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GoFundMe is the world's number one fundraising platform, trusted by over 200 million people. Start your GoFundMe today at gofundme.com that's gofundme.com Go gofundme.com this podcast is supported by GoFundMe. What's up, everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. Our so called rulers will always tell us the official story like it's a closed book. A rich man who preyed on children got a lucky break, and then the system fizzled out. But anyone who's followed this thing closely knows the truth is messier and far more convenient for the powerful. Epstein didn't just rub elbows with the rich and famous. He was being handled first as an FBI informant, then more damningly, as an asset for the CIA. That explains the seams in the narrative, the documents that vanish, the footage that gets enhanced and trimmed, and why whole vaults of files sit behind locked doors while the public is fed talking points. Ask yourself, who benefits from this opacity? Not the survivors, not the public. The only people who gain from secrecy are the people whose names would burn bright if those files ever saw the light of day. And that's precisely why there's been such an unnatural resistance. A bureaucratic foot dragging, last minute redactions, and a political hand hovering over any meaningful disclosure. When institutions behave like that, you stop treating their silence as a neutral omission and you start treating it like active protection. Now toss in a smoking gun moment. And that's the James o' Keefe undercover footage. Now, whether you trust o' Keefe or despise his methods, the videos released are drawing public scrutiny because they show DOJ and FBI staffers, people positioned close to the components of the investigation, speaking in ways that, at a minimum, suggests there's internal knowledge nobody outside the circles is supposed to have. They talk about Redactions about what gets saved, about what gets buried. That kind of talk doesn't come from people reading headlines. It comes from people who have seen pieces of the puzzle. Epstein's network implicated elites across politics, finance, academia and royalty. If Epstein was handled as an informant for narrow law enforcement aims, that's one thing. Ugly, but maybe explainable. If he was cultivated as an intelligence asset, he given access, travel and protection in return for information or leverage, then everything looks different. It turns a criminal into a tool. And tools are rarely allowed to be exposed for the damage they enable. That's the core of the COVID up hypothesis. Protect the tool to protect the handlers. And let's be blunt about the politics. When those files become political currency, transparency becomes a threat. Whether it's a president who complains loudly about fake news or a party that smells leverage in a leak, the impulse is the same. Control the narrative. Decide which names get mentioned. Bury the rest. That's why you hear whispers about selective releases and why certain actors scream the loudest when disclosure looks imminent. And those screams are the best evidence that something worth hiding exists. So when a former DOJ investigator was or other officials close to the matter are recorded making statements that diverge from the sanitized official line, you don't shrug and call it a gotcha clip. You ask why their private impressions contradict public denials. The Department of Justice may rush to discredit individual statements, and they have. But discrediting the messenger doesn't erase the mismatch between what's publicly available and what insiders imply. Redactions, selective releases, and editing controversies aren't bureaucratic noise. They're a part of an architecture of concealment. And why would a political figure muddy the waters? Because secrets have clients. If those files name people who matter to powerful interests, then keeping them sealed is protecting patrons. And protecting patrons is the kind of thing a politician might do in the name of national security. Ongoing investigations, or plain old self interest. That's the real ugliness. The same machinery that can tilt the scales of justice can also be repurposed to shield allies. The question isn't whether the government has secrets. It always does. The question is whose secrets and who pays the price for keeping them. So, yeah, call it cynicism if you like. Call it paranoid. But after you've watched the footage, read the memos, and. And seen the defensive contortions from the agencies involved, the simplest explanation is the likeliest one. Epstein was useful to people who had the power to both protect him and bury the inconvenient crumbs that he left behind. And when the people at the top still move heaven and earth to keep those crumbs from becoming a public banquet, the reasonable person must conclude that there's more going on than a failed prosecution. There's a tidy, ugly arrangement someone is protecting. So if you want the truth, demand that the files are unredacted, demand trusted outside review, and stop accepting the theater of partial disclosures. The survivors deserve it. You deserve it. And if powerful politicians are shielding a record that shows an intelligence relationship, people should lose their jobs, their pensions, and and maybe even go to prison. And the questions should be loud, because no republic survives for long when accountability is optional for the well connected. The rest is just spin. Today's article was published by Daily Beast and the headline epstein Investigator Taped Admitting Trump Covered Up Files. This article was authored by Laura Esposito, a senior Justice Department investigator who says he interviewed victims in the government's Jeffrey Epstein case was caught on camera claiming that President Donald Trump is shielding others implicated in the case files. The hidden camera tape, which was released on Wednesday, was published by MAGA Provocateur, the founder of Project Veritas, which has previously been accused of publishing deceptively edited videos. Oh no, they've been accused? Have they been convicted? And this author is the same author that called the people who removed the Trump statue with Epstein Trump's thugs? I mean, really, we're talking about national park workers. Why are they thugs? They're doing their job. I understand you might not like it, but how about we ratchet down the rhetoric? Might be a good idea at this point, No? I mean, blast Trump all you want, but the people that are just, you know, doing their job as national park rangers. And do you really think they all have the same politics out of line with the president's? I highly doubt that that's the case. The video appears to capture Glenn Prager, a career federal official, making bombshell claims during a flight from Phoenix to Washington, D.C. earlier this month, where he was recorded by a reporter working for o', Keefe, who was forced out of Project Veritas and a MAGA civil war. What does that even mean? Who cares? Can you just talk about the content, please? Prager's LinkedIn profile states that he has more than 25 years experience in government oversight, investigations and program integrity. His public service includes roles within the U.S. justice Department and the center for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the U.S. department of Health and Human Services. So somebody that's obviously had a very long career as a bureaucrat in D.C. working for all these agencies. So do I know for a fact that he's telling the truth? I don't. But I will tell you this. Why would he lie? Why would he just make it up, especially about this topic? What's the point of that, right? What is he hoping to gain by telling this story if it's not true? And again, look, I don't know one way or the other if it's true or not as far as his telling of the story, but I 100% believe that Jeffrey Epstein was an asset for the CIA. And I've said that a million times. I've said that from the very beginning. It has all the hallmarks. And then when you look at how crazy the Trump administration's going, trying to stop the conversation, what else could it be? During his tenure at DOJ, Mr. Prager served as an inspector overseeing sensitive investigations involving major DOJ components, including the FBI, dea, Bureau of Prisons, US Marshals Service, atf, and the US Attorney's offices. His profile reads, so again, a guy that got around. A guy that certainly knows the landscape and knows the trajectory of these kinds of investigations. In his video, Prager claims that he has reviewed Epstein's itineraries and interviewed his victims, none of whom have implicated Trump in the sex offenders crimes. That's true. So why would Trump go so crazy trying to protect the files? Well, the CIA angle really answers that, doesn't it? Can you imagine the uproar? Can you imagine what would happen if people knew for a fact that the government was running Jeffrey Epstein as an asset while he was abusing these girls and the government looked the other way? That's the real cover up here. That's the real scandal. Not Israel, not any other country, not any other aspect. That's the real scandal. The government was running this as an operation, and they looked the other way while over a thousand girls were molested, point blank, period. And that's what they're hiding, at least in my opinion. I mean, can you imagine how crazy people would go if they found out the truth? I've interviewed all the victims. There's never been an instance where Trump would was on a plane with these kids and the rapes occurred. That's true. I've never heard anything like that. People want to tie it to Trump and say he's covering for himself, but he's not, said Prager. And I think there's some truth to that as well. I think Trump is definitely trying to protect his reputation with how narcissistic he is he doesn't even want to be connected. Right. And I think that's certainly a motivation that's driving him to keep these files secret. But I think the biggest motivation, and I think the thing that really is keeping these files from being released is the fact that it would out the CIA and everybody that was involved as being complicit, as enabling, as being part of, as being a co conspirator to Jeffrey Epstein. Now, can you imagine that lawsuit? However, Prager believes the President is clearly protecting a lot of people and his ongoing attempts to pull maga's attention away from the Epstein files, despite promising to release the files during his re election bid. And again, look, I think that is the truth. I think that's the most obvious outcome here, the most obvious reason, and I think that's what's going on. Trump has insisted that he and Epstein, who died by suicide in a Manhattan holding cell in 2019, allegedly were never close friends, repeating several times that he distanced himself from the late financier pedophile after he was put on the sex offender list in 2008, shortly after he pleaded guilty to a charge of solicitation of prostitution with a minor. Well, we've had like four different versions of what went down with Trump and Epstein, according to Trump himself. So I guess it's a grab bag. Choose which one you believe. He has also continuously referred to the Epstein issue as a hoax and and claims any sensitive information in the files would have been revealed by Democrats long ago. Not if everybody's protecting intelligence. Not if everybody's protecting the secret that the United States government was running a child molester. I told you a million times, this isn't just about Trump and the people that fall into that trap. You're walking right into a trap that's been set for you specifically. This goes way deeper than that. And if you just focus on Trump all the time, then that's going to give them that cover, right? Oh, this is all about Trump. You don't care about the story overall, the whole thing. But the truth is, the reason that this was protected for so long is it was mutually assured destruction. The left and the right both understood that this man was being run by multiple presidents on both sides of the aisle. So that's something that people are going to have to come to terms with. And everybody who thinks it's just a strictly Trump issue, I got news for you. Clinton twice, George Bush twice. Barack Obama twice. Biden, Trump twice. Those are all the presidents that were sitting in the seat when this man was active, doing his thing, and all those administrations knew the truth about this, and they didn't do anything to stop it. They didn't do anything for transparency. They didn't do anything to bring survivors a little slice of justice. Prager is bothered by Trump's characterization of the scandal. I mean, come on, he said, you know, it's not a hoax. He says a lot of stupid stuff. He's been on the plane now many times. It's just he was never on the plane with the kids. According to Prager, the same could not be said for a former President, Bill Clinton. While Bill Clinton was on Epstein's plane, there were rapes that occurred, Prager said, adding, and that's where the big cover up was. Well, look, I have no doubt about that, honestly. Now, I don't think Bill Clinton was involved. I've never heard that. But if you think that Clinton was around Epstein as much as he was and he didn't see anything, he didn't know anything, I don't buy it. Sorry. And remember, we're going off of eyewitness evidence about Bill Clinton being there, Right? Not just logs, not just what he has to say, but what Virginia said, what Mr. Scully said, and what other people have said. And I think it's going to come as a gigantic shock to a lot of people just how many powerful Democrats were involved with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the years. I mean, we're going all the way back to, you know, George Mitchell. So this is a gigantic stink bomb that is ready to go off. Prager also claimed that'll soon be public knowledge that Epstein was a CIA informant. Well, yeah, that's 100% true, in my opinion. I have zero doubt about that. And until somebody can show me some evidence countering that, I'm going to continue to believe it. In response to a request for comment, the White House referred the Delhi Beast to the Department of Justice. The DOJ did not immediately respond to the Daily Beast request for comment. In a statement to o', Keefe, a DOJ spokesperson said a Prager, the individual, Glenn Prager, worked at the Department of Justice as a program analyst over 15 years ago. He has no understanding of or access to the underlying facts in this investigation. His statement should not be considered accurate. It's disgusting that someone would further exploit victims of sexual abuse by fabricating stories for their personal benefit. Well, it's also disgusting that the President of the United States would tell us that he's going to release the files and then walk it all back and call it a hoax. I think That's a bit more disgusting, though. A spokesperson repeated the same sentiments in a post on X. Okeefe's video quickly spread online, racking up more than 4 million views on X in less than 6 hours and prompting responses from officials. Senior DOJ investigator who says he interviewed victims for the government's Epstein case spills the beans on a hidden camera. Republican Thomas Massie wrote in a post on X. So look, folks, it really just comes down to what you believe at this point, right? And for me, I think there is more than enough evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was being run by the CIA, at least at some point, at least for some period of time. Now, did that extend throughout the whole entire criminal enterprise? I don't know. But I will tell you this. Anybody who's out here trying to tell you that this dude wasn't being run by CIA, wasn't an FBI informant, those are people you shouldn't be taking serious. Because when you look at this and you look at it with the 360 degree view, I think it's relatively obvious why they're trying to cover this up and that Jeffrey Epstein was in fact an asset of the United States government. All right, folks, that's gonna do it for this one. All of the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.