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What's up, everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. You want the truth about Jeffrey Epstein? Not the sanitized PBS version. Not the Buckingham palace fairy tale. Not the lone predator billionaire myth spun by the same institutions that funded his plane fuel. No, the real Epstein. The one that they keep buried under 40 layers of classified ink. Because saying it out loud would set half of D.C. and every intelligence agency from here to Tel Aviv on fire. Look, Jeffrey Epstein wasn't just a pervert with a plane. He was a middleman. The kind of guy governments use when they don't want their fingerprints anywhere near the crime scene. A fixer, a broker, a human router for black ops, grey money and red flag operations that never officially happened. And in exchange for doing the dirty work, in exchange for being the guy they could count on when. When official channels would blow back too hard, they let him run one of the most industrial scale kompromat machines in modern history. They looked away while he burned through girls like they were disposable evidence bags piling bodies into his operation with the full knowledge of the very people who claim to protect the public. At least a thousand girls, according to the DOJ's own numbers. A thousand lives torched so he could collect leverage like other men collect baseball cards. A thousand futures erased. So some intelligence handler could pick up a phone and say, jeff, we need a favor. And no, he take care of it quietly, invisibly, off the books. That's who Jeffrey Epstein really was. Not a playboy, not a financier, not a tragic accident of the system. A strategically tolerated predator whose crimes were treated as a cost of doing business. And that's the part that they're still terrified of. Not his death, not. Not the island, not even the names. They fear the truth in high definition, the 360 degree view of a man who operated with their blessing, their protection and their silence. They fear the receipts. They fear what happens when the public stops seeing a monster and start seeing a middleman. Because once you see that, once you understand what he was actually doing, the question becomes unavoidable. If Jeffrey Epstein was the middleman, who the hell was running the store? Today's article was published by Fox News and the headline Epstein boasted he briefed Russian diplomat on how to handle Trump in newly released emails. This article was authored by Greg Wenner. Jeffrey Epstein cast himself as a political insider after Donald Trump's first election. Newly released House oversight email show offering foreign leaders insight into the new president and boasting that he'd already briefed the top Russian diplomat on how to handle Trump. I don't doubt that for a minute. Jeffrey Epstein was deeply ensconced in Russia. In fact, they got a lot of their victims from Eastern Europe and the reason they did that is because there was no trail. Right? You couldn't follow these women. It's not like they're going to show up and start talking about what happened to them. A lot of times their society isn't down with it all. A lot of times nobody's gonna believe em. A lot of times in a place like Russia, if you speak out against the powerful, well, we all know what happens. And Jeffrey Epstein was very much aware of all of that. That's why he chose to prey on women from these war torn areas, these areas that are developing, these areas that aren't very rich. And if you think that the Russian government and people within the Russian government had no idea who and what he was, you, you're crazy. They did too. The trove of emails made public this week by the House oversight committee spans 2016 to 2018 and reveals Epstein trying to re establish himself on the world stage by courting heads of state, billionaires and diplomats, all after he was already convicted. How much more evidence do you need to see to realize that this is a gigantic ass club and you are not a part of it? Just like George Carlin always told us. You have all these diplomats, all these world leaders, all these so called people who care about other people and they're going to Jeffrey Epstein for advice. They're using Jeffrey Epstein's services. Now look, this isn't before he was arrested. This isn't before we knew what he was. This is after. So what's the defense here? In my opinion, there is no defense. There should never be any sort of association with anybody like Jeffrey Epstein, especially when you know what he is. But when it comes to these sorts of people, you know, the power brokers of the world, the ends always justify the means, even if the ends mean that your children are getting molested. The convicted sex offender who died in federal custody in 2019, positioned himself as a man with rare access and understanding of Trump, offering his analysis to global figures eager to make sense of the new administration. The now look, I would caution you not to take everything Epstein says as 100%, you know, Canon truth be skeptical of everything he says. This is a manipulator. This is a man who is trying to, you know, massage every single situation into his favor. And casting people as, you know, his puppets, or saying he has access to people doesn't exactly mean he's telling us the truth. So I take everything with a grain of salt. But what I will say is this, when we're talking about this portion of it, of what Jeffrey Epstein was up to as a middleman, as the broker, there's no doubt in my mind, no doubt whatsoever. That's who he was, that's what he was doing. That's why he was very valuable to the powers that be. And this all goes back to the time of the Iran Contra affair, right when Congress decided to vote that they couldn't have these sorts of clandestine activities, meaning our intelligence services. It had to be on the books. Well, what did they do? They skipped over it and just started hiring middlemen like Jeffrey Epstein. That's how they avoided that whole entire trap. And don't even get me started on all the money that's missing. You know how much money is missing from the defense budgets over, over the years? Forget it. Trillions of dollars. Where did that all go? I'll tell you where it went. To run operations like this piece of shit operation right here. I mean, how do you think they fund all these black sites all around the world? You know, the shitholes they have in, like, Pakistan and shit, where they bring people for a little bit of extra talking to? What, you think that's just money's falling out of the sky? They're picking it off of a tree somewhere? No, it's your tax dollars that have been lost. And God forbid you demand accountability. You're the asshole. You're the problem. It's all a big hoax. Like, the whole last thing is stomach turning. The fact that so many people still defend this shit is bananas to me. In one 2018 exchange, former council of Europe Secretary General Thorburn Yaglin thanked Epstein for a lovely evening and said he would meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's assistant. Epstein replied that Jaglin should tell Russian President Vladimir Putin that Lavrov can get insight on talking to me, adding that Vitaly Churkin was great. He understood Trump. After our conversations, Churkin, Russia's longtime ambassador to the United nations, died in 2017. The message show Epstein repeatedly pitching himself as an interpreter of Trump's behavior. They all knew what was up. They all knew who their middleman was. They all knew that Jeffrey Epstein was a guy with access. I mean, be for real. You think it was just a random email? Epstein woke up one day and was like, ah, you know what? Let me fire off this email. Of course it wasn't. He was well known in Russian intelligence circles. They knew exactly who he was, what he was up to, and the kompromat ring he was running.