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What's up everyone, and welcome back to the program. So Jeffrey Epstein was in possession of a fake Saudi Arabian passport when he was arrested, and the questions were swirling at the time about what he was doing with this passport, and I was always under the impression that he was friendly with the ruling family, MBS and the rest of the royals. It makes sense that a billionaire like Jeffrey Epstein would be rubbing shoulders with these guys. But still, after all of these years, we don't have any real concrete answers about his relationship with the royal family of Saudi Arabia or other people in that country. So today we're hopping back in the time machine, going back to 2019, and we're going to talk about why Jeffrey Epstein was in Riyadh on the eve of the 2016 election. This article was published by Insider and it was first published on September 19, 2019. Headline why did Jeffrey Epstein's Private Jet Fly to Riyadh on the eve of the 2016 election? Man, there are so Many questions surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and his relationships and as far as why he was in Saudi Arabia and it could be a multitude of reasons. A multitude of reasons. My guess is some kind of business deal he was engaging in with the royal family, some sort of grift he was engaging in, I should say. In August, Insider reported that Jeffrey Epstein's private jet was spotted over the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of election day 2016. The available flight data was incomplete, however, leaving the Gulf Stream's final destination and an open question. Now we have the answer. According to the journalist Eric Rosenwald, who analyzed aviation data collected by the the flight tracking service plane Finder Epstein's jet landed at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia at 6:35pm local time on November 7, 2016. The flight pattern provides significant new evidence of Epstein's rumor ties to to the kingdom and its ruling family. There has been a lot of rumors surrounding Jeffrey Epstein having a relationship with Bin Talal, who up until MBS came into power was one of the most rich men in the world, right? This guy was out here, owned a bunch of Twitter, owned this, that, the other thing, MBS comes into power and arrests him and takes a bunch of his dough. So not as much the richest man in the world anymore or, or even amongst them, but there's a lot of talk that him and Epstein had a lot of ties. Insider discovered the flight from Paris to the Arabian Peninsula in a data set maintained by ADS B Exchange, a crowdsource website that aggregates aviation signals from all over the world. ADSB refers to the protocol's technical name, Automatic Dependent Server Surveillance Broadcast. So you can track these different planes and flights and where they're going and all this other stuff with today's technology. And that's what they did here to try and figure out what Epstein was up to. Rosenwald filled the gaps in the ADS B mainly over the Arabian Peninsula by combining them with the plane finder's own data for about six months. I got a notification every, every time that this plane was spotted in Planefinder system and I knew it was in Riyadh on election day, rosenwald told Insider. I didn't know what to do with it and I don't know if there's any significance to it being there on election day per se. I think from my perspective, what I take from it is just the fact that Epstein had such close ties to the Saudi ruling family. It tells you everything you need to know about Epstein and his reach when you're breaking bread with people like that, you know, you're breaking bread with the most powerful, influential people in the world. Epstein's jet in Riyadh at the same time as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. There isn't enough information to Precisely reconstruct the 48 hours Epstein's jet spent in Riyadh. And Rosenwald's data doesn't show whether Epstein was a passenger on either leg of the flight. Such information likely turned up in a recent subpoena issued to Epstein's pilots, but has not yet been made public. Still, it is reasonable to suppose that Epstein was flying aboard his own private jet. Well, why else would it be going to Saudi Arabia, going over there for a quick day trip, get the pilot some experience? Highly doubt it. Two people of note were in Riyadh at roughly the same time. The first person is Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, who at the time served as the kingdom's Minister of defense and second deputy prime minister. On November 8, the state owned Saudi Press Agency reported that Bin Salman, also known as mbs, and his father, the Saudi King, bestowed Chairman of the Joint Chief Staff Joseph F. Dunford Jr. With the order of King Abdul Aziza, a civilian award for distinguished service service to Saudi Arabia. So a bunch of hubbub for, you know, like a civil service award. And the kingdom gave it to an American military man for his service as far as the protection of the kingdom. You know, that's why America was invited to Saudi Arabia in the first place. Up until that point, the thought of an infidel on Saudi land was. Was absurd. And an American base in Saudi Arabia. Yeah, right. Well, the first war with Iraq changed all of that. And ever since then, obviously America has had a huge presence in Saudi Arabia. The second person is Jeff Bezos, the billionaire co founder and CEO of Amazon. On November 9, the day Epstein's jet returned to Paris, N.B. nBS held an unrelated meeting with Bezos, several Amazon executives and two Saudi ministers. The Saudi Press Agency said they discuss fields of cooperation and investment opportunities available according to the kingdom's Vision 2030, the crown prince's signature economic initiative. Now, just in a nutshell, the 2030 vision is Saudi Arabia moving away from being oil dependent and they want to get more into the world of tourism, more into the world of technology. And this 2030 vision is MBS's plan to get them there. And obviously, if you have investment opportunity, why not have Jeff Bezos there? And of course, well, why not Jeffrey Epstein? Because the precise timing of the MBS meeting is uncertain. I cannot determine whether Epstein's jet and Bezos were in Riyadh at precisely the same time. The Saudi Press Agency said it took place on November 9, but not at which hour. Yet an overlap seems far more likely than not. A direct flight from Seattle to riyadh takes about 14 hours and 30 minutes. And if you and a small group of your close colleagues, all based in Seattle, plan to meet a dignitary in Riyadh on a Wednesday, you would likely schedule the flight there for Monday or Tuesday. Now look, I'm not saying that he was meeting with Bezos while he was there. I don't know that for a fact. But we know that he has met with Bezos. We know that Maxwell was still being invited to Bezos's stupid little adventures. So the dog definitely hunts. Epstein claimed to be longtime friends with mbs, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Last year Epstein told a New York Times reporter that he personally knew and routinely played host to mbs. The same reporter encountered a full length portrait of the Saudi Arabian prince on a wall in Epstein's New York City mansion. And Bezos has broken bread with Epstein at least twice in 2004 and again in 2011 at the so called Billionaires Dinner hosted by the Edge Foundation. The now why would Epstein be invited to that or Bezos even go to anything with with Epstein after he was a convicted sex offender? You need to ask yourself that question and really ask yourself why all of these people thought it would be okay. One noteworthy attribute that Epstein and his apparent friend MBS share is a history of being accused of blackmail. In January, Bezos, chief of security accused the Saudi kingdom of gaining unauthorized access to Bezos personal messages and photos. According to the Daily Beast, the Saudis plan to blackmail Bezos, who purchased the Washington Post in 2013 as punishment for its paper's aggressive coverage of their own columnist Jamal Khashoggi, whom Saudi agents assassinated in Istanbul last year. Certainly well within the purview of MBS and the Saudi Special Services. These guys are smarmy. But remember, they learn from the best. The CIA. The Saudis denied the blackmail operation and others blame the brother of Bezos's girlfriend for obtaining and selling their correspondence to the National Enquirer, whose publisher, American Media Incorporated, has its own murky ties to Saudi Arabia. But the allegations closely match a certain thread of speculation about the source of Epstein's titanic wealth. His case is laden with indications, some more obvious than others, that that he engaged or attempted to engage in high stakes blackmail. Well no shit. It was all about Kompromat. And when he was providing girls for these men, it was about getting information from them. And that fits right in with what the Saudis were up to, right? So talk about perfect bedfellows. And then you add in the fact that Epstein had that Saudi passport. And it certainly looks like Epstein had some pretty deep ties to Saudi Arabia and. And some pretty deep friendships built within the monarchy. Did Epstein encounter MBS or Bezos and Riyadh? These circumstances raise an obvious question. If Epstein was indeed in the Saudi capital, did he meet with MBS or Bezos on November 7th, 8th or 9th of 2016? Good question. Did he? Of course, we'll never get a real answer here, but it's a good question. Insider asked Amazon, the Saudi government and Epstein's estate whether any of the men crossed paths in Riyadh. We also asked the Saudis and the estate if Epstein and MBS personally knew each other. A spokesperson for Amazon declined to answer detailed questions sent via email. Of course not. They'll never answer unless they think that it'll give them a little buzz, right? Oh, yeah, we'll answer a question that'll give us some shine, but we'll just ignore questions about Jeff Bezos and Galan Maxwell, his relationship with Epstein and what he was doing with Epstein. An unnamed spokesperson for the center for International Communication, a state owned agency that coordinates media coverage of the Saudi government, said they would pass our questions to the proper entities. We did not receive a response by press time, and I don't even know what that means. Proper entities. You mean it's just gonna get killed on the vine over there in Saudi Arabia? Right by the government. You see, the government of Saudi Arabia, they don't play games, folks. It's not like these other governments out here. They'll snatch you right off the street and that'll be the end of it. Epstein's attorney, Reed Weingarten, did not acknowledge requests for comment. The flight to Riyadh is the latest piece of evidence concerning Epstein's connections to Saudi Arabia. The trip to Riyadh offers some of the most significant evidence to date of Epstein's ties to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a relationship that could propel further speculation about his potential role in the world of intelligence. Can somebody answer how he has all of these ties, all of these passports, all of this other stuff? Can somebody please answer that question? Former U.S. attorney Alexander Acosta reportedly told members of the Trump administration that he declined to press federal sex trafficking charges against Epstein after being told. It's unclear. Unclear by whom that Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone. My guess is that offer came from high. The mukes of the world. And it's amazing that nobody likes to bring up mukezi. Whenever I hear people talk about this case and they just bring up Acosta, it makes my eyes glaze over because I realize they have no grasp on what really went on. That is only a surface level understanding of how the Justice Department works. Acosta has mocked coverage of these remarks, which were first reported by Vicky Ward of the Daily Beast, but has never denied making them. He did, however, resign as the Secretary of Labor over his handling of the Epstein case. So making mockery of things, joking about things, that's one thing, but he's never denied it. And let's remember, he's the one who originally made the statement. So to backtrack now on a walk it back, it just makes it look like somebody got to you. After his arrest in July, prosecutors revealed that Epstein possessed a counterfeit Austrian passport bearing Epstein's photo, but a different name whose stamp show traveled to and from Saudi Arabia along with France, Spain, the United Kingdom. The passport listed Epstein's residence as Saudi Arabia, too. And they said that Epstein got these passports because it was at a time when, you know, Palestinians were hijacking planes and taking Jewish hostages. Give me an effing break. Shortly after Epstein's death in August, a friend and attorney for Ghislaine Maxwell, his longtime companion and accused co conspirator, child sex abuser, fellow abuser, fellow scumbag, you know, bipedal Serpent, staged a photograph of Maxwell reading the Book of Honor, the Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives, at a Los Angeles In N Out burger. So we always forget about that. We don't talk about that. But why was that picture posted? What were they pointing to? And late last week, journalist Edward J. Epstein recounted an April 2013 meeting with the financier pedophile, who was unrelated, at his Upper east side mansion. In the anteroom, I had seen photos of Epstein with Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirate Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, some in beach water and with snorkel gear. I asked, are these clients in the Middle East? He answered that some were and that he was planning to buy a house in Riyadh since that was becoming the new center of international finance. Now, I don't know why anyone would be shocked to see Epstein hanging out with these dudes. These guys are right in his, you know, world view. We've all heard the disgusting stories about what happens with Royalty in this part of the world and these, these Instagram models that go there. I'm not going to get into the details, but, man, it's a pretty gross environment. So Epstein would feel right at home here. We asked several Emirati agencies whether Mohammed bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, was friends with or had connections to Jeffrey Epstein. None of those agencies, including the UAE embassy in Washington, acknowledged our request for comment. Well, that's a shock, huh? What do you know? They don't want to talk about their crown prince's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. But look, there's obviously something here. You don't just get a passport. You don't just get the access to Saudi Arabia for nothing. So the question is, what was that access for? And how did he come across that passport? We're gonna keep digging, folks, and until we get to the bottom of it, you can guarantee that we'll be here every day talking about it. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that@bobby capuchirotonmail.com. that's B O B B Y C C A P U C C I protonmail.com you can also find me on Twitter at bo-y/capucci. The link that I discussed can be found in the description box.