Jeffrey Epstein

“Yes, well, no question. He was involved in Iran-Contra. American, French, Israeli, probably British.”

“If you had something that was incredibly salacious and accusatory of, Trump, it would have been released during the Biden administration because it would have made a lot of sense politically to try to damage his candidacy. So the fact that we haven't seen much…”

“I just don't see a world in which Reed was involved in shenanigans. I'll be totally honest. I think he was just trying to raise money.”

“We're gonna find out that some intelligence agency was somehow involved in this, and that's why it's being covered up, and that's why it's so toxic.”

“Leon Black, who's the founder of Apollo, in one year paid Epstein, a hundred and sixty eight million dollars for tax advice.”

“Friend of the pod, Larry Summers, was a main character in them, and he was communicating with Epstein up until 2019, asking him, For advice on dating. He's since stepped down from OpenAI and several other public-facing roles.”

“The number one person in the Epstein files from Silicon Valley, which is Reid Hoffman, mentioned 2600 times, had a multi-year relationship with Epstein.”

“The non-prosecution agreement was never overturned.”

“Michael, you and I have now read thousands of Epstein emails. There's no sophisticated financial instruments going on, even back to the very beginnings of Jeffrey Epstein's claims. Here about managing money.”

“There's something like 42 different meetings that are documented. Around 20 are absolutely confirmed.”

“Jeffrey Epstein was never even accused of committing any illicit sexual acts against any person under the age of 18 after the year 2005.”

“There's something around on the order of about 400 initiations by Hoffman to Epstein.”

“A deep financial knowledge of money laundering networks of trying to be at the very forefront of moving money across the globe, which I believe is his real power and his influence, which is what enabled much of the behavior That much of the public is now horri…”

“To say that he was running a vast compromise operation, I think ascribes too much intention to what's really happening here. And the reason why I'm being intentional in my language is that what he clearly was doing was recruiting and running this like vast mas…”

“Well, I mean, it is kind of unusual that a money manager in that position would obtain that much money so quickly. I'll just say like, from my experience with the money management business, they're not generally able to charge that much”

“That's the crux of the Epstein mythology, and it's been systematically unraveled Included partially by this, the disclosure of more Epstein files, but even prior to January 30th or December 19th, the two productions, there was never any credible evidence for a…”

“No evidence that Bill Clinton was ever on the island. He did fly around in Epstein's private jet in 2002 and 2003, but no evidence he ever went to the island.”

“There's a 1415 year old which is named in the 2007 draft indictment which was released.”

“The evidence shows that he's been bold faced lying. About every aspect of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.”

“That's just like false. I mean, that was, that's just, there's never been any evidence for that. It was a nickname that was invented like by a, it was a cheeky nickname invented by this British tabloid.”

“It turns out the sole minor victim who was cited in that plea hearing as the sole minor to whom he procured for prostitution was literally 17 years old.”

“What happened was that Jason hosted an episode of This Week in Startups, roughly, I think, in 2011 with a couple of the Bitcoin core founders, and then Epstein reached out to him for an introduction to those people.”

“As Leslie Wexner said, he was never questioned ever once by the FBI or the Department of Justice involving this case.”

“There's never been a credible allegation of rape ever discovered that that took place on that island”

“This is like the number one oppositional Trump narrative of the second term. It's almost Russiagate redux in the outsized prominence that, that Democrats are giving it in terms of what they bring up day after day in hopes of it undercutting Trump or bedeviling…”

“This whole concept of a sweetheart deal is a total canard that it was popularized by Julian K. Brown.”

“For Prince Andrew, for Lord Mandelson, the former ambassador to the United States from the UK as well, it is pretty clear cut that they did violate their official duties.”

“He told me that he ran a multi-strategy FX hedge fund, and then he needed a seven, 27. Because it had a trading for, and he filled it with yeshiva students because they were the only ones you could trust. He was extremely specific about using trend following, …”