Epstein was the gatekeeper to a global power influence brokerage

Membership allowed those breathing the rarified air of power and influence to quietly indulge in unchecked deviant behaviour, but that was just the dessert on a deferred leverage menu.

This is the final part of this initial two-part series. If you would like to read part one, please click here.

Let me begin by directly addressing the point I made in part one: the political opportunism at play. I stand behind my assessment that Democrats have played their part in weaponising the human tragedy of the Epstein files for political gain, and that, were it not for the perceived danger the Epstein files pose for the Trump presidency, I fear there would be no media feeding frenzy and the crimes committed against the innocent would remain just another historic injustice far from public consciousness. The victims would be left to fight for justice alone, as they had to for decades before their stories became politically useful. I’d just like to see some honesty from those seeking political advantage, because both sides of the aisle are guilty of it.

The suggestion that I was implying the Democratic Party played any role in what happened to the victims is frankly absurd, although the perpetrators of these crimes stretched across political affiliations. This should not even be a political issue. My point was very simple: Democrats have failed to lay a glove on Trump since his return to office. They folded on ACA Healthcare subsidies, and we have yet to see the outcome of DHS funding negotiations. As a result of their inability to hold Trump accountable for anything, they saw the Epstein files as an opportunity for them to be seen as committed to an issue that has, to date, been largely void of political interest.

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My obvious question is, after a year in opposition, where is the bold vision embracing the audacity of an ambition to deliver a better future for Americans, rather than claiming there’s nothing they can do except attempt to shame a man out of office who is incapable of shame and has no concept of contrition? You can’t shame someone out of government; you have to provide evidence that will stand up in a court of law. The problem at the moment is that the DOJ and SCOTUS are running interference for Trump’s corrupt, illegal behaviour. The only possible outcome at the moment is to deny the regime control of the narrative. Useful though that may be, it’s no good denying control of the narrative to the regime if you don’t have a narrative of your own beyond, ‘Don’t support the other guy because he’s a fascist’. How did that go in 2024?

If Trump has proved one thing in the last five years, it’s how to manipulate the media and the court system. Even when he wasn’t in the White House, he was able to evade justice through persistent abuse of the judicial system and deceitful messaging. What on earth leads people to believe that now that he holds the keys to halting any attempts to hold him accountable, somehow justice will prevail? It’s a pipe dream. The American people have absolutely no idea what the Democrats’ vision is for America, other than to defeat Trump, a man who, under the Constitution, can’t run again.

When it comes to defeating a man who can’t run again, you can’t lose. It’s like awarding yourself a gold medal when you're the only runner in the race. Trump helps to defeat himself every day he remains in office. I have no problem with the Epstein files being front and centre in the narrative war. My problem is not with going after Trump; it’s the dishonesty of using the suffering of the innocent as justification for doing so, and that’s not lost on voters.

People may be right to say my conclusions are subconsciously driven by my daughter’s experience of child sexual abuse and the subsequent trauma my family has endured as a result. However, in my opinion, it does not change the clearly real motivation behind the Democratic leadership strategy. Even in the latest polling averages, Democrats are almost 23 points underwater at a time when American citizens are being executed in the streets, and children are being held in for-profit concentration camps. The sentiment needle is NOT shifting. All that’s increasing is Trump protest votes.

If Democratic leadership don’t see this as a problem, I really don’t know what to say. In times of societal distress and fear, people seek leadership to guide them out of darkness and despair. Just as during the campaign of 2024, when people were screaming that they were struggling to put food on the table, Democrats told them they were mistaken. They are still selling the same message today, when they claim to be turning the corner on public support, when all the polls say otherwise.

My God, how can a leadership team become so detached from reality? Poll numbers are the people screaming for them to listen. Instead, they are too busy patting themselves on the back, deluding themselves into thinking they are turning things around. In reality, all that is happening is that Trump is becoming historically more unpopular, and the people have nowhere else to turn in a two-party system. It is the very definition of taking the American people for granted. I say once again, I’m on your side, but Jesus, Democrats don’t make it easy.

Thank God the Democratic base is more in touch with public sentiment and is working hard on the ground across the country to sell a better proposition, otherwise I would be even more concerned. Hope is being kept alive despite Democratic leadership, and certainly not because of it. That’s why I put my fail on the foot soldiers, not the clown show sending out endless begging emails, trying to make you believe that if you just hand over your cash, everything will be fine. To win will require the biggest political ground game in history, take it from me.

Returning to the Epstein files, Trump, in collusion with his Attorney General, is now the gatekeeper to that shadow kingdom. The problem he now faces is that it is taking on a global dimension in which investigations are being instigated in a number of countries to take a closer look at something that goes way beyond child sexual abuse. For example, in the UK, Peter Mandelson, who briefly served as the UK’s Ambassador to the US, is facing a criminal investigation into the leaking of sensitive UK government information. As I write this, the police are raiding his home. The UK Independent newspaper reports :

During his time as business secretary from 2008 to 2010, Lord Mandelson is believed to have shared several key pieces of internal information with Epstein, revealing what was happening at the heart of government.

But it was on 10 May 2010 that one of the most significant emails appears to have been sent. In a message to Epstein, Lord Mandelson revealed he had “finally got him [former prime minister Gordon Brown] to go today”.

Epstein responded, saying: “I have faith, the value of some chapters in your book should now increase.”

I want to take you back to September 14th 2008, and the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the US. It was the start of the 2008 banking crisis that led to the crash. The collapse of Lehman led to the immediate failure and bailout of the UK-based Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS. The UK Chancellor at the time was a silver-haired, calm, and collected man, the late Alastair Darling. A man of integrity and all-round ‘good egg’. There was no better man to handle such a catastrophic situation than he.

It’s important to understand just what a moment in history this was, and it was a crisis which had originated from the reckless behaviour of US banks as they dished out subprime mortgages like candy to people who had no chance of servicing the loans after the ludicrous introductory freebies expired. It gives me chills just to think about the usual short-term, high-profit scam that delivers millions into the hands of crooks and Charlatans who face no consequences for testing the theory of ‘too big to fail’. The losers, as ever, were those on low incomes who had been offered a chance of the American dream, in the full knowledge that they would become collateral damage for a get-rich-quick scheme.

The fall of Lehman’s marked the start of the dominoes falling, and the UK Chancellor was faced with RBS, which was at the time the largest bank in the world, on the edge of collapse, not in a matter of weeks or days, but hours. Alastair Darling was told in the middle of the night that if the Bank of England did not step in, when the banks opened, there would be no cash in ATMs across the country. He later said to Martin Bright from The Spectator:

‘All my life, people have been telling me to stop being so left-wing. To move to the centre. To think about what middle-class, middle-England wants and give it to them.’

‘Now they want me to nationalise the fucking banks.’

You might want to bookmark this post, because I fear in the not-too-distant future I’m going to be writing about the same reckless behaviour when talking about the AI bubble bursting, because it has almost identical reckless characteristics.

Nick Cohen from the same magazine wrote this week in relation to the betrayal of the UK government by Peter Mandelson:

The crisis Darling and Gordon Brown had to manage haunts us still. We were overdependent on financial services and have never really recovered from their fall.

The crash brought in our stagnant world of zero-sum politics, where the right can portray every benefit for a poor mother as an attack on the middle class. Naturally, it destroyed whatever hope the then Labour government had of re-election – so you can argue that the crisis led to austerity, Brexit, Liz Truss, and all the other disasters of the Tory years that so battered this country.

So how does this relate back to the Epstein files, I hear you ask. Stay with me because this is important and goes to the very heart of the fact that child sexual abuse is tragically just a small part of what Epstein Island was all about. It seems clear that Epstein was an intelligence broker for those seeking global influence, and that the objective was to cultivate relationships with the top of society to identify competitive advantages and put them up for sale. Epstein was an information superhighway for leverage, wealth and power. He was an information arms dealer. He sought out information and leverage, and monetised it.

In the case of Mandelson, he was the UK Business Secretary at the time and a member of the House of Lords. More than that, he had a reputation as being a master of the dark art of ‘spin’. His spin for UK media was that US bankers were responsible for the whole crisis because they had ‘engaged in insane trades in mortgage securities’. It was his job to deflect attention from any complicity involving the UK government, which had operated the same ‘light touch’ regulation for UK banks as the US.

Unbeknownst to Gordon Brown, who was Prime Minister at the time, Mendelson was feeding back the UK economic strategy for recovery to Epstein, who was passing this information on to the same US bankers he was blaming for the crisis. At the same time, Mandelson was secretly lobbying for US banks to escape taxes planned by Alastair Darling to raise money to cover the damage they had caused. It is a staggering act of betrayal of his country for which he now faces criminal prosecution.

Another thing I was lambasted for yesterday was my suggestion that Russia was a player involved in this nest of vipers. For those suggesting I was on the wrong track and should be looking at Mossad and the Israel connection, I made no claim that this was a Russian operation; I merely suggested they were a player in the game. It is very clear that Israeli security services would be unable to pass up on this kind of information gathering from the top tiers of society. The kind of kompromat on offer is directly in Mossad’s wheelhouse.

This was a highly sophisticated labyrinth of intelligence gathering involving a wide range of political and socioeconomic actors. This is why redaction and information withholding are prevalent in the data dumps. In many ways, I’m pretty confident that Trump, however uncomfortable it may be for him, is prepared to keep fending off the threat from the sex scandal to protect the true purpose of the Epstein operation. The last thing he wants to do is upset Mossad or the Russian mob, because this seems to be at the heart of what many just see as a child sex trafficking ring. It’s also probably why Epstein never survived to see his day in court.

If you recall, Christopher Steel, a former MI6 operative who ran the Russian desk in the UK security services, was rubbished for the dossier he produced on the Russian influence campaign in the 2016 election. Trump went to war with him and attempted to trash his credibility, which did succeed in some circles. However, I highly recommend listening to the interview below on LBC radio in the UK from this week.

I am pretty confident that there are many writers and commentators more than capable of covering the child sex trafficking aspects of this case, so in the coming week, I’ll be focusing on the state actor aspects because I believe there is a trail that goes right back to the 1970s and the days of Robert Maxwell, whose daughter was Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell, to give her he socialite title. I believe the feeding frenzy going on is just one small corner of a deep web of power, wealth, and deceit and I want to dig into that.

On Monday, I’ll be returning to my usual daily post schedule. I’ll be spending the weekend preparing for the launch of my new production facilities, so I can now finally get on track with my plans for 2026. I haven’t been as excited about something for a long, long time. And I’m absolutely honoured to take you on this journey to make a larger contribution to this fight against tyranny.

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