Whitney Webb, February 19, 2026:
"Keeping the focus on Epstein... [is] important... [but] he was fronting for a larger group that still very much have their claws over the US [gov't]... [and] everyone in that cabal has ties to the Rothschild banking dynasty, which Epstein in these recent files acknowledged he represents. But it's... quite clear that was the case. If you read my book, Robert Maxwell openly fronted for them, among other interests.
"And so if we don't follow these threads, as I've... been saying, away from Epstein and higher up, you know, he was being puppeteered by people, and he was obviously of use to them."
This clip of Webb (@_whitneywebb), author of One Nation Under Blackmail and contributing editor of unlimitedhangout(.)com, is taken from an interview with Clayton Morris (@ClaytonMorris) and Natali Morris (@natalimorris) posted to the Redacted YouTube channel (@RedactedNews) on February 19, 2026.
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"But ultimately, you know, what's going on in this case is you have Epstein fronting for a broader network. And so keeping the focus on Epstein, I mean it's important, obviously, to understand what he was doing, but we have to understand too, and what I've endeavored to show, is that he was fronting for a larger group that still very much have their claws over the US Government and obviously the future of the US and much more.
"And so we should pay attention to that and also not become so distracted by searching for things in the files that we you know, ignore the fact that, you know, for example, Israel, who is very involved with Epstein and allegedly used kompromat and blackmail to manipulate US policy has been trying for decades to get the US to go to war with Iran on that's behalf. That could very well happen.
"So let's not forget to pay attention to other things and be, you know, fallen to, you know, get distracted at a time when you know, the people that Epstein helped serve, among other groups, might be finally getting what they want at a, at a major cost for American lives and money and obviously other civilian lives, among other things.
"I guess there's a lot more I could say too, but ultimately I think there's a lot more needs to be done in investigating Epstein's activities as it relates to finances. There's a lot of ties to things, various financial crises, efforts to short currencies around the world.
"He was a known Forex trader. He worked with a lot of currency traders, and had connections to them, people like Jimmy Goldsmith, for example, and others that were referred to by the New York Times in the '90s as a cabal, you know, currency traders that were basically destroying whole economies.
"And pretty much everyone in that cabal has ties to the Rothschild banking dynasty, which Epstein in these recent files acknowledged he represents. But it's, that's quite clear that was the case. If you read my book, Robert Maxwell openly fronted for them, among other interests.
"And so if we don't follow these threads, as I've, you know, been saying, away from Epstein and higher up, you know, he was being puppeteered by people, and he was obviously of use to them. I think the narrative that Epstein was an idiot and all of this, maybe he didn't use good grammar in emails, but he was obviously sought out, for his abilities in, you know, illicit finance, and you know, smuggling, among other things.
"So I think, you know, it's important to keep all of that in mind if we actually want to, want to understand what was going in here and have any meaningful pursuit of justice."