The Empire of Lies
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“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years. Are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable.”
— President Donald J. Trump, July 8th, 2025
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There is no Epstein “client list”.
So says Pam Bondi. So too echoes Trump. So shrieks the right-wing infotainment complex in a final chorus of orchestrated amnesia.
To their credit, even the most diehard of Trump supporters have begun to question the plot being served up by D.C.. To make matters even more ironic, for once the goblins in charge are probably correct; albeit, only in the most technical of senses. Epstein almost certainly did not keep a singular, tidy, itemized ledger of names and dates detailing his unholy transactions. Don’t misunderstand me though, because such evidence, although not neatly labeled as such, certainly does exist — as we will cover shortly.
But that is beside the point. No serious person thinks the “list” is a single, actual document — it’s shorthand, a euphemism, a useful signifier for the web of collusion and cashflow that Epstein was handed, built upon, and that now saturates the corridors of Western power. As detailed by investigative journalist Whitney Webb, Epstein was deeply enmeshed with the MEGA Group — a close knit circle of billionaire Jewish Zionists including Leslie Wexner, Charles Bronfman, and Michael Steinhardt — long suspected of funneling influence operations between U.S. and Israeli intelligence. (His primary patron, Wexner, essentially gifted Epstein a $77 million Manhattan mansion.)
And now, the same Trump officials who once demanded the list be released, including Trump himself, are swearing it doesn’t exist.
Of course, it’s somewhat difficult to reconcile this jarring about face with Trump’s own words on the matter mere days after denying these documents even exist (emphasis mine):
What’s going on with my “boys” and, in some cases, “gals?” They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and “selfish people” are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration, who conned the World with the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, 51 “Intelligence” Agents, “THE LAPTOP FROM HELL,” and more? They created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called “friends” are playing right into their hands.
(The guy that never dies huh?) But yes peons, just forget about February’s “Phase One” release and years of promises by a host of Trump officials: the Epstein list? That’s all a Democrat ploy.
— Source: @JDVance Twitter.
Trump’s more recent stance on this issue was admittedly somewhat evasive. Asked on Fox & Friends (June 2nd, 2024) if he would declassify the Epstein files, he hedged: “Yeah, yeah, I would. I guess I would. I think that less so, because you don’t know - You don’t want to effect people’s lives if there’s phony stuff in there, because there’s a lot of phony stuff in that whole world.” Later, he would tell podcaster Lex Friedman that: “Yeah, I’d certainly take a look at it. … Yeah, I’d be inclined to the do the Epstein, I’d have no problem with it.” (Sept. 3rd, 2024)
The same can not be said about many of the Trump officials now under scrutiny. About a month after the previous statement, then Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance would go even further than his boss, stating on the Theo Von Podcast: “Seriously, we need to release the Epstein list. That is an important thing.” This follows years of similar statements by then candidate and Senator Vance (emphasis mine):
“What possible interest would the U.S. government have in keeping Epstein’s clients secret? Oh...” tweeted the nation’s future vice president.
In a second, longer rant aimed at another one of MAGA’s favorite targets, he then added: “If you’re a journalist and you’re not asking questions about this case you should be ashamed of yourself. What purpose do you even serve?…
— JD Vance’s old tweets show why the ‘Epstein client list’ is becoming such a problem for Trump
On that front, Mr. Vice President, we most certainly agree. Add politicians to that list as well, for that matter.
From the President on down, numerous Trump officials have promised to release the unredacted files, such as Attorney General Pam Bondi (emphasis mine):
"It's sitting on my desk right now to review," Bondi told 'America Reports' host John Roberts on Friday. "That's been a directive by President Trump."
— Bondi says Epstein client list 'sitting on my desk right now,' and is reviewing JFK, MLK files
More recently, AG Bondi attempted an escape maneuver worthy of Houdini. In the press scrum that poured fire on this scandal, she claimed that her earlier statement didn’t actually mean the list was literally sitting on her desk. She was speaking “figuratively,” she now insists. A strange defense, especially when you’re answering a direct question with a direct assertion.
As we can see from her March 2nd appearance on Life, Liberty, & Levin, that defense must also apply to these statements as well (emphasis mine):
Mark Levin
So once all that’s gathered, you’re just going to put it out in the public with the obvious necessary redactions—protecting the victims and their phone numbers and so forth. But for the perpetrators, I assume we’ll see those names, yes?Pam Bondi
Well, certainly. Nothing can be withheld on that.— Pam Bondi Gives Update on Epstein Files: Claims She Was ‘Assured There Are Only 120 Pages’ — Reveals FBI Officials Who Withheld Docs ‘Will Not Be Working for Us Anymore’
Hard to claim you meant the list was merely a figurative concept when you answered twice in the affirmative as to whether you would release said list.
Even more insulting than these cheap lies was the actual content of the so-called “Phase One” release (obviously implying further disclosures, contrary to the self serving statements of Trump and his apparatchiks). The press release itself, despite the triumphalism amongst MAGA media personalities, admits the truth: all the documents made public had already been available through court filings or leaks. Nothing new, save for the Department of Justice affixing its seal of approval on scraps long chewed over (emphasis mine):
Today, Attorney General Pamela Bondi, in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), declassified and publicly released files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his sexual exploitation of over 250 underage girls at his homes in New York and Florida, among other locations. The first phase of declassified files largely contains documents that have been previously leaked but never released in a formal capacity by the U.S. Government.
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi Releases First Phase of Declassified Epstein Files
That was February. Now, in July, we’re not even getting that.
Alina Habba, Trump’s lawyer turned loyal mouthpiece, went further. On Piers Morgan Uncensored, she not only admitted that names would be released at a future date, but went so far as to promise criminal prosecutions (emphasis mine):
Counselor to the President Alina Habba said those on the client list and who protected their friends from being outed as rapists and pedophiles need to be held accountable.
She also said that the 'incredibly disturbing' documents include flight logs and information with names of clients who engaged in the illegal activity.
Asked if the government will be pursuing criminal charges against these individuals, Habba said: 'Absolutely.'
'I think it would be negligent for us not to,' she told Piers Morgan on his show Uncensored. 'You have to hold individuals who are indeed rapists accountable. We have to have them tried, in my opinion.'
— Alina Habba says there will 'absolutely' be new criminal prosecutions from Epstein list release
Strong words, and easy to applaud. But, alas, talk is cheap.
Then we have Kash Patel, the man who has taken Trump sycophancy to new heights. (Is it any surprise that in Kash’s fantasy world, Trump is King whilst Patel is his court wizard?) Director Patel told Fox News host Bret Baier: “I’m not going to withhold information from the American public, ever. … We are diligently working on that, and it takes time to go through years of investigations, years of political maneuvering, and years of cover-up.” In his confirmation hearings, he again reaffirmed that the so-called Epstein list would “absolutely” be released:
…Patel pledged to “make sure the American public knows” what former President Joe Biden’s administration has been hiding regarding the late pedophile’s sex trafficking ring.
Specifically, Kash said he will “absolutely” release Epstein’s notorious “Client List” – the identities of powerful friends and accomplices whose names have been redacted in court documents.
— Kash Patel Vows to ‘Do Everything’ to Expose Epstein Files
No hedging, no caveats. (Assistant FBI Director and conservative firebrand Dan Bongino has espoused similar sentiments.)
What makes this all the more surreal is that the very people now calling demands for disclosure a “distraction” are the very ones who promised disclosure in the first place! During the course of the 2024 Republican primaries, the name Epstein was invoked as shorthand for institutional rot. From Ron DeSantis to Vivek Ramaswamy, every B-tier gladiator promised transparency. Patel, back in his pre-FBI days, was one of the loudest: “Put on your big boy pants and let us know who the pedophiles are.”
The irony is now total. Trump, the man who once boasted that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, now shields his Attorney General as she sits on the very cache of documents his supporters continue to demand. Only now are these questions “unhelpful.” Only now are they “divisive.” Only now is the Epstein “client list” cravenly reframed as a left-wing PsyOp.
There is no Epstein list?
No — there is only the Empire.
And it lies.
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984
By now, even the most incurious citizen knows Epstein ran underage and barely legal girls.
What remains more obscure is that he also ran money — and influence. He moved capital, political access, legal favors, and compromise. He was, in effect, a concierge of corruption. The man to see when you needed discretion, girls, a hedge fund, or all three:
A college dropout, Mr. Epstein amassed much of his wealth by charging hefty fees for providing tax and estate services to a few billionaires like Leslie Wexner, the retail magnate, and Leon Black, the private equity investor. Mr. Black, for instance, paid Mr. Epstein more than $158 million in fees and Mr. Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan once belonged to Mr. Wexner.
— Jeffrey Epstein Invested With Peter Thiel, and His Estate Is Reaping Millions
That is the real story. And it is this financial function that remains curiously absent from most of the official histories, precisely because it is the one function that indicts the entire system.
JP Morgan-Chase paid $290 million in hush money to make that history go away. The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) against the banking magnate forced the disclosure of damning internal documents, implicating JP Morgan not just in financing Epstein but knowingly enabling his trafficking network. In response, the bank turned its guns outward, accusing the Virgin Islands government of aiding Epstein in return. Central to that claim was one name in particular — Cecile de Jongh (emphasis mine):
The then-first lady of the US Virgin Islands was a well-paid employee of already convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — and even helped him get visas “to bring victims to his island,” according to court documents.
…the islands’ “government officials actively facilitated Epstein’s crimes” — with the first lady “his ‘primary conduit’ for spreading money and influence.”
De Jongh ran Epstein’s business operations for several years — including when her husband, John de Jongh, was the territory’s governor, noted the filing, which included dozens of emails.
In 2007 — the year her husband took office — de Jongh was paid $200,000 in salary and bonuses by Epstein, who also paid for the power couple’s kids’ education, the documents show.
“First Lady de Jongh explicitly advised Epstein on how to buy control of the [islands’] political class” and how to pay “politicians to ensure their ‘loyalty and access,'” the filing alleges.
The first lady “proved to be a ready partner” in helping Epstein “freely transport and exploit young women” with “impunity” to his private islands…
All whilst her husband was in power, the First Lady coordinated with the University of the Virgin Islands to set up phony ESL classes for girls being trafficked. She secured fake job placements, arranged visas, advised Epstein on political donation strategies, and edited draft legislation to water down sex offender restrictions on the islands. She even apologized when the legislation didn’t pass: "All is not lost," she wrote him, "we will come up with a game plan to get around these obstacles."
Naturally, with the First Lady of the USVI this involved in the day to day operations of Epstein’s criminal enterprise, the following questions must be asked: to what extent was her husband aware of these activities, and to what extent was he a participant in them? No better evidence for the subservience of the USVI government to Epstein’s sordid interests can be seen than a December 2014 email, where De Jongh told Epstein: “It is important to me that you know that I take this job, my management of your team and our implementation of your requests very seriously and that they be done in the most confidential of ways.”
And yet, not a single federal indictment, no grand jury, no subpoenas. (Unlike other crimes, there is no statute of limitations on perpetrating or abetting sex crimes against minors.) Why were no indictments handed down after these revelations? Well, because De Jongh is not unique in the halls of American power — she was just exposed. Most of Epstein’s conduits were smarter, richer, or better protected. David Copperfield was revealed as another Epstein associate in the last few years only because a civil suit forced open previously sealed files (you know, the ones that supposedly didn’t exist):
Copperfield's name appears in a 2010 deposition of Sarah Kellen as part of a case against Jeffrey Epstein brought by an unnamed plaintiff. Kellen, who worked for Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, has been accused of recruiting girls and facilitating Epstein's sexual abuse. She was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in Epstein's 2008 non-prosecution agreement.
In the deposition, the plaintiff's lawyer asked if Kellen knew Copperfield, about the relationship between Epstein and Copperfield, and if she recalled a dinner at Epstein's Palm Beach mansion attended by Copperfield.
Kellen's lawyer objected to the questions, and Kellen invoked the Fifth Amendment in answering each.
The plaintiff's lawyer continued to press, asking if Copperfield and Epstein recruited "girls" for one another or were involved in sex trafficking.
"Do you know that when David Copperfield is in town, he gives Jeffrey Epstein tickets and Jeffrey gives some to young women to attend those shows?" the lawyer asked. "And do you know that those girls are invited backstage after the show?"
In that January 2024 deposition, a victim testified that Copperfield asked her whether she knew that “girls are being paid to bring in other girls”, clearly testing the waters to recruit her for such a role. Copperfield, like Trump ally Peter Thiel, was exposed not by federal agents, but by private litigation.
And yet, the DoJ, with vastly more resources and legal power at their disposal, claims such evidence simply doesn’t exist.
— Donald J. Trump and Peter Thiel (c. 2016).
Despite the protestations of Trump’s DoJ, there is clearly still much about Epstein’s network that lies locked behind non-disclosure and non-prosecution agreements. If the list were to ever be released in full, who would it burn — beyond the coterie of intellectuals, financiers, aristocrats, and politicians it already has?
Look no further than the kingmaker behind Trump’s second presidency — Peter Thiel:
Years before Epstein committed suicide in 2019, he invested $40 million into a pair of funds managed by Valar Ventures, a firm that was co-founded by Thiel, The New York Times reported Wednesday. His investment has since grown to be worth $170 million.
Those investments, made in 2015 and 2016, remained a secret until the Times report. They shed additional light on the relationship between Thiel, the Palantir Technologies co-founder who has become one of the U.S.’s most influential conservatives, and Epstein, who is one of the country’s most notorious figures.
Reports revealing meetings between Epstein and Thiel first emerged in 2023, but the extent of their relationship remained murky. The Daily Beast uncovered emails that showed Thiel and Epstein were scheduled to have multiple meetings in 2014, including a dinner between the two men and Woody Allen.
— Epstein’s Secret Investment With GOP Mastermind Nets Estate $130 Million
Thiel’s public image remains largely untouched, despite Epstein pouring millions into his venture capital fund and securing a nine-figure return for the “deceased” pedophile. (Last I checked, dead guys don’t keep moving millions of dollars through their illegal bank accounts.)
Peter Thiel co-founded the In-Q-Tel funded Palantir Technologies, named, not accidentally, after the omniscient seeing stone from Lord of the Rings. Thiel certainly wasn’t naïve about who Epstein was — his career is built on surveillance and pattern recognition:
… [Epstein] the shady billionaire was known to throw money at technology and science projects, and some have speculated that he was attempting to position himself as a money manager for the tech elite. Many other figures in tech—including Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and Microsoft CEO Bill Gates—have been questioned about their ties to Epstein. In 2023, Elon Musk was also subpoenaed as part of a legal case involving Epstein.
— Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Invested $40 Million in a Company Co-Founded by Peter Thiel
Thiel sits squarely at the intersection of right-wing politics and technology. He is the bridge between the populist MAGA narrative and the surveillance state it supposedly despises. That his ties to one of the most notorious political figures of the 21st century have remained hidden for so long only further underscore, despite all the revelations of the last six years, how much we still don’t know about Epstein and his criminal network.
What would the full release of Epstein’s records reveal about Thiel’s network?
About its tentacles?
About its ideological chokehold on the so-called “New Right?”
“Jeffrey Epstein preyed on girls who were homeless and were addicted to drugs. He didn’t victimise girls who were Olympic stars and Hollywood actresses. He victimised people he thought nobody would ever listen to, and he was right.”
— Courtney Wild, Epstein Victim (July 25th, 2021)
We were told that Jeffrey Epstein was a secretive socialite who mingled with the rich and famous, indulged in perversion, and died in disgrace. We were told that those who flew on his plane were merely guilty of bad judgment. We were told that “the list” was a myth — conspiracy bait for fringe lunatics. More recently, we have been told that “no credible evidence [exists] … that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals.” And now, we are told to stop asking questions.
Alexander Acosta, Trump’s first Labor Secretary, let it slip during his vetting. When asked why he approved the illegal 2008 plea deal that gave Epstein a laughable 13-month sentence (including a non-prosecution agreement for him and his associates, a non-disclosure agreement, and a “work release” that let him spend 12 hours a day outside jail), Acosta answered: “I was told Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone.”
In addition to his known associates — Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, Larry Summers, Leon Black, Jes Staley, Naomi Campbell — the broader constellation of Epstein’s social circle includes:
Ehud Barak (former Israeli PM)
Shimon Peres (former Israeli President)
Ariane de Rothschild (banking heiress)
Glenn Dubin (hedge fund billionaire)
Bill Richardson (former U.S. Governor & UN Ambassador)
George Mitchell (former U.S. Senator & envoy)
Marvin Minsky (MIT AI pioneer)
Jean-Luc Brunel (modeling agent, later charged with rape)
And those are only the names we know, many more remain redacted — exactly like Copperfield and Thiel’s were.
Consider the pattern. Epstein had monthly meetings with the former Prime Minister of Israel. He funded think tanks, universities, and politicians. Even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, he was invited to events at Harvard, he was welcomed on Wall Street, and he met with the President of the Council on Foreign Relations. He entertained former Mossad chiefs in his New York townhouse, hosted Prince Andrew, and dined with Bill Gates. Despite being a convicted pedophile, he still held court with billionaires, lawyers, presidents, actors, royalty, and spies.
— Inversion, digital art, 2025.
The implications of Epstein’s crimes and the subsequent cover up are beyond radioactive. Despite the delusional and farcical claims being promulgated by the Trump regime, we are not just dealing with an isolated predator here: we are dealing with a geopolitical criminal syndicate that weaponizes sex crimes against children for political power, one whose tentacles have ensnared the highest echelons of the land.
Whether Epstein was CIA, Mossad, or some hybrid of the two is a detail — a relevant one, but a detail nonetheless. (Given his ties to the MEGA Group and the Israeli government, I certainly lean towards the latter.) Regardless, the facts of the case laid before us are plain: Epstein operated with impunity across international borders, he was shielded by prosecutors the world over, and he was abetted by politicians from Tallahassee to Tel Aviv. When he became too visible, he was “suicided” in the most surveilled jail in America. (Even that, we are told to accept without question.) Despite the rightful outrage over Trump’s betrayal on this core issue, many still have not truly grappled with the repercussions of these revelations: the implications of Epstein’s crimes, his influence, the lengths to which numerous administrations will go to cover it up, and the impact that has on American governance can not be stressed enough.
Now for those still ensnared in the Trump delusion, we are told that any damaging info on Trump or his associates in these lists would have been divulged already (this despite Trump ally Peter Thiel’s ties remaining concealed for nearly a decade). In short, we are told that Trump has no motivation to cover up the crimes and so must be telling the truth. Ignoring the many reasons we have already discussed for why Trump and his political allies would want to keep such information concealed, what those proffering this line of defense for Trump fail to recognize is that the blowback from releasing the client list is mutual. It’s precisely this Mutually Assured Destruction that has kept all the criminals in D.C. from turning on each other.
The Epstein cover-up is laid ever more bare in the absurdity of doctored footage passed off as real, and a public too dazed to care. The sudden rug pull isn’t just a craven political cover-up however — they’d have buried it in silence if that were the aim. No, the events of the last week were all quite deliberate.
They want you to see it.
They want you to see it and still vote. Still play your role in their system. They don’t care what you see through honestly — so long as you keep showing up to cast a ballot for the next crypto-Masonic puppet they’ve chosen. You are meant to know it’s all fake and when you still comply, their victory will be complete. That is the point of an occult mockery ritual.
Let me put this plainly: Epstein and the international network that enabled him raped women and children.
They trafficked women and children.
They filmed it.
Then they weaponized it.
And now, your government is asking you to forget, to deny your eyes, and to deny your ears. But if there is any moral fabric left in the people of this land, this cannot be allowed. After all these revelations, if we will tolerate the rape and trafficking of children by our supposed rulers, than there is nothing they cannot do to us that we will not gladly accept.
Here is the yet more bitter truth: we will not vote our way out of this. There is no candidate, no party that will declassify these crimes, hold the guilty accountable, or is even capable of dissolving the international networks that enable them.
If the Epstein saga has revealed anything, it is that this is not a bug in the American system — this is the system.
You cannot cast a ballot against an intergenerational, international mafia syndicate.
You cannot reform a system that feeds on children.
We are so far past justice at this point, all that remains is separation. Secession, to put it bluntly: strategic withdrawal from systems and institutions that are not only broken, but outright demonic.
If there is any future to be salvaged from this collapsing Empire of Lies, it will be built by men who finally stopped pretending that it is anything other than such.
“20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22 But the Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.”
— Psalm 94:20-24 KJV
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Further Research
One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, Vol. 1 by Whitney Alice Webb
One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, Vol. 2 by Whitney Alice Webb
We are witnessing a rebranding of the USA government. It is a humiliation ritual wrapped in a branding exercise. DOGE had everyone hopeful, but it had no real effect. Just complaints, shock and revulsion, but the money never stopped, it was redirected and expanded.
No accountability.
No change in the way the State operates.
No improvements, just propaganda.
"We are so far past justice at this point, all that remains is separation. Secession, to put it bluntly: strategic withdrawal from systems and institutions that are not only broken, but outright demonic."
Amen to that, brother.
It is a tragedy that the vast majority of our self identified Christian brothers don't understand that. They are utterly blind and are functionally tools of the demonic forces that under-gird the system.
Non-Christians, who obey Natural Law (God's Law that is written on the heart of man) far better than the pseudo-Christian majority, are some of the most perceptive and outspoken critics of the system. James Corbett, Whitney Webb, and Derrick Broze are some of the best sources of information on how the world works. More importantly, they are sources of information on how to strategically withdraw from the system.
I urge everyone to take steps to withdraw, or what I call opt out of the system. It takes hard work and is quite often very inconvenient, but it must be done. If you do not do this, you and your children soon become slaves to the system. The mere thought of doing that can be overwhelming for some folks. Do it just like you eat an elephant - one bite at a time. Start today by gaining knowledge. The above mentioned sources, particularly James Corbett's Solutions Watch, are a great place to start. Then act upon that knowledge. Time is of the essence.
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge." - Charles Spurgeon
One caveat to consider as you begin opting out of the system: Be careful joining organized groups. There is a high degree of probably they are already infiltrated by agents of the system, are heavily surveilled, and their members may become targets in the future. After you take care of the needs of your family, and you desire to connect with other like minded people, stick with people you already know and trust. Keep what you are doing to yourself to the greatest extent possible. The fewer people that know, the better. Especially your neighbors.
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I would like everyone to reply with your favorite sources of information on strategic withdrawal.