should look at what President Clinton did. He answered every question. Why can't Donald Trump do the same? There's this question of these three FBI interviews. There's someone who made allegations against Donald Trump that she was sexually abused as a minor. I want to be very clear. There's no evidence whether that's true or not, but there were allegations made. One of those witness interviews was released. Three of them are hidden by the Justice Department. Why are they hidden? When will they be released? These are the types of questions Donald Trump needs to answer. All right. Yeah. So, that was the point there that Roana made. Donald Trump should have to testify. Uh, Melania should have to testify. Like I said, she was Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend before she was Donald Trump's girlfriend. You mean to tell me Melania don't know anything? Nobody knows anything, but all of these activities took place. Elites run the world. They do what they want to do. And I find it very interesting that the moment this information was dropped, all of a sudden Donald Trump was like, "Okay, that's it. We gonna He was going to they were going to strike Iran anyway." I guess the DOJ forgot to take that one out. So, don't forget about the Epstein files. It has gotten to the point now where people are so pissed even Nick Fuentes is telling people not to vote for the Republican party. He's telling them to vote Democrat. I'm not kidding you. It's not a joke. Listen to this. Something has gone horribly wrong. All of those people, with some exceptions, were never Trumpers in 2016. Shapiro didn't vote for Trump in 16. Mark Leavvin was critical of Trump in 2016. Where were these people when the movement was actually born? When those pillars were in place. Now all of those people are in the center. The movement is something else now. And what we need in 2028, this is our last chance. We need in 2026 for this administration to be shut the [ __ ] down. What does this administration do other than cover up the Epstein files, embezzle money through government contracts, and bring us to war for Israel? This administration needs to be shut down immediately. Do not vote in the midterms. And if you do, vote for Democrats. [ __ ] this. That is what the Republicans deliver. That is what our golden age looks like. The tariffs were refunded. The deportations were stopped. They wound down and withdrew the ice from Minneapolis. What does this administration do other than embezzle money? go to war with Iran and bury the Epstein files. Oh, and blackmail Harvard so they police anti-semitism and ban people who criticize Israel from being in America. This administration needs to be shut down immediately. It has forfeited its mandate. They promised no new wars. They promised mass deportations in America first. And we're not getting any of it. So, shut it down in 2026. shut it down. And our only hope is that in 2028 in the Republican primary, somebody will emerge who will actually put America first. I am not voting for the vice president and the secretary of state that brought us to war in Iran. I won't do it. 2026, shut it down. You got to burn the house down with them inside metaphorically. And in 28, you better hope that somebody has a prayer to run the Trump strategy and do another hostile takeover over the GOP. Otherwise, I'm going to become a Democrat. Like, so Nick Fuentes has a large audience. Now, I know what Nick Fuentes is doing. I told you he's just a contrarian. He jumps on an issue that he knows is going to be he takes the contrarian position because it's it's like the shock jock thing. I've explained this to you guys before. Like Howard Stern used to do this like back in the day before he um got his panties in a bunch later on. But the point is Nick Fuentes does have a large audience and a lot of viewers and he is telling them to vote Democrat this year. Now he could change his mind a month from now and say something different. But the point is he is reaching people to change their mind and he flippity flip-flops all over the place. This is why some people call him a fed. But the point is there are a lot of people that watch him that listen to him and do what he tells them to do. So the Trump administration like I bruh and not even just the Trump administration but the elites altogether the Epstein class of people are the ones that are running [ __ ] And so what Nick Fuentes should be telling people is what I just told you. The Epstein class is running [ __ ] They run the politicians. They run the banks, the universities, all of it. And some people that will look for look at this from a biblical perspective, they will see those people and they will say that they are demonic, that those people are evil. However you want to look at it, the reality is they have the money and the resources to do whatever they want to do. And apparently, according to the Epstein files to also get away with murder. This puts the Republican party and the Democratic party in a precarious position because for the first time that that I've seen in my life. Both of them are, you know, kind of complicit here. And not only that, but they're exposed because you see Democrats not wanting to touch this and you see Republicans not wanting to touch it. People were asking like, "Well, what about the women and the children?" None of them cared about women and children to begin with. That was just a line they used to you so that you would agree with them going to like destroy these countries and have all these wars. You can't you can't care about the women and the children. You don't even want people to have healthcare. You don't care about the women and the children. Care about your bottom line and your political career. These are the same people that are bombing hospitals right now in Iran. The same people that bomb hospitals in Gaza. Same people that killed children abroad and women. And people are shocked that they just don't seem to be interested or care that all these crimes and activities that are listed in the Epstein files, they just don't really want to try to do anything. They want to protect their party, their team. Both of these parties funded a genocide. They don't give a damn. Never forget that. Hey guys, this was a savvy clip. If you like what you saw, hit that like button and subscribe.