Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. So Peter Mandelssohn was arrested yesterday and now
he has been released on bell and that follows the
same pattern that we saw with Prince Andrew, who was
also recently arrested and released after about twelve hours. Now.
The investigation obviously is ongoing, and they haven't confirmed one
way or the other which way they're leaning, but just
from the emails themselves, it's rather obvious that these two
dudes passed on confidential information to Jeffrey Epstein. And I
know some people act like it's no big deal, but
it most certainly is. I mean, how much more evidence
is needed that Jeffrey Epstein was collecting information, was using
that information for his own ends, for his own benefit
and for the benefit of whoever else than what we've
seen already. I mean, we have confirmation right here that
two high ranking members of the English government were passing
classified information to somebody that's been called an intelligence asset.
Do you think Epstein was just collecting that information for
fun or do you think that he had a purpose
for it, that he had a use for it, Because
I don't think there's any doubt that Jeffrey Epstein was
collecting this information for a specific purpose. What that purpose is,
I have no idea. Sell it to somebody, use it
to benefit for himself, whatever it might be. He wasn't
just collecting this information to collect it though, that's for
damn sure. And I think that this really throws cold
water over the narrative that Jeffrey Epstein is just some
kind of pervert, because it was obviously a lot more.
In the previous episode we talked about the DEA investigation
that included Jeffrey Epstein. That's never been explained. We've talked
about how many different money laundering situations, and it doesn't
just stop at money laundering. If there's a financial crime
that could be committed, these people were committing them. You
have to remember people like Epstein, they wrote the book
on how to commit crimes in the financial sector. His mentors,
the people that showed him the ropes, they knew exactly
what buttons to push. And Epstein himself getting all that
experience at bear Stearns and running his own financial scheme
over at Tower Financial. Epstein had everything that these people
were looking for. And then you add the proclivities to
that his sick, disgusting, deviant desires and it was a
match made in heaven. So if anybody thinks that Jeffrey
Epstein was just some pervert who might have hooked up
with a seventeen year old girl one time, congratulations, you're
the exact kind of moron they're counting on. Today's article
was published by AP and the headline former UK Ambassador
Mandelsson released on Bell after arrest and Epstein probe. This
article was authored by Pan Pylos and Jill Lawless. Police
in Britain said Peter Mandelson, the former UK Ambassador to
the United States, has been released on Bell after he
was arrested in a misconduct probe stemming from his ties
to the late Jeffrey Epstein. It came days after a
friendship with Epstein landed the former Prince Andrew in police custody,
and the writing was on the wall right once Prince
Andrew was arrested, I knew that Mandelshn was next, and frankly,
I thought that Mandelson would have been arrested first. But
once Andrew was arrested, you knew that Mandelsyn was going
to get hemmed up. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said in
a statement issued just after two am Tuesday, a seventy
two year old man arrested on suspicion of misconduct in
public office has been released on bell pending further investigation.
So this isn't going away, and I think that Mandelson
is facing a lot of exposure here. Now. We always
have to keep in mind is this all just for show?
Are they acting like they're just absolutely mortified by Mandelssohn's
actions and then they're gonna go light on them because
you know, he's one of us. That's how it's always been.
Is the UK going to change course and actually treat
mandelssn like they would anybody else. Imagine if Mandelssohn was,
I don't know, a lieutenant in the navy, an he
passed nonsensitive information to anybody, how would that be dealt with?
We all know that it would be dealt with swiftly
and brutally, So the same should be true for Peter
Mandelsson and people like him when they find themselves in
the crosshairs of an investigation. The man was not named,
in keeping with British police practice, but the suspect in
the case previously was identified as the former diplomat who's
seventy two. Mandelssohn was filmed being led from his London
home buy a car by playing clothes officers on Monday afternoon.
And I know people wanted like a dramatic arrest, but
that was never going to happen. The fact that they
even arrested Mandelssohn and Andrew is gigantically huge. Now, of
course I'm not naive it could all be performative. Certainly
wouldn't be the first time, and it certainly won't be
the last. But I have a feeling that the people
of the UK have had enough and I think that
Mandelssh and Prince Andrew or the former Prince Andrew are
a good start. But of course the million dollar question
is does the British establishment have the backbone to see
this through? And I guess we'll have to wait to
see what goes down, but certainly a good start. Both
Mandelsson and Andrew Mountbatten windsor the former Prince Andrew are
suspected of improperly passing UK government information to the disgraced financier,
and the high profile British arrests are some of the
most dramatic fallout from the trove of more than three
million pages of Epstein related documents released last month by
the US Justice Department. Well, no doubt about that. I mean,
here in America, we're sitting on our hands, no big deal.
Come on, this is all just overblown. You're just a fableist.
This is a moral panic. Jeffrey Epstein not really that
bad of a guy. What he likes seventeen year old girls,
So what that's the kind of bullshit we're dealing with
here in America. Meanwhile, over in the UK you got
a principal blood getting him up and one of the
most powerful politicians in the whole last country. Like you,
dudes in America can't find one financial crime to arrest
anybody on Well for them to do that, that have
to upset their donors and the Epstein administration, I mean,
the Trump administration is never going to do that. Police
are investigating mandelsinn overclaimed that he passed sensitive government information
to Epstein a decade and a half ago. He does
not face allegations of sexual misconduct. Yeah, I've never heard
anything about mandelssin diddling anybody, so certainly not in that realm.
But when it comes to other things enabling Epstein and
helping Enrich Epstein, there's no doubt that Mandelssyn is a
co conspirator. His arrest came four days after in Mount Batten,
Windsor was arrested in a separate case on suspicion of
a similar offense related to his friendship with Epstein. He
was a released after eleven hours in custody while the
police investigation continues. Yeah, I didn't think they were going
to hold them. I mean, they'll keep them there, interrogate
them and then release him after he sees a judge
or makes bail or whatever. But there was no way
that they were going to hold him indefinitely. There's no
capital crimes committed here. But I will say this, the
fact that they're even talking about treason is a big deal.
Do I think they're going to go that route? No,
but they should. Anybody who's passing classified information to anybody
else is putting the whole nation in jeopardy. And I
know if I was a British citizen, I wouldn't be
happy about any of it. And you can say that
is taking it too far, or it's overblown, whatever, but
I don't agree. Once you start talking about state secrets
and passing those along to other people, especially people like Epstein,
we're talking about big trouble and we're literally talking about
treason because you don't know what Epstein's going to do
with that information. Is he going to sell it to whoever?
Probably either that or he's going to enrich himself, and
either way it's bad news. Mandelsson served in senior government
roles under previous Labor governments and was UK Ambassador to
Washington until Prime Minister at Kurras Starmer fired him in
September after emails were published showing that he maintained a
friendship with Epstein after the Fier Pedophiles two thousand and
eight conviction for sex offenses involving a minor. And this
is the big problem because it says involving a minor.
It was a lot more than that. And I think
that Barry Krisher and the State of prosecutors that are
responsible for this should have to answer for it, because
there's no way in hell that with what Epstein was
up to, he should have only received the sentence that
he received. My man was looking at a life sentence
on those federal charges to go from a life sentence
to thirteen months only for a guy like Epstein. Certainly
not for me, Certainly not for you. The files released
in January contained more explosive revelations about Mandelson's ties to Epstein,
whom he once called my best pal. Messages suggests that
Mandelssohn passed on sensitive and potentially market moving government information
to Epstein in two thousand and nine, when Mandelssohn was
a senior minister in the British gouvern. That includes an
internal government report discussing ways the UK could raise money
after the two thousand and eight global financial crisis, including
by selling off government assets. Mandelssohn also appears to have
told Epstein he would lobby other members of the government
to reduce a tax on banker bonuses. And remember, Jeffrey
Epstein benefited from the financial collapse by being made whole
by the taxpayer. So if you're not mad about that,
I don't think there's any help for you. How can
you not be mad that you are being robbed by
Jeffrey Epstein? Please explain that British police launched a criminal
probe earlier this month and searched Mandelssohn's two houses in
London and Western England. The decision to appoint Mandelssohn nearly
cost s Armer's job earlier this month, as questions swirled
around his judgment about someone who has flirted with controversy
during a decade's long political career. Though he acknowledged he
made a mistake and he apologized to victims of Epstein,
Starmer's position remains precarious. His future may rest on the
release of files connected to Mandelsson's appointment. The government has
pledged to begin releasing those documents in early March, though
the timeline may be complicated by his arrest. Mandelssohn has
been a major, if contentious figure in the center left
Labour Party for decades. He's a skilled, critics say, ruthless
political operator whose mastery of political intrigue earned him the
name Prince of Darkness. While not that great, huh was
sending emails to Jeffrey Epstein audition off state secrets and
not even protecting those communications. Not so savvy after all.
Lizzie the grandson of former Labor Cabinet minister Herbert Morrison.
He was an architect of the party's return to power
in ninety seven as centrist modernizing new labor under Prime
Minister Tony Blair. Mandelsson served in senior government posts under
Blair between ninety seven and two thousand and one and
under Prime Minister Gordon Brown from two thousand and eight
to twenty ten. In between he was the European Union's
Trade Commissioner. Brown has been particularly angered by the revelations
and has been helping police with their inquiries. Mandelsson twice
had to resign from government during the Blair administration over
allegations of financial or ethical impropriety, acknowledging mistakes but denying
any wrongdoing. Oh, just a big mistake. I had no idea. Well,
if you're that dumb, you shouldn't be in government. Pretty simple.
And how many times are you guys going to throw
this dude out of government and then let him back in?
What he's a change man? Oh, I've turned over a
new leaf. I only take money from pedophiles now, not
arms traffickers. Oh wait, Epstein's both. He later returned to
government and was back on the political front line when
Starmer named him Ambassador to Washington at the start of
US President Donald Trump's second term, Mandelssohn's trade expertise and
comfort around the ultra rich were considered major assets. He
helped secure a trade deal in May that spare Britain
some of the tariffs Trump is imposed on countries around
the world. Oh well, in that case, let's just forget
everything else he was up to. No big deal, got
us a couple of trade deals, So no big deal.
The status of the deal is now up in the
air after Trump announced a new set of global tariffs
in the wake of a US Supreme Court decision quashing
his previous in poor tax order. Earlier this month, Mandelssohn
resigned from the House of Lords, Parliament's upper chamber, to
which he was appointed for life in two thousand and eight.
But he still has the title Lord Mandelsson. That went
with it, all, right, So there's where we're at with
Lord Mandelsson and his arrest. And obviously when we have
some more information one way or the other, we'll get
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