He wasn't a ''MONEY GUY'' - Epstein's hedge fund didn't really EXIST. That is the whole issue with Epstein is he WASN'T some Wall Street hustler nor a FINANCE guy who was able to run confidence scams owing to a pattern of apparent success.
His entire career arc makes no sense whatsoever.
He was obviously an intelligence asset/black ops functionary (among other things).
That is consistent with what I said. As of his exit from Bear Sterns he pivoted to an expert in tax avoidance and moving money - a bagman, in other words, certainly not a trader or "investor".
“Let’s give our black ops functionary an island where he brings other rich guys. After all, we deal in discretion and there’s nothing more discreet than that.”
When he croaked I saw an Epstein theory/version, quoted by Mickey Kaus, that he must have been an intermediary, not a financial wizard per legend, since he was so obviously a hopeless gabber who tried to chat up and schmooze even lowly building-maintenance guys with no possible influence for making money. He knew enough to hang with Wall Street mafiosos but lacked the discipline to be a threat to any of them.
''Women are stoopid and ruined the government'' is a WEAK AF, reductionist take. Its also asinine to suggest that the body politic in the late modern, managerial state is somehow dictating/formulating the course and substance of POLICY according to its own preferences.
NOBODY should be ''voting'' - but such that the REGIME exploiting procedural ''democracy''/universal suffrage as a basis for legitimacy, its absurd to suggest that the overwhelming majority of male voters are somehow WISE or capable of understanding high politics.
Where men are WEAK and/or where a deliberate regime of punitive SOCIAL ENGINEERING has diminished social capital and the ethical and sociological basis of communitarian life, women will behave in pathological ways. The idea that this is the key (or even a particularly relevant) variable to the current POLITICAL situation is absurd.
I’m a little bit fuzzy on why someone like Epstein is needed as an intermediary between Jewish billionaires and shady Mossad ops - as opposed to facially legitimate “donations” funelled into the shady stuff on the back end - but that’s a question from ignorance and not a “gotcha.”
Regardless, something like this seems clearly closer to the truth. This is all an unfortunate consequence of MAGA lacking a quality control filter (I.e., inability to tell retards that they’re retards) for years. I do wish that Trump would just release the files, but the double-bind is that the ravenous masses will simply call any files “fake” unless all of their worst suspicions are confirmed
Because money laundering is difficult? And having enough direct knowledge of what specific charitable donations to make would implicate themselves far more than they want to be. They'd have to form relatively with relatively unstable people who may or may not be at each offers throats. And they already have enough of their with their billionaire colleagues
Trump has been #MeToo’d. Also everything bad that ever happened since the Garden of Eden is some else’s fault, and someone else is always the sitting President.
Upon reflection, maybe we do need a President or General Secretary of the World at the UN to take the blame…
What files do you think even exist at this point? The FBI and CIA have had 7 years to wipe everything. The FBI doesn't have 4k video of Bill Gates banging a teen just sitting there ready to be released.
This is an excellent article. However, it doesn’t emphasize enough that the populist reaction to the Epstein case can be accurately described as mass hysteria. I have seen no evidence Epstein was a pedophile. However, it seems the emotions inflared by such an accusation are so intense they are perceived as justifying the accusation which incited them. At worst, he may have been guilty of hebephilia, sexual impropriety or (if you demand a more inflammatory label) sexual exploitation of minors.
I’ve seen it argued that positing these clarifications qualifies as nitpicking of the sort sufficient to cast suspicion on oneself of the same crimes. This is absurd. The difference between what Epstein actually did and what he is accused of is one more of kind than degree, and arguing otherwise is similar to claiming heterosexual and homosexual crimes are practically the same thing.
Not one American in a hundred knows what a “family office” is. Not one in 10,000 has any experience with the operations of a family office. People have indulged their fantasies about Epstein because they don’t know anything about rich people like Les Wexner.
Believe me, for every rich guy hiring JP Morgan, there’s another doing sketchy, half assed shit.
If all you people have at this point is financial spelunking on why Les Wexner overpaid Jeffrey Epstein, give it up. The statute of limitations ran on that stuff a long time ago, so the SEC isn’t going to investigate it.
So when every prestige institution on earth is offering you VIP private banking services, it's totally normal to just sign over control of your entire fortune to a sketchy statutory rapist with no credentials? Happens all the time, right?
No, it doesn't. Rich guys do do "sketchy, half-assed shit", but they do it through JP Morgan or BCCI, not through some no-name massage enthusiast with no demonstrable track record. Hell, Epstein himself hired JP Morgan, among others, to do his own sketchy, half-assed shit. He knew he was no international finance genius. He just knew a few basics and had some important but shady connections. He relied on real pros to do the actual accounting (aka money laundering) work.
But nobody cares much about the presumably dead Epstein, or even the semi-undead Wexner. What people want to know is more specifics about what was already in the news media since 2019, and indeed in the first Trump admin's federal court filings: who are the public figures, and especially the elected and governmental figures, whose names appear on Epstein's kompromat video recordings. This isn't prurience. Everyone is entirely justified in wanting to know which of the public figures we are afflicted with are fatally compromised by whomever sponsored the Epstein-Maxwell ring.
You're confusing cause and effect; reality and cover stories.
Epstein was anointed a Jewish operator--probably due to his smoothness. He networked his way to the big boys, and did their bidding. This led to his being given operational assignments for their hostile foreign sponsor.
Epstein's Wexner job was cover. Wexner doing a favor for their country's intel. Now Epstein had a plausible reason to have his hands on millions and billions. This gave him free rein for any operational actions their sponsor needed.
Someone noticed that Epstein was a pervert, and saw the operational potential. Or Epstein himself suggested using his teen consorts as bait for operational targets.
That's as clear a vision of Epstein's real story as we'll get--until someone inside starts talking. And there aren't many Israeli intel officers or assets who talk.
Trump's decency is extraordinary. Would inspire great loyalty from those who know him. But a disadvantage dealing with a shitstorm being managed by the sociopaths who are targeting him with this bs.
The amazing thing about the Epstein stuff is that blackmail is rarely worth the effort for those at the top. Decisionmakers will almost always do whatever is asked of them, provided that they are asked by the right person. That is how networking functions. That is how we are governed. IMHO this is more scandalous than teenage girls wasting their charms on men who are old enough to know better.
Which is not to say that organized blackmail is not attempted. It appears to be a signature feature of the Anglo-American Deep State.
The puritanical world net daily crowd is not able to detach from their own (true, see Finders) suspicions of elite ritual sodomitic prepubescant child abuse and see that sexing up legal in other countries teens isnt the same thing.
On top of that, there is the unforced error of Blondi promising muh files.
So yeah, a shadow nexus of Israeli money power didnt kill himself, but no one is going to jail for tying up that lose end.
He actually did have a confirmed modest presence on Wall Street - he had an ongoing relationship with Bear Sterns and a few hedge funds. There's a caricature that his withdrawals from such a fund were the straw that broke the camel's back in 2007 in the mortgage CDO market.
The amounts of money were 10s of millions, and most investment activity was presumably conducted on behalf of other people, particularly in Wexner's accounts. Obviously he wasn't a tremendously large or successful investor as such; someone who parks money in a fund isn't meaningfully an "investor".
But regardless, "moving money around" does not necessarily generate a horde of Wall Street types bragging about how they were best friends, especially considering the circumstances.
This is the sort of thing that Seymour Hersh, in his pre-nutcase days, would have uncovered for political conspiracies. For THIS kind of conspiracy, who else is doing that job? Not our financial media.
As per your thesis, a limited hangout would have been the very obvious way to close the deal with voters… IF it was just “vanilla” bad behaviour. That dog did not bark. Hanlon’s razor may often be valid, but it is also a convenient dismal of something more nefarious.
I don’t know what to make of it. People dumber than Epstein made a fortune on Wall Street, pre 2008 crash. Read the Big Short by Michael Lewis. There were an awful lot of dumb people on the Wall Street Gravy train.
I would also take the Epstein- Mossad connection with a grain of salt. Most Mossad agents are Jewish, but very few Jews are Mossad agents. The Epstein - Mossad connection was just categorically denied by an ex Mossad leader on X. The person pushing an Epstein Mossad connection is Tucker Carlson. Tucker is the only guy I know of who a US judge ruled that no reasonable person would believe him. In Karen McDougal’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News, U.S. District Court Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil dismissed the case in September 2020, ruling that Tucker Carlson’s statements were rhetorical hyperbole and opinion, not verifiable facts. The judge stated that, given Carlson’s reputation, a reasonable viewer would approach his comments with an appropriate degree of skepticism, understanding them as provocative rhetoric rather than literal truth.
The judge in the Dominion Fox lawsuit felt otherwise. He noted how Tucker in private emails basically admitted that he lied on air, costing Fox750 million, and Tucker his job. I would discount a Mossad connection because Tucker is saying it.
One can hardly expect a Mossad leader to publically confirm they were running underage sexual blackmail ops on prominent Americans. The denial brings to mind the old political chestnut, "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied".
If we set aside the more lurid Pizzagate-style rumors (and we should), there's still a ton of very strange circumstantial evidence (how does Prince Andrew and holidays at Balmoral fit into this?). Nevertheless, this is the most plausible explanation I've seen.
But I keep coming back to his "suicide". He almost certainly didn't kill himself, which means someone wanted him dead, and whoever did is powerful enough to force the current FBI leadership to spout transparent lies while looking like dead men walking. Does the Mega Group have that much sway?
Very interesting and insightful analysis. It corresponds to what I know (basic facts) and how things were likely playing out, and why Trump now wants to move on.
Seriously, this is an attempt to change the narrative. Throw enough counter-thought out there and some people will buy it. If nothing else the distortion would cause doubt. That's how evil people conspire. We've stopped being this dumb with our media interactions. It's high time that we start speaking God's truth and not evil lies. Epstein's "money guy" charade was his cover-up. Very VERY powerful people are now working to cover the tracks of this most significant evil. Those young girls who were sexually abused were cajolled into a life of sin because of this evilness. God will have His day!
He wasn't a ''MONEY GUY'' - Epstein's hedge fund didn't really EXIST. That is the whole issue with Epstein is he WASN'T some Wall Street hustler nor a FINANCE guy who was able to run confidence scams owing to a pattern of apparent success.
His entire career arc makes no sense whatsoever.
He was obviously an intelligence asset/black ops functionary (among other things).
That is consistent with what I said. As of his exit from Bear Sterns he pivoted to an expert in tax avoidance and moving money - a bagman, in other words, certainly not a trader or "investor".
“Let’s give our black ops functionary an island where he brings other rich guys. After all, we deal in discretion and there’s nothing more discreet than that.”
When he croaked I saw an Epstein theory/version, quoted by Mickey Kaus, that he must have been an intermediary, not a financial wizard per legend, since he was so obviously a hopeless gabber who tried to chat up and schmooze even lowly building-maintenance guys with no possible influence for making money. He knew enough to hang with Wall Street mafiosos but lacked the discipline to be a threat to any of them.
Later on yes. The issue really is American women understand the world the 19th Amendment made and need a man to blame it on…
''Women are stoopid and ruined the government'' is a WEAK AF, reductionist take. Its also asinine to suggest that the body politic in the late modern, managerial state is somehow dictating/formulating the course and substance of POLICY according to its own preferences.
NOBODY should be ''voting'' - but such that the REGIME exploiting procedural ''democracy''/universal suffrage as a basis for legitimacy, its absurd to suggest that the overwhelming majority of male voters are somehow WISE or capable of understanding high politics.
Where men are WEAK and/or where a deliberate regime of punitive SOCIAL ENGINEERING has diminished social capital and the ethical and sociological basis of communitarian life, women will behave in pathological ways. The idea that this is the key (or even a particularly relevant) variable to the current POLITICAL situation is absurd.
Bye Thomas lol
Ridiculous
I just want to have women face the consequences of their choices
You want a king lol 😝
Spot on ..
I’m a little bit fuzzy on why someone like Epstein is needed as an intermediary between Jewish billionaires and shady Mossad ops - as opposed to facially legitimate “donations” funelled into the shady stuff on the back end - but that’s a question from ignorance and not a “gotcha.”
Regardless, something like this seems clearly closer to the truth. This is all an unfortunate consequence of MAGA lacking a quality control filter (I.e., inability to tell retards that they’re retards) for years. I do wish that Trump would just release the files, but the double-bind is that the ravenous masses will simply call any files “fake” unless all of their worst suspicions are confirmed
Because money laundering is difficult? And having enough direct knowledge of what specific charitable donations to make would implicate themselves far more than they want to be. They'd have to form relatively with relatively unstable people who may or may not be at each offers throats. And they already have enough of their with their billionaire colleagues
Trump has been #MeToo’d. Also everything bad that ever happened since the Garden of Eden is some else’s fault, and someone else is always the sitting President.
Upon reflection, maybe we do need a President or General Secretary of the World at the UN to take the blame…
What files do you think even exist at this point? The FBI and CIA have had 7 years to wipe everything. The FBI doesn't have 4k video of Bill Gates banging a teen just sitting there ready to be released.
This is an excellent article. However, it doesn’t emphasize enough that the populist reaction to the Epstein case can be accurately described as mass hysteria. I have seen no evidence Epstein was a pedophile. However, it seems the emotions inflared by such an accusation are so intense they are perceived as justifying the accusation which incited them. At worst, he may have been guilty of hebephilia, sexual impropriety or (if you demand a more inflammatory label) sexual exploitation of minors.
I’ve seen it argued that positing these clarifications qualifies as nitpicking of the sort sufficient to cast suspicion on oneself of the same crimes. This is absurd. The difference between what Epstein actually did and what he is accused of is one more of kind than degree, and arguing otherwise is similar to claiming heterosexual and homosexual crimes are practically the same thing.
Not one American in a hundred knows what a “family office” is. Not one in 10,000 has any experience with the operations of a family office. People have indulged their fantasies about Epstein because they don’t know anything about rich people like Les Wexner.
How many family offices have signed power of attorney over their entire fortunes to a single sketchy non-attorney (indeed, non-college graduate)?
Believe me, for every rich guy hiring JP Morgan, there’s another doing sketchy, half assed shit.
If all you people have at this point is financial spelunking on why Les Wexner overpaid Jeffrey Epstein, give it up. The statute of limitations ran on that stuff a long time ago, so the SEC isn’t going to investigate it.
So when every prestige institution on earth is offering you VIP private banking services, it's totally normal to just sign over control of your entire fortune to a sketchy statutory rapist with no credentials? Happens all the time, right?
No, it doesn't. Rich guys do do "sketchy, half-assed shit", but they do it through JP Morgan or BCCI, not through some no-name massage enthusiast with no demonstrable track record. Hell, Epstein himself hired JP Morgan, among others, to do his own sketchy, half-assed shit. He knew he was no international finance genius. He just knew a few basics and had some important but shady connections. He relied on real pros to do the actual accounting (aka money laundering) work.
But nobody cares much about the presumably dead Epstein, or even the semi-undead Wexner. What people want to know is more specifics about what was already in the news media since 2019, and indeed in the first Trump admin's federal court filings: who are the public figures, and especially the elected and governmental figures, whose names appear on Epstein's kompromat video recordings. This isn't prurience. Everyone is entirely justified in wanting to know which of the public figures we are afflicted with are fatally compromised by whomever sponsored the Epstein-Maxwell ring.
I’m sorry, but you just don’t know what you’re talking about.
Evidence?
Have you read Dechert’s internal investigation report to Apollo’s conflicts committee about Epstein’s relationship with Apollo founder Leon Black?
How did he make his money? The Mega Group donors let him steal $500 million?
You're confusing cause and effect; reality and cover stories.
Epstein was anointed a Jewish operator--probably due to his smoothness. He networked his way to the big boys, and did their bidding. This led to his being given operational assignments for their hostile foreign sponsor.
Epstein's Wexner job was cover. Wexner doing a favor for their country's intel. Now Epstein had a plausible reason to have his hands on millions and billions. This gave him free rein for any operational actions their sponsor needed.
Someone noticed that Epstein was a pervert, and saw the operational potential. Or Epstein himself suggested using his teen consorts as bait for operational targets.
That's as clear a vision of Epstein's real story as we'll get--until someone inside starts talking. And there aren't many Israeli intel officers or assets who talk.
When one is falsely accused such as Trump has been, one understands being falsely accused.
THAT IS WHY he isn’t tossing everyone to the wolves, however there does need to be some red meat tossed to the mob.
Because the mob are too cowardly to do it themselves, especially you women, and no I don’t respect you.
I do feel pity for your males, you won’t them be men.
Trump's decency is extraordinary. Would inspire great loyalty from those who know him. But a disadvantage dealing with a shitstorm being managed by the sociopaths who are targeting him with this bs.
The amazing thing about the Epstein stuff is that blackmail is rarely worth the effort for those at the top. Decisionmakers will almost always do whatever is asked of them, provided that they are asked by the right person. That is how networking functions. That is how we are governed. IMHO this is more scandalous than teenage girls wasting their charms on men who are old enough to know better.
Which is not to say that organized blackmail is not attempted. It appears to be a signature feature of the Anglo-American Deep State.
The puritanical world net daily crowd is not able to detach from their own (true, see Finders) suspicions of elite ritual sodomitic prepubescant child abuse and see that sexing up legal in other countries teens isnt the same thing.
On top of that, there is the unforced error of Blondi promising muh files.
So yeah, a shadow nexus of Israeli money power didnt kill himself, but no one is going to jail for tying up that lose end.
Dang. Hank Oslo got the call.
This is impressive and mainly convincing. My only question is:
Since the hedge fund community said they'd never had any dealings with him, how does that square with your Wall Street story?
He actually did have a confirmed modest presence on Wall Street - he had an ongoing relationship with Bear Sterns and a few hedge funds. There's a caricature that his withdrawals from such a fund were the straw that broke the camel's back in 2007 in the mortgage CDO market.
The amounts of money were 10s of millions, and most investment activity was presumably conducted on behalf of other people, particularly in Wexner's accounts. Obviously he wasn't a tremendously large or successful investor as such; someone who parks money in a fund isn't meaningfully an "investor".
But regardless, "moving money around" does not necessarily generate a horde of Wall Street types bragging about how they were best friends, especially considering the circumstances.
Good work.
This is the sort of thing that Seymour Hersh, in his pre-nutcase days, would have uncovered for political conspiracies. For THIS kind of conspiracy, who else is doing that job? Not our financial media.
As per your thesis, a limited hangout would have been the very obvious way to close the deal with voters… IF it was just “vanilla” bad behaviour. That dog did not bark. Hanlon’s razor may often be valid, but it is also a convenient dismal of something more nefarious.
This makes more sense than anything else flying around the MAGAsphere, particularly the more bizarre claims supported by no evidence whatsoever.
I don’t know what to make of it. People dumber than Epstein made a fortune on Wall Street, pre 2008 crash. Read the Big Short by Michael Lewis. There were an awful lot of dumb people on the Wall Street Gravy train.
I would also take the Epstein- Mossad connection with a grain of salt. Most Mossad agents are Jewish, but very few Jews are Mossad agents. The Epstein - Mossad connection was just categorically denied by an ex Mossad leader on X. The person pushing an Epstein Mossad connection is Tucker Carlson. Tucker is the only guy I know of who a US judge ruled that no reasonable person would believe him. In Karen McDougal’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News, U.S. District Court Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil dismissed the case in September 2020, ruling that Tucker Carlson’s statements were rhetorical hyperbole and opinion, not verifiable facts. The judge stated that, given Carlson’s reputation, a reasonable viewer would approach his comments with an appropriate degree of skepticism, understanding them as provocative rhetoric rather than literal truth.
The judge in the Dominion Fox lawsuit felt otherwise. He noted how Tucker in private emails basically admitted that he lied on air, costing Fox750 million, and Tucker his job. I would discount a Mossad connection because Tucker is saying it.
Ehud Barak was an overnight houseguest at the Jew Jeffrey Epstein's house.
No Mossad connection.
Who was Ghuslaine Maxwell's father again?
One can hardly expect a Mossad leader to publically confirm they were running underage sexual blackmail ops on prominent Americans. The denial brings to mind the old political chestnut, "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied".
If we set aside the more lurid Pizzagate-style rumors (and we should), there's still a ton of very strange circumstantial evidence (how does Prince Andrew and holidays at Balmoral fit into this?). Nevertheless, this is the most plausible explanation I've seen.
But I keep coming back to his "suicide". He almost certainly didn't kill himself, which means someone wanted him dead, and whoever did is powerful enough to force the current FBI leadership to spout transparent lies while looking like dead men walking. Does the Mega Group have that much sway?
Very interesting and insightful analysis. It corresponds to what I know (basic facts) and how things were likely playing out, and why Trump now wants to move on.
Seriously, this is an attempt to change the narrative. Throw enough counter-thought out there and some people will buy it. If nothing else the distortion would cause doubt. That's how evil people conspire. We've stopped being this dumb with our media interactions. It's high time that we start speaking God's truth and not evil lies. Epstein's "money guy" charade was his cover-up. Very VERY powerful people are now working to cover the tracks of this most significant evil. Those young girls who were sexually abused were cajolled into a life of sin because of this evilness. God will have His day!