Okay, calm down. Can you talk about Trump's limited release of the Epstein files? Uh, yeah, sure.
So, you know, obviously there was the that big highly publicized release of what was said to be phase one of the Epstein files with a lot of, you know, Twitter influencers and other figures given these binders. And obviously that didn't go over I I think the way they anticipated it would mainly because you know the files themselves didn't really ha had been heavily hyped um including you know among proTrump media figures and then obviously the documents therein most of which had been previously released and made publicly available didn't live up to the hype and then there was this effort to sort of say that oh well Pam Bondi didn't have all the documents and it was this one office that was sort of withholding them. And so, you know, supposedly FBI agents had been digging through them with the plans to release them, but then some of these figures that had promoted the Epstein releases previously in media, like Megan Kelly came out and said, "Oh, well, uh, as I understand it, these documents aren't really the bombshells.
There's not really anything explosive in there. " So there there's been sort of this effort to on the one hand claim that more is to come and then also downplay the significance of what will come out later. And as I understand it, you know, the the claims that were made about what the documents that were being allegedly withheld uh were related to documents generated by the FBI upon their rating of Epstein's property in New York City in 2019.
I have a few thoughts about that. Um, one is, uh, it would be nice if the FBI would explain why Epstein's other residences were not, uh, raided, like the Zoro Ranch property in New Mexico, never raided. Um, and then why, you know, it took them a month to get to the island in the US Virgin Islands, Little St.
James. Be nice to know that. Um, and of course, you know, some of arguably um some very important documents I I believe could be obtained by the Department of Justice that are held not by the FBI, but the US Virgin Islands because there was this case involving the US Virgin Islands and uh JP Morgan as it related to Epstein and uh that case got settled out of court so it didn't go to trial.
Uh but I believe those documents would be very very very telling. But I would argue the reason they won't come out is because one of the people subpoenaed as part of that investigation was Elon Musk. Oh wow.
He wasn't necessarily accused of wrongdoing but was subpoenaed because he was suspected of having been had having had some sort of involvement with Epstein and JP Morgan. And there are allegations of course, not really allegations, but you know, it was reported, you know, before Musk was closely affiliated with Trump that uh Epstein had been advising Tesla and was part of this effort in 2018 to take Tesla private uh with Gulf oil money or Saudi money. And at the time, Epstein was advising Muhammad bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and was also known to have a close relationship with the elite families of the United Arab Emirates.
um and also Kuwait and I think Bahrain as well. So perhaps they don't want to have that really be explored at this point. Uh but some of the other figures that were subpoenaed and accused of uh wrongdoing because in the case of the USVI case, it was specifically that JP Morgan's accounts with Epstein and relationship with Epstein was ba was connected to the human trafficking, sex trafficking.
And so you have people like uh Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, the Google co-founders being subpoenaed as part of that. Uh you have Tom Pritsker of Hayatt Hotels being subpoenaed. And of course the Pritskars are a very powerful family uh in Chicago specifically very connected for example to the the rise of Barack Obama as a politician uh but also a lot of prominent think tanks like the Carnegie endowment run by a Pritsker and I think Tom Pritsker who was subpoenaed here uh ran for a long time or was chairman of the board of CSIS which is one of these uh very national security adjacent think tanks with a lot of influence on US national security policy.
See, uh, so probably people that can afford to be sort of left out of the limelight, I guess. You know, because a lot of, um, you know, what I've argued for a long time as it relates to Epstein is that, you know, there's been a pretty much exclusive focus on his sex crimes, uh, but not his financial crimes. Epstein was a guy that, um, you know, obviously the media narrative since his arrest and his death has tried to frame him as a a Great Gatsby kind of figure.
He was all talk and just a charlatan and this and that. No, he was kept around by elite figures because he was very good at helping them evade taxes and was very good at money laundering and had a very very intimate knowledge of the offshore banking system where a lot of these families historically hide their money. So like the Pritsker family for example uh how you know have early ties to organized crime going back to like the 20s and 30s and they were one of the main clients early on of Castle Bank which brings together some organized crime linked figures.
Um and also the CIA through Paul Hawwell who was a CIA banker that helped set it up and you know it helped launder money for organized crime interests and also some of these you know families like the Pritskers who later became very politically powerful. So and of course the governor JB Pritsker. Yeah.
Sure. Yeah. And uh Penny Pritsker was Obama's Secretary of Commerce and the Pritskars and the Crowns who you know Lester Crown was part of the the mega group that we talked about earlier and the Crown family going back to Henry Crown have extensive organized crime ties as well.
you know, they sort of helped Barack Obama's early career, for example, and sort of helped propel him to the presidency and well, first as a senator, right? Um, but sort of, you know, have a a lot of influence on Democratic politics in Chicago in particular. So, it's really not surprising that you'd have a Pritsker governor there.
Uh, but they're they're quite a powerful and influential family. Doesn't really get talked about a lot. And speaking of the crowns, on the board of JP Morgan for a long time was James Crown, Lester Crown's son, who along with uh banking interest in Ohio, intimately tied to Leslie Wexner, uh basically had created uh modern-day JP Morgan with Jamie Diamond at the helm.
They're totally responsible for Jamie Diamond uh being in charge of that bank, namely Crown and also this guy named John Kesler who um you know is just as much a Leslie Wexner henchman as Epstein was and was intimately involved with Epstein as well. So you know those are the people that put Jamie Diamond in charge. Arguably that explains why Jaime why Epstein and JP Morgan had such a close relationship and I think they just couldn't have that case go to court.
So Pam Bondi could get a lot of that information if she wanted to, but I don't think there's any interest in exploring that. What about Megan Kelly? You said that she was you are you saying that she was downplaying it or you saying she was just reporting on Yeah.
Well, I don't I don't regularly watch her show. I want to make that very clear. Full disclosure.
Uh but I I was shown a clip that had been posted on Twitter of her subsequently after the first release saying that um it was her understanding that you know the the the documents that were allegedly being sifted through after the phase one release were not really as significant as some had been led to believe. There's also this claim that gets circulated a lot that there's like a client list uh the FBI is sitting on and it's really doubtful as to whether or not that actually exists or not. So, you know, the idea of the client list is like who did Epstein film and who is compromised?
Uh will that come out? And you know, we pretty much can look at a few names of who were likely the people that were compromised, but I don't think that's any substitute for going after the people who sponsored the compromising, right? Um because obviously they're the ones trying to control the people who were compromised for their benefit.
So you should absolutely look at that. And so, you know, uh I think this is just kind of an effort to, you know, make it appear like there's transparency when there really isn't as much transparency as people are being led to believe. And also, you know, transparency in this case is no sub substitute for investigating and prosecuting people who absolutely should be targeted.
Um like Leslie Wexner and his, you know, business empire that Epstein helped build. Um Epste's relationship with Bear Sterns uh which arguably helped set off the 2008 financial crisis absolutely should be scrutinized. It has not.
His relationship with JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank the obviously the JP Morgan one was covered up uh because they settled out of court and kept all the information from coming out in court. And then also there's the case of you know Epstein in in uh the Deutsche Bank case where you know one of the the judge overseeing it her son was murdered as she was about to start overseeing that case and then no one reports on it and then it settles out of court as well. Uh obviously I think there is some stuff there with the money flows uh that is a big problem for both parties and so even though you think it would be politically expedient you know for the Trump administration you know to report on you know Tom Pritsker or something like that you know since his family's so tied to like the Obama network or whatever uh it's not going to happen you know cuz I mean you pull on some of that and it just stares out too much dirty laundry of the whole system that absolutely involves both parties and also So, you know, there's the case, too, that uh the Trump administration could have put out information related to Epstein's White House visits uh during the Clinton administration, which you think again would be politically expedient uh for the Trump administration, but there's no way they'll touch that cuz, as I mentioned earlier, it's related to this.
You know, there was arms trafficking and all sorts of other crazy things going on uh with, you know, a lot of people that had previously been involved in the Iran Contra network. Um, and you know, Trump World has ties to that, so I don't think they'd be interested in having that come out, but it it would be very nice um if they did. But there's plenty of aspects of the Epstein case that could easily be obtained by Pam Bondi and released, and they won't be.
