Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. Look Michael Wolf is the perfect example of
a guy who wants to play both sides of the
street and pretend that it's journalism. He's a dude who
shows up smelling like self promotion and stale book deals,
then act shocked when people point out that he's collecting
royalty checks off the suffering of people who are trafficked.
This is a man who has made a career out
of stirring up chaos and then pretending he's documenting it.
A carnival barker dressed up like a newsman, a ring
master who wants you to believe he's exposing the circus
while he's the one selling popcorn at the gate. And
the wild part is he genuinely doesn't see anything wrong
with it. He thinks it's the hustle, he thinks it's
the grind, But what he's really doing is exploiting a
tragedy for profit and then acting insulted when people call
him out. He spent years painting himself as a guy
with the inside scoop, the fearless truth teller who's not
afraid to take on Donald Trump, And sure he's made
a mint trashing great, fantastic, But while he's cashing in
on those hit pieces, behind the curtain, he's closing up
to Jeffrey Epstein, giving him pr advice and whispering about
strategy like some dime store of Machiavelli. Homie. That's not journalism.
What that is is somebody who is an opportunist. And
the kicker is that he tries to have it both ways,
publicly torching Trump as if he's a moral crusader while
privately positioning himself as Epstein's wise Conciglieri. You can't be
both the avenging angel of accountability and the whispering advisor
to a monster. That's not duality. That's duplicity dressed up
as media savvy. And if Michael Wolfe really cared about
the truth, he dumped every email, every note, every nugget
of Epstein intel that he has just upload it. Let
the public see it, let the survivor see it, let
the investigator see it. But he won't. He holds it
close because the longer he drags out the mystery, the
more he profits. He's milking the suspense like a new
Netflick's true crime showrunner. It's gross, and it gets grosser
when you realize that he's not protecting sources or ensuring accuracy.
He's protecting future revenue streams. He needs the fog, he
needs the ambiguity, He needs the slow drip of pseudo
revelations so he can keep feeding the content beast. It's
exploitation disguised as responsible timing, and everybody can see through
it except him. The man literally shaped an entire personal
fortune by beating Trump like a pinata for years, And
how that Epstein's emails have dropped his name in the mix.
Suddenly it's all about context. Spare me. You don't get
the cash checks off both sides of the scandal and
then stand there pretending you're some kind of noble chronicler
of history. It's a kind of silence that screams louder
than words, because if you really have the moral backbone,
he claims, he'd be front and center addressing the contradictions. Instead,
he retreats into vague statements and intellectual fog. He knows
what he's doing. He's dodging, deflecting, and hoping the new
cycle moves on before anyone presses him too hard, and
in my opinion, Wolf's biggest flaw isn't even the hypocrisy,
it's the arrogance. He genuinely thinks he's the hero of
all of this. He sees himself as a lone, brave
storyteller cutting through the noise, when in reality, he's adding
to the noise. He pours gasoline on a fire and
then brags about knowing the fire department. It's the kind
of delusion only money and media attention can give a man.
He walks around with this self inflated sense of importance,
as if the entire narrative hinges on his next revelation,
when really nobody asked him to be a central figure.
He inserted himself into the story and then convinced himself
that he was indispensable, because, let's get real, if he
actually had a treasure trove of useful, groundbreaking Epstein information,
he dropped that shit like a grenade. Not for the
public good, mind you, for the attention, for the clicks,
for the book deals, But he doesn't, so instead he
lingers on the sidelines, giving Epstein pr advice like a
washed up consultant who can he can't believe no one
asked him to the big game. He wants to be
the puppet master, but ends up looking like the guy
muttering strategies from the back row. And the whole time
he keeps pretending this is some noble sacrifice when it's
actually the cheapest form of self preservation imaginable. And look
at the damages caused to the credibility of the investigation.
When someone like Wolf sticks his finger in the pie,
the whole thing starts to rot. People assume it's bias,
slanted and tainted. He injects partisanship into a story that
should never have had political flavoring. This is about survivors, predators,
and a criminal enterprise that went on checked for decades,
not Red versus Blue, not who can sell the most books,
and once partisanship creeps in, the bad actors get exactly
what they want chaos, doubt, and distraction. Wolf is the
kind of guy who says he wants justice while unintentionally
decapping the people actually fighting for it. His involvement muddies
the water instead of clearing it. And the worst part,
the enabl and protectors of Epstein love what Wolf does.
They thrive on this kind of noise every time he
leans into sensationalism instead of clarity. They get more cover,
They get to say, see, it's all biased, it's all political,
it's all noise, and Wolf hands them that shield like
he's passing out party favors. They use him as a prop,
a convenient example of media distortion, even though he thinks
he's exposing them. It's like he's playing checkers while they're
playing intergalactic chess. His blunders become their talking points, his
bias becomes their camouflage, and he's too wrapped up in
himself to even notice. The guy can't even pretend to
engage with the survivors. He doesn't talk to him, He
doesn't ask what they want, He doesn't consider what they think.
Their voices don't matter because survivors don't generate the kind
of headlines he likes. The misery they live through is
in content. For him, it's leverage, it's a backdrop, it's
background music. And that's the difference between an opportunist and
a real journalist. One uses tragedy to build brand, the
other uses a platform to amplify the voices that matter.
Wolf predictably chose the brand. He always chooses the brand.
Real journalists, actual ones spend time listening to survivors, checking documents,
chasing leads, piecing together timelines, verifying claims. Wolf parachutes in
when there's a bag of money and leaves a second
the cameras turn away. He's a tourist and tragedy, and
when the tour stops being profitable, he hops off the bus.
There's no commitment, no consistency, no loyalty to truth, just
sound bites, theatrics, and the ceaseless pursuit of attention. He
treats journalism like a grab and go buffet. Take what
looks profitable, leave everything that requires effort or empathy. And
the sickest part for me is how he frames himself
as the one pulling back the curtain on corruption, when
in reality he's knee deep in it. You can't play
advisor to Epstein and then pretend you're exposing Epstein. It's
like consulting with the mob and then pitching a book
about how brave you are when you break the silence.
Give me a break, bro. The mental gymnastics required to
hold both positions without collapsing from embarrassment is mind blowing. Well.
Wolf pulls it off because he's convinced himself that his
contradictions aren't contradictions, they're layers. He thinks he's complex, he's not.
He's compromised. He knows knows that he's handing ammunition to
every creep who wants this story to go away. Every
time he plays KOI with what he knows. Every time,
he frames this as some partisan chess match instead of
a human nightmare. He gives the defenders and a SKA patch.
He gives them a talking point. Look, the media is biased,
and yes they're talking about him. They weaponize his nonsense
to undermine real reporting. They elevate his worst instincts to
discredit the truth. He becomes their poster boy without even
realizing he's been drafted, and the legacy media eats it
up because he's one of them, He's one of their own.
He plays the game. He pretends to be righteous, they
pretend to believe him, and everybody gets to cash out. Meanwhile,
the truth gets buried under layers a branding and bullshit.
The survivors get pushed to the bottom of the page,
and the powerful state protected. It's the same old media cycle, outrage, debate, distraction, repeat,
Wolf doesn't fix anything. He feeds the machine that broke it.
And let's be honest, Bro's not hurting for money, not
even close. He has a kind of bank account that
lets you sit in a Manhattan apartment and lecture the
world about morality without ever having to touch it yourself.
He's got small level riches hoarded from years of tearing
people apart and calling it journalism. And the saddest part
is that he treats that wealth like validation, like proof
that he must be right because he's rich. In reality,
it's just proof that outrage is profitable and tragedy sells.
And listen, nobody's asking this dude to be a saint.
Nobody expects Michael Wolf to transform into Woodward overnight. But
there's a line, a basic moral line, and he shoved
three miles past it when he chose to advise Epstein
while simultaneously positioning himself as some kind of moral authority
on Trump. It's a kind of apocracy that would even
make the most cynical Washington operator cringe. That's the problem
with guys like him. They think that their own intellect
exempts them from scrutiny. They think that because they speak
in a certain cadence because they know which buzzwords the
media likes. They're immune. They really believe the public won't
notice the contradictions. But the public notices everything now. Audiences
aren't passive anymore. They connect dots faster than the gatekeepers
can hide them, and Wolf, my Friends, has a lot
of dots. Wolf keeps insisting that he's not part of
the story, but he is. He's woven into the fabric
of it. He'll never say it out loud, but he
knows damn well that dumping what he has, if he
has anything real, would actually help the investigation. It would
help the survivors, it would help the public cut through
the fog. But it wouldn't help him. It wouldn't help
the brand, so it doesn't happen. He keeps the vault
locked while pretending it's for the greater good, when really
it's for the greater wallet. Brodie's compass doesn't point, it
points to whatever sells, So we're left with this, a
loud guy with the microphone who's more interested in his
next best seller than the actual accountability, pretending to be
a truth teller while hiding in the truth. It's everything
wrong with the legacy media wrapped up in one man,
the ego, the opportunism, the manufactured morality. He's a walking
billboard for why people don't trust journalists anymore. He's the
reason public rolls her eyes when the word investigation gets
thrown around. And I know I'm not alone when I
say this, But this story Epstein, the emails, the survivors,
the corruption. It deserves better than a carnival barker. It
deserves better than someone who sees pain as a paycheck
and scandal is a pr opportunity. It deserved honesty, it
deserved urgency, It deserves someone who gave a damn. Instead,
it got a guy who treats one of the darkest
chapters of modern history like a marketing opportunity. That's what
we needed. But instead it got Michael Wolfe. And that
says everything. It says everything about him, everything about the
legacy media, and everything about why so many people have
lost faith in the so called truth tellers. And that's
why they've stopped giving them the benefit of the doubt.
When the story needed courage, it got opportunism. When the
survivors needed amplification, they got silence. When justice needed clarity,
it got chaos, and now that we all got the emails,
Michael Wolfe has been exposed. All of the information that
goes with this episode can be found in the description box.
What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
As the lawsuit between the US Virgin Islands and JP
Morgan continues to make its way through court, we're finding
out a lot more about the emails and the scheduling
that was going on within Jeffrey Epstein's universe. Well, one
of the people that was a bit chummier with Epstein
than he has let on is Michael wolf And Michael
Wolfe is an author who thought it would be a
good idea to continue to palle around with Epstein after
Epstein's conviction. So who is Michael wolf Well, let's talk
about him real quick. Michael Wolfe is an American journalist
as well as a columnist and contributor at USA Today,
The Hollywood Reporter, and the UK edition of GQ. He
has received two National Magazine Awards, a Mira Award, and
has authored seven books, including burn Rate, about his own
dot com company, and The Man who Owns the News,
a biography of Rupert Murdoch. He co founded the news
aggregation website newser and is a former editor of Badweek.
On January fifth, twenty eighteen, Wolfe's book Fire and Fury
Inside the Trump White House was published, containing unflattering descriptions
of behavior by US President Donald Trump, chaotic interactions among
the White House senior staff, and derogatory comments about the
Trump family former White House Chief strategist Steve Bannon. The
book quickly became a New York Times Number one bestseller
and became the first of a trilogy about Trump and power,
the other two books being Siege and Landslide. There was
like a whole ass industry that popped up around Trump,
all of these jerkoffs who wrote all of these stupid books,
and all they're doing is rehashing the same stuff that
the other knucklehead said before them. Here's an idea. If
you're going to have some kind of investigative piece, it's
a good idea to give us some new news and
not just rehash the bs that you've been talking about
or other people have been talking about ad nauseum that
goes nowhere. And that's what all of these books pretty
much were. Did any of them offer up anything worthwhile?
Of course they didn't. It was the shiny object in
the room though, and people knew, grifters knew that there
was a whole ass cottage industry popping up around this.
So all of these people were like, you know what,
I'm gonna write a book. I have an inside source. Meanwhile,
they're all just telling the same ass story, just repackaged.
So today we have an article from The Daily Beast
talking a little bit more about Michael Wolfe and how
he conveniently omitted his own relationship with Jeffrey Epstein from
that part of his book headline, Michael Wolfe is all
over Jeffrey Epstein's date book. This article was authored by
Lachlan Cartwright. Gossipy provocateur and author Michael Wolfe has long
been accused of being too chummy with his highest profile subjects,
which at one point included Jeffrey Epstein. New documents obtained
and reviewed by Confider reveal the extent to which the
pair spent time together even after Epstein was found guilty
of sexually abusing a fourteen year old girl. Now, how
can you ever justify hanging out with somebody who is
a convicted sex offender? Like, maybe if it's your family member,
and you guys are out like a barbecue or something.
All right, Look, Uncle Jed's coming over, the fucking diddler.
But all of these people, they willingly were hanging out
with Epstein because let's be very clear, they were all
looking to benefit in some sort of way riding on
this dude's close taels, and if that meant closing their
eyes and ignoring that girls were being harmed all around them,
then that's what they were going to do. According to
Newly on Earth's scheduling records and emails from the US
Virgin Islands Attorney General Wolf and Epstein, who were close
in late nineties and early two thousands, at one point
partnering up to try and buy New York Magazine, had
at least nine planned meetings between twenty twelve and twenty
and fifteen. Harvey Weinstein was also involved in that planned
purchase of New York Magazine, and the idea behind that
was obviously for Epstein to continue to refurbish his image
and to make it look like, with his own narratives
coming out of his own paper, that he's just a
guy that has been much maligned. All of these girls
or liars Thankfully it never happened. Unfortunately, there's a bunch
of jerkofs in the media like this clown, who have
done nothing but run cover for Jeffrey Epstein for all
of these years. These previously unreported meetups, which were not
disclosed in Wolfe's most recent book, Too Famous, and its
chapter title The Last Days of Jeffrey Epstein, provide a
unique window into just how much the two socialized even
after Epstein served jail in two thousand and eight and
became a registered sex offender. Pretty convenient that he left
his own palin around with Epstein out of the book. Huh, Yeah,
you'll know what. We'll just we'll admit this and we'll
make everybody else look bad. Meanwhile, it's not a big
secret that these two were friends. So just be honest
in your book and explain your friendship with this guy
instead of just talking about how he's friends with everyone else.
The first schedule hang was dated February sixteenth, twenty twelve,
a breakfast in New York that listed both wolf Sell
and email. Confider cannot verify whether the meeting took place,
but confirmed the listed cell number and email belonged to
wolf And while we can't confirm some of these meetings.
My guess is that they took place. Do you really
think that Epstein would just have them penned into his
calendar if they weren't going to happen. Whatever else this
guy was, he was somebody that was about his shit,
somebody that wanted this whole enterprise to keep moving, and
to do that, he needed to have people in his pocket.
He needed to have people writing all kinds of BS
stories about him, all kinds of puff pieces. So all
of these people would come and hang out with them,
break bread with them, and they'd catch something on the
back end, whether it's money, a trip down to the island,
or something else entirely. On July thirtieth, twenty thirteen, Wolf
was listed as having a scheduled lunch with Epstein at
twelve thirty pm in New York City. In early twenty fourteen,
Wolf was slated for a January breakfast in the city
with Epstein, as well as dinner where Woody Allen, his
wife sun Yee Previn, and former JP Morgan executive Jess Day,
among several others, were listed as attending, followed by two
meetings in September and another lunch in October that year.
By twenty fifteen, they had plans to meet in January
for breakfast and on April eighth for a late afternoon appointment. Oh,
a late afternoon appointment, is it? And it's so funny
how all these people who were close to Epstein back
in the day have tried to profit on the back
of that relationship while not exposing just how close they were.
While such engagements could ostensibly be characterized as source meetings
for a reporter like Wolf, they are certainly curious considering
the long running questions about their connections. New York Magazine
notably killed Wolf's rehabby profile of Epstein in twenty nineteen
over fact checking concerns, which were later alleged to include
the author allowing Epstein to dictate the piece and field
all fact related questions, according to Alex Yablin, the fact
checker on the piece, and that is far too common
these days. You have these journalists who trade their morality
for access, and you see it time and time again.
Look at what ABC did with the Amy Robots story
when she had all of the details from Virginia Roberts,
but instead of running that story, they killed it. That
way they could keep their access to the royal family.
And there's a lot of journalists that'll do that as well.
They'll suspend their integrity to get the story as long
as it's going to get them clicks or it's going
to get them views. To hell with having any sort
of integrity or any sort of morality. I'm just gonna
say whatever to try and get clicks and try and
secure that bag. And there's just way too much of
that going on, way too many people that'll see whatever
because they know it's going to tickle people's confirmation bias.
And the goal is to play on people's emotions. The
more emotional people are, the more invested they are, and
the more willing they are to come out of their
pocketbook to continue funding the grift. Wolf did not respond
to Confider's multiple requests for comment about the purpose of
their scheduled meetings or what was discussed. And while Wolfe's
book includes the forty page chapter about Epstein largely centered
on the convicted sex offenders relationship with Steve Bannon, he
curiously made no mention of his own extensive association with Epstein,
and Epstein was trying to get some tips from Steve
Bannon as well. Don't forget that Steve Bannon was coaching
him as far as the interview process, and things escalated
to a point where allegedly there was a whole interview conducted.
But I guess it's never going to see the light
of day. However, Wolf has never been shy about sharing
his thoughts on Epstein. Never been secretive about the girls,
Wolfe told New York in two thousand and seven. At
one point when his troubles began, he was talking to
me and said, what can I say? I like young girls?
I said, maybe you should say I like young women.
Imagine that's your advice. Instead of saying, here's an idea,
stop being a sick, disgusting diddler and go find a
woman in your own age, he says, just change the language.
And that's the real problem, folks. That's the problem with
all of these so called elite and the gatekeepers in
the media that protect them. You would think that somebody
like Michael Wolf would find what Epstein did abhorrent and
not want to associate with him and tell him something
a little bit different. Besides, oh, just change the way
you word that, repackage it a little bit better. I mean,
that's your advice as opposed to writing an absolute hit
piece on the guy. That's the advice you give him. Huh.
And then you go and write a book with a
forty page chapter about Ebstein where your tight relationship with
the guy is conveniently left out. Huh. Well, I'm not
surprised because guess what, folks, it's just par for the course,
all right, everybody that's going to do it for this one.
All of the information that goes with the episode can
be found in the description box. What's up, everyone, and
welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. So Michael Wolfe,
the author, has filed a lawsuit against Malania Trump, and
he says that Malania Trump is attempting to intimidate him
and to stop them from reporting on her ledged ties
to Jeffrey Epstein. And now Michael Wolfe is taking it
a step further, saying that he hopes that he's able
to depose Malania Trump and Donald Trump when it comes
to this issue. And look, this fire has been burning
now since July. And at the center of this controversy
is Michael Wolfe, the veteran author famous for torching political royalty,
and now the man who filed a billion dollar lawsuit
against her in New York, claiming that she tried to
silence him with a billion dollar threat. Yeah billion with
a bee. You could rebuild half of Miami for that
kind of money, but apparently that's what it costs these
days to keep a journalist quiet. Wolf says her team
went nuclear after he suggested that Milanna and Trump once
moved in Epstein's orbit, that maybe their paths weren't as
distant as they'd like people to believe. Her lawyers naturally
hit back with a vengeance, letters, warnings, demands for retractions,
the whole arsenal of high society damage control. But instead
of backing down, Wolf flip the script and suit her first.
He wants discovery, meaning depositions, records, flight manifests, the kind
of evidence that makes powerful people sweat under fluorescent lights,
and look, let's be real, Wolf, no stranger to controversy.
Bros made a career out of walking right up to
the line between journalism and provocation, then moon walking over
it for good measure. Dude's been called reckless, sin, sation, brilliant,
and everything in between. But love him or hate him,
one thing's for sure. He's not afraid of a fight,
and in this case, he picked one with the family
that practically trademarked the word litigation. That's like poking a
hornet's nest just to see if it still stings. Now,
of course, Milania's side calls it all false. In defamatory,
they say Wolf is chasing cloud, that he's peddling solicious
fiction for clicks. Maybe he is, But if this were
really about shutting down lies, why make it a billion
dollar spectacle? Because threats like that don't sound like damage control.
They sound like deterrence. And history tells us when people
start screaming about defamation in the Epstein orbit, it's usually
because someone's getting a little too close to something uncomfortable.
And the irony of it all. If the goal was
to bury the story, threatening a billion dollar lawsuit against
a guy who thrives on controversy is like pouring gasoline
on a barbecue. Wolf'spin in this rodeo long enough to
know the value of a headline, and Milanya's legal threats
practically gift wrap them one. The moment those words billion
dollar lawsuit hit the press, the story became unstoppable, because
that's how this saga works. If he's on silence, on secrecy,
on that sense that the truth is always a half
a page away. Every time a new name gets pulled
into it, the whole thing reignites. One minute, its bankers,
the next it's princes, and before you know it, you're
talking about former and current presidents. And every time it
comes back to the same haunting question that's been hanging
in the air since the day Epstein was found dead
in a cell Who knew what and when? This article
was published by NBC News and the headline author of
Michael Wolfe sues Malania Trump over Jeffrey Epstein threat. The
author of this article is Chloe Atkins and Dora Gregorian.
Author Michael Wolfe has sued First Lady Malania Trump, charging
that she threatened a one billion dollar legal action against
him to stop him from reporting and writing about her
alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Miss Trump's claims are made
for the sole purpose of harassing, intimidating, punishing, or otherwise
maliciously inhibiting mister Wolfe's free exercise of speech, said the suit,
which was filed Tuesday in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan.
The filing includes an attachment a letter of Trump's attorney,
Alexandro Brito, sent to Wolf, the author of Fire in Fury,
last week, demanding that he retract and apologize for public
comments he made linking his client to Epstein, the notorious
sex offender, and that he make a monetary proposal to
miss Trump for the damages that you have caused. And
if you think that a guy like Michael wolf is
going to just open up the bank account and start
paying out settlements, you're crazy. He can manipulate all of
this into a story, and that's what he's going to do.
And look, I have a lot of questions about Michael
Wolfe himself and about what his motivations are. I mean,
you would think that if you have all this information
that you say you have, that you say you've had
four years, you'd release it, right, But it's always a
drip with Michael wolf Oh, I have this, I'm gonna
release it later, And then he just keeps dragging it
out because he knows it's good for business, right. And
then of course he'll drop a book or two and
he'll have a bunch of salacious allegations in the book,
and a lot of them are unverifiable. There's no doubt
about it. And when we first started talking about mister
wolf a few years ago, I said that I would
take everything he has to say with a grain of salt,
and I still feel that way. But does that mean
that what he's saying is a bunch of bs? All
of it? Absolutely not. So I think it's worthy of discussion.
But I'd be a liar if I told you that
I thought that Michael Wolfe was some kind of arbiter
of truth when it comes to Epstein. I don't believe
that to be the case. I think that Michael wolf
just knows that he could sell books, he can get clicks,
and he can make some money with this story. I
think that's what it comes down to. But with this
lawsuit with Milania Trump, certainly interesting, right And if they
do get to Discovery, boy, that would be exciting. Can
you imagine what will come out in a discovery like that?
What sort of nonsense all these people have been getting
up to. And I'm not just talking about the Trumps,
Michael wolf himself, because sometimes you think that you are
going to have the upper hands when it comes to
these depositions, and then it comes time for the deposition
and you find out something completely different. So is that
what Michael Wolfe has in store for him? I guess
we'll have to see. Trump has been aggressive in pushing
back against what her lawyers describe as false reports linking
her to Epstein, and her office said in a statement
on Wednesday that she is proud to continue standing up
to those who spread malicious and defamatory falsehoods as they
desperately try to get undeserved attention and money from their
own lawful conduct. And look, if he's telling falsehoods, if
he's not telling the truth, I'd sue him too. But remember,
when you see somebody, you have to back it up.
And that means depositions, that means going to court, that
means discovery, that means all of that stuff probably going public.
So if you have anything that you're embarrassed of, chances
are you're going to try and avoid a deposition and
certainly try and avoid discovery. And that's why you see
Prince Andrew's bitch ass settle with Virginia when he did.
The letter from Brito cited comments wolf made to the
Deli Beasts this year in a story headline Malania Trump
very involved in Epstein's scandal, as well as comments he
made on a Deli Beasts podcast, And if you remember,
he was saying that Milania Trump was introduced to Donald
Trump by somebody who she says wasn't the person who
introduced them. So Milania Trump has said that everything Michael
wolf is saying about her and the origin story of
her meeting Donald Trump is defamatory. The website later issued
a retraction and an apology. The full text of the
Retractedbeast article is no longer available online instead of the
publication said in an editor's note. Upon reflection, we have
determined that the article did not meet our standards and
has therefore been removed from our platforms. You know, you
have to really be pushing the envelope if the Daily
Beast is going to remove an article about Donald Trump,
because boy, they love to stick it to him, right,
So if they have something they feel like is going
to be damaging, they're going to run it. So what
does that say about the credibility of the reporting of
Michael Wolfe. Now you could look at it from a
different perspective, right and say, well, This is all about litigation.
They're trying to mitigate their exposure here by pulling this story.
That way, they don't have to deal with a very,
very very litigous Trump family. So that's certainly one way
you could look at it. But of course it could
be spun that the story was a bunch of bs,
and that's why it was pulled. I stand by your work,
and you stand by your reporting. You're not going to
retract something, right, look at the Wall Street Journal with
the fiftieth birthday card that was allegedly sent by Trump.
They're standing ten toes down on business when it comes
to that. So if you believe something is true, then
you're going to back it up. Wolf Suit says the
statements in the article were taken out of context, and
he maintained he had not to fame Trump. Trump has
not been accused of any wrongdoing connected to Epstein. Epstein
had been friends with Donald Trump in the nineties and
the early two thousands, and look, there's no doubt that
they were homies. They most certainly were same parties, same
social circles, the whole thing, and there is no doubt
that they did have a falling out. That's not in dispute,
And for me, I think the biggest problem is the
cover up that we're seeing right now. You talked all
this nonsense about releasing files, being transparent, making sure the
American people know what happened, only to come into office
and clam right up like everybody else. So that's really
where my criticism's coming from. Don't bullshit me on the
campaign trail and then when you get into office do
something completely different. I mean, it's one thing to say, look,
we have to investigate further to see what's going on.
It's a whole less other thing to call it a
hoax and to just kill the investigation entirely. And that's
why I think for Donald Trump, the cover up in
his case when it comes to Ebstein, is worse than
the crime. And that's all compounded by the promises that
were made on the campaign trail by Trump and people
that are now part of his administration. Epstein died by
suicide in a New York Jael cell in twenty nineteen,
while he was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
His death sparked numerous conspiracy theories and vows during the
twenty twenty four campaign from Donald Trump and his allies
of increased transparency into Ebstein's case and any possible accomplices.
And that's the big problem. Like I was just saying,
you can't run around literally for years talking about this
one's involved and that one's involved. And Bill Clinton's going
to have some issues because he went to the island
only to show up and say, just kidding, there's nothing
to see here. We're just playing with you guys. That's
not gonna work for anybody. And look, I'll tell you
right now, if they released everything they had, every file
they had, I think that it would be better for
them in the long run, even if it's embarrassing now.
But unfortunately, it's all about politics. It's all about optics,
and it's all about trying to continue to control the narrative.
It's not about justice. It's not about holding anybody to account.
And anybody telling you that's lying. And that goes for
Congress as well. Well. They're not trying to use this
as a political cudgel. Why isn't Matthew Menchell being called
or a Villa Fauna or a Krisher or any of
those other people. Ask yourself that wolf suit said that
he had accrued many hours of interviews of Jeffrey Epstein's
conducted over several years, and that the First Lady's legal
threats are also intended to shut down legitimate inquiry into
the Epstein matter, which the Trumps and their collaborators have
at every turn sought to impede and suppress. In a
video on Wednesday on Instagram, Wolf said he hopes to
be able to depose the Trumps as part of his
legal action. To be perfectly honest, I'd like nothing better
than to get Donald Trump and Milanya Trump under oath
in front of a court reporter and actually find out
all of the details of their relationship with Epstein. He said, Well, look,
everybody would like to see that. Do you really think
it's going to happen. I highly doubt it, and that's
because it's way too risky a deposition, Really sitting under
oath talking about Epstein. That doesn't work out well for people,
and that's why you see so many people avoiding it.
So we'll have to see what comes of this. But
I have a hard time believing that this is going
to progress very far inside of the court. My guess
is that it's going to be dropped one way or
the other, some sort of settlement maybe, or maybe the
judge just says, look, there's no merit here and we're
going to toss it. So we'll keep an eye on things,
and when we have some more information, we'll get it
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