BOMBSHELL: Collaboration between Trump & FBI over Epstein files revealed Brian Tyler Cohen Jul 18, 2025 Brian Tyler Cohen BOMBSHELL #news - Collaboration between Trump & FBI over Epstein files revealed
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In a major revelation, Democratic Senator Dick Durban has sent a letter to the FBI revealing that FBI agents were told to flag mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein records that they were collecting. The letter says, quote, "According to information my office received, you then pressured the FBI to put approximately a thousand personnel in its information management division, including the record information dissemination section, which handles all requests submitted by the public under the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act, on 24-hour shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein related records in order to produce more documents than could be released on an arbitrarily short deadline. This effort, which reportedly took place from March 14th through the end of March, was haphazardly supplemented by hundreds of FBI New York field office personnel, many of whom lack the expertise to identify statutorily protected information regarding child victims and child witnesses or properly handle foyer requests. My office was told these personnel were instructed to flag any records in which President Trump was mentioned. Notably, in 2002, Mr. Trump said of Mr. Epstein, "I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
Just yesterday, it was reported that the department previously reviewed a leatherbound album comprised of dozens of letters from Mr. Epstein's friends in celebration of his 50th birthday in 2003. The letters were collected by Mr. Epstein's partner, Ghislain Maxwell, and included one from President Trump that allegedly contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be handdrawn with heavy marker. And the future president's signature is a squiggly Donald below her waist.
Hey, can anybody watching right now let me know what you think it means when you task a thousand people with looking out for just one guy's name in a file that concerns the activities of a known pedophile? Does that strike you as something that a person who is completely and totally innocent might do? Take all the time you need with that one.
What's especially ironic here is that Trump has spent the last few days claiming that the files are the result of Democratic interference.
[Reporter] Mr. President, Mr. President, I know you want to move past all this intrigue over the Epstein files, but I do want to ask you to clarify something you said this morning. You said this was all a hoax. Has your attorney general told you this was a hoax? What evidence have you seen?
[Donald Trump] It's not the attorney general. No, I know it's a hoax. It's started by Democrats. It's been run by the Democrats for four years. You had Christopher Wray and these characters, and Comey before him. It's a bad group. It's all been a big hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats.
[Reporter] You lost a lot of faith in certain people.
[Donald Trump] Yeah, I lost because they got duped by the Democrats. The Democrats are good for nothing. Instead, they want to talk about the Epstein hoax. And the sad part is it's people that are really doing the Democrats work. They're stupid people. All my supporters want to talk about is the Jeffrey Epstein hoax. It's unbelievable. It's a disgrace. And I'm going to remember every one of these guys. They're my supporters, and they just love it. They love it. And it's all induced by the Democrats. The Democrats are the ones that are getting them to say this stuff. It's all the same scam. They could look at this Jeffrey Epstein hoax also because that's the same stuff that's all put out by Democrats.
[Reporter] Sir, what [inaudible] investigation?
[Donald Trump] I have nothing to do with it.
[Brian Tyler Cohen] And yet now we find out that in fact there was only one person who was interfering here, and it wasn't the Democrats. If what Dick Durban says is true, and Dick Durban isn't exactly Marjorie Taylor Green when it comes to seeking attention or throwing out unsubstantiated or outlandish claims, then it means that in fact we've got proof that Trump meddled in the investigation to protect himself or any damaging information about himself from getting released. When we say that every accusation is a confession, this is what we mean. Which should perhaps give you all reason to doubt whatever it is Trump and Bondi offer you up next since it's already clear that they are operating to protect not the victims, but rather a potential participant in the crimes that Epstein committed. So when Trump comes out and says:
[Donald Trump, Truth Social] Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent grand jury testimony subject to court approval. This scam perpetuated by the Democrats should end right now!
[Brian Tyler Cohen] And Pam Bondi chimes in and replies,
[Pam Bondi] President Trump, we are ready to move to court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts.
[Brian Tyler Cohen] Perhaps we should offer a little bit of skepticism, because they are going to do things, like this, to intentionally confuse people and send them in the wrong direction. A point that Glenn Kirschner brought up here.
[Glenn Kirschner] You know, we may be getting exactly zero information, because the court would have to order the release of grand jury transcripts. This feels more like a Hollywood production, maybe another episode of The Apprentice, right? This is a reality show. It's not in fact reality. And here's why, Brian.
First of all, we have to start with the rules that govern grand jury transcripts, and all grand jury materials. It's federal rule of criminal procedure 6E. Here's what it stands for: Grand jury information. That means witness testimony, records that are produced pursuant to grand jury subpoenas, telephone records, photographs, videotapes, you name it. It is all protected by grand jury secrecy. And here's what everybody needs to know. The rules only provide that a court, a judge, may order the release of grand jury materials for only very specific and limited reasons.
[Brian Tyler Cohen] And of course, Trump and Bondi know that, but that's the point. They need to manipulate the base into thinking that they're getting transparency, when in fact they are getting obfuscation. It has become increasingly clear that the only goal of this administration is to prevent the release of these files. Which is why Donald Trump has leaned on Republicans in Congress and the Senate to block the release of the files. Not once, not twice, not three or four, but five separate times in just the last week. Twice in the rules committee, twice on the House floor, and once on the Senate floor. If Trump truly wanted transparency, he would release the files, just like he promised. But he doesn't. And so instead, his minions block the release of the files, and instead they offer up a different concession that isn't even a concession at all, but rather just a slight of hand. It is bad faith from beginning to end.
So look, my question for Trump supporters is this, and I ask this in 100% good faith. What's your goal here? Is it tribalism and protecting the leader of the Republican party at all costs? Or is it full transparency about what happened with Epstein, and accountability for everybody involved? Because you can want one or the other, but apparently not both. Because if that was a possibility, Trump would have already released the files. The fact that he won't, really does tell you everything you need to know.
Trump came into office with a mandate to expose the people who commit crimes with impunity. Not only is he failing to do that, he is entrenching the very system he vowed to dismantle. The president sold his supporters a bill of goods, and he's trying to convince you not to believe your lying eyes. And unless we all speak out, nothing is going to change.
Tucker's Epstein comments trigger official Israeli backlash by Max Blumenthal The Grayzone Jul 18, 2025 #TheGrayzone
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The Grayzone's Anya Parampil and Max Blumenthal cover veiled threats by a former Israeli prime minister and a particularly insidious Israeli official against Tucker Carlson for his comments alleging that Jeffrey Epstein worked for the Mossad.
As a former Israeli Prime Minister, with the Mossad having reported directly to me, I say to you with 100% certainty: The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false.
Epstein’s conduct, both the criminal and the merely despicable, had nothing whatsoever to do with the Mossad or the State of Israel.
Epstein never worked for the Mossad.
This accusation is a lie being peddled by prominent online personalities such as Tucker Carlson pretending they know things they don’t.
They just make things up, say it with confidence and these lies stick, because it’s Israel.
There’s a vicious wave of slander and lies against my country and my people, and we just won’t take it anymore.
5:32 AM · Jul 14, 2025
This is the former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett denouncing Tucker Carlson as a former Israeli prime minister with the Mossad having reported directly to me. I can say to you and with 100% certainty the accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false. So he he he uses very precise language which means that if Jeffrey Epstein had very close contacts with the Israeli government or was a Israeli government cut out moving money uh and didn't run a blackmail ring on their behalf but performed other services. Well that could be true but this is false. And then he but but the most interesting part is the last two lines. Napali Bennett says, "They just make things up, say it with confidence, and these lies stick because it's Israel." Sounds like uh something Israel does like every five minutes. There's a vicious wave of slander and lies against my country and my people, and we just won't take it anymore. So, that's to me an implicit threat against Tucker Carlson. And this was not the only uh threatening post directed at Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk who I mean they Tucker seems like kind of like a free man like he's just willing to say whatever right now. Uh he's just like at a stage in his life where he just doesn't care anymore. But Charlie Kirk has a lot more to lose. And as as I explained before and Ana explained, they kind of created him as a youth uh gra astroturf activist.
Amichai Chikli @AmichaiChikli An Open Letter to @charliekirk11
Dear Charlie,
Like many others, I’ve been following your remarkable journey from afar - your pursuit of truth, integrity, and love for your country.
Very few young people are as gifted as you, and even fewer possess such a strong moral compass.
I watched Tucker Carlson’s speech at your conference and your debate with Megyn Kelly, and I must admit I was filled with sorrow.
I don’t know whether Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset for any agency. I would certainly like to know. In particular, I would like to understand his connection to the kind of people who sought to sell out the Land of Israel to the Palestinians, people like the former Israeli prime ministers Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert, who both appear in previously published Epstein-related documents.
Still, as you have noted, there is no evidence - none- that Epstein was acting on behalf of the State of Israel. Yet the message conveyed at your conference, with Tucker Carlson as keynote speaker just days after his sycophantic interview with the Iranian terror regime, was unmistakable: Israel was behind Epstein.
The audience applauded. Everyone seemed pleased, especially the Qataris and their jihadist terror channel, Al Jazeera. (By the way, it would be fascinating to uncover the depth and nature of their connection to influencers such as Tucker Carlson and others.)
We see Candace Owens publicly claim that “the Israelis knew in advance about 9/11 and didn’t warn the U.S.”; that “Israelis killed JFK”; that “Jews committed a Holocaust against Christians even worse than Hitler’s”; and that “Mengele never performed horrific experiments in Auschwitz.”
We see Daryl Cooper, Carlson's best friend, appear in friendly interviews with Carlson, insisting that the Holocaust was a form of “mercy killing” for political prisoners who would have otherwise starved to death - and suggesting that perhaps Hitler “wasn’t such a bad guy.”
We have a serious problem.
A wave of antisemitism - the likes of which America hasn’t seen since the 1930s- is gathering momentum.
And so I’m asking you: please stay true to your strong moral compass and speak out against antisemitism, whether it comes from the woke left or the woke right.
The conservative movement is a global movement. Its compass is the pursuit of objective truth and a deep respect for family, community, and faith.
There is nothing wrong with demanding complete transparency about Jeffrey Epstein. But there is something profoundly wrong with elevating Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis like Daryl Cooper, and conspiracy theorists like Candace Owens. Owens, Cooper, and Carlson are not conservatives; they are full-blown wokists just wearing different costumes.
With respect, Amichai Chikli Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism State of Israel
1:35 PM · Jul 13, 2025
Amichai Chikli, less well-known, deeply devious, insidious figure operating in the United States as the minister of diaspora affairs for Israel, sends an open letter to Charlie Kirk. Blah blah blah. you're so gifted and you're, you know, I've been following you and Tucker Carlson's speech and and your debate with Megan Kelly filled me with sorrow. And then he says, I don't know whether Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset for any agency. I would like to know. And then he attacks Epstein for being friends with prime ministers who were on the so-called left in Israel, the genocidal left like Barack and Mr. [inaudible]
It goes on and on until he says to Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, and all these figures, Daryl Cooper are Nazis, who love Hitler and you just can't be platforming these people anymore.
So, they're basically telling Charlie Kirk, if you platform Tucker Carlson again, it ends with a photo of Tucker, we are going to take action.
And who is Amichai Chikli? I mentioned he's a minister. He's basically like an Israeli spy in the United State, or an intelligence asset. I'm not going to go so far down the rabbit hole, but in the Guardian, Jack Poulson and Lee Fang did a series of articles about how Guardian, Jack Pollson and Lee Fong did a series of articles about how Chickli is moving Israeli government money through NOS's set up in the US to skirt the Foreign Agents Registration Act, is moving Israeli government money through NOS's set up in the US to skirt the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which is what the forerunner to APAIC did under Isaiah Kennan in the early 60s, which got them under investigation by Senator Fulbright, an investigation that was eventually squashed. So, this is a guy who's basically running Israeli ops in the US.
Leaked Israeli Docs Reveal Effort to Evade Foreign Agent Lobbying Law. Former general counsel of Democratic National Committee secretly advised the Israeli government on how to avoid FARA registration of its U.S. propaganda program. by Lee Fang and Jack Poulson leefang.com Aug 17, 2024 https://www.leefang.com/p/leaked-israel ... eal-effort
This investigation was reported in collaboration with The Guardian. This reporting builds on our June 24th and July 11th investigations on covert Israeli government influence.
The Israeli government sought legal advice on a US federal law requiring the disclosure of foreign-backed lobbying campaigns, out of concerns that mounting enforcement of the law could ensnare American groups working in coordination with the Israeli government, leaked documents reviewed by the Guardian suggest.
Emails and legal memos originating from a hack of the Israeli justice ministry show that officials feared Israeli advocacy efforts in the US could trigger the US law governing foreign agents. The documents show that officials proposed creating a new American nonprofit in order to continue Israel’s activities in the US while avoiding scrutiny under the law.
A legal strategy memo dated July 2018 noted that compliance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) would damage the reputation of several American groups that receive funding and direction from Israel, and force them to meet onerous transparency requirements. A separate memo noted that donors would not want to fund groups registered under FARA.
FARA requires people working on behalf of a foreign government to register as foreign agents with the US Justice Department.
In listing reasons for avoiding FARA, the memo says that the law compels registrants to “flag any piece of ‘propaganda’ that is distributed to two or more parties in the US, with a disclaimer stating that it was delivered by a foreign agent and then submit a copy of the ‘propaganda’ to the US Department of Justice within 48 hours.”
To prevent FARA registration, and the stigma and scrutiny associated with it, the legal advisors suggested channeling funds through a third-party American nonprofit.
Liat Glazer, then a legal advisor to Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, writes that even though the nonprofit would not be formally managed from Israel, “we will have means of supervision and management” – for example, through grant-making and “informal coordination mechanisms” including “oral meetings and updates.”
The discussions around circumnavigating FARA focused on a “PR commando unit” formed by Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs in 2017 to improve Israel’s image abroad. The group, a private-public partnership, was originally known as “Kela Shlomo” (which translates to “Solomon’s Sling”) before being rebranded as “Concert” in 2018 and “Voices of Israel” in 2022. Its initial mission was to undermine the BDS movement targeting Israel with boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns in protest of its policies towards Palestinians.
Over the course of its history, the group has supported American nonprofits advocating for anti-BDS laws and coordinated campaigns to push back against pro-Palestinian activities on US campuses.
The emails and documents were released by Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoSecrets, a US-based nonprofit responsible for disseminating a number of high-profile hacks in recent years. The original source for the documents was a group calling itself “Anonymous for Justice,” a self-described “hacktivist collective” which announced in April that it had infiltrated Israel’s Ministry of Justice and retrieved hundreds of gigabytes of data.
Amnesty International’s security lab analyzed the data set and "determined the files are consistent with a hack-and-leak attack targeting a series of email accounts." The group said "it was not possible to cryptographically verify the authenticity of the emails, as critical email metadata was removed by the hackers during a pre-processing step before release."
They added: "technical indicators in other files from the leak, including a sampling of PDFs and Microsoft Word documents reviewed by Amnesty International did not show obvious signs of having been tampered with."
Previous reporting in the Guardian on the hacked archive revealed Israeli government attempts to thwart discovery in a lawsuit brought by WhatsApp against the infamous spyware company NSO Group. Following the leak, Israel imposed a gag order to prevent the documents from being publicized.
Earlier this year, the Guardian exclusively reported that Voices of Israel was rebooted shortly after the outbreak of the Gaza war following the 7 October 2023 terror attacks by Hamas. Amichai Chikli, the Likud minister of diaspora affairs who oversees the latest iteration of the project, informed the Knesset that the group was set to go “on the offensive” against American students protesting the Gaza war.
The heightened concern over FARA around 2018 was sparked in part by a series of enforcement actions against Trump administration officials for unregistered lobbying for foreign interests.
The July 2018 Israeli legal memo noted that “in the past, FARA was applied to countries hostile to the US,” such as Russia and Pakistan. Glazer warned that the new atmosphere of enforcement, given the ties between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump, could lead to a formal investigation by the US Department of Justice.
In response, the documents show, the Israeli government retained Sandler Reiff, a prominent election and campaign law firm in Washington, DC, to analyze the FARA risks posed by Concert and other Israeli advocacy efforts to shape American policy and opinion. The two primary contacts for the engagement were Joseph E. Sandler, the former in-house general counsel to the Democratic National Committee, and Joshua I. Rosenstein, a widely-cited expert on FARA.
Another memo from 2018, which summarized a discussion led by then-deputy attorney general Dina Zilber, noted increased public attention to FARA due to “the investigation into Donald Trump and officials in his government suspected of operating as ‘foreign agents’ for the Russian government.”
The document notes advice from senior Israeli advisors who assert that “donors are not interested in donating to groups registered under FARA.” The memo recommended creating a new American nonprofit which Kela Shlomo / Concert could funnel money through, thereby providing distance between US nonprofits and the Israeli government – though the head of the nonprofit would also serve in Kela Shlomo’s leadership.
It also notes potential downsides of creating such an American intermediary: both weaker Israeli government control over any such group, and a mechanism that could be interpreted for what it was: an attempt to sidestep FARA.
The documents reference concerns on the part of US groups over triggering FARA enforcement, concerns that officials say hindered their ability to conduct advocacy in the US.
In 2018, the news outlet The Forward reported that several Jewish American organizations had rejected funding from Concert due to concerns over FARA risk.
In Glazer’s December 2019 email, she noted that if it became public that Israel sought legal advice on FARA, this could “raise claims that the state of Israel wants to unacceptably interfere in US matters and spark a public debate on a sensitive issue in Israel-US relations.”
To avoid the potential public relations fallout, Glazer urged secrecy surrounding the Israeli government’s hiring of Sandler Reiff, the American law firm engaged to study the issue. “Exposing the name of the law firm could thwart the entire relationship,” she cautioned, “as I understand it was agreed with them that the engagement with [Israel] would not be revealed.”
Multiple memos and emails show that Sandler Reiff analyzed FARA-related questions from 2018 through at least 2022. Mr. Sandler and Mr. Rosenstein did not respond to requests for comment.
Brig. Gen. Sima Vaknin-Gill, a former intelligence officer and former chief military censor for the Israel Defense Forces who was intimately involved in the creation of Kela Shlomo, was copied on many of the emails and named in key documents concerning how to avoid FARA.
Vaknin-Gill is now a board member of the Kansas-based nonprofit Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM). CAM was set up one year after the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, where Vaknin-Gill was director-general, proposed its strategy to mitigate FARA risk by setting up an American nonprofit funded by Concert.
CAM has publicly disclosed that it is a partner of both Concert and Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, but the organization has refused requests from journalists to disclose its funders. When reached for comment, CAM stated that it “was not established by, nor is it influenced by, the Israeli government” and emphasized that CAM is “a global interfaith coalition that unites over 850 partner organizations.”
"If there is a deliberate effort by Israeli governmental officials to influence American policy and/or public opinion on foreign affairs," noted Craig Holman, a lobbying expert with Public Citizen, "this would constitute a FARA violation not just by the US agents serving the Israeli government, but also by any person or nonprofit organization in the US who is a knowing participant."
Glazer, the author of one of the FARA memos who helped organize several meetings around the issue, left the government in 2021 and joined Google as one of the company’s lobbyists in Israel. Glazer did not respond to a request for comment through Google.
The secrecy surrounding the Ministry of Strategic Affairs’ US-focused advocacy campaigns was challenged through freedom of information requests by Israeli news outlets, particularly the independent media watchdog Seventh Eye. After years of denied requests, the newsrooms eventually prevailed and obtained a series of Concert-related funding documents from the ministry.
The documents showed Kela Shlomo / Concert grants to several American advocacy groups, including Christian Zionist organizations such as Christians United for Israel and the Israel Allies Foundation. The latter was involved in helping to pass anti-BDS state laws penalizing Americans from engaging in certain forms of boycotts targeting the Israeli government.
In 2018, Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs also approved a $445,000 grant to the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), which totaled about 80% of the organization’s reported annual budget. The nonprofit initially disputed the precise amount but conceded Israeli government support when reached by The Forward. FARA includes an exemption for “academic” projects that do not entail political activity.
Last year, Vaknin-Gill, the Israeli intelligence officer involved in the formation of Kela Shlomo / Concert and the discussions about avoiding FARA registration, joined ISGAP as its managing director.
ISGAP has expanded its advocacy role in recent months. The group took credit for influencing the contentious December 2023 congressional hearing with elite college presidents, which preceded Harvard University president Claudine Gay's resignation. In recent months, ISGAP has met with congressional leaders regularly as the group has urged investigations of pro-Palestinian student demonstrators.
In another email about the issue sent in December 2019, Glazer emphasized the need to find a solution that would alleviate FARA-related concerns on the part of American groups.
“There have already been requests by the US Department of Justice made of a number of pro-Israeli entities in the past,” the email says. “The ministry already faces real challenges in operating with groups in the US, and this could hurt the various groups that are willing to work with the ministry or with [Concert] and ultimately harm the office’s activities in dealing with the phenomenon of delegitimization and boycotts.”
Photo: Israel's Minister for Diaspora Affairs, Amichai Chikli, during an interview for Europa Press. (Photo By Carlos Lujan/Europa Press via Getty Images) Article updated on August 18 to reflect that Kela Shlomo was renamed “Voices of Israel” in 2022.
But this is this is also what gets to the c the issue of like did Jeffrey Epstein work for Mossad? Well, did he work for the MSAD or did he maybe just work for pro-Israel Jewish billionaires that were funding him to get him to do this like who were who themselves are Mossad? Exactly. That's the thing is all the way that these money men work is that there a lot of them are fronts. They might not be the MOSSAD. So they might be able to say like Jeffrey Epstein wasn't answering to Mossad, but what was he doing? What were all those cameras for? What was he filming people for? And what was the interest of the we I mean if he wasn't working for MSAD, which is totally possible, we pretty much do know that he was working for pro-Israel billionaires. Yeah. And I think that's the key point. Like even if there is no direct MOSSAD tie, the point is all these slime balls are pro- Israel and they're pretty much MOSSAD fronts. And it speaks to the like the the decay of our elite culture. Like these are funny people who do predatory things who also are all subservient to Israel. And that fact right there even without knowing all the missing details about Epstein is is damning enough because ultimately what they're supporting is one of the worst crimes in human history and one of the worst entities in human history, Israel, which you know we're going to talk later on the show. you know, the the the violence continues to expand. I mean, now attacking Syria, even though they're people that put even though they put the new government in Syria in power, now they're still even attacking them. Yeah. Attacking not just attacking Syria, they've been attacking Syria. Attacking Umayed Square. It's like attacking it's like the World Trade Center or something. It's crazy. Uh I, you know, I went I went to University of Pennsylvania. I think at the time that like Don, was it Ivanka was there or Don Jr. was there. Trump went to Wharton, you know, there like everybody wanted to go into finance from there. So, I I got to know like some of the the future leaders of the dying empire. And I remember the only time I saw a line around the block for a speaker there was when Warren Buffett was speaking on campus. It was like a very spiritually vapid place to be. Um but you know I you know carried on with some of my college friends. Some of them did go into finance and one of them told me that uh this guy he knew in New York who was an Israeli American uh I think not a venture capitalist but uh investment banker major guy I won't name him because I don't want to get sued. uh would brag about how the Mossad would just ask him to deposit tons of money into newly set up shell accounts and promise to pay him back later so they could fund foreign operations, black operations. And as an Israeli patriot, he would do it and then they would always pay him back. Like he could always count on them to pay him back. And this is a guy who's moving in very elite circles, has friends with like famous rappers and celebrities, and that's the way it works. So, it's not like someone is getting some like MOSSAD card and then being told like, you know, you're going on some operation with like uh guns and, you know, a bag of gold. It's much more uh sophisticated than that. And it's usually cutouts. [Music]
Eric Weinstein - My Experience With Jeffrey Epstein Liberty Vault Jul 19, 2025 Members first on July 18, 2025 3 products
I react to Eric Weinstein sharing his experience with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Um, my sense of it is is that somebody lost control of an agent. He believed his own mythology almost certainly. And you know, my sense of it is that somebody lost control of a monster. Eric Weinstein recently went on Pierce Morgan's show to share his experiences after meeting Jeffrey Epstein. What were some of the most striking parts of his personality and whether he buys the government narrative regarding Epstein and his death and what we can take away from that saga today. So, let's see what he has to say. Please like the video and subscribe to the channel.
I mean, you you met Epstein.
I never met him. I met Ghislaine Maxwell briefly at a book launch once and had no inkling of the stuff that was going on.
But when you met him, was he weird? Was he unusual? Or was he just a good actor?
He was able to come across in a perfectly normal manner. If you've seen any of my interviews, it was one of the most bizarre interactions I've ever had. I will remember it, you know, for the rest of my life, as being terrifying. You didn't sit down with him and think, "Wow, what a great guy." You thought, "Holy cow, this is the weirdest doorway into an alternate reality." And you know, in particular, he was absolutely more interested in my science than he was in anything I was doing with hedge funds and risk management, which is how nominally I came to be in his orbit. He was very connected to a major book agent. He was funding all sorts of scientists. He was obsessed by gravity. He knew things about my work that were essentially known to no one. He was very connected through at least one Harvard mathematician who I think became a dean of some kind at Harvard University. So he was connected to my graduate department. I never heard his name while I was there. And I was not only there until 1992. I was in Cambridge, Massachusetts at MIT, in the same ecosystem for years after that. Then I came back to Harvard. He was a very strange object, and the connection between Ghislaine's father, who really had an enormous impact on scientific publishing, and had the ability to sort of look at all science before it's published because of peer review. He ran Pergamon Press.
Yeah. There is no question that there's some transmission that is likely between Robert Maxwell of Pergamon Press and Jeffrey Epstein's science obsession, particularly with gravity, and maybe his experience and dabbling with the intelligence services of people that he surrounded himself with throughout his entire life. Many people connected to Mossad. Of course, we know that from his friendship with Ehud Barak and Robert Maxwell, who served as maybe the most prominent Israeli spy ever, you know, almost certainly a Mossad asset.
It's been widely publicized that he was given a special state funeral essentially, you know, buried in the Mount of Olives, attended by major prime ministers of Israel, etc.
But there's a lot of things that Brett said here that were striking. A lot of people do say similar things about Epstein that have met him that, you know, you didn't come away with thinking he was such a great guy, but that he was kind of mercurial and, you know, odd in some respects. But back then, when they interviewed a lot of people about Epstein, they didn't have the same things to say. And another thing that struck me that he talked about regarding Epstein is how he said that Epstein was much more interested in Weinstein's scientific knowledge or scientific endeavors than he was anything that he was dealing with in regard to money or financial transactions, and things like that. And that kind of checks out too, because you know the the mainstream narrative is that Epstein was a money manager, and he served as a money manager for Les Wexner, and that's about it by the way. Supposedly he wouldn't take clients that didn't have a billion dollars to invest with him, but there's no real evidence he even did that for Wexner, though he did exercise a lot of control over Wexner's companies, and was given elaborate wealth and property from Wexner for basically no reason. So, a lot of things interesting in Weinstein's response here.
Fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. In terms of the the alleged crimes that Epstein was accused of committing, how guilty do you think he was likely to have been? In other words, are we talking a small-time abuser, a gigantic serial abuser? What's your gut feeling about that side of him?
My sense of it is is that somebody lost control of an agent. And that this person was supplied with an enormous legend, you know backstories are typically called legends, I believe, in trade craft. Yeah. So he was he was a mythical creature who was supposedly so intelligent that you know he could discern the slightest tremor in the markets etc. etc. He believed his own mythology almost certainly. And you know, my sense of it is that somebody lost control of a monster, and that the actor that they hired to play this was not not well in the head. Now, that's my gut feeling.
The other thing that really concerns me is the people are bad at conspiracy theory. You know, we have a tremendous amount of background data on what conspiracy theories look like. There's a president before Epstein called Craig Spence that we almost never hear about. I don't know if that's something you know about, but this is not the first operation of its kind. And I think it's very important to recognize that once somebody set this thing up, at great expense I imagine, that this is a 9-figure fortune that was beaten into gold, beaten into gold file to look like gold foil, to look like a 12-figure fortune, or something remarkable. So he was acting rich in a way that even rich people don't act rich, and he was acting smart in a way that smart people don't act smart. So the whole thing was likely having a bunch of different activities funneled through it.
So for example, he seemed to be giving tax advice that would also potentially entrap people in ways that the IRS could get them potentially. Yeah. Leon Black specifically gave him $150 million with the justification that hey, Epstein did his taxes. Leon Black, a really rich individual. He owned an investment bank, and owned, you know, one of the wealthiest museums, art museums in the country. He was an art connoisseur, and he was involved in criminal activities too. There were some lawsuits against him saying that, you know, Epstein had essentially trafficked some victims to him, and some of those suits were dropped.
But yeah, Epstein was for sure a megalomaniac. He was obsessed with his own power. He lived like it. He lived to control others. And he clearly practiced a blackmail operation under the guise of some sort of connection to intelligence at some point. Whether or not you think that he was a, you know, Mossad asset, or CIA agent, or whatever, he sure did have so many interactions from his very youth with people from all sorts of intelligence services throughout his life. Whether it be Donald Barr, he was part of the OSS. Barr hired him to teach at Dalton. He got involved in with arms traffickers like Adnan Khashoggi, and Douglas Lease in the 1980s. And you don't really hear much about that anymore. Ehud Barak was a close friend and confidant with him. Even hung out with him 30 plus times. Stayed with him in his Manhattan apartment after his first conviction for child abuse and child sex abuses.
And he had a relationship with Robert Maxwell. Again, a Mossad asset who was Israel's most famous and prominent spy. So, he did live a lavish lifestyle, but around people in the intelligence communities. And this is why people still want answers about those things.
That was something that he was giving away. He was also, my guess is, providing non-pedophile sexual opportunities with young women who were over the age of 18, because I think his real product was silence. And I think people don't get that sex is readily available. Sex is always embarrassing. But I think that the key issue is that Epstein was able to guarantee silence when no one else could guarantee silence, and that's why people came to him.
Yeah, I think that's actually right. What the strategy is called is playing the box and it involves blackmail. But what it really means, and this is how Epstein thrived from his time at Bear Sterns forward. It wasn't even before that the most widely documented cases of sex trafficking and sexual abuse were documented with him. Playing the box involved committing crimes, but in the process of committing those crimes, you make things so embarrassing for the people around you that they're not going to prosecute you. They're not going to come forward and, you know, spill the beans to the authorities, etc. And that's the way that Epstein operated his entire life. That's why so many people believe, based on what we have evidence, you know, even in the search records, we have evidence that a safe was taken with printed media that said prominent people's names on those discs, you know, were blackmail , and that he may have accumulated enormous amounts of his wealth through blackmail transactions. Hey, I had this dirt on you. I demand this much money, otherwise, this is going to get out there.
So, that's where we're at. We don't have all the answers, but we certainly have a lot of circumstantial pieces of evidence, and a lot of missing gaps regarding his wealth, to explain how he became a billionaire. And I know it wasn't reported that he died a billionaire. He apparently died with only about $600 million, but at points he was documented to have been a billionaire. So, I also think that there's something about the way in which people have to agree to be compromised, in some sense, to enter the elite, because otherwise you're not considered trustworthy. So you have to surrender something, so that there's a kill switch on you. And I think that he in part specialized in installing the kill switch.
How do you think he died? Do you think he did kill himself, or are you at the very least, you know, not oblivious to the theory that maybe it was more nefarious as somebody arranged it? Why do you believe that he's dead? Why do you believe that he killed himself?
Well, I certainly don't think that he experienced shame the way normal people did. So I think the idea that he was so embarrassed that he took his own life is probably the only thing I feel I have anything to add. But, you know, let me just caution your listeners. All of this fun that people have with conspiracy theories is absolutely deadly when it comes to actually getting justice and calling this Pedophile Island and Lolita Express and talking about Epstein didn't kill himself is a joke like any of you know. None of you know. M and you know if you were serious about this and you you as a parent just let me specialize to all the moms and dads out there. If you're serious as a parent of wanting this sort of thing absolutely excised from our society. Don't go after the children. Don't go after the memes. Focus on one issue, one issue alone. Why will the press not report on the multi-billion dollar foreign currency hedge fund, which even if it has dummy compliance, I guarantee you any forensic accountant could determine whether this thing was real or fake. And my guess is that there are no former employees employed from the yeshivas of Brooklyn. This thing, I think, is a will of the wisp. It's a figment of our imagination. And it's a product of statecraft. And the fact that we have very long-standing relationships with our major news organs that they agree to have liaison to the covert operations group so that we don't constantly report. This is an issue called deconfliction. Many people don't know that word. This is a situation which escaped our deconfliction systems almost certainly, and it has the hallmark in the outline person you should have on, not me, is the person who is an expert in all of the legal aspects of having a free society with covert operations group. And in particular, there's a case of something like Al-Maseri versus Tenant which establishes that when somebody has a legitimate case in the courts, and their state secret privilege, that person may not be entitled to exculpatory evidence and information, that state secrets trump justice. And I think it's absolutely imperative that you have a lawyer who's competent to talk about this so this doesn't enter into the realm of conspiracy theory.
So, okay. So, there's problems with just castigating and rebuking the thought of conspiracy theories for the sake of rebuking conspiracy theories. I'd like to hear from Weinstein about what he thinks is consistent or inconsistent with the government narrative. It's not helpful to just call this a conspiracy theory, or things related to Epstein a conspiracy theory, without explaining your position. And that's how so many people dispose of some of these issues. I think he only partially addressed it here. Yeah, I have a problem with how victim's rights were violated in this. But we still need answers about Epstein's past, whether it was the money trail, whether it was his connections to potential intelligence services, etc. you know, he's right about the fact that we need to look into, you know, Epstein's past, his financials and the money movement aspects. I don't even think Les Wexner has ever been interviewed, not only by the Department of Justice or the FBI, but also by many journalists. He's essentially living in a cave. And this guy gave, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars to Epstein in property and money and essentially let him run his companies to the extent that some of his previous executives were essentially pushed out of the mix. So yeah, I don't really like Eric's response here very much, because it kind of deflects from what PICE is asking. You know, did you have any problems with the narrative, or how do you think he killed himself? Well, he doesn't answer that question. And he just points to the problem of conspiracy theorists, and you need a lawyer to sort that out. You don't have to be a lawyer to talk about this case or look about what's happened in it. So, I think that's kind of an evasive answer. I'm going to decline to speculate. Fascinating.
Elon Musk fell out spectacularly with Donald Trump, and posted on X in a bombshell. Trump's in the Epstein files. I know you're very close with Peter Teal, Elon's old boss. What do you make of what's happened there?
How do I put this? It would appear that Elon is very disappointed that we are not radical enough to understand the threat to the country. He has a very clear idea about what has to be surmounted. I believe he then apologized for that, which I found interesting. You shouldn't apologize for that, much the way you know Amy Robach had the famous hot mic incident, and then said oh that was nothing. Something in these files, something in the situation, causes people to reverse course. And I think that what you have to assume is that the public will never ever ever let this go, and that there is some equal and opposite pressure which says that the elite will do absolutely anything to keep it secret. And by elite I don't mean people who are actually elite. I mean people who are in the chairs that should be reserved for the elite, but have a lot to lose.
Yeah. I think I generally agree with them on the last part. There seems to be a bipartisan mentality in general toward this case, whether it was the Biden administration, whether it was a Trump administration that crosses political boundaries. They're both behaving essentially the same way when they're in office, saying like, "Hey, there's nothing there." There wasn't that much pressure from the Democrats to get anything released under Biden, but right-wing populist sure talked about this. Dan Bongino talked about this. Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, talked about this. Pam Bondi talked about this, how Biden wasn't being forthcoming and there was an an aura of secrecy revolving around this case from the start, and too many glaring inconsistencies that you couldn't hold over the American public and expect them to accept it.
No one could accept it. And you're still seeing that now. You're seeing Trump behave in that same way after he was purported to be the white knight to drive into Washington and deliver answers to the public. But Eric's right. There's something in those files that are causing the same people in the deep state, in the elite, in the presidential administrations, to behave the same way. And I think the most plausible reason is the connections to intelligence. Actually, at one point during this investigation weeks ago, you know, Pam Bondi was questioned, are there going to be any redactions or anything like that? And she said, and this was widely covered at the time, that there might be some redactions, but if there are, it will be for national security concerns. Well, why would there be national security concerns about sex trafficking operations unless it involved foreign influences, or foreign intelligence? That's yet another reason why so many people think that Epstein had intelligence connections.
And again, the most plausible to me is Mossad. He surrounded himself with very prominent people from Mossad, including the former Mossad chief who stayed at his house for prolonged periods of time and had obvious relations to Robert Maxwell, the most prominent spy in Israeli history.
So, yeah, Weinstein's right about that. There's something in these files and it won't go away until the government's completely forthcoming about it. But they can't be forthcoming about it if it compromises their rule and control over us. And that's what I really suspect. And that's the the harsh reality in which we live. If that something that would embarrass the US-Israeli relationship, you can guarantee it will never come out, because Trump is too owned by the Israel lobby. He's too close to Aipac, too close to Miriam Adelsen. He boasts about how pro-Israel he is. He moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, which was a huge Zionist cause that precludes in some ways some potential possibility for any potential of a Palestinian state, because they want part of Eastern Jerusalem for that. He signed the Abraham Accords, even though his own DHS said it was a bad idea. It would inflame tensions in the region. And he wants Netanyahu to be released from the charges of fraud and corruption against him. So in every regard, Trump has not only signaled, but lived the life of someone in office who is close to Israel. You know, bankrolling the genocide in Gaza too, and abandoning US foreign policy aims to normalize relations with Iran for the sake of bombing Iran, and placing regime change on the table.
So that's where we're at. I think his answer at the end was good. I don't believe that the right response to this whole thing is just to say, you know, there's too much conspiracy theory here, and only lawyers can sort it out, which might be a unfair reading of his answer to that question, but to me, it's just very dismissive. Like you can research this case, pick up information about it, you know, select information you think is particularly concerning, or would yield more answers in it, and address that, or address problems with the government narrative, because there are plenty in this case as we all know.
But what do you think? Do you think Eric Weinstein is correct about Jeffrey Epstein? Do you think that he had a good assessment of Epstein's personality, knowing what you do about Epstein? And what is the most missing angle of this entire case? Let me know in the comments down below. Peace out.
