Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. Senator Ron Wyden has spent the better part
of the year telling us about Epstein's deep ties to
the financial sector. But there's one little part that he
has left out, and that part is his own son,
Adam Widen, had his own connections to Jeffrey Epstein, and
in twenty sixteen, Adam Widen and his firm adw Capital
tried to get some money from Jeffrey Epstein. And of
course that's after Jeffrey Epstein was already arrested for crimes
against miners. But of course that didn't matter, did it,
Because for people like this, it's always profits over people.
And make no mistake, this is what makes people cynical
about the whole situation. How can you take somebody serious
when their own kid was trying to get money from
the same guy that you're going crazy about. Did you
have that conversation with your son and before airing out
Leon Black, you should have ered out your own kid. Now,
of course you can air out Leon Black as well,
but don't try and play games. Don't try and you know,
act like your own son had nothing to do with Epstein.
So today we have an article from the New York
Post and the headline unearthed emails revealed Democratic Senator's son
wanted Epstein to join his fund. I enjoyed our conversation.
This article was authored by Alec Shemel and Cameron Cawthorne.
Senator Ron Wyden has spent months hammering President Trump and
his Justice Department over their handling of Jeffrey Epstein records,
accusing them of trying to sweep evidence under the rug,
and even teasing that has followed. The money work ties
back to Donald Trump, and Senator Wyden has been very
adamant that he believes that the paper trail will lead
back to Donald Trump. And look, he might be right,
but one thing that we know for sure is that
the financial trail leads to his son. So that's where
the conversation should have started. Because if you want to
be taken seriously and not look like you're just engaged
in a hatchet job, you have to treat everybody the same,
whether it's your son or your most heated, hated political rival.
And if you can't do that, then you should have
nothing to do with this case. Because this case calls
for serious adults who are willing to stash their confirmation
bias and follow the evidence wherever it goes. But unfortunately
we're stuck with wholly unserious people who like to play games. However,
email's reviewed by Fox News Digital in the doj Epstein
files show Widen's own family connection in April twenty sixteen
appointment at Epstein's Manhattan mansion between his son Adam and
the disgraced financier. So look, obviously there's levels here. Leon
Black was much more connected intimately to Jeffrey Epstein than
Senator Widen's son. There's no dispute. That's just a fact.
But I don't think that's the issue. I think the
issue is that Senator Widen has been very vocal when
it comes to the financial angle of what was going
down with Jeffrey Epstein. And if you're going to be
vocal about something like this, you have to be unimpeachable
because you know you're going to have oppo research being
run against you and the other side is going to
look for anything that they can possibly use against you.
And if your own son is in the files, that's
what we call leverage. An email chain from late April
twenty sixteen after it was already public that Epstein was
a convicted child sex offender and was accused of operating
an underage sex slave ring shows. Adam Widen sought investment
backing from Epstein during a meeting at Epstein's home in Manhattan,
where at Ristein allegedly engaged in some of his criminal activity. Boy,
isn't Fox News brave allegedly engaged? Huh? I mean it
might have happened. We don't know. Such an absolute joke.
They know, and they also know that it wasn't alleged.
A lot of abuse occurred in New York, not alleged abuse.
I mean, as anyone actually doubting that Epstein was abusing
girls in New York. Notice how they'll say alleged here.
But then when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein's death in jail,
they'll say that he died by suicide. No alleged, just
he died by suicide. But sure, let's say alleged here.
The senator's son founded his own private investment fund, adw
Capital in twenty ten. Jeffrey, I wanted to thank you
for taking the time to meet with me. I thoroughly
enjoyed our conversation, and hope my passion and dedication for
my business came through in the meeting. I live and
breathe this business and take my returns, integrity, and reputation
quite seriously. Yeah, I take my reputation so seriously that
I'm reaching out to a child sex offender to join
my hedge fund. I mean nothing screams that you care
about your integrity and your reputation like soliciting business from
a child sex offender. Other emails inside the tranch of
Epstein documents released by the DOJ shoe Epstein and the
younger Widen, communicating about a time and a location for
the meeting. Meanwhile, another document appearing to be a ledger
of Epstein's deli engagements and activities on April twenty eighth,
twenty sixteen, marks the meeting is taking place at ten
am that day. Now imagine brain the way that Senator
Widen has and your own son is showing up with
a beggara bull trying to get Jeffrey Epstein as part
of his fund. The whole thing's disgusting, and it plays
right into the hands of people trying to call it
a hoax, because when you're not serious, and when you're
dishonest and you're only playing politics here, you're causing great
damage to not only the case, but to the survivors.
Because the only way that we're ever going to get
real justice or hold anybody accountable is if it's bipartisan.
And when you have people like Ron Wyden, who has
a personal connection to what's going on here, trying to
lob grenades at the other side while not taking any
accountability for his own son, it's a big problem, and
it certainly chips away at the credibility of what we're
trying to accomplish. The same scheduling document also describes the
young Widen in parentheses as Jonathan Farcas's friend. Farcas appears
to refer to the husband of President Trump's ambassador at
al Malta and the brother of Andrew Farcas, who had
a profound friendship and business ties with Epstein. According to
The New York Times, I don't speak to my kids
about their business activities, and I read about this a
few months ago on social media like everybody else, Senator
Wyden said in a statement to Fox News Digital when
for comment, my investigation began four years ago and continues unchanged.
I want transparency and accountability across the board. Well, if
you knew about this, why didn't you come out right
away and say, look, my son's caught up in this.
He tried to get money from Epstein and explain the situation,
but instead it comes out like this, and it makes
it look like Senator Widen's hiding things. Adam did not
respond to Fox News Digital request for comment in time
for publication. Widen has repeatedly hammered the Trump administration over
access to Epstein related records and argued his follow the
Money investigation ties back to Donald Trump. And just to
be clear, Senator Wyden hasn't shown us any of that evidence. Now,
if we're talking about leon Black one hundred percent one
hundred percent, but the allegations about it tying back to Trump,
I haven't seen the evidence yet. If somebody has that evidence,
the actual paper trail, I'd love to see it because
that's a banger, right, That's the kind of thing that
can lead to a conviction. So I'd love to see that.
But we have to deal in reality. Right. It's one
thing to hope and wish that things are going to
change or things are going to be this way or
that way, and then of course there's the reality that
we're forced to live in. And even when evidence is presented,
some people are so caught up in that confirmation bias
that they refuse to follow the evidence wherever it leads.
And that state of denial is only hardened when you
have situations like this pop up. When you have people
out there that already are on the fence about, you know,
the legitimacy of what the Senate or Congress is doing
when it comes to Ebstein, and then something like this
pops up where Senator Widen is not being truthful or
hasn't been forthcoming about his own family's relationship. It really
neecaps Senator Widen's credibility. And when we're talking about this
topic specifically, your credibility is the only currency that you have.
One of the most important questions that comes out of
this is why we're America's leading banks, a number of
them basically sleepwalking throughout this whole Epstein matter, Wyden said
in a video chronicling his probe into the Epstein scandal.
As the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, they
should have been watchdogging this. They should have brought law
enforcement what they believed was going on. Well, I can't
disagree with that, right. I think it's true. The banks
played a gigantic role here, and their willingness to look
the other way allow Jeffrey Epstein to operate for as
long as he did, and it led to countless women
and girls being abused. Widen also touted his plan to
author a bill that would hold banks accountable in the
future if they turned a blind eye to such a
legal activity. Well, that would be nice. Imagine holding the
banks accountable for once, good lord, that would be a change.
At the time of the April twenty sixteen meeting between
Epstein and the senator's son, Epstein was already a convicted
sex offender who had pleaded guilty in Florida to sexually
abusing a minor, and the Palm Beach investigation that led
to Epstein's plea had identified dozens of possible Epstein victims,
many which were reportedly minors, possible victims, And it all
goes back to that initial investigation. And that's why I'm
so adamant and so vocal about how shitty that investigation was,
because that's the basis people use to say that this
whole thing's overblown. Oh, it was one girl, she was
about to turn eighteen. What the fuck kind of drugs
are you on? Are you smoking LSD and queludes? Because
if you think that it was only one girl and
she was seventeen about to turn eighteen, you're crazy. That
is not what the evidence showed. What the evidence shows
us is that the prosecution and the federal government conspired
with Epstein to give him that NPA. That's what the
evidence shows. And if we want to get to the
bottom of this, if we want real accountability for people
that were involved, we have to start at ground zero.
And ground zero here is most certainly Palm Beach. But
as far as the story at hand, it's terrible when
we're talking about optics. If you're sitting on the Senate
and you're demanding everybody else be accountable, everybody else show
full transparency, and your own son is outed as somebody
trying to get funds from Epstein after he was already
convicted as a child abuser. My advice to Senator Widen
cleans up his own backyard before popping his head over
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