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Emails Reveal Senator Wyden's Son Sought Epstein’s Entry Into Investment Fund
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The uncovered emails show that the son of a Democratic senator had direct communication with Jeffrey Epstein and at one point expressed interest in bringing Epstein into his investment fund. The exchanges suggest that Epstein was viewed as a valuable...
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Edu what's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. Senator Ron Wyden has spent the better part of a year telling us about Epstein's deep ties to the financial sector. But there is one little part that he has left out, and that part is his own son. Adam Wyden had his own connections to Jeffrey Epstein. And in 2016, Adam Wyden and his firm, ADW Capital, tried to get some money from Jeffrey Epstein. And of course, that's after Jeffrey Epstein was already arrested for crimes against minors. But of course, that didn't matter, did it? Because for people like this, it's always profits over people. And make no mistake, this is what makes people cynical about the whole situation. How can you take somebody serious when their own kid was trying to get money from the same guy that you're going crazy about? Did you have that conversation with your son? And before airing out Leon Black, you should have aired out your own kid. Now, of course you can air out Leon Black as well. But don't try and play games. Don't try and, you know, act like your own son had nothing to do with Epstein. So today we have an article from the New York Post, and the headline unearthed emails revealed Democratic Senator's son wanted Epstein to join his fund. I enjoyed our conversation. This article was authored by by Alec Schemmel and Cameron Cawthorn. Senator Ron Wyden has spent months hammering President Trump and his Justice Department over their handling of Jeffrey Epstein records, accusing them of trying to sweep evidence under the rug and even teasing that his Follow the money work ties back to Donald Trump. And Senator Wyden has been very adamant that he believes that the paper trail will lead back to Donald Trump. And look, he might be right. But one thing that we know for sure is that the financial trail leads to his son. So that's where the conversation should have started because if you want to be taken seriously and not look like you're just engaged in a hatchet job, you have to treat everybody the same, whether it's your son or your most heated, hated political rival. And if you can't do that, then you should have nothing to do with this case, because this case calls for serious adults who are willing to stash their confirmation bias and follow the evidence wherever it goes. But unfortunately, we're stuck with wholly unserious people who like to play games. However, emails reviewed by Fox News Digital in the DOJ Epstein files show Widen's own family connection, an April 2016 appointment and Epstein's Manhattan mansion between his son Adam and the disgraced financier. So, look, obviously there's levels here. Leon Black was much more connected intimately to Jeffrey Epstein than Senator Wyden's son. There's no dispute. That's just a fact. But I don't think that's the issue. I think the issue is that Senator Wyden has been very vocal when it comes to the financial angle of what was going down with Jeffrey Epstein. And if you're going to be vocal about something like this, you have to be unimpeachable because you know you're going to have oppo research being run against you, and the other side is going to look for anything that they can possibly use against you. And if your own son is in the files, that's what we call leverage. An email chain from late April 2016, after it was already public that Epstein was a convicted child sex offender and was accused of operating an underage sex slave ring shows Adam Wyden sought investment backing from Epstein during a meeting at Epstein's home in Manhattan, where Epstein allegedly engaged in some of his criminal activity. Boy, isn't Fox News brave? Allegedly engaged, huh? I mean, it might have happened. We don't know. Such an absolute joke. They know, and they also know that it wasn't alleged. A lot of abuse occurred in New York. Not alleged abuse. I mean, is anyone actually doubting that Epstein was abusing girls in New York? Notice how they'll say alleged here. But then when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein's death in jail, they'll say that he died by suicide. No, alleged. Just he died by suicide. But sure, let's say alleged here. The senator's son founded his own private investment fund, ADW Capital, in 2010. Jeffrey, I wanted to thank you for taking the time to meet with me. I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation and hope my passion and dedication for my Business came through in the meeting. I live and breathe this business and take my returns, integrity and reputation quite seriously. Yeah, I take my reputation so seriously that I'm reaching out to a child sex offender to join my hedge fund. I mean, nothing screams that you care about your integrity and your reputation like soliciting business from a child sex offender. Other emails inside the tranche of Epstein Documents released by the DOJ show Epstein and the younger Wieden communicating about a time and a location for the meeting. Meanwhile, another document appearing to be a ledger of Epstein's daily engagements and activities on April 28, 2016, marks the meeting is taking place at 10am that day. Now imagine, Brian, the way that Senator Wyden has and your own son is showing up with a beggar bowl trying to get Jeffrey Epstein as part of his fund. The whole thing's disgusting and it plays right into the hands of people trying to call it a hoax. Because when you're not serious and when you're dishonest and you're only playing politics here, you're causing great damage to not only the case, but to the survivors. Because the only way that we're ever going to get real justice or hold anybody accountable is if it's bipartisan. And when you have people like Ron Wyden, who has a personal connection to what's going on here, trying to lob grenades at the other side while not taking any accountability for his own son, it's a big problem and it certainly chips away at the credibility of what we're trying to accomplish. The same scheduling document also describes the young Wyden in parentheses as Jonathan Farkas's friend. Farkas appears to refer to the husband of President Trump's ambassador to Malta and the brother of Andrew Farkas, who had a profound friendship and business ties with Epstein, according to the New York Times. I don't speak to my kids about their business activities, and I read about this a few months ago on, on social media like everybody else, senator Wyden said in a statement to Fox News Digital when reached for comment. My investigation began four years ago and continues unchanged. I want transparency and accountability across the board. Well, if you knew about this, why didn't you come out right away and say, look, my son's caught up in this. He tried to get money from Epstein and explain the situation, but instead it comes out like this and it makes it look like Senator Wyden's hiding things. Adam did not respond to Fox News Digital request for comment in time for publication. Wyden has repeatedly hammered The Trump administration over access to Epstein related records and argued his Follow the money investigation ties back to Donald Trump. And just to be clear, Senator Wyden hasn't shown us any of that evidence. Now, if we're talking about leon black, what, 100%. 100%. But the allegations about it tying back to Trump, I haven't seen the evidence yet. If somebody has that evidence, the actual paper trail, I'd love to see it, because that's a banger, right? That's the kind of thing that can lead to a conviction. So I'd love to see that. But we have to deal in reality, right? It's one thing to hope and wish that things are going to change or things are going to be this way or that way. And then, of course, there's the reality that we're forced to live in. And even when evidence is presented, some people are so caught up in that confirmation bias that they refuse to follow the evidence wherever it leads. And that state of denial is only hardened when you have situations like this pop up, when you have people out there that already are on the fence about, you know, the legitimacy of what the Senate or Congress is doing when it comes to Epstein. And then something like this pops up where Senator Wyden is not being truthful or hasn't been forthcoming about his own family's relationship. It really kneecaps Senator Wyden's credibility. And when we're talking about this topic specifically, your credibility is the only currency that you have. One of the most important questions that comes out of this is why we're America's leading banks. A number of them basically sleepwalking throughout this whole Epstein matter. Wyden said in a video chronicling his probe into the Epstein scandal. As the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, they should have been watchdogging this. They should have brought law enforcement what they believed was going on. Well, I can't disagree with that. Right? I think it's true. The banks played a gigantic role here. And their willingness to look the other way allow Jeffrey Epstein to operate for as long as he did. And it led to countless women and girls being abused. Wyden also touted his plan to author a bill that would hold banks accountable in the future if they turned a blind eye to such illegal activity. Well, that would be nice. Imagine holding the banks accountable for once. Good Lord, that would be a change. At the time of the April 2016 meeting between Epstein and the senator's son, Epstein was already a convicted sex offender who had pleaded guilty in Florida to sexually abusing a minor. And the Palm beach investigation that led to Epstein's plea had identified dozens of possible Epstein victims, many which were reportedly minors, possible victims. And it all goes back to that initial investigation. And that's why I'm so adamant and so vocal about how shitty that investigation was, because that's the basis people use to say that this whole thing's overblown. Oh, it was one girl. She was about to turn 18. What the kind of drugs are you on? Are you smoking LSD and Quaaludes? Because if you think that it was only one girl and she was 17, about to turn 18, you're crazy. That is not what the evidence showed. What the evidence shows us is that the prosecution and the federal government conspired with Epstein to give him that npa. That's what the evidence shows. And if we want to get to the bottom of this, if we want real accountability for people that were involved, we have to start at ground zero. And ground zero here is most certainly Palm Beach. But as far as the story at hand, it's terrible when we're talking about optics. If you're sitting on the Senate and you're demanding everybody else be accountable, everybody else show full transparency. And your own son is outed as somebody trying to get funds from Epstein after he was already convicted as a child abuser. My advice to Senator Wyden cleans up his own backyard before popping his head over the wall and complaining about his neighbors. All the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.