{"id":298460,"date":"2025-07-14T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=298460"},"modified":"2025-07-13T08:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T07:42:46","slug":"trump-epstein-and-the-deep-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/07\/trump-epstein-and-the-deep-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Epstein and the Deep State"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>

American Satyricon – by Mr. Fish<\/p><\/div>\n

The Trump administration\u2019s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

13 Jul 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0The refusal by the Trump administration to release the files and videos amassed during investigations into the activities of the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, should put to rest the absurd idea, embraced by Trump supporters and gullible liberals, that Trump will dismantle the Deep State. Trump is part of<\/a>, and has long been part of, the repugnant cabal of politicians \u2013 Democrat and Republican \u2013 billionaires and celebrities who look at us, and often underage girls and boys, as commodities to exploit for profit or pleasure.<\/p>\n

The list of those who were in Epstein\u2019s orbit is a who\u2019s who of the rich and famous. They include not only Trump<\/a>, but Bill Clinton<\/a>, who allegedly took a trip to Thailand with Epstein, Prince Andrew<\/a>, Bill Gates<\/a>, hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin<\/a>, former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson<\/a>, former Secretary of the Treasury and former president of Harvard University Larry Summers<\/a>, cognitive psychologist and author Stephen Pinker<\/a>, Alan Dershowitz<\/a>, billionaire and Victoria\u2019s Secret CEO Leslie Wexner<\/a>, the former Barclays banker Jes Staley<\/a>, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak<\/a>, the magician David Copperfield<\/a>, actor Kevin Spacey<\/a>, former CIA director Bill Burns<\/a>, real estate mogul Mort Zuckerman<\/a>, former Maine senator George Mitchell<\/a> and disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein<\/a>, who reveled in Epstein\u2019s perpetual Bacchanalia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They also include law firms and high-priced attorneys, federal and state prosecutors, private investigators, personal assistants, publicists, servants and drivers. They include the numerous procurers and pimps, including Epstein\u2019s girlfriend and daughter of Robert Maxwell<\/a>, Ghislaine Maxwell. They include the media and politicians who ruthlessly discredited and silenced the victims, and strong armed anyone, including a handful of intrepid reporters, seeking to expose Epstein\u2019s crimes and circle of accomplices.<\/p>\n

There is a lot that remains hidden. But there are some things we know. Epstein installed hidden cameras in his opulent residences and on his private Caribbean island, Little St. James, to capture his high-powered friends engaging in sexual romps and abuse of teenage and underage girls and boys. The recordings were blackmail gold. Were they part of an intelligence operation on behalf of the Israeli Mossad<\/a>? Or were they used to ensure that Epstein had a steady source of investors who funneled him millions of dollars to avoid being outed? Or were they used for both? He shuttled underage girls between New York and Palm Beach on his private jet the Lolita Express<\/a>, which was allegedly outfitted with a bed for group sex. His coterie of famous friends, including Clinton<\/a> and Trump<\/a>, are recorded as traveling on the jet numerous times on released flight logs, although many other flight logs have disappeared.<\/p>\n

Epstein\u2019s videos are in the vaults of the FBI, along with detailed evidence that would rip back the veil on the sexual proclivities and callousness of the powerful. I doubt there is a client list, as Attorney General Pam Bondi claims. There is also no single Epstein file. The investigative material amassed on Epstein fills many, many boxes, which would bury Bondi\u2019s desk and probably, if collected in one room, dominate most of the space in her office.<\/p>\n

Did Epstein commit suicide, as the official autopsy report claims, by hanging himself in his jail cell on August 10, 2019 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City? Or was he murdered? Since the cameras recording activity in his cell the night were not functional, we do not know. Michael Baden, a forensic pathologist hired by Epstein’s brother, who served as the chief medical examiner for New York City and who was present at the autopsy, said he believes Epstein’s autopsy suggests homicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Epstein case is important because it implodes the fiction of deep divisions between Democrats, who had no more interest in releasing the Epstein files than Trump, and the Republicans. They belong to the same club. It exposes how the courts and law enforcement agencies collude to shield powerful figures who engage in crimes. It lays bare the depravity of our exhibitionist ruling class, accountable to no one, free to violate, plunder, loot and prey on the weak and the vulnerable. It is the tawdry record of our oligarchic masters, those who lack the capacity for shame or guilt, whether dressed up as Donald Trump or Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

This class of ruling parasites was parodied in the first-century satirical novel \u201cSatyricon<\/a>\u201d by Gaius Petronius Arbiter<\/a>, written during the reigns of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. As in Satyricon, Epstein\u2019s circle was dominated by pseudointellectuals, pretentious buffoons, grifters, con artists, petty criminals, the insatiable rich and the sexually depraved. Epstein and his inner circle routinely engaged in sexual perversions of Petronian proportions, as The Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie Brown, whose dogged reporting was largely responsible for reopening the federal investigation in Epstein and Maxwell, documents in her book \u201cPerversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Brown writes, in 2016 an anonymous woman, using the pseudonym \u201cKate Johnson,\u201d filed a civil complaint in a federal court in California alleging she was raped by Trump and Epstein when she was thirteen, over a four-month period, from June to September 1994.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loudly pleaded with Trump to stop,\u201d she said in the lawsuit about being raped. \u201cTrump responded to my pleas by violently striking me in the face with his open hand and screaming that he could do whatever he wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown continues:<\/p>\n

Johnson said that Epstein invited her to a series of \u2018underage sex parties\u2019 at his New York mansion where she met Trump. Enticed by promises of money and modeling opportunities, Johnson said she was forced to have sex with Trump several times, including once with another girl, twelve years old, whom she labeled \u2018Marie Doe.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump demanded oral sex, the lawsuit said, and afterward he \u201cpushed both minors away while angrily berating them for the \u2018poor\u2019 quality of the sexual performance,\u201d according to the lawsuit, filed April 26 in U.S. District Court in Central California.<\/em><\/p>\n

Afterward, when Epstein learned that Trump had taken Johnson\u2019s virginity, Epstein allegedly \u2018attempted to strike her about the head with his closed fists,\u2019 angry he had not been the one to take her virginity. Johnson claimed that both men threatened to harm her, and her family if she ever revealed what had happened.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The lawsuit states that Trump did not take part in Epstein\u2019s orgies but liked to watch, often while the thirteen-year-old \u201cKate Johnson\u201d gave him a hand job.<\/p>\n

It appears Trump was able to quash the lawsuit by buying her silence. She has since disappeared.<\/p>\n

In 2008, Alex Acosta, who at the time was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, negotiated a plea deal<\/a> for Epstein. The deal granted immunity from all federal criminal charges to Epstein, four named co-conspirators and any unnamed \u201cpotential co-conspirators.\u201d The agreement shut down the FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful figures who took part in Epstein\u2019s sex crimes. It halted the investigation and sealed the indictment. Trump, in what many consider an act of gratitude, appointed Acosta as Secretary of Labor in his first term.<\/p>\n

Trump contemplated pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell after she was arrested in July 2020, fearing she would reveal details of his decades-long friendship with Epstein, according to Trump biographer Michael Wolff. In July 2022, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cJeffrey Epstein\u2019s closest relationship in life was with Donald Trump\u2026these were two guys joined at the hip for a good 15 years. They did everything together,\u201d Wolff told<\/a> host Joanna Coles on The Daily Beast Podcast. \u201cAnd this is from sharing, pursuing women, hunting women, sharing at least one girlfriend for at least a year in this kind of rich-guy relationship with each other\u2019s planes, to Epstein advising Trump on how to cheat on his taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The legal anomalies, including the disappearance of massive amounts of evidence incriminating Epstein, saw Epstein avoid federal sex-trafficking charges in 2007, when his attorneys negotiated the secret plea deal with Acosta. He was able to plead guilty to lesser state charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution.<\/p>\n

The prominent men accused of engaging in Epstein\u2019s carnival of pedophilia, including Epstein\u2019s attorney Dershowitz, viciously threaten<\/a> anyone who seeks to expose<\/a> them. Dershowitz, for example, claims that an investigation which he has refused to make public, by the former FBI director Louis Freeh, proves he had never had sex with Epstein\u2019s victim Virginia Giuffre, who was trafficked<\/a> at 17 to Prince Andrew. Giuffre, one of the few victims to publicly take on her abusers, said she was \u201cpassed around like a platter of fruit\u201d among Epstein and Maxwell\u2019s friends, until at the age of 19 when she escaped. She \u201ccommitted suicide<\/a>\u201d in April 2025. Dershowitz has sent repeated threats to Brown and her editors at The Miami Herald.<\/p>\n

Brown continues:<\/p>\n

[Dershowitz] kept referring to information that was contained in sealed documents. He accused the newspaper of not reporting \u201cfacts\u201d that he said were in those sealed documents. The truth is, I tried to explain, newspapers just can\u2019t write about things because Alan Dershowitz says they exist. We need to see them. We need to verify them. Then, because I said \u201cshow me the material,\u201d he publicly accused me of committing a criminal act by asking him to produce documents that were under court seal.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the way Dershowitz operates.<\/em><\/p>\n

What disturbs me the most about Dershowitz is the way that the media, with few exceptions, fails to critically challenge him. Journalists fact-checked Donald Trump and others in his administration almost every day, yet, for the most part, the media seems to give Dershowitz a pass on the Epstein story.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2015, when Giuffre\u2019s allegations first became public, Dershowitz went on every television program imaginable swearing, among other things, that Epstein\u2019s plane logs would exonerate him. \u201cHow do you know that?\u201d he was asked.<\/em><\/p>\n

He replied that he was never on Epstein\u2019s plane during the time that Virginia was involved with Epstein.<\/em><\/p>\n

But if the media had checked, they could have learned that he was indeed a passenger on the plane during that time period, according to the logs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then he testified, in a sworn deposition, that he never went on any plane trips without his wife. But he was listed on those passage manifests as traveling multiple times without his wife. During at least one trip, he was on the plane with a model named Tatiana.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Epstein donated money to Harvard and was made a visiting fellow in Harvard\u2019s Department of Psychology, although he had no academic qualifications in the field. He was given a key card and pass code, as well as an office in the building that housed Harvard\u2019s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. He referred to himself in his press releases as \u201cScience Philanthropist Jeffrey Epstein,\u201d \u201cEducation activist Jeffrey Epstein,\u201d \u201cEvolutionary Jeffrey Epstein,\u201d \u201cScience patron Jeffrey Epstein\u201d and \u201cMaverick hedge funder Jeffrey Epstein.\u201d<\/p>\n

Epstein, replicating the pretensions and vacuity of the characters who were parodied in the \u201cDinner with Trimalchio\u201d chapter of Satyricon, organized elaborate dinner gatherings for his billionaire friends, including Elon Musk, Salar Kamangar and Jeff Bezos. He dreamed up bizarre schemes of social engineering, including a plan<\/a> to seed the human species with his own DNA by creating a baby compound at his sprawling ranch in New Mexico.<\/p>\n

\u201cEpstein was also obsessed with cryonics, the transhumanist philosophy whose followers believe that people can be replicated or brought back to life after they are frozen,\u201d Brown writes. \u201cEpstein apparently told some of the members of his scientific circle that he wanted to inseminate women with his sperm for them to give birth to his babies, and that he wanted his head and his penis frozen<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Epstein story is a window into the moral bankruptcy, hedonism and greed of the ruling class. This crosses political lines. It is the common denominator between Democratic politicians, such as Bill Clinton, philanthropists, such as Bill Gates, the billionaire class, and Trump. They are one class of predators and grifters. It is not only girls and women they exploit, but all of us.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for\u00a0<\/em>The New York Times,\u00a0where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief. He previously worked overseas for\u00a0<\/em>The Dallas Morning News,\u00a0The Christian Science Monitor, and<\/em> NPR. He used to be the host of the Emmy Award-nominated <\/em>RT America show\u00a0<\/em>On Contact.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original – chrishedges.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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