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The Trump administration invited 15 conservative influencers to the White House last Thursday in a much-hyped “release of the Epstein files.” The event itself was a dud with absolutely nothing of any consequence being revealed. In other words, there was nothing that will lead to a credible accusation and arrest. It was merely a vainglorious publicity stunt for self-important e-celebs to take photos holding their collectible Epstein binders with the Trump logo stamped in front. However the farce lays bare some of the most infuriating excesses of the right-wing in 2025: credulous conspiracy theorizing, narcissistic attention seeking, and hypocritical double-standards.
According to the media, 15 influencers attended the Rose Garden event including Jack Posobiec, Chaya Raichik (aka Libs of Tik Tok), Mike Cernovich, Scott Presler, Chad Prather, Rogan O’Handley (aka DC Draino). As many have noted these are among Trump’s most sycophantic and zealously Zionist advocates. All of them have spent countless hours speculating about what celebrity pedophiles would be revealed in the government’s vaunted Epstein files.
By this point, the mythology surrounding deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein has been relentlessly memed into an almost mystical holy grail of political revelation. Unlock the full list of Epstein associates and every noxious left-wing celebrity will be taken down in one fell swoop. “Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself” is an oft-repeated catchphrase that milquetoast influencers use as a feigned transgressive act. They love to add, “I’m not suicidal” for insurance in case the Men in Black plan to assassinate them for dropping truth bombs.
Like all viral conspiratorial fantasies, the Epstein mythos are grounded in some truth. Epstein really was involved in prostitution of young girls. He moved in elite circles where he met just about every famous person you could possibly think of from politicians to rock stars to tech moguls. Its also true that he provided the services of these girls to his “friends”, which might range from companionship, to a massage, all the way up to sexual intercourse. Epstein died in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking. Supposedly he hung himself while the security camera was inoperable and no guards were around. Yes, that is suspicious and it´s not crazy to suggest someone might have killed him because of what he knew.
The problem with conspiracy theories are that they never stop with what is provably true. If thing A is true, you must also believe wild speculative points B, C, and D. For instance, people repeatedly name certain celebrities like Tom Hanks as being a suspected pedophile who used Epstein to procure young girls. Although Hanks is a self-righteous and obnoxious Democrat, there is no evidence whatsoever of a connection to Epstein or pedophilia. Even if a given person did show up in records as having been contacted by Epstein, it doesn’t follow that they are a pedophile. That is guilt by association. Epstein moved in the most elite circles possible. He went to the trendiest parties. He was sought after for his financial philanthropy and Rolodex of movers and shakers. Its also possible that he actively sought out people for reasons ranging from networking to blackmail and extortion. Rumors swirl about his status as an intelligence asset. He was certainly an FBI informant and it is also possible that Epstein was working for Israel’s Mossad.
When these Epstein Files are released, expect them to be heavily redacted, like the ones released to the influencers. Even though the redactions only fuel the conspiracy fantasies, there are legitimate legal reasons why this might need to be done. Imagine that you are a chauffer who drove for Epstein one time and your name appears in the documents. Or perhaps you’re an influential person who attended a business meeting or dinner party with Epstein one time (as Elon Musk did). In either case, despite there being not even a scintilla of evidence you did anything wrong, the online witch hunt would tear your life apart. They would expose all of your personal information they could get their hands on. Absolutely raving lunatics who are convinced you are a pedophile would track down your address, workplace, and family members. Although the government should have an obligation to prosecute criminals no matter how powerful they are, they cannot allow innocent people to get caught in the crossfire. Further, they have a legal obligation to ensure that doesn’t happen.
I was in attendance at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. for the infamous January 6 event. I walked up the stairs leading toward the entrance but stopped when I came to police behind barricades, content to record events as a journalist. I was sandwiched between Daily Stormer LARPers in military fatigues with sonnenrads on one side and Q-Anon believers on the other. These are the kind of people who spend unhealthy amounts of time going into online rabbit holes looking into the alleged vast pedophile conspiracy. “You’re protecting the pedophiles! Let us in!” They screamed. Their faces were red and veins bulged from their necks. Apparently they believed the congressmen inside were part of the conspiracy.
Five years earlier a gunman opened fire in Washington D.C.’s Comet Ping Pong pizza joint because he read online that it was the nexus of an elite child trafficking ring. The Pizzagate theorists were not the first or the last to schizophrenically obsess over public figures, looking for some innocuous clue to reveal a horrible, suppressed truth. Express some skepticism about the scope of the elite pedophile conspiracy online and count how many vituperative insults are launched at you by people gone stark raving mad.
A pernicious thing about conspiracy theories are that they are a belief system not unlike a religion. To express doubt causes a believer mental anguish, as if you’ve blasphemed their god or called into question his belief in angels. “Are you calling me crazy! You think I’m making it up?” Those who most need alternative sources of information are incapable of hearing it.
There is also a significant strain of hypocrisy and double standard in Epstein-mania. All of the MAGA influencers who would use association with Epstein, no matter how peripheral, as ipso facto proof of guilt ignore that their heroes Elon Musk and Donald Trump met with Epstein. Trump attended many of the same parties and shared friends with the man. There are even pictures of them together.
How many of the Republicans fixated on the Epstein files are also fans and supporters of Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan? The Tates have been credibly accused of sex trafficking in Romania. The two half-black men used their wealth and celebrity in a relatively impoverished Eastern European country to coerce white women into prostitution and abusive sexual relationships. Documents show that victims as young as 15, which is legal in Romania, have accused Tate of anal rape. What’s more, Tate doesn’t deny the relationship, stating that it was “consensual.”
“Asked repeatedly by the BBC about the allegations of sex with a 15-year-old girl and trafficking underage persons, he walked away and refused to reply.”
Trump legal advisor Alina Habba appeared on a stream with Tate while he was awaiting trial for sex trafficking to express what a “big fan” she is. Another big fan is Richard Grenell, Trump’s Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions. Allegedly he lobbied the Romanian government to lift travel restrictions on the Tate brothers. After fleeing charges to the United States the Tates were invited as guests of honor by the Tampa Bay Young Republicans. Donald Trump Jr., who has tweeted exhaustively about Epstein, is a major supporter of Tate and has called his prosecution for sex trafficking “absolute insanity.”
It’s too late to prevent what Epstein did, but we can still prosecute Andrew Tate. Under 18 U.S.C. § 2423 it’s illegal for American citizens, like the Tate brothers, to travel abroad with the intent to engage in sexual activity with minors.
Lets start with the assumption that everyone who broke the law with Epstein (or Tate) should be prosecuted.
Tate choking and whipping a Romanian woman on camera.
The call to “release the Epstein files!” is basically a desire to form vigilante lynch mobs to do an “independent investigation.” Every innocent person unfortunate enough to have made contact with Epstein would have their lives ruined. Deranged gunmen like the Comet Ping Pong shooter would be showing up at their homes and harassing their families. That is why they will never release those files unredacted.
What is the solution? Perhaps a commission should be set up by the Trump administration in order to investigate the names in the files and then release them after either exonerating or finding probable cause for prosecution. But to throw innocent people to the wolves is not the answer because I trust the sober judgment of Q-Anon about as much as I trust Andrew Tate.
Jason Kessler is the author of Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech, available now from Dissident Press. Follow him on Telegram, Twitter,Youtube, Odysee, and Gab. Also follow Dissident Press on Twitter/X.
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Stopping with what is provably true is not smart when you know that what is provable is actively limited by organizations such as the FBI which didn’t want the truth to come out.
Over and over the conspiracy theorists have proven to be right and the skeptics such as those denying that there was political manipulation going on at Twitter have proven to be saying what was not true.
Other than that, I’ll add that the feds all along had unexpurgated copies of the document and knew very well which of Epstein’s associates was doing what. Still, not a single one of them got busted. Seems they have other priorities.
By all means investigate and find evidence. But lack of evidence does not justify baseless speculation presented as fact.
Material that would conclusively incriminate the truly powerful in the global elite in situations like this, confirming their utter depravity and evil in their private lives, is never recorded or written down.
I do agree with Kessler’s essay in the main with one exception. Reasonable theorizing should not stop with that which can be conclusively proven true, which is often horrible enough.
The theorizing should stop in my view with what can conclusively be proven AND **reasonably** inferred. One must always rely on inference from the proven facts in these situations, because the powerful never disclose their plans.
It means accepting that we will never know the whole truth about JFK, 9/11, Mark Dutroux, Holly-“Pedo”wood, Dan Schneider, Pizza Gate, John Podesta, Maria Abramovich, Kevin Spacey, Epstein and Price Andrew, the list goes on. We can know based on grounded inferential reasoning however that the mainstream accounts around these people and incidents are not the whole truth.
Epstein’s death is an example. He’s cornered and a known coward who might talk out of self-preservation or raw survival instinct. It is a very grounded inference that somebody decided he wasn’t a problem worth having. But we will likely never know who that was.
Another reasonable inference is that Hollywood and the music industry are filled with the sickest of the sick. Does a writer like Vigilant Citizen go too far with his claims? Yes. But it also a provable fact, as VC has throughly documented, that those same people cram very bizzare occult symbols with clear associations with evil into their work, and often their work contains an unmistakeable emphasis on sexual depravity, perversion and children.
While there is no way to know exactly who is doing what, it can’t be anything good. And the notion only crazy Q types believe otherwise is just as false as claims about Tom Hanks.
Say, have you heard about Ilhan Omar’s sick, paranoid, anti-Semitic, nutty, tinfoil hat conspiracy theory that there exists some sort of supposed “Israel lobby” that influences politicians by using some sort of occult substance called “money”?
Everybody in Washington denied it (and if they had not they would have been gone). The mass media chorused denial of it and abuse of anyone disgusting and stupid enough to believe it. And where were all the politicians standing up and saying, I am a criminal who took bribes and should be in prison? Well then! This is just a conspiracy theory.
All our institutions, including the truth-verifying institutions, are lying, and covering up and erasing evidence at a level that we don’t even have adequate language to describe.
I’m not aware of anyone claiming the Israel Lobby is a conspiracy theory. Its been well-documented by serious academics like John Mearsheimer.
A defense of criticizing illegitimate conspiracy theories is to bring up something real and conspiratorial, with real evidence behind it, as if it means that anything without evidence under the label of “conspiracy” is also true.
Trump’s links to Epstein are unsettling. RFKjr had a very funny reply when asked about his time hanging out with Epstein and Ghislaine. “I think my wife had some kind of relationship with her”.
Elon Musk mentioning the UK Paki rape gangs was dynamite on this side of the Atlantic. (The only bits of truth we see in our media are quotes from Trump, Musk, Vance, RFK…)
Can someone encourage him to mention the Paki/Nigerian rape gangs currently operating in Ireland? He could do it as part of St Patrick’s Day celebrations.
Ganainm: March 3, 2025 Trump’s links to Epstein are unsettling…
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At the very least. Zionist Donald Trump was up to his eyballs with Jewish MOSSAD operatives Jeffrey and Ghislaine. He and his Secretary of Labor helped to cover up their earlier misdeeds. But Mr. Kessler thinks perhaps a commission should be set up by the Trump administration in order to investigate the names in the files and then release them after either exonerating or finding probable cause for prosecution.
Perhaps but not probable. Trump 45’s FBI had plenty of time to reveal what is on Epstein’s blackmail tapes: Why Are They Sitting on the Epstein Evidence? | National Vanguard (2019)
FOR WEEKS, the FBI and the New York City police have been sitting on a big pile of child pornography plus big-wig/celebrity blackmail videos that were seized from Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan. Have you heard about anyone rich and powerful being arrested as the result of official scrutiny of those videos? No? Hmmm.
Why, it sounds as if the police are more interested in covering up for the child rapists than they are in prosecuting them, doesn’t it? And yesterday and today the FBI and the NYPD are searching Little Saint James Island for evidence. And, most likely, what they intend to do with any evidence they find is destroy it…
Duh!
PERVERSION of JUSTICE A decade before #MeToo, a multimillionaire sex offender from Florida got the ultimate break. They were little girls. Their stories were almost identical. The evidence was substantial.
BY Julie K. Brown and Aaron Albright
Nov. 28, 2018
Jeffrey Epstein had a little black book filled with the names and personal phone numbers of some of the world’s wealthiest and most influential people, from Bill Clinton and Donald Trump to [others]… But in 2007, despite substantial evidence that corroborated the girls’ stories of abuse by Epstein, the U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, signed off on a secret deal for the multimillionaire, one that ensured he would never spend a day in prison. Acosta, now President Donald Trump’s secretary of labor, agreed to seal the agreement so that no one — not even Epstein’s victims — would know the full extent of his crimes or who was involved. This is the story of that deal — and how his victims, more than a decade later, are still fighting a criminal justice system that has stubbornly failed to hold wealthy, powerful men accountable for sexual abuse.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article221897990.html#storylink=cpy
Epstein was intentionally associating himself with high profile people, whether in his role as a ladder climbing gadfly, an FBI informant, or his alleged association with Israeli intelligence. I empathize with people, like Trump potentially, who saw him as an important person to know due to his abilities as a philanthropist and networker.
What most annoys me about the conspiracy crowd is how they remain steadfastly raceless nor explicitly criticizing jewish power, colonization by islam, and anti-nationalist open borders, let alone going proWhite. Even david icke’s terrestrial-bound scathing takes on government and company are very good prior to the outlandish shapeshifter stuff that loses people. My apologies to actual reptiles who aren’t nearly as slimy as dc/big industry pukes. The q anon-conspiracrowd are oblivious that an intoletaryan proWhite government is the best chance of unearthing what’s been suppressed or scrubbed for generations. There’s a perennial disconnect for them between the need for joowise White tribalism to counter the former’s attacks on the latter, and the possibility of mass disclosure from governments taken back whose previous occupiers have kept much vaulted and left thrown chum to be speculated on as extremely online guesswork for hobbyists that go nowhere and solve nothing cause they’re conditioned to refuse (cuz racist nazi stuff) any White racial power formations that challenge the regime of depraved depths above.
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