1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,759 Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:07,400 Epstein Chronicles. Look Michael Wolf is the perfect example of 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:09,400 a guy who wants to play both sides of the 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,080 street and pretend that it's journalism. He's a dude who 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,280 shows up smelling like self promotion and stale book deals, 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,079 then act shocked when people point out that he's collecting 7 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,559 royalty checks off the suffering of people who are trafficked. 8 00:00:23,199 --> 00:00:25,320 This is a man who has made a career out 9 00:00:25,359 --> 00:00:28,440 of stirring up chaos and then pretending he's documenting it. 10 00:00:29,039 --> 00:00:31,760 A carnival barker dressed up like a newsman, a ring 11 00:00:31,839 --> 00:00:34,560 master who wants you to believe he's exposing the circus 12 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,439 while he's the one selling popcorn at the gate. And 13 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,439 the wild part is he genuinely doesn't see anything wrong 14 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:43,479 with it. He thinks it's the hustle, he thinks it's 15 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,159 the grind, But what he's really doing is exploiting a 16 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,119 tragedy for profit and then acting insulted when people call 17 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,719 him out. He spent years painting himself as a guy 18 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,920 with the inside scoop, the fearless truth teller who's not 19 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,920 afraid to take on Donald Trump, And sure he's made 20 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,960 a mint trashing great, fantastic, But while he's cashing in 21 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,760 on those hit pieces, behind the curtain, he's closing up 22 00:01:05,799 --> 00:01:09,280 to Jeffrey Epstein, giving him pr advice and whispering about 23 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:14,560 strategy like some dime store of Machiavelli. Homie. That's not journalism. 24 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:19,519 What that is is somebody who is an opportunist. And 25 00:01:19,599 --> 00:01:22,000 the kicker is that he tries to have it both ways, 26 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,480 publicly torching Trump as if he's a moral crusader while 27 00:01:25,519 --> 00:01:30,120 privately positioning himself as Epstein's wise Conciglieri. You can't be 28 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,920 both the avenging angel of accountability and the whispering advisor 29 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:38,079 to a monster. That's not duality. That's duplicity dressed up 30 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:42,640 as media savvy. And if Michael Wolfe really cared about 31 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,920 the truth, he dumped every email, every note, every nugget 32 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,480 of Epstein intel that he has just upload it. Let 33 00:01:48,519 --> 00:01:51,079 the public see it, let the survivor see it, let 34 00:01:51,079 --> 00:01:54,280 the investigator see it. But he won't. He holds it 35 00:01:54,319 --> 00:01:57,239 close because the longer he drags out the mystery, the 36 00:01:57,239 --> 00:02:00,000 more he profits. He's milking the suspense like a new 37 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,920 Netflick's true crime showrunner. It's gross, and it gets grosser 38 00:02:03,959 --> 00:02:07,480 when you realize that he's not protecting sources or ensuring accuracy. 39 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,919 He's protecting future revenue streams. He needs the fog, he 40 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,360 needs the ambiguity, He needs the slow drip of pseudo 41 00:02:15,439 --> 00:02:18,719 revelations so he can keep feeding the content beast. It's 42 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:23,319 exploitation disguised as responsible timing, and everybody can see through 43 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:28,159 it except him. The man literally shaped an entire personal 44 00:02:28,199 --> 00:02:31,280 fortune by beating Trump like a pinata for years, And 45 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,159 how that Epstein's emails have dropped his name in the mix. 46 00:02:34,439 --> 00:02:38,080 Suddenly it's all about context. Spare me. You don't get 47 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,360 the cash checks off both sides of the scandal and 48 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,080 then stand there pretending you're some kind of noble chronicler 49 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,120 of history. It's a kind of silence that screams louder 50 00:02:46,159 --> 00:02:48,840 than words, because if you really have the moral backbone, 51 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:53,520 he claims, he'd be front and center addressing the contradictions. Instead, 52 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:57,080 he retreats into vague statements and intellectual fog. He knows 53 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,960 what he's doing. He's dodging, deflecting, and hoping the new 54 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,479 cycle moves on before anyone presses him too hard, and 55 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,439 in my opinion, Wolf's biggest flaw isn't even the hypocrisy, 56 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:10,120 it's the arrogance. He genuinely thinks he's the hero of 57 00:03:10,159 --> 00:03:12,639 all of this. He sees himself as a lone, brave 58 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,159 storyteller cutting through the noise, when in reality, he's adding 59 00:03:16,199 --> 00:03:19,680 to the noise. He pours gasoline on a fire and 60 00:03:19,719 --> 00:03:22,680 then brags about knowing the fire department. It's the kind 61 00:03:22,719 --> 00:03:25,520 of delusion only money and media attention can give a man. 62 00:03:26,159 --> 00:03:29,159 He walks around with this self inflated sense of importance, 63 00:03:29,319 --> 00:03:32,319 as if the entire narrative hinges on his next revelation, 64 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,759 when really nobody asked him to be a central figure. 65 00:03:36,639 --> 00:03:39,599 He inserted himself into the story and then convinced himself 66 00:03:39,639 --> 00:03:43,400 that he was indispensable, because, let's get real, if he 67 00:03:43,479 --> 00:03:47,039 actually had a treasure trove of useful, groundbreaking Epstein information, 68 00:03:47,319 --> 00:03:50,000 he dropped that shit like a grenade. Not for the 69 00:03:50,039 --> 00:03:52,639 public good, mind you, for the attention, for the clicks, 70 00:03:52,719 --> 00:03:55,319 for the book deals, But he doesn't, so instead he 71 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,560 lingers on the sidelines, giving Epstein pr advice like a 72 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,919 washed up consultant who can he can't believe no one 73 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,560 asked him to the big game. He wants to be 74 00:04:04,639 --> 00:04:06,800 the puppet master, but ends up looking like the guy 75 00:04:06,879 --> 00:04:09,680 muttering strategies from the back row. And the whole time 76 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,120 he keeps pretending this is some noble sacrifice when it's 77 00:04:13,159 --> 00:04:17,160 actually the cheapest form of self preservation imaginable. And look 78 00:04:17,199 --> 00:04:19,800 at the damages caused to the credibility of the investigation. 79 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:22,759 When someone like Wolf sticks his finger in the pie, 80 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,720 the whole thing starts to rot. People assume it's bias, 81 00:04:25,759 --> 00:04:29,680 slanted and tainted. He injects partisanship into a story that 82 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:34,199 should never have had political flavoring. This is about survivors, predators, 83 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,959 and a criminal enterprise that went on checked for decades, 84 00:04:37,319 --> 00:04:41,079 not Red versus Blue, not who can sell the most books, 85 00:04:41,639 --> 00:04:44,800 and once partisanship creeps in, the bad actors get exactly 86 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,759 what they want chaos, doubt, and distraction. Wolf is the 87 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,800 kind of guy who says he wants justice while unintentionally 88 00:04:51,879 --> 00:04:56,519 decapping the people actually fighting for it. His involvement muddies 89 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,360 the water instead of clearing it. And the worst part, 90 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,800 the enabl and protectors of Epstein love what Wolf does. 91 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:05,720 They thrive on this kind of noise every time he 92 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,920 leans into sensationalism instead of clarity. They get more cover, 93 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,720 They get to say, see, it's all biased, it's all political, 94 00:05:12,879 --> 00:05:16,759 it's all noise, and Wolf hands them that shield like 95 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,519 he's passing out party favors. They use him as a prop, 96 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:23,240 a convenient example of media distortion, even though he thinks 97 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,839 he's exposing them. It's like he's playing checkers while they're 98 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:31,600 playing intergalactic chess. His blunders become their talking points, his 99 00:05:31,759 --> 00:05:34,720 bias becomes their camouflage, and he's too wrapped up in 100 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:37,839 himself to even notice. The guy can't even pretend to 101 00:05:37,959 --> 00:05:40,519 engage with the survivors. He doesn't talk to him, He 102 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,319 doesn't ask what they want, He doesn't consider what they think. 103 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,680 Their voices don't matter because survivors don't generate the kind 104 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,360 of headlines he likes. The misery they live through is 105 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,360 in content. For him, it's leverage, it's a backdrop, it's 106 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:57,160 background music. And that's the difference between an opportunist and 107 00:05:57,199 --> 00:06:00,800 a real journalist. One uses tragedy to build brand, the 108 00:06:00,879 --> 00:06:04,040 other uses a platform to amplify the voices that matter. 109 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,160 Wolf predictably chose the brand. He always chooses the brand. 110 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:14,600 Real journalists, actual ones spend time listening to survivors, checking documents, 111 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:19,879 chasing leads, piecing together timelines, verifying claims. Wolf parachutes in 112 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,079 when there's a bag of money and leaves a second 113 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,199 the cameras turn away. He's a tourist and tragedy, and 114 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:28,120 when the tour stops being profitable, he hops off the bus. 115 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:32,439 There's no commitment, no consistency, no loyalty to truth, just 116 00:06:32,519 --> 00:06:36,360 sound bites, theatrics, and the ceaseless pursuit of attention. He 117 00:06:36,439 --> 00:06:39,199 treats journalism like a grab and go buffet. Take what 118 00:06:39,199 --> 00:06:43,879 looks profitable, leave everything that requires effort or empathy. And 119 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,279 the sickest part for me is how he frames himself 120 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,120 as the one pulling back the curtain on corruption, when 121 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,439 in reality he's knee deep in it. You can't play 122 00:06:51,439 --> 00:06:55,040 advisor to Epstein and then pretend you're exposing Epstein. It's 123 00:06:55,079 --> 00:06:57,439 like consulting with the mob and then pitching a book 124 00:06:57,519 --> 00:07:00,000 about how brave you are when you break the silence. 125 00:07:00,399 --> 00:07:03,759 Give me a break, bro. The mental gymnastics required to 126 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:08,480 hold both positions without collapsing from embarrassment is mind blowing. Well. 127 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,480 Wolf pulls it off because he's convinced himself that his 128 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:16,399 contradictions aren't contradictions, they're layers. He thinks he's complex, he's not. 129 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,959 He's compromised. He knows knows that he's handing ammunition to 130 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,560 every creep who wants this story to go away. Every 131 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:25,879 time he plays KOI with what he knows. Every time, 132 00:07:25,879 --> 00:07:28,519 he frames this as some partisan chess match instead of 133 00:07:28,519 --> 00:07:31,759 a human nightmare. He gives the defenders and a SKA patch. 134 00:07:32,199 --> 00:07:35,199 He gives them a talking point. Look, the media is biased, 135 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,839 and yes they're talking about him. They weaponize his nonsense 136 00:07:38,879 --> 00:07:42,319 to undermine real reporting. They elevate his worst instincts to 137 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,759 discredit the truth. He becomes their poster boy without even 138 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,560 realizing he's been drafted, and the legacy media eats it 139 00:07:49,639 --> 00:07:52,240 up because he's one of them, He's one of their own. 140 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,199 He plays the game. He pretends to be righteous, they 141 00:07:55,199 --> 00:07:58,800 pretend to believe him, and everybody gets to cash out. Meanwhile, 142 00:07:58,839 --> 00:08:01,439 the truth gets buried under layers a branding and bullshit. 143 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,240 The survivors get pushed to the bottom of the page, 144 00:08:04,399 --> 00:08:10,399 and the powerful state protected. It's the same old media cycle, outrage, debate, distraction, repeat, 145 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,519 Wolf doesn't fix anything. He feeds the machine that broke it. 146 00:08:15,439 --> 00:08:17,759 And let's be honest, Bro's not hurting for money, not 147 00:08:17,839 --> 00:08:20,000 even close. He has a kind of bank account that 148 00:08:20,079 --> 00:08:22,279 lets you sit in a Manhattan apartment and lecture the 149 00:08:22,279 --> 00:08:25,560 world about morality without ever having to touch it yourself. 150 00:08:25,959 --> 00:08:29,199 He's got small level riches hoarded from years of tearing 151 00:08:29,199 --> 00:08:32,759 people apart and calling it journalism. And the saddest part 152 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:35,759 is that he treats that wealth like validation, like proof 153 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:38,759 that he must be right because he's rich. In reality, 154 00:08:38,759 --> 00:08:42,039 it's just proof that outrage is profitable and tragedy sells. 155 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:44,840 And listen, nobody's asking this dude to be a saint. 156 00:08:45,039 --> 00:08:48,720 Nobody expects Michael Wolf to transform into Woodward overnight. But 157 00:08:48,879 --> 00:08:51,440 there's a line, a basic moral line, and he shoved 158 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,799 three miles past it when he chose to advise Epstein 159 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,799 while simultaneously positioning himself as some kind of moral authority 160 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,080 on Trump. It's a kind of apocracy that would even 161 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:05,440 make the most cynical Washington operator cringe. That's the problem 162 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,559 with guys like him. They think that their own intellect 163 00:09:08,639 --> 00:09:11,480 exempts them from scrutiny. They think that because they speak 164 00:09:11,519 --> 00:09:14,200 in a certain cadence because they know which buzzwords the 165 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:18,720 media likes. They're immune. They really believe the public won't 166 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:23,720 notice the contradictions. But the public notices everything now. Audiences 167 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,960 aren't passive anymore. They connect dots faster than the gatekeepers 168 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,879 can hide them, and Wolf, my Friends, has a lot 169 00:09:29,919 --> 00:09:33,039 of dots. Wolf keeps insisting that he's not part of 170 00:09:33,039 --> 00:09:35,919 the story, but he is. He's woven into the fabric 171 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:37,960 of it. He'll never say it out loud, but he 172 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,480 knows damn well that dumping what he has, if he 173 00:09:41,519 --> 00:09:44,759 has anything real, would actually help the investigation. It would 174 00:09:44,759 --> 00:09:47,039 help the survivors, it would help the public cut through 175 00:09:47,039 --> 00:09:49,919 the fog. But it wouldn't help him. It wouldn't help 176 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:53,200 the brand, so it doesn't happen. He keeps the vault 177 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,559 locked while pretending it's for the greater good, when really 178 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,440 it's for the greater wallet. Brodie's compass doesn't point, it 179 00:10:00,519 --> 00:10:03,879 points to whatever sells, So we're left with this, a 180 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,879 loud guy with the microphone who's more interested in his 181 00:10:06,919 --> 00:10:10,399 next best seller than the actual accountability, pretending to be 182 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,559 a truth teller while hiding in the truth. It's everything 183 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,240 wrong with the legacy media wrapped up in one man, 184 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,960 the ego, the opportunism, the manufactured morality. He's a walking 185 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,559 billboard for why people don't trust journalists anymore. He's the 186 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,559 reason public rolls her eyes when the word investigation gets 187 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:30,039 thrown around. And I know I'm not alone when I 188 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:34,679 say this, But this story Epstein, the emails, the survivors, 189 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,120 the corruption. It deserves better than a carnival barker. It 190 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,080 deserves better than someone who sees pain as a paycheck 191 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:45,440 and scandal is a pr opportunity. It deserved honesty, it 192 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:49,679 deserved urgency, It deserves someone who gave a damn. Instead, 193 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,559 it got a guy who treats one of the darkest 194 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:56,159 chapters of modern history like a marketing opportunity. That's what 195 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:59,240 we needed. But instead it got Michael Wolfe. And that 196 00:10:59,279 --> 00:11:02,360 says everything. It says everything about him, everything about the 197 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,720 legacy media, and everything about why so many people have 198 00:11:05,879 --> 00:11:08,759 lost faith in the so called truth tellers. And that's 199 00:11:08,799 --> 00:11:11,320 why they've stopped giving them the benefit of the doubt. 200 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,759 When the story needed courage, it got opportunism. When the 201 00:11:14,799 --> 00:11:19,200 survivors needed amplification, they got silence. When justice needed clarity, 202 00:11:19,399 --> 00:11:22,600 it got chaos, and now that we all got the emails, 203 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:27,840 Michael Wolfe has been exposed. All of the information that 204 00:11:27,879 --> 00:11:31,080 goes with this episode can be found in the description box. 205 00:11:31,519 --> 00:11:35,399 What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. 206 00:11:36,159 --> 00:11:39,679 As the lawsuit between the US Virgin Islands and JP 207 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,279 Morgan continues to make its way through court, we're finding 208 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,559 out a lot more about the emails and the scheduling 209 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:52,240 that was going on within Jeffrey Epstein's universe. Well, one 210 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:55,480 of the people that was a bit chummier with Epstein 211 00:11:55,799 --> 00:11:59,240 than he has let on is Michael wolf And Michael 212 00:11:59,279 --> 00:12:01,759 Wolfe is an author who thought it would be a 213 00:12:01,799 --> 00:12:05,200 good idea to continue to palle around with Epstein after 214 00:12:05,279 --> 00:12:10,080 Epstein's conviction. So who is Michael wolf Well, let's talk 215 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,559 about him real quick. Michael Wolfe is an American journalist 216 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:17,720 as well as a columnist and contributor at USA Today, 217 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,200 The Hollywood Reporter, and the UK edition of GQ. He 218 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:26,200 has received two National Magazine Awards, a Mira Award, and 219 00:12:26,279 --> 00:12:30,159 has authored seven books, including burn Rate, about his own 220 00:12:30,399 --> 00:12:33,120 dot com company, and The Man who Owns the News, 221 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:36,799 a biography of Rupert Murdoch. He co founded the news 222 00:12:36,799 --> 00:12:41,200 aggregation website newser and is a former editor of Badweek. 223 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,600 On January fifth, twenty eighteen, Wolfe's book Fire and Fury 224 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:50,320 Inside the Trump White House was published, containing unflattering descriptions 225 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:55,120 of behavior by US President Donald Trump, chaotic interactions among 226 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:59,000 the White House senior staff, and derogatory comments about the 227 00:12:59,039 --> 00:13:03,639 Trump family former White House Chief strategist Steve Bannon. The 228 00:13:03,639 --> 00:13:06,960 book quickly became a New York Times Number one bestseller 229 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,360 and became the first of a trilogy about Trump and power, 230 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,720 the other two books being Siege and Landslide. There was 231 00:13:14,759 --> 00:13:17,919 like a whole ass industry that popped up around Trump, 232 00:13:18,399 --> 00:13:21,799 all of these jerkoffs who wrote all of these stupid books, 233 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,799 and all they're doing is rehashing the same stuff that 234 00:13:24,919 --> 00:13:28,320 the other knucklehead said before them. Here's an idea. If 235 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:32,240 you're going to have some kind of investigative piece, it's 236 00:13:32,279 --> 00:13:34,879 a good idea to give us some new news and 237 00:13:34,919 --> 00:13:38,000 not just rehash the bs that you've been talking about 238 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,559 or other people have been talking about ad nauseum that 239 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:44,759 goes nowhere. And that's what all of these books pretty 240 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,799 much were. Did any of them offer up anything worthwhile? 241 00:13:49,279 --> 00:13:51,679 Of course they didn't. It was the shiny object in 242 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,720 the room though, and people knew, grifters knew that there 243 00:13:54,799 --> 00:13:57,519 was a whole ass cottage industry popping up around this. 244 00:13:57,840 --> 00:13:59,879 So all of these people were like, you know what, 245 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,080 I'm gonna write a book. I have an inside source. Meanwhile, 246 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:06,200 they're all just telling the same ass story, just repackaged. 247 00:14:06,279 --> 00:14:08,559 So today we have an article from The Daily Beast 248 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:11,919 talking a little bit more about Michael Wolfe and how 249 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:16,360 he conveniently omitted his own relationship with Jeffrey Epstein from 250 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:20,639 that part of his book headline, Michael Wolfe is all 251 00:14:20,679 --> 00:14:25,240 over Jeffrey Epstein's date book. This article was authored by 252 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:31,159 Lachlan Cartwright. Gossipy provocateur and author Michael Wolfe has long 253 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,679 been accused of being too chummy with his highest profile subjects, 254 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:39,480 which at one point included Jeffrey Epstein. New documents obtained 255 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,919 and reviewed by Confider reveal the extent to which the 256 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:47,000 pair spent time together even after Epstein was found guilty 257 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,559 of sexually abusing a fourteen year old girl. Now, how 258 00:14:50,559 --> 00:14:54,399 can you ever justify hanging out with somebody who is 259 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,200 a convicted sex offender? Like, maybe if it's your family member, 260 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,440 and you guys are out like a barbecue or something. 261 00:15:00,639 --> 00:15:03,960 All right, Look, Uncle Jed's coming over, the fucking diddler. 262 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,879 But all of these people, they willingly were hanging out 263 00:15:06,879 --> 00:15:10,120 with Epstein because let's be very clear, they were all 264 00:15:10,159 --> 00:15:13,320 looking to benefit in some sort of way riding on 265 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,080 this dude's close taels, and if that meant closing their 266 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,840 eyes and ignoring that girls were being harmed all around them, 267 00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:23,120 then that's what they were going to do. According to 268 00:15:23,159 --> 00:15:26,080 Newly on Earth's scheduling records and emails from the US 269 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,039 Virgin Islands Attorney General Wolf and Epstein, who were close 270 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:33,159 in late nineties and early two thousands, at one point 271 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,360 partnering up to try and buy New York Magazine, had 272 00:15:36,399 --> 00:15:40,120 at least nine planned meetings between twenty twelve and twenty 273 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,440 and fifteen. Harvey Weinstein was also involved in that planned 274 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:48,559 purchase of New York Magazine, and the idea behind that 275 00:15:48,759 --> 00:15:52,840 was obviously for Epstein to continue to refurbish his image 276 00:15:52,919 --> 00:15:55,480 and to make it look like, with his own narratives 277 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:57,919 coming out of his own paper, that he's just a 278 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:01,000 guy that has been much maligned. All of these girls 279 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:05,440 or liars Thankfully it never happened. Unfortunately, there's a bunch 280 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:08,360 of jerkofs in the media like this clown, who have 281 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,639 done nothing but run cover for Jeffrey Epstein for all 282 00:16:11,679 --> 00:16:16,320 of these years. These previously unreported meetups, which were not 283 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,679 disclosed in Wolfe's most recent book, Too Famous, and its 284 00:16:19,759 --> 00:16:23,200 chapter title The Last Days of Jeffrey Epstein, provide a 285 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:27,000 unique window into just how much the two socialized even 286 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:30,200 after Epstein served jail in two thousand and eight and 287 00:16:30,279 --> 00:16:34,360 became a registered sex offender. Pretty convenient that he left 288 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:38,039 his own palin around with Epstein out of the book. Huh, Yeah, 289 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:40,480 you'll know what. We'll just we'll admit this and we'll 290 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,919 make everybody else look bad. Meanwhile, it's not a big 291 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:47,240 secret that these two were friends. So just be honest 292 00:16:47,279 --> 00:16:50,159 in your book and explain your friendship with this guy 293 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,759 instead of just talking about how he's friends with everyone else. 294 00:16:55,559 --> 00:17:00,000 The first schedule hang was dated February sixteenth, twenty twelve, 295 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,399 a breakfast in New York that listed both wolf Sell 296 00:17:03,559 --> 00:17:07,559 and email. Confider cannot verify whether the meeting took place, 297 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,960 but confirmed the listed cell number and email belonged to 298 00:17:11,039 --> 00:17:15,000 wolf And while we can't confirm some of these meetings. 299 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,319 My guess is that they took place. Do you really 300 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:19,480 think that Epstein would just have them penned into his 301 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,519 calendar if they weren't going to happen. Whatever else this 302 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:26,079 guy was, he was somebody that was about his shit, 303 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:30,400 somebody that wanted this whole enterprise to keep moving, and 304 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,400 to do that, he needed to have people in his pocket. 305 00:17:33,599 --> 00:17:36,240 He needed to have people writing all kinds of BS 306 00:17:36,279 --> 00:17:40,000 stories about him, all kinds of puff pieces. So all 307 00:17:40,039 --> 00:17:43,240 of these people would come and hang out with them, 308 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:45,920 break bread with them, and they'd catch something on the 309 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:49,000 back end, whether it's money, a trip down to the island, 310 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:55,359 or something else entirely. On July thirtieth, twenty thirteen, Wolf 311 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,599 was listed as having a scheduled lunch with Epstein at 312 00:17:58,599 --> 00:18:03,000 twelve thirty pm in New York City. In early twenty fourteen, 313 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,319 Wolf was slated for a January breakfast in the city 314 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,720 with Epstein, as well as dinner where Woody Allen, his 315 00:18:09,799 --> 00:18:14,160 wife sun Yee Previn, and former JP Morgan executive Jess Day, 316 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:18,720 among several others, were listed as attending, followed by two 317 00:18:18,799 --> 00:18:22,640 meetings in September and another lunch in October that year. 318 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,559 By twenty fifteen, they had plans to meet in January 319 00:18:26,599 --> 00:18:31,000 for breakfast and on April eighth for a late afternoon appointment. Oh, 320 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,400 a late afternoon appointment, is it? And it's so funny 321 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,920 how all these people who were close to Epstein back 322 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:39,680 in the day have tried to profit on the back 323 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:44,039 of that relationship while not exposing just how close they were. 324 00:18:44,599 --> 00:18:48,960 While such engagements could ostensibly be characterized as source meetings 325 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,880 for a reporter like Wolf, they are certainly curious considering 326 00:18:53,039 --> 00:18:57,279 the long running questions about their connections. New York Magazine 327 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:02,160 notably killed Wolf's rehabby profile of Epstein in twenty nineteen 328 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:06,160 over fact checking concerns, which were later alleged to include 329 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:10,279 the author allowing Epstein to dictate the piece and field 330 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,319 all fact related questions, according to Alex Yablin, the fact 331 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,240 checker on the piece, and that is far too common 332 00:19:17,279 --> 00:19:21,839 these days. You have these journalists who trade their morality 333 00:19:22,039 --> 00:19:25,039 for access, and you see it time and time again. 334 00:19:25,319 --> 00:19:28,400 Look at what ABC did with the Amy Robots story 335 00:19:28,759 --> 00:19:32,480 when she had all of the details from Virginia Roberts, 336 00:19:32,759 --> 00:19:35,759 but instead of running that story, they killed it. That 337 00:19:35,839 --> 00:19:38,519 way they could keep their access to the royal family. 338 00:19:38,759 --> 00:19:41,240 And there's a lot of journalists that'll do that as well. 339 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,559 They'll suspend their integrity to get the story as long 340 00:19:44,599 --> 00:19:46,440 as it's going to get them clicks or it's going 341 00:19:46,519 --> 00:19:48,960 to get them views. To hell with having any sort 342 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:52,319 of integrity or any sort of morality. I'm just gonna 343 00:19:52,319 --> 00:19:54,920 say whatever to try and get clicks and try and 344 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,440 secure that bag. And there's just way too much of 345 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,599 that going on, way too many people that'll see whatever 346 00:20:00,839 --> 00:20:04,160 because they know it's going to tickle people's confirmation bias. 347 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:06,759 And the goal is to play on people's emotions. The 348 00:20:06,759 --> 00:20:09,559 more emotional people are, the more invested they are, and 349 00:20:09,599 --> 00:20:11,279 the more willing they are to come out of their 350 00:20:11,319 --> 00:20:15,440 pocketbook to continue funding the grift. Wolf did not respond 351 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:19,119 to Confider's multiple requests for comment about the purpose of 352 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:23,039 their scheduled meetings or what was discussed. And while Wolfe's 353 00:20:23,039 --> 00:20:27,359 book includes the forty page chapter about Epstein largely centered 354 00:20:27,559 --> 00:20:31,440 on the convicted sex offenders relationship with Steve Bannon, he 355 00:20:31,519 --> 00:20:35,960 curiously made no mention of his own extensive association with Epstein, 356 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,000 and Epstein was trying to get some tips from Steve 357 00:20:39,039 --> 00:20:42,839 Bannon as well. Don't forget that Steve Bannon was coaching 358 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:46,920 him as far as the interview process, and things escalated 359 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:51,000 to a point where allegedly there was a whole interview conducted. 360 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,680 But I guess it's never going to see the light 361 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:58,279 of day. However, Wolf has never been shy about sharing 362 00:20:58,319 --> 00:21:01,799 his thoughts on Epstein. Never been secretive about the girls, 363 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:05,200 Wolfe told New York in two thousand and seven. At 364 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,920 one point when his troubles began, he was talking to 365 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,599 me and said, what can I say? I like young girls? 366 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,880 I said, maybe you should say I like young women. 367 00:21:14,319 --> 00:21:17,240 Imagine that's your advice. Instead of saying, here's an idea, 368 00:21:17,599 --> 00:21:20,480 stop being a sick, disgusting diddler and go find a 369 00:21:20,519 --> 00:21:24,039 woman in your own age, he says, just change the language. 370 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,480 And that's the real problem, folks. That's the problem with 371 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,480 all of these so called elite and the gatekeepers in 372 00:21:30,519 --> 00:21:33,319 the media that protect them. You would think that somebody 373 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,920 like Michael Wolf would find what Epstein did abhorrent and 374 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,599 not want to associate with him and tell him something 375 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,799 a little bit different. Besides, oh, just change the way 376 00:21:42,799 --> 00:21:45,640 you word that, repackage it a little bit better. I mean, 377 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,119 that's your advice as opposed to writing an absolute hit 378 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,839 piece on the guy. That's the advice you give him. Huh. 379 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:53,759 And then you go and write a book with a 380 00:21:53,839 --> 00:21:58,119 forty page chapter about Ebstein where your tight relationship with 381 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,720 the guy is conveniently left out. Huh. Well, I'm not 382 00:22:01,799 --> 00:22:05,319 surprised because guess what, folks, it's just par for the course, 383 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,720 all right, everybody that's going to do it for this one. 384 00:22:08,839 --> 00:22:11,440 All of the information that goes with the episode can 385 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:14,720 be found in the description box. What's up, everyone, and 386 00:22:14,839 --> 00:22:20,319 welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. So Michael Wolfe, 387 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:24,599 the author, has filed a lawsuit against Malania Trump, and 388 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,880 he says that Malania Trump is attempting to intimidate him 389 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,599 and to stop them from reporting on her ledged ties 390 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,119 to Jeffrey Epstein. And now Michael Wolfe is taking it 391 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,079 a step further, saying that he hopes that he's able 392 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,880 to depose Malania Trump and Donald Trump when it comes 393 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,000 to this issue. And look, this fire has been burning 394 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,319 now since July. And at the center of this controversy 395 00:22:48,799 --> 00:22:53,039 is Michael Wolfe, the veteran author famous for torching political royalty, 396 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,039 and now the man who filed a billion dollar lawsuit 397 00:22:56,039 --> 00:23:00,200 against her in New York, claiming that she tried to 398 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,160 silence him with a billion dollar threat. Yeah billion with 399 00:23:04,319 --> 00:23:07,599 a bee. You could rebuild half of Miami for that 400 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,039 kind of money, but apparently that's what it costs these 401 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,880 days to keep a journalist quiet. Wolf says her team 402 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,519 went nuclear after he suggested that Milanna and Trump once 403 00:23:17,599 --> 00:23:20,759 moved in Epstein's orbit, that maybe their paths weren't as 404 00:23:20,799 --> 00:23:24,720 distant as they'd like people to believe. Her lawyers naturally 405 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:29,359 hit back with a vengeance, letters, warnings, demands for retractions, 406 00:23:29,519 --> 00:23:32,960 the whole arsenal of high society damage control. But instead 407 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,640 of backing down, Wolf flip the script and suit her first. 408 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,599 He wants discovery, meaning depositions, records, flight manifests, the kind 409 00:23:41,599 --> 00:23:45,480 of evidence that makes powerful people sweat under fluorescent lights, 410 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:49,440 and look, let's be real, Wolf, no stranger to controversy. 411 00:23:50,079 --> 00:23:52,039 Bros made a career out of walking right up to 412 00:23:52,079 --> 00:23:56,279 the line between journalism and provocation, then moon walking over 413 00:23:56,319 --> 00:24:00,799 it for good measure. Dude's been called reckless, sin, sation, brilliant, 414 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,839 and everything in between. But love him or hate him, 415 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,680 one thing's for sure. He's not afraid of a fight, 416 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,279 and in this case, he picked one with the family 417 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,359 that practically trademarked the word litigation. That's like poking a 418 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,759 hornet's nest just to see if it still stings. Now, 419 00:24:16,799 --> 00:24:19,960 of course, Milania's side calls it all false. In defamatory, 420 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,440 they say Wolf is chasing cloud, that he's peddling solicious 421 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,920 fiction for clicks. Maybe he is, But if this were 422 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,759 really about shutting down lies, why make it a billion 423 00:24:29,799 --> 00:24:34,160 dollar spectacle? Because threats like that don't sound like damage control. 424 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,759 They sound like deterrence. And history tells us when people 425 00:24:37,799 --> 00:24:41,920 start screaming about defamation in the Epstein orbit, it's usually 426 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,480 because someone's getting a little too close to something uncomfortable. 427 00:24:46,319 --> 00:24:48,720 And the irony of it all. If the goal was 428 00:24:48,759 --> 00:24:51,559 to bury the story, threatening a billion dollar lawsuit against 429 00:24:51,599 --> 00:24:55,119 a guy who thrives on controversy is like pouring gasoline 430 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:59,359 on a barbecue. Wolf'spin in this rodeo long enough to 431 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,640 know the value of a headline, and Milanya's legal threats 432 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,160 practically gift wrap them one. The moment those words billion 433 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,160 dollar lawsuit hit the press, the story became unstoppable, because 434 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,720 that's how this saga works. If he's on silence, on secrecy, 435 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,279 on that sense that the truth is always a half 436 00:25:16,279 --> 00:25:19,400 a page away. Every time a new name gets pulled 437 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,599 into it, the whole thing reignites. One minute, its bankers, 438 00:25:22,799 --> 00:25:25,119 the next it's princes, and before you know it, you're 439 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,920 talking about former and current presidents. And every time it 440 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,680 comes back to the same haunting question that's been hanging 441 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,000 in the air since the day Epstein was found dead 442 00:25:34,039 --> 00:25:38,880 in a cell Who knew what and when? This article 443 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,160 was published by NBC News and the headline author of 444 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:47,279 Michael Wolfe sues Malania Trump over Jeffrey Epstein threat. The 445 00:25:47,319 --> 00:25:51,680 author of this article is Chloe Atkins and Dora Gregorian. 446 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:56,359 Author Michael Wolfe has sued First Lady Malania Trump, charging 447 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,079 that she threatened a one billion dollar legal action against 448 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,359 him to stop him from reporting and writing about her 449 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,599 alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Miss Trump's claims are made 450 00:26:06,599 --> 00:26:10,599 for the sole purpose of harassing, intimidating, punishing, or otherwise 451 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,440 maliciously inhibiting mister Wolfe's free exercise of speech, said the suit, 452 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,240 which was filed Tuesday in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan. 453 00:26:19,599 --> 00:26:23,039 The filing includes an attachment a letter of Trump's attorney, 454 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,920 Alexandro Brito, sent to Wolf, the author of Fire in Fury, 455 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,400 last week, demanding that he retract and apologize for public 456 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:34,000 comments he made linking his client to Epstein, the notorious 457 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,200 sex offender, and that he make a monetary proposal to 458 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,680 miss Trump for the damages that you have caused. And 459 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,200 if you think that a guy like Michael wolf is 460 00:26:43,279 --> 00:26:45,359 going to just open up the bank account and start 461 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,799 paying out settlements, you're crazy. He can manipulate all of 462 00:26:48,839 --> 00:26:51,119 this into a story, and that's what he's going to do. 463 00:26:51,559 --> 00:26:53,519 And look, I have a lot of questions about Michael 464 00:26:53,519 --> 00:26:57,720 Wolfe himself and about what his motivations are. I mean, 465 00:26:57,759 --> 00:26:59,640 you would think that if you have all this information 466 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,759 that you say you have, that you say you've had 467 00:27:01,759 --> 00:27:04,920 four years, you'd release it, right, But it's always a 468 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,640 drip with Michael wolf Oh, I have this, I'm gonna 469 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,880 release it later, And then he just keeps dragging it 470 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,880 out because he knows it's good for business, right. And 471 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,839 then of course he'll drop a book or two and 472 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,680 he'll have a bunch of salacious allegations in the book, 473 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,839 and a lot of them are unverifiable. There's no doubt 474 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,839 about it. And when we first started talking about mister 475 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,599 wolf a few years ago, I said that I would 476 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:29,559 take everything he has to say with a grain of salt, 477 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,279 and I still feel that way. But does that mean 478 00:27:32,319 --> 00:27:35,039 that what he's saying is a bunch of bs? All 479 00:27:35,079 --> 00:27:39,799 of it? Absolutely not. So I think it's worthy of discussion. 480 00:27:40,039 --> 00:27:41,920 But I'd be a liar if I told you that 481 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,880 I thought that Michael Wolfe was some kind of arbiter 482 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,559 of truth when it comes to Epstein. I don't believe 483 00:27:47,599 --> 00:27:49,960 that to be the case. I think that Michael wolf 484 00:27:50,079 --> 00:27:52,799 just knows that he could sell books, he can get clicks, 485 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,079 and he can make some money with this story. I 486 00:27:56,079 --> 00:27:58,400 think that's what it comes down to. But with this 487 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,279 lawsuit with Milania Trump, certainly interesting, right And if they 488 00:28:02,279 --> 00:28:05,759 do get to Discovery, boy, that would be exciting. Can 489 00:28:05,799 --> 00:28:07,799 you imagine what will come out in a discovery like that? 490 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,559 What sort of nonsense all these people have been getting 491 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,680 up to. And I'm not just talking about the Trumps, 492 00:28:14,599 --> 00:28:18,000 Michael wolf himself, because sometimes you think that you are 493 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,359 going to have the upper hands when it comes to 494 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,599 these depositions, and then it comes time for the deposition 495 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,200 and you find out something completely different. So is that 496 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,680 what Michael Wolfe has in store for him? I guess 497 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:34,960 we'll have to see. Trump has been aggressive in pushing 498 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,160 back against what her lawyers describe as false reports linking 499 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,039 her to Epstein, and her office said in a statement 500 00:28:41,119 --> 00:28:44,319 on Wednesday that she is proud to continue standing up 501 00:28:44,359 --> 00:28:48,160 to those who spread malicious and defamatory falsehoods as they 502 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,440 desperately try to get undeserved attention and money from their 503 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:56,759 own lawful conduct. And look, if he's telling falsehoods, if 504 00:28:56,799 --> 00:29:01,279 he's not telling the truth, I'd sue him too. But remember, 505 00:29:01,319 --> 00:29:04,160 when you see somebody, you have to back it up. 506 00:29:04,519 --> 00:29:07,839 And that means depositions, that means going to court, that 507 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,599 means discovery, that means all of that stuff probably going public. 508 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,279 So if you have anything that you're embarrassed of, chances 509 00:29:16,279 --> 00:29:19,000 are you're going to try and avoid a deposition and 510 00:29:19,119 --> 00:29:23,119 certainly try and avoid discovery. And that's why you see 511 00:29:23,119 --> 00:29:25,759 Prince Andrew's bitch ass settle with Virginia when he did. 512 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,799 The letter from Brito cited comments wolf made to the 513 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,839 Deli Beasts this year in a story headline Malania Trump 514 00:29:32,079 --> 00:29:35,519 very involved in Epstein's scandal, as well as comments he 515 00:29:35,599 --> 00:29:38,559 made on a Deli Beasts podcast, And if you remember, 516 00:29:38,839 --> 00:29:41,720 he was saying that Milania Trump was introduced to Donald 517 00:29:41,759 --> 00:29:45,680 Trump by somebody who she says wasn't the person who 518 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,559 introduced them. So Milania Trump has said that everything Michael 519 00:29:49,599 --> 00:29:52,519 wolf is saying about her and the origin story of 520 00:29:52,519 --> 00:29:56,759 her meeting Donald Trump is defamatory. The website later issued 521 00:29:56,799 --> 00:29:59,359 a retraction and an apology. The full text of the 522 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:04,000 Retractedbeast article is no longer available online instead of the 523 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,039 publication said in an editor's note. Upon reflection, we have 524 00:30:08,119 --> 00:30:11,200 determined that the article did not meet our standards and 525 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,960 has therefore been removed from our platforms. You know, you 526 00:30:15,039 --> 00:30:17,400 have to really be pushing the envelope if the Daily 527 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,119 Beast is going to remove an article about Donald Trump, 528 00:30:20,799 --> 00:30:22,920 because boy, they love to stick it to him, right, 529 00:30:23,559 --> 00:30:26,359 So if they have something they feel like is going 530 00:30:26,359 --> 00:30:29,319 to be damaging, they're going to run it. So what 531 00:30:29,359 --> 00:30:32,279 does that say about the credibility of the reporting of 532 00:30:32,319 --> 00:30:34,920 Michael Wolfe. Now you could look at it from a 533 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:39,119 different perspective, right and say, well, This is all about litigation. 534 00:30:39,799 --> 00:30:45,759 They're trying to mitigate their exposure here by pulling this story. 535 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,720 That way, they don't have to deal with a very, 536 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:52,400 very very litigous Trump family. So that's certainly one way 537 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,599 you could look at it. But of course it could 538 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,880 be spun that the story was a bunch of bs, 539 00:30:58,119 --> 00:31:00,960 and that's why it was pulled. I stand by your work, 540 00:31:01,119 --> 00:31:03,000 and you stand by your reporting. You're not going to 541 00:31:03,039 --> 00:31:06,319 retract something, right, look at the Wall Street Journal with 542 00:31:06,519 --> 00:31:09,599 the fiftieth birthday card that was allegedly sent by Trump. 543 00:31:10,559 --> 00:31:13,319 They're standing ten toes down on business when it comes 544 00:31:13,359 --> 00:31:16,559 to that. So if you believe something is true, then 545 00:31:16,599 --> 00:31:20,640 you're going to back it up. Wolf Suit says the 546 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,160 statements in the article were taken out of context, and 547 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,839 he maintained he had not to fame Trump. Trump has 548 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,119 not been accused of any wrongdoing connected to Epstein. Epstein 549 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,839 had been friends with Donald Trump in the nineties and 550 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,400 the early two thousands, and look, there's no doubt that 551 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:39,200 they were homies. They most certainly were same parties, same 552 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,519 social circles, the whole thing, and there is no doubt 553 00:31:42,599 --> 00:31:45,599 that they did have a falling out. That's not in dispute, 554 00:31:46,599 --> 00:31:48,759 And for me, I think the biggest problem is the 555 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,799 cover up that we're seeing right now. You talked all 556 00:31:51,799 --> 00:31:56,000 this nonsense about releasing files, being transparent, making sure the 557 00:31:56,119 --> 00:32:00,079 American people know what happened, only to come into office 558 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,720 and clam right up like everybody else. So that's really 559 00:32:03,759 --> 00:32:06,519 where my criticism's coming from. Don't bullshit me on the 560 00:32:06,519 --> 00:32:08,960 campaign trail and then when you get into office do 561 00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:11,880 something completely different. I mean, it's one thing to say, look, 562 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,240 we have to investigate further to see what's going on. 563 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,799 It's a whole less other thing to call it a 564 00:32:16,839 --> 00:32:21,119 hoax and to just kill the investigation entirely. And that's 565 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,880 why I think for Donald Trump, the cover up in 566 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,200 his case when it comes to Ebstein, is worse than 567 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,920 the crime. And that's all compounded by the promises that 568 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,039 were made on the campaign trail by Trump and people 569 00:32:32,039 --> 00:32:36,440 that are now part of his administration. Epstein died by 570 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,079 suicide in a New York Jael cell in twenty nineteen, 571 00:32:39,319 --> 00:32:42,519 while he was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. 572 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,680 His death sparked numerous conspiracy theories and vows during the 573 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,279 twenty twenty four campaign from Donald Trump and his allies 574 00:32:50,279 --> 00:32:55,079 of increased transparency into Ebstein's case and any possible accomplices. 575 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,359 And that's the big problem. Like I was just saying, 576 00:32:57,799 --> 00:33:00,720 you can't run around literally for years talking about this 577 00:33:00,759 --> 00:33:03,559 one's involved and that one's involved. And Bill Clinton's going 578 00:33:03,599 --> 00:33:05,599 to have some issues because he went to the island 579 00:33:06,359 --> 00:33:09,960 only to show up and say, just kidding, there's nothing 580 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,000 to see here. We're just playing with you guys. That's 581 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,559 not gonna work for anybody. And look, I'll tell you 582 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,119 right now, if they released everything they had, every file 583 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,359 they had, I think that it would be better for 584 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,160 them in the long run, even if it's embarrassing now. 585 00:33:25,319 --> 00:33:28,480 But unfortunately, it's all about politics. It's all about optics, 586 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,759 and it's all about trying to continue to control the narrative. 587 00:33:32,319 --> 00:33:35,559 It's not about justice. It's not about holding anybody to account. 588 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,200 And anybody telling you that's lying. And that goes for 589 00:33:39,279 --> 00:33:42,480 Congress as well. Well. They're not trying to use this 590 00:33:42,519 --> 00:33:45,720 as a political cudgel. Why isn't Matthew Menchell being called 591 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,960 or a Villa Fauna or a Krisher or any of 592 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,039 those other people. Ask yourself that wolf suit said that 593 00:33:53,079 --> 00:33:55,920 he had accrued many hours of interviews of Jeffrey Epstein's 594 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:59,559 conducted over several years, and that the First Lady's legal 595 00:33:59,599 --> 00:34:04,160 threats are also intended to shut down legitimate inquiry into 596 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,519 the Epstein matter, which the Trumps and their collaborators have 597 00:34:07,599 --> 00:34:11,119 at every turn sought to impede and suppress. In a 598 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:14,239 video on Wednesday on Instagram, Wolf said he hopes to 599 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,800 be able to depose the Trumps as part of his 600 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,280 legal action. To be perfectly honest, I'd like nothing better 601 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,079 than to get Donald Trump and Milanya Trump under oath 602 00:34:23,119 --> 00:34:25,719 in front of a court reporter and actually find out 603 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:30,000 all of the details of their relationship with Epstein. He said, Well, look, 604 00:34:30,039 --> 00:34:32,360 everybody would like to see that. Do you really think 605 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,039 it's going to happen. I highly doubt it, and that's 606 00:34:35,039 --> 00:34:38,599 because it's way too risky a deposition, Really sitting under 607 00:34:38,599 --> 00:34:41,679 oath talking about Epstein. That doesn't work out well for people, 608 00:34:42,639 --> 00:34:45,199 and that's why you see so many people avoiding it. 609 00:34:45,559 --> 00:34:47,440 So we'll have to see what comes of this. But 610 00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:49,400 I have a hard time believing that this is going 611 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,559 to progress very far inside of the court. My guess 612 00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:54,280 is that it's going to be dropped one way or 613 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,559 the other, some sort of settlement maybe, or maybe the 614 00:34:57,679 --> 00:35:00,360 judge just says, look, there's no merit here and we're 615 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,239 going to toss it. So we'll keep an eye on things, 616 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,559 and when we have some more information, we'll get it 617 00:35:05,559 --> 00:35:08,719 added to the catalog. All of the information that goes 618 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,920 with this episode can be found in the description box.