EPSTEIN BOMB goes off: New files hit Trump, MAGA allies, big tech & 'health guru' to the stars

Journalists and experts still pouring over the

millions of new Epstein files released under the law that Congress forced through

over Donald Trump's many objections across the first year of his second term.

We're learning new details about how Epstein courted power from elite institutions to top moguls, even doctors, lawyers, tech leaders.

It was an array of individuals that gives greater insight into the web he weaved and maybe how he helped himself stay on the lamb for so long.

The Wall Street Journal reports on quote flirty emails and chummy photos that show an intricately spun web of influence and then Epstein, who was a big name dropper and kind of a con man one upper, would invoke his connections to then amass the wealthy and powerful friends, which may have helped protect him.

Now these interactions come after Epstein served time for soliciting prostitution from a minor.

Peter Attia, who's really known as a longevity influencer, one of these sort of medical gurus self-proclaimed, he's in the files hundreds of times through 2019, including meetings with Epstein.

There's a major businessman, someone who's more behind the scenes but known to all kinds of folks in media and the Olympics.

Casey Wasserman, chair of the 2028 games, exchanging what sounded like suggestive emails with Ghislaine Maxwell.

He has spoken out about that and regretted it.

Or take the newly tapped Melania director Brett Ratner, who already was in trouble and sort of put out of Hollywood for sexual misconduct allegations.

He's seen in images with unidentified women, he said one was his former fiance.

But he is in the files.

Epstein also kept ties with Silicon Valley's elite.

Again, this was in a decade, The Guardian notes, after his publicly known prison stay.

The first one.

In 2018, he was still going to dinners where you would see Musk, Bezos, the Google founders, Page and Brin.

His conviction, I should say his conviction as a sex offender, had, according to The Guardian, quote, little effect on his ability to move among those billionaire elites.

The Democrat who led the successful effort to get these files out, discussing the results.

I mean, you have some of the most wealthy individuals, tech leaders, finance leaders, politicians, all implicated in some way.

Having emails about wanting to go to Epstein's island, knowing that Epstein was a pedophile.

It's frankly one of the largest scandals in my view in our country's history, and there is a demand for elite accountability.

Ro Khanna discussing the problem and the call for elite accountability.

There are many layers to this, some people have defended popping up in the files by saying that they or their institutions didn't know everything.

And best we can tell that's true, although as we mentioned after a certain point in time, it was clear Epstein had that prior criminal offense.

But even those institutions are still a part of the problem, even if there's no evidence that they were, for example, themselves actively going to the island.

That's important if we legally and otherwise want to get to the bottom of all this because Epstein was cultivating these relationships on purpose.

This is one of the problems that if you care about these victims and what happened and you want to prevent it next time, we need to root out from the bottom.

So there's a lot of charity and money that flies around in America.

Politico reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to yes, a worthy cause, Mount Sinai, but how that was misused by Epstein to peddle influence.

With correspondence with a surgeon there who then did visit Epstein's Island.

The doctor saying at one point for Epstein, anything is possible.

Now Mount Sinai might be able to use the money.

But they have to understand they were also probably being used.

Other files show Epstein benefiting from a direct line to their ER list, last minute medical appointments, discussions on procuring ambulances for his private island.

This is a broad and expansive web.

And the misuse of money to gain access is part of the problem because you have people who

take the money because they say, well, this university or hospital needs it.

But then you had Mr. Epstein walking around invoking those associations to continue to build his web.

A web that best we can tell has still prevented a complete accountability and investigation of all of the individuals involved.

I was careful to mention that there's a spectrum here and there are some people where there has to be a full investigation to what they were doing on the island.

Why they wanted to go.

And then there are these institutions where no one's saying shut down hospitals.

But they got pulled in because of the money game.

And so one of the reasons this has fascinated and upset so many people for so many years

is the perception that it's not on the level and all these people circle around these money and power systems.

And sadly, it seems that Epstein was able to exploit that.

Yeah.

And in fact, it's funny because when you look at the Howard Lutnick story,

he actually donated money, $75,000 in Howard Lutnick's name.

That's what we found from the emails.

I mean, what's so hard about this whole dump is that there is information that is totally, you know, credible emails.

That we know exist and are real.

And then there are things like tip sheets.

And then there are things like draft indictments.

I mean, I think the 2007 draft indictment from Florida, which has 20 Jane Does, including multiple women who are 14 and 15 years old,

is probably one of the most damning pieces of evidence in this whole thing.

So let's key in on that.

Because one of the reasons that normally the government doesn't release material like this

is that it can be misinterpreted.

Tip sheets involve writing down what one person could anonymously phone in.

So they're at the credibility level legally of like the bathroom stall in middle school

or a Reddit page.

Zero credibility.

The draft indictment you mentioned is high credibility.

And we would never normally see that.

Because the normal rules say secrecy first to protect.

Here it was so bad, Congress, as we know, said exception.

This is the exception.

And the the indictment you mentioned was prepared all the way back under Bush DOJ in 2007.

It listed a series of quote sex crimes that he was accused of committed against more than a dozen teenage girls over six years.

It was never filed.

Now, legally, I want to be clear, those are accusations.

Not proven.

But unlike the tip line, it suggests that some prosecutors back then thought they had enough to bring this.

And then something changed.

They were pushed back.

While Epstein had hired all these Republican lawyers.

Yeah, and he and ultimately he gets what is this Alex Acosta deal.

Which is really a sweetheart deal.

And I think what's so appalling about this story, and there are a number of parts that are appalling, right?

There's what you see in the emails are people trading favors, people using each other for things.

And that are mundane.

And then there are these catastrophic crimes against women.

But I think what is the most upsetting about the whole thing is that this happened under five different administrations.

Republican, Democrat, the FBI did not believe women.

And they did not believe more than a thousand of them.