Eric Weinstein - On Meeting Jeffrey Epstein

all right there is some glass wall that is preventing the Epstein story from being discussed properly everyone's interested in the questions are basic and there's a guaranteed story to write simply ask the most basic questions of the officials involved and print whatever comes back whatever it is there's no possibility of an uninteresting answer to the central questions and yet the central questions are not asked and what other central questions the first one is very simple you have to ask every government that might be involved was Jeffrey Epstein known to be attached to any Intelligence Agency anywhere in the world then you have to ask where file activities known to the intelligence agencies and was there any kind of tacit approval or understanding or is there a categorical denial that such techniques may never be used now we have not recorded the no comments or we don't discuss sources and methods that's typical in these stories where you should be able to say can I at least get a statement that we would never condone while activities to be used for intelligence gathering purposes all right the next question Jeffrey Epstein was supposed to be a hedge fund manager of some kind and he had extensive offices at a place called Villard house the former Helmsley Palace this trophy building is a place that I myself dropped off materials for Jeffrey Epstein to review in connection to a hedge fund matter what I want to know is where are the trading records from the lard house it would be almost impossible to go back in time and fake trading records for a billion dollar-plus hedge fund and yet nobody seems to have ever recorded a trade with Jeffrey Epstein we don't know where he did prime brokerage there are no financial records that explain his fortune all those publicly available should place be publicly available I don't even care about that where are the records if there are no records I mean presumably this person paid taxes presumably this person had to make SEC filings I don't know but the key issue is I don't think there was a hedge fund when I met Jeffrey Epstein which might have been something like 2002 before he was charged with sex crimes violations in Florida I did not believe that Jeffrey Epstein was a hedge fund manager and I in fact called my wife at the time and I said this man appears to be a construct and she said what do you mean by a construct I said he it's like they've hired an actor to play a hedge fund manager but this person didn't behave like the super rich normally behaved he didn't behave like a hedge fund manager behave he didn't have any of the substance that you would normally associate with people of that class I'm not saying he wasn't smart but he was glib and he lived essentially like he was Gatsby I only met him once it's probably for about an hour or so but he was an absolutely terrifying person to encounter it would be surprising to me if I was alone in that I immediately had the suspicion that I was looking at somebody who had been constructed rather than something that had organically arisen within the financial community further questions that need to be asked where was ghilane Maxwell's passport last sighted assume that she has one or more passports and assume that government's record when passports go through a border point okay we should at least be able to ascertain where was the last point where her passports or at least one of her passports were officially seen I don't know of anybody asking this question can we not call up Interpol is there no sense in which we can guess where she was last located where what was the less social event in which she was recorded we don't seem to know anything about this person why are we not talking to Les Wexner I don't understand why these people are not being interviewed or deposed we have a very strange situation and in all of these cases a simple declaration of no comment would be a newsworthy story I mean I'm hopeful I mean investigative journalism does take time I'm hopeful there are because I really I'm gonna shut you down on this it's been over six months this doesn't take that long to get a no comment from the CIA no comment I'm not talking about the no comment I'm my point was going to be I given given the amount of interest in the apps teens story there must be some investigative journalists working on it I completely agree with your points about the no comments like that being I'm sorry it's not a question of some investigative journalists we tripped over some enormous structure we don't know what this structure was yeah it doesn't make any sense the the fortune that I think I've seen reference to something like six hundred million dollars who with six hundred million dollars would make these purchases you know multiple jet aircrafts private islands you know a townhouse on 71st Street Manhattan a huge comp complex in the New Mexico desert property in Paris it would appear that most of this was intended for display I mean in other words the behavior patterns of Jeffrey Epstein suggests an eleven figure fortune maybe high eleven figure fortune this person appears to be somewhere in the nine figures that's two orders of magnitude off now I know that very rich is very rich to many people but you know as a person of much much smaller means I can tell you that if you hang around with people who are in this stratosphere they behave very differently depending upon which order of magnitude they're at and Jeffrey Epstein was at the wrong order of magnitude he was behaving like a high eleven figure type guy maybe with what appears to be a nine figure fortune yeah I mean my my point on this is that I don't I don't know where the media interest is and and it doesn't add up that there wouldn't be media interest given that the the huge desire for the story that you can kind of see every time you log on anything any scrap is interesting to everybody yeah especially given that we already know the links to someone like Prince Andrew the British royal family this is one of the biggest potentially one biggest stories let's talk about has ever has ever happened well let's talk about the interview with Prince Andrew what was that now I cannot believe my ears when very intelligent people watch that interview in its entirety and then say well he was unprepared or it was a mistake to grant that interview I think that that's not true I think we have no idea what that record interview represented I think that that interview was so bizarre and so clearly it was almost like he was trolling the media who was asking him questions was he forced to give an interview and he decided that he would rather go down with the ship and give the world's worst interview was he realizing that he was completely trapped and that his best strategy was to make fun of the entire process by giving answers that were so implausible that no child would ever believe them whatever that interview was was one of the most remarkable pieces of footage anybody has ever seen on television Barna to not be talking about this and say we do not know what that interview represented what was a member of the British royal family the Queen's son doing giving that interview was it in Buckingham Palace yes thank you was it was an insane event that happened where nobody came to a conclusion that makes that make any sense I'd rather leave the problem open who was forced to do what by whom that that interview would ever be granted yeah I can remember when it was first announced having a sort of double take of life this is not a good this is not gonna go well and then the actual interview happened I think maybe for us for us right it was effectively an admission that something is so often the world something that's so completely bizarre that that thing would be produced that was some sort of internal conflict I don't know whether it was between the Queen and her son or the intelligence services were I don't know what but it was it was sort of the sense that you have like almost a ha video where the person B has to behave so bizarrely as to send a message and the message I got is I'm going to lie I'm going to fabricate I'm going to say preposterous things in an effort to just put this to bed in the worst possible way like you want you now all know never to ask me questions about this because I'm simply gonna say the most outrageous and insane things that I can possibly think I mean as I said I it didn't twig at the beginning it sounded like a terrible idea but then I guess I rationalized it by thinking he's clearly got no self-awareness maybe he did think that he could clear his name nobody's that dumb David those questions were entirely expected and the answer is if you look at the amount of twinkle in the arm he's clearly not a happy man but he's saying absolutely ludicrous and preposterous things I think that the effect is exactly the reverse if I had to speculate I really don't want to I would say that this this interview was given because an amount of pressure was put on a human being who decided that his life was effectively over in most senses and this is the way he chose to go out effectively making fun of the entire process yeah but what's really interesting is I'm sort of aware for example the Royal Television Society Awards were tonight to go of journalism awards and the Prince Andrew interview one scoop of the year and interview of the year so it's kind of been rationalized and I've seen people talk about how they got the interview they the news night producer was trying hard and was on Buckingham Palace like which is kind of ludicrous the idea that it was just the the dedication of the journalist keep continuing to ask for an interview that made Prince Andrew say okay you've asked me so many times I mean that in itself is kind of a ludicrous narrative but it is a narrative that that the mainstream I've seen the mainstream media kind of integrate that whole thing into wow this is an amazing scoop you were dedicated and you got the story which is which is kind of ludicrous the idea that so you see what I'm what I'm saying I really don't I mean I'm so I'm so what I'm saying is that it's already been rationalized within the mainstream media the reason that that interview happened was because they were so dedicated and they pursued Prince Andrew and they asked Buckingham Palace and eventually they they conceded they gave the interview which is kind of ludicrous I'm saying it's ludicrous oh it is ludicrous but I guess I mean my expectation is is that even if the UK is no longer the world power at once was I presume you still have adults with IQs over 70 how could you possibly rationalize such a thing I mean we used to turn to you guys for intelligence and sophistication this seems the height of folly if I had that say this is much closer to a hostage video where the hostage is attempting to send a message that is clearly not the ostensibly John video the really difficult part of the story David is is that almost certainly we're talking about some kind of operation that was being run with knowledge of governments that may have involved pedophilia and was not shut down and what I can't understand is what is it that is keeping some reporter from simply asking the questions that are on everybody's mind was this person connected to the intelligence services where was Gillian Maxwell's passport last seen why are we not talking to less wexter where are the trading records what is the source of the fortune seems to me very clear that we have a missing fortune of Robert Maxwell an unexplained fortune of Jeffrey Epstein are those the same fortune who's asking these questions did everybody go to sleep when they taught journalism in school I just don't understand I guess my sort of disconnect as well is this sense of I worked in Channel 4 News they had an investigative unit these were the kind of bread-and-butter questions they pushed really hard for example on the phone hacking scandal in the UK the Murdoch papers phone hacking scandal that also involved networks of power it involved shady deals and involved corruption and they they pursued that quite intensely I I'm feeling a sense of dislocation because I agree with you there are these questions that are not being asked and I find it difficult to understand why that is knowing that there are knowing that the public interest and knowing the that that these are questions have been asked in the past let me tell you what happened people started asking those questions and they stopped and that's what ideas suppression is all about we don't have the resources to pursue that right now well actually I'm concerned that this is starting to reek of conspiracy theory I think given the delicacies of the situation I'm gonna need a lot more evidence before I give this thing that go ahead these are the sorts of things that you say when you're trying to shut down a line of inquiry and my guess is is that whatever the story is it represents some very powerful structure that we tripped over and I tripped over that structure in 2002 and I was convinced at the time before there was any knowledge about this Florida situation that this was constructed I mean we have a very famous case of a guy named le Cohen who was fitted with a backstory and became a Playboy in Damascus and held orgies if I understand correctly where he collected information and leverage against people in the Syrian government if you take that situation this looks remarkably similar we've got a guy who was apparently a math teacher at a private high school and the next thing we know he's avoided jail in some sort of financial scandal and he suddenly set up as a mystery financier with connections to absolutely everyone in the top echelon zuv power something doesn't smell right about the story given that nobody appears to have ever traded currencies with the guy who was apparently moving billions as a currency trader you

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Length: 15min 26sec (926 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 13 2020