Only days before the US ruling class attacked Iran, they were reeling from the fallout of the Epstein scandal.
They were all implicated.
Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Howard Lutnick, Steve Bannon, the Clintons, Wall Street Executives, Emirati Royals, British Royals, academics, Rothschild Bankers, and of course Donald Trump. All those who once claimed they barely “ knew the guy,” or “cut off ties with him years ago,” were, in fact, close and cozy with Epstein to the end. They stuck by him—despite his conviction and imprisonment for child sex trafficking—right up until his death.
In the throes of the scandal, they looked for anything that might divert attention. Pam Bondi’s public hearing fiasco was a sorry attempt to shift the blame away from the ruling class.
Nothing landed.
The greatest scandal of all time is still burrowing away in the minds of millions of angry workers. As even more information piles up, and even more rulers are implicated, an almighty earthquake of revolt is being prepared.
The feds cover up for Trump
Despite passage of the “Epstein Files Transparency Act,” there are still 3 million more unreleased files. Co-conspirators’ names are redacted, while victims’ names are not.
The Department of “Justice” even withheld files in which Trump is accused of raping and beating a 13 year old girl. The DOJ claimed they withheld the 50 pages of FBI interviews and notes related to the accusation because they “mistook” them as duplicates.
More revelations center around Epstein’s 760-acre “Zorro” ranch in New Mexico.
In 2019 an anonymous tip claimed that two girls were murdered and buried on the premises. The New Mexico attorney general began an investigation, but the federal government intervened to halt it. Now, in light of the new documents, the state is trying to cover its tracks with a “Truth Commission” to “re-investigate.”
Epstein purchased the ranch in the ‘90s from Bruce King, a former New Mexico Democratic governor. Bill Richardson, another Democratic governor of the state, also shows up as a co-conspirator in the files. Richardson repeatedly visited Epstein’s island, and Epstein donated $50,000 to Richardson’s 2006 re-election campaign.
After Epstein’s “suicide,” the mega-ranch traded hands yet again—to the Texas Republican and real estate magnate Don Huffines. The ruling class and their politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, are all part of the same club, as comfortable trafficking in human beings as they are trading property which should be treated as a crime scene.
The banks
The US banking system was tightly enmeshed in Epstein’s massive operation. The latest revelations show just how much Wall Street funded and enabled Epstein’s crimes. In March, Bank of America agreed to a settlement with “Jane Doe” over the bank’s financing of Epstein’s abuse. Kathryn Ruemmler, former White House counsel to Barack Obama, resigned in February from her executive position at Goldman Sachs. The French department of the Rothschild bank is under investigation after the files revealed, amongst other things, that they paid Epstein $25 million dollars for help settling a US government suit.
In 2023, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon testified that, “I don’t recall knowing anything about Jeffrey Epstein until the stories broke sometime in 2019.” But between 1998 and 2013, the largest bank in the world facilitated $1 billion of Epstein’s business transactions—including “signing up” teenaged “models” with premium credit cards. The bank also turned a blind eye to its own internal regulation system, which regularly flagged Epstein’s cash withdrawals as indicative of money laundering and other “illegal schemes.”
With his open betrayal of this campaign promise to “end forever wars,” millions are connecting the dots. This is the Epstein class’s war. / Image: In Defence of Marxism
This was no accident. Epstein was a lauded member of the elite “JP Morgan Private Bank” for particularly wealthy individuals. Executives regularly visited him in person. They considered him “high value” because he brought other clients in. The bank even kept him as a client even after his 2008 conviction for trafficking in children. Dimon has yet to be personally implicated, but hosts of his executive-level peers worked directly with Epstein for years.
Iran and Trump
A March CBS/YouGov Poll found that 66% of Americans believe the aggression against Iran is a war of choice, not of necessity. The same poll shows that 60% of Americans are against the war.
With his open betrayal of this campaign promise to “end forever wars,” millions are connecting the dots. This is the Epstein class’s war. A poll by DropSite News found that 52% of American voters agree that, “Trump was at least partly motivated to take military action against Iran in order to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.”
Of course, the war is the result of much deeper calculations by the American imperialists, who are desperate to arrest the decline of their dying empire. But the fact that so many have dubbed the war “Operation Epstein Fury” indicates just how widespread distrust in the ruling class has become.
Our high school textbooks taught us all about “democracy,” “humanitarianism,” “progress,” and “legality.” The Epstein files have shown millions that these are just convenient fictions that mask how the world really works: The ruling class owns the world. They treat people like commodities. They make the decisions. They start the wars. They do as they please, while our class works and dies for their profit.
This is just the start of this scandal. The veil will continue to be lifted. The ruling class will eventually face the wrath of the workers they exploit.