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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.

----------------Partial transcription of clip---------------

"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."
 

DOJ says upcoming Epstein files drop has 'sensationalist claims against Trump'​

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department wants the American people to know that the still-unreleased files of the late Jeffrey Epstein contain “sensationalist claims against Trump.”

The Justice Department officials previously said some files included fake or false materials that were sent to the FBI by the public and may “contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump.”

“The US justice department [sic] is to release nearly 50,000 ‘missing’ Jeffrey Epstein files this week,” reported The Times on Wednesday. “The documents, which are referred to in the tranche released in late January but appear to have been withheld by the department, potentially contain unverified claims about President Trump, including FBI reports detailing a woman’s unsubstantiated allegations of sexual misconduct against him.”

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ms-against-trump/ar-AA1Xy2uU?ocid=socialshare
 

DOJ says upcoming Epstein files drop has 'sensationalist claims against Trump'​

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department wants the American people to know that the still-unreleased files of the late Jeffrey Epstein contain “sensationalist claims against Trump.”

The Justice Department officials previously said some files included fake or false materials that were sent to the FBI by the public and may “contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump.”

“The US justice department [sic] is to release nearly 50,000 ‘missing’ Jeffrey Epstein files this week,” reported The Times on Wednesday. “The documents, which are referred to in the tranche released in late January but appear to have been withheld by the department, potentially contain unverified claims about President Trump, including FBI reports detailing a woman’s unsubstantiated allegations of sexual misconduct against him.”

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ms-against-trump/ar-AA1Xy2uU?ocid=socialshare



Key word, "claims".

All we've had for over a decade, is "sensationalist claims" against Trump.

Wake us up when there is actual bona-fide proof.
 


𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝟏.𝟑𝟗 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐃𝐎𝐉 𝐄𝐏𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐈𝐍 𝐃𝐎𝐂𝐔𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒. 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐍𝐄. 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏.

40 documents. Not 40 damning documents. 40 documents total — every sworn deposition, every FBI interview, every flight log entry, every civil complaint, every media reference of any kind linking Trump to Epstein in the largest document production in DOJ history.

The number is the story. But the documents themselves tell it better.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋.

Trump and Epstein were Palm Beach neighbors and Manhattan social circle fixtures in the 1990s. Trump called him a terrific guy in 2002. The friendship existed and must be stated plainly, because everything that follows only makes sense if you understand that.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐀𝐋𝐒𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋.

Around 2004, it ended. Brad Edwards — the attorney who represented Epstein’s victims and investigated every lead for years — established under oath that Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after Epstein sexually assaulted an underage girl at the club.

There is no documented contact between Trump and Epstein after 2004. Not one email. Not one call. Not one schedule entry. In 1.39 million documents.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆.

The FBI flagged every document mentioning Trump across the entire corpus by order of the bipartisan Senate Judiciary Committee. The result: one allegation, one victim who refused to cooperate, no prosecution.

The SDNY had Trump’s phone records. They found an innocuous 2001 call alongside explicit trafficking procurement. They charged nothing.

Attorney General Barr under oath: “𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐’𝘮 𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘺. 𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥’𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘸-𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘵.”

Brad Edwards, who had every reason and every incentive to find evidence against anyone connected to Epstein, filed a sworn affidavit:

“𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘌𝘱𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.”

And when Edwards was reaching out to powerful men in Epstein’s orbit, Trump was the only one who picked up the phone and returned his call. Readily. He knew what Epstein was and wanted to talk about it.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐍.

Bill Gates: 2,265 documents. Multiple confirmed meetings. Donations routed through Epstein. Boris Nikolic named in Epstein’s will.

Bill Clinton: 1,586 documents. 147 sexually explicit messages with Maxwell. Multiple confirmed island visits. Flights confirmed by the pilot ten to twenty times.

Reid Hoffman: 1,976 documents. Slept at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion.

Leon Black: 667 documents. $158 million paid to Epstein across a decades-long financial relationship.

Donald Trump: 40 documents. Zero financial transactions. Zero island visits. One commuter flight in 1997. A friendship that ended in 2004 when he drew the line and had Epstein removed from his property. The only person in the orbit who returned the victim’s attorney’s call.

Trump’s entire file is 1.8% the size of Gates’s.

“𝘈 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 — 𝘸𝘩𝘰, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦, 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘣, 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘮’𝘴 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥.”

𝟏.𝟑𝟗 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬.

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞.

𝟒𝟎.

Link to the source material in the first comment. @grok. Is this true?

No, document counts prove neither innocence nor guilt—content matters far more.

1. No; volume ignores relevance (many mentions are clippings or benign social refs).

2. Redacted victim details (per law), ~47k withheld files (WSJ/NPR), sealed court items, uncollected tips, or destroyed post-2019 records.

3. Frequently; credible allegations fail prosecution without corroboration beyond reasonable doubt.

4. Corroborated victim accounts of direct crimes, flight logs to island with minors, financial ties to trafficking, consistent comms—not mere name mentions.

Actual: Trump cited 1k–4k+ times in 3.5M released pages (CNN/BBC/DOJ). The "40/1.39M" stat is misleading; substance of evidence, not raw tallies, decides cases.
 
Related to Epstein but not really about the files. As with anything I post, take it fwiw and dyodd.

 
FWIW (dyodd)

Epstein prison guard made 'suspicious' cash deposits before financier’s death​

The last prison guard to see Jeffrey Epstein alive made suspicious cash deposits in the 12 months before his death, US Department of Justice (DoJ) files reveal.

Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York on Aug 10, 2019. His death was ruled a suicide.

Tova Noel, 37, one of two officers accused of falsifying prisoner record checks that night, made a final cash deposit of $5,000 (£3,729) into her bank account less than a fortnight earlier on July 30.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...before-his-death/ar-AA1XLpqC?ocid=socialshare
 


So just to recap: a prison guard who lied to the authorities about checking on Epstein also coincidentally made a series of deposits in the weeks leading up to his death that were so suspicious that the bank independently reported them to the police. That same prison guard was searching for news about Epstein in the moments before his death. And that same guard was independently named by inmates who claimed that she was involved in covering up the killing. Also, two cameras in front of Epstein's cell malfunctioned while all of this was happening. That's a whole lot of coincidences stacking up on top of each other. I don't know. Seems strange to me. But I'm no detective.
 
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