This is the third and final article in a series examining Jeffery Epstein’s impunity and eventual demise. In the first, I argued that Epstein was not a rogue predator, but an operative within a larger system. In the second, I exposed how Israel-first American Sayanim enabled and protected Epstein.

The Epstein scandal is not just about sex crimes as horrific as those crimes are. It is about weaponizing sexual violence by potentially intelligence-linked networks to compromise political leaders, exploit children, and corrupt democratic institutions in service of a foreign entity. It was Epstein’s system of “dirt collection,” so consequential it unnerved the most powerful figures in the world.

Case in point, the President of the United States, Donald Trump was rattled by Epstein even after his death. In an attempt to stop the release of secret documents, Trump pressured and warned Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene that “my friends will get hurt.” Trump was less concerned with justice for the victims than the exposure of “dirt” on his “friends.”

In fact, in newly released emails and texts, Epstein mocked Trump, his old friend, calling him “f—king crazy,” “borderline insane,” and threatening that he could “take him down.”  Such arrogance could arise only from possession of “dirt,” or, from the belief that he had........

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