I have read numerous articles and archived material about the sexual abuse and sex trafficking crimes committed and enabled by Jeffrey Epstein and others in the past two decades or so, in addition to providing support to victims of sexual abuse.
Trump’s seeming about-face regarding his ‘promise’ to release the Epstein files in full to the public is rather curious after all of his bravado about how he was going to be “the hero.”
Did Trump not realise how often his name appears in the “Epstein files” or something like that prompting him to revoke his alleged big reveal?
Please note Trump’s wee public meltdown which he posted on his Truth Social platform which has been shared widely across social media and is included in Ricky Hale’s blog which I shared below.
The following is Chris Hedges take on the situation.
The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club.
The refusal by the Trump administration to release the files and videos amassed during investigations into the activities of the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, should put to rest the absurd idea, embraced by Trump supporters and gullible liberals, that Trump will dismantle the Deep State. Trump is part of, and has long been part of, the repugnant cabal of politicians – Democrat and Republican – billionaires and celebrities who look at us, and often underage girls and boys, as commodities to exploit for profit or pleasure.
They also include law firms and high-priced attorneys, federal and state prosecutors, private investigators, personal assistants, publicists, servants and drivers. They include the numerous procurers and pimps, including Epstein’s girlfriend and daughter of Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell. They include the media and politicians who ruthlessly discredited and silenced the victims, and strong armed anyone, including a handful of intrepid reporters, seeking to expose Epstein’s crimes and circle of accomplices.
There is a lot that remains hidden. But there are some things we know. Epstein installed hidden cameras in his opulent residences and on his private Caribbean island, Little St. James, to capture his high-powered friends engaging in sexual romps and abuse of teenage and underage girls and boys. The recordings were blackmail gold. Were they part of an intelligence operation on behalf of the Israeli Mossad? Or were they used to ensure that Epstein had a steady source of investors who funnelled him millions of dollars to avoid being outed? Or were they used for both? He shuttled underage girls between New York and Palm Beach on his private jet the Lolita Express, which was allegedly outfitted with a bed for group sex. His coterie of famous friends, including Clinton and Trump, are recorded as traveling on the jet numerous times on released flight logs, although many other flight logs have disappeared.
Epstein’s videos are in the vaults of the FBI, along with detailed evidence that would rip back the veil on the sexual proclivities and callousness of the powerful. I doubt there is a client list, as Attorney General Pam Bondi claims. There is also no single Epstein file. The investigative material amassed on Epstein fills many, many boxes, which would bury Bondi’s desk and probably, if collected in one room, dominate most of the space in her office.
Did Epstein commit suicide, as the official autopsy report claims, by hanging himself in his jail cell on August 10, 2019 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City? Or was he murdered? Since the cameras recording activity in his cell the night were not functional, we do not know. Michael Baden, a forensic pathologist hired by Epstein's brother, who served as the chief medical examiner for New York City and who was present at the autopsy, said he believes Epstein's autopsy suggests homicide.
The Epstein case is important because it implodes the fiction of deep divisions between Democrats, who had no more interest in releasing the Epstein files than Trump, and the Republicans. They belong to the same club. It exposes how the courts and law enforcement agencies collude to shield powerful figures who engage in crimes. It lays bare the depravity of our exhibitionist ruling class, accountable to no one, free to violate, plunder, loot and prey on the weak and the vulnerable. It is the tawdry record of our oligarchic masters, those who lack the capacity for shame or guilt, whether dressed up as Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
This class of ruling parasites was parodied in the first-century satirical novel “Satyricon” by Gaius Petronius Arbiter, written during the reigns of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. As in Satyricon, Epstein’s circle was dominated by pseudointellectuals, pretentious buffoons, grifters, con artists, petty criminals, the insatiable rich and the sexually depraved. Epstein and his inner circle routinely engaged in sexual perversions of Petronian proportions, as The Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie Brown, whose dogged reporting was largely responsible for reopening the federal investigation in Epstein and Maxwell, documents in her book “Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story.”
As Brown writes, in 2016 an anonymous woman, using the pseudonym “Kate Johnson,” filed a civil complaint in a federal court in California alleging she was raped by Trump and Epstein when she was thirteen, over a four-month period, from June to September 1994.
“I loudly pleaded with Trump to stop,” she said in the lawsuit about being raped. “Trump responded to my pleas by violently striking me in the face with his open hand and screaming that he could do whatever he wanted.”
Brown continues:
Johnson said that Epstein invited her to a series of ‘underage sex parties’ at his New York mansion where she met Trump. Enticed by promises of money and modeling opportunities, Johnson said she was forced to have sex with Trump several times, including once with another girl, twelve years old, whom she labeled ‘Marie Doe.’
Trump demanded oral sex, the lawsuit said, and afterward he “pushed both minors away while angrily berating them for the ‘poor’ quality of the sexual performance,” according to the lawsuit, filed April 26 in U.S. District Court in Central California.
Afterward, when Epstein learned that Trump had taken Johnson’s virginity, Epstein allegedly ‘attempted to strike her about the head with his closed fists,’ angry he had not been the one to take her virginity. Johnson claimed that both men threatened to harm her, and her family if she ever revealed what had happened.
The lawsuit states that Trump did not take part in Epstein’s orgies but liked to watch, often while the thirteen-year-old “Kate Johnson” gave him a hand job.
It appears Trump was able to quash the lawsuit by buying her silence. She has since disappeared.
In 2008, Alex Acosta, who at the time was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, negotiated a plea deal for Epstein. The deal granted immunity from all federal criminal charges to Epstein, four named co-conspirators and any unnamed “potential co-conspirators.” The agreement shut down the FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful figures who took part in Epstein’s sex crimes. It halted the investigation and sealed the indictment. Trump, in what many consider an act of gratitude, appointed Acosta as Secretary of Labor in his first term.
Trump contemplated pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell after she was arrested in July 2020, fearing she would reveal details of his decades-long friendship with Epstein, according to Trump biographer Michael Wolff. In July 2022, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
“Jeffrey Epstein’s closest relationship in life was with Donald Trump…these were two guys joined at the hip for a good 15 years. They did everything together,” Wolff told host Joanna Coles on The Daily Beast Podcast. “And this is from sharing, pursuing women, hunting women, sharing at least one girlfriend for at least a year in this kind of rich-guy relationship with each other’s planes, to Epstein advising Trump on how to cheat on his taxes.”
The legal anomalies, including the disappearance of massive amounts of evidence incriminating Epstein, saw Epstein avoid federal sex-trafficking charges in 2007, when his attorneys negotiated the secret plea deal with Acosta. He was able to plead guilty to lesser state charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution.
The prominent men accused of engaging in Epstein’s carnival of pedophilia, including Epstein’s attorney Dershowitz, viciously threaten anyone who seeks to expose them. Dershowitz, for example, claims that an investigation which he has refused to make public, by the former FBI director Louis Freeh, proves he had never had sex with Epstein’s victim Virginia Giuffre, who was trafficked at 17 to Prince Andrew. Giuffre, one of the few victims to publicly take on her abusers, said she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” among Epstein and Maxwell’s friends, until at the age of 19 when she escaped. She “committed suicide” in April 2025. Dershowitz has sent repeated threats to Brown and her editors at The Miami Herald.
Brown continues:
[Dershowitz] kept referring to information that was contained in sealed documents. He accused the newspaper of not reporting “facts” that he said were in those sealed documents. The truth is, I tried to explain, newspapers just can’t write about things because Alan Dershowitz says they exist. We need to see them. We need to verify them. Then, because I said “show me the material,” he publicly accused me of committing a criminal act by asking him to produce documents that were under court seal.
This is the way Dershowitz operates.
What disturbs me the most about Dershowitz is the way that the media, with few exceptions, fails to critically challenge him. Journalists fact-checked Donald Trump and others in his administration almost every day, yet, for the most part, the media seems to give Dershowitz a pass on the Epstein story.
In 2015, when Giuffre’s allegations first became public, Dershowitz went on every television program imaginable swearing, among other things, that Epstein’s plane logs would exonerate him. “How do you know that?” he was asked.
He replied that he was never on Epstein’s plane during the time that Virginia was involved with Epstein.
But if the media had checked, they could have learned that he was indeed a passenger on the plane during that time period, according to the logs.
Then he testified, in a sworn deposition, that he never went on any plane trips without his wife. But he was listed on those passage manifests as traveling multiple times without his wife. During at least one trip, he was on the plane with a model named Tatiana.
Epstein donated money to Harvard and was made a visiting fellow in Harvard’s Department of Psychology, although he had no academic qualifications in the field. He was given a key card and pass code, as well as an office in the building that housed Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. He referred to himself in his press releases as “Science Philanthropist Jeffrey Epstein,” “Education activist Jeffrey Epstein,” “Evolutionary Jeffrey Epstein,” “Science patron Jeffrey Epstein” and “Maverick hedge funder Jeffrey Epstein.”
Epstein, replicating the pretensions and vacuity of the characters who were parodied in the “Dinner with Trimalchio” chapter of Satyricon, organized elaborate dinner gatherings for his billionaire friends, including Elon Musk, Salar Kamangar and Jeff Bezos. He dreamed up bizarre schemes of social engineering, including a plan to seed the human species with his own DNA by creating a baby compound at his sprawling ranch in New Mexico.
“Epstein was also obsessed with cryonics, the transhumanist philosophy whose followers believe that people can be replicated or brought back to life after they are frozen,” Brown writes. “Epstein apparently told some of the members of his scientific circle that he wanted to inseminate women with his sperm for them to give birth to his babies, and that he wanted his head and his penis frozen.”
The Epstein story is a window into the moral bankruptcy, hedonism and greed of the ruling class. This crosses political lines. It is the common denominator between Democratic politicians, such as Bill Clinton, philanthropists, such as Bill Gates, the billionaire class, and Trump. They are one class of predators and grifters. It is not only girls and women they exploit, but all of us.
The world's most innocent man, Donald Trump, has published a tirade on Truth Social in which he explained the Epstein files are all an Obama hoax! This is confusing because I thought he was all for publishing the files and claimed they would incriminate Democrats. Did I get that wrong?
Trump's rant is so long that I can't even display a full screenshot on Twitter because it gets cut off. That's probably merciful because reading the whole thing is a painful experience. Not only is the US president a paedophile, but his reading and writing level is lower than that of his youngest victims. Honestly, his post can be summarised as "I'm guilty as hell and I'm scared".
Trump implores his followers to stop talking about Epstein and insisting none of this matters. He blames Barack Obama and "crooked Hillary" and then his words blur into something about Russiagate, and from there it's hard to make anything out. However, he does make one valid point: the Democrats also never released these files. The reason for that is simple: they would incriminate themselves too.
It looks like Trump has gone into panic mode because his own people are turning against him and it's getting harder to suppress the truth. We are one leak away from changing the world.
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For the first time, a Trump post on Truth Social received more comments than likes as his distraught followers questioned him. You could see the pain in their words as the truth dawned their guy is a paedophile.
I mean where were the signs? Trump only bragged of walking into teenage girls' dressing rooms. He only bragged of grabbing women by the pussy. You're only just realising he's a predator now? All that panic from conservatives about women's safety and the real threat to women was from US politicians.
Pam Bondi and Alan Dershowitz told us they had seen a client list which we were then told didn't exist. FBI agents have also seen that list. The evidence was obtained via an FBI investigation so, by accusing Obama and Hillary, Trump is also accusing the FBI.
Obviously, this makes no sense because if this was a set up, they would not have kept those files secret, they would have brought Trump down years ago. Clearly, the FBI is covering for Trump, but they must ask why they should cover for a guy accusing them of setting him up?
Even if their motivations to protect Trump were party political, they'd have a chance to bring down BOTH parties and replace them with non-corrupt, paedophile-free versions.
One possible reason for the continued cover up is that intelligence agencies prefer corrupt politicians. The FBI and the CIA have as much leverage over Trump as Mossad has. The Epstein files could be the proof we need that the deep state is real. But surely, not everyone in the deep state is comfortable with a paedophile status quo! Now is your chance to break that status quo.
We know the footage of Epstein in his prison cell was heavily edited with Adobe software, and at least two separate clips were spliced together. The stupid fuckers didn't even remove the metadata. Or perhaps that was deliberate. Perhaps that was an FBI agent's way of letting the world know a coverup is happening.
Either way, we know there is a cover up to protect paedophiles. Imagine being such a disgusting piece of shit that you would cover for paedophiles. If you're an FBI agent who is too scared to go public, just leak this stuff, for god's sake!
We don't need to see videos of the depraved acts, but we could be shown stills with the victims blurred out that reveal just enough that we could work out what was going on. We could also have the flight logs, contact books, victim testimonies, and any other relevant details, especially the Mossad connections.
Release this stuff, or even better, just do the right thing and make arrests and ensure the court trials are fair and credible. We don't want these bastards getting off the hook. It's no exaggeration to say we have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to save democracy, or you could argue, have a democracy for the first time.
If all this came out, the American people would demand the strongest possible anti-corruption rules, the most robust checks and balances to prevent something like this from ever happening again. This would create a safer world for everyone and... it might just happen.
It's a bit of a problem when a president is a paedophile and most of his government are paedophiles and most of the opposition are paedophiles and there is no mechanism to remove them, and they all do the bidding of the people who are blackmailing them. People who are committing a genocide. People who would take us into World War III. If this was a movie script, it would be rejected for being too over the top, but it's not a movie script, it's our reality.
But maybe, just maybe, the rich and powerful can't keep the truth from getting out forever. Someone in the know must have at least a degree of a conscience, must be sick to death of being ruled over by paedophiles, must understand the very simple fact: the way to save America and the world is to release the Epstein files.
This is the only way to free the US of Israeli control. It's the only way to purge congress and the senate of corrupt warmongers who happen to be paedophiles.
It defies belief that so many paedophiles got into positions of power in the first place. Does the system attract and reward such people? Or is it just that paedophilia is much more prevalent in society than we dared imagine. I hope it's the former because a corrupt system can be replaced with something better. A corrupt humanity is a much more chilling prospect.
Thanks for this excellent compilation, Azra!