Candace Owens investigates Jeffrey Epstein's biography and questions Trump's motives for suppressing the Epstein files
Candace Owens presents the first episode of her Epstein Files series on her podcast.
Summary
Candace Owens opens by responding to Donald Trump's dismissal of Epstein file investigators as "stupid" and "weaklings," arguing that the pushback only deepens the case for investigation. She also notes that the law firm Wilkie Farr and Gallagher, which represented Robert Maxwell, is currently representing Ryan Reynolds in the Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni litigation — an observation she uses to illustrate the pervasiveness of connected power networks. She then walks through Jeffrey Epstein's biography in detail — his unexplained rise through elite institutions, his connection to Bear Stearns and the Towers Financial Corporation Ponzi scheme, and his documented links to Robert Maxwell, Edgar Bronfman Sr., and what she identifies as Israeli intelligence (the Mossad). She argues that Epstein was inserted as an agent into financial and arms networks, not a self-made man. In the second half of the episode, Owens turns to the question of who Trump may be protecting, focusing on Jared Kushner's post-White House $2 billion Saudi investment fund, his Harvard admission allegedly purchased by his father's $2.5 million donation, Charles Kushner's pardon and appointment as ambassador to France, and Jared's public comments about Gaza's "waterfront property" — which Owens reads as foreknowledge of ethnic cleansing. She makes a notable digression comparing Epstein's transhumanist interests (freezing his body, mass insemination) to statements made by Elon Musk, saying she has always found Musk's background suspicious. She closes with a broader philosophical argument that the Epstein story, if fully unraveled, exposes a hidden class of unqualified actors inserted into positions of power across finance, politics, and media to serve Israeli interests. She further argues that Israel is an "occult nation," connecting the Star of David to the hexagram symbol used by occultist Aleister Crowley, and questioning why the same symbol appeared on the flags of Morocco and other North African countries.
Key Takeaways
FULL TRANSCRIPT
Trump dismisses Epstein investigators; Owens responds
Candace Owens: Where are my fellow weaklings at? Because that's what Trump called us yesterday. He also, during a press conference, said that we were stupid for still caring about the Epstein files. So I think now we're arriving at the important question here, which is: who is Trump protecting? Because he's clearly protecting someone. Is it himself? Is it someone in his family? We should explore that as we continue to notice patterns. Welcome back to the Epstein Files.
The Epstein files are triggering a worldwide response because, as you saw yesterday, too many countries are implicated. In just yesterday's episode, we already covered Ukraine, Iran, Lebanon, the United States, France, Russia — and we are barely even scratching the surface. In fact, I didn't even mention yesterday that the country Liechtenstein, the tiny little dot in Europe, was the country that Robert Maxwell was laundering his money through. So when he was robbing the pensions, the money was going through Liechtenstein and then to Israel. Everybody is involved in this.
We're going to get into North Africa. By the way, another random fact I didn't include in yesterday's episode: guess which law firm represented Robert Maxwell? This is per Vanity Fair's 1992 long profile regarding the mystery of Robert Maxwell's death. The article tells us that Wilkie Farr and Gallagher — if that name is sounding familiar to you — is currently the law firm that is representing Blake Lively. Yes, they represented Robert Maxwell, and they're now representing Ryan Reynolds in what the public is noticing might be a totally rigged game against Justin Baldoni. Does Israel have the courts? Who would have the power to rig something that's so obviously wrong? Anyway, the point I'm making here is the world is a stage, my friends. It is a stage.
By the way, here is President Trump yesterday, explaining to the press who were asking him questions about the Epstein files, saying this regarding the quote-unquote hoax. Take a listen.
Reporter: I know you want to move past all this intrigue with the Epstein files, but I do want to ask you to clarify something you said this morning. You said this was all a hoax. Has your attorney general told you this was a hoax? What evidence?
Donald Trump: No, it's not the attorney general. I know it's a hoax. It was started by Democrats. It's been run by the Democrats for four years. You had Christopher Wray and these characters, and Comey before him. It's a bad group. It started — actually, look at the Steel Dossier, that turned out to be a total hoax. The 51 agents, the so-called intelligence agents — it was a hoax. It's all been a big hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats and some stupid Republicans. Foolish Republicans fall into the net and so they try to do the Democrats' work.
Candace Owens: Look, I'm happy to be stupid. I'm happy to be foolish. I was very happy to be a person in the basket of the deplorables. The ad hominem stuff doesn't mean anything to me, especially when it comes to a ring that involves harming children. I just think that this is so ridiculous — to try to divide people and make it seem like it's a fight between the left and the right. It's not that. We are in fact not stupid. We're happy to have those names called at us. And when I hear him say that, it just inspires me more to look into this. I really think that nothing should commit us further to wanting to unpack the Epstein story than the amount of gaslighting that is currently taking place.
Establishing the key indicators: identity laundering, the Midas touch, and more
So let's jump right back into it. We're going to unpack the Epstein story first because I want to keep us very focused. There are going to be so many names, so many things happening. By the end of this series, we are going to be speaking about Greek mythology, truly. And I want to make sure that we very early on establish some threads and some trends that you will see as we begin to weave this web.
Here are the indicators thus far. The first is identity laundering — the ability for people to change their names and go by different names. We are seeing that already early in this story as we unpacked Robert Maxwell. The second is the Midas touch — this person was not qualified, and yet they were touched. Somebody had their hand on them and they were pulled through the ranks. The third is obviously sexual deviancy — Robert Maxwell, we've talked about him already. The fourth is an element of theater — you could also say that's part two of identity laundering. They're becoming different people with different stories. And the last piece is historical revisionism — telling us not to remember what happened yesterday, rewriting. This is when publications get involved, constantly changing somebody's name, helping them, and telling us: don't remember what happened yesterday. This is what we're telling you the present is now.
Jeffrey Epstein's early biography and unexplained rise
So we've already discussed Epstein's bizarre life story, but we're going to do it again here because now we are in the series officially. And as you know, the indicators we've identified in the Robert Maxwell story are plenty here in the Epstein story as well.
His story begins in 1953. Jeffrey Epstein is born. We are told that he spent his childhood in Brooklyn, in the Seagate neighborhood, which has a population that is 80% Orthodox Jews of Russian origin. They're coming in and settling in Brooklyn — that's going to be relevant for later in this episode. His parents were Seymour Epstein, who was a city parks department employee, and Pauline Epstein, who was a school aide. We're told that he was the product of middle-class New York City. That's the same story we're told all the time — all of these refugees just didn't have much, and then they all become very wealthy in a very short amount of time, millions and sometimes billions.
We know that he attended local public schools before entering Lafayette High School in South Central Brooklyn. We have a photo of Jeffrey Epstein here on screen — someone included this and said Epstein signed their dad's high school yearbook and wrote "be cool." And then we are told that he reportedly graduated several years early. I don't know how early — was he a freshman and then they just took him out? But we do know that he next appears in 1969, when Jeffrey Epstein enters the prestigious Cooper Union College, and then suddenly and inexplicably he drops out. He then enrolls again in 1971 in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU to study the mathematical aspects of cardiac physiology — that's very specific. But guess what? He doesn't make it to the end because he drops out of the Courant Institute again. We're not given a reason why. It's inexplicable.
Donald Barr, the Dalton School, and the OSS connection
What we do know is that in 1973, Donald Barr — who we've discussed, he was then the head of the prestigious Dalton School — publishes this mysterious book, Space Relations. We talked about this. This book is foretelling about a sexual blackmail ring — children that are going to be molested, all to serve this demonic space colony known as Kosar. They're involved in sex trafficking, and for whatever reason, it's this really disgusting book that the head of a school decided to publish in 1974. Not creepy at all. And it foretells the story of Ghislaine and Jeffrey Epstein.
Now, what I didn't tell you before is that Donald Barr was a member at that time of the Office of Strategic Services in America. The OSS was what became the CIA — it's the predecessor of the CIA. So you've got this guy who is an agent for the government who's publishing this book foretelling of a sex trafficking ring with a powerful colony that believes it sits above everybody else.
I'm also going to note that Donald Barr was raised Jewish — Jewish parents — and then he decided to convert to Catholicism. So he converted to Catholicism, but he is ethnically Jewish, and so therefore would his son William Barr be as well. Of course it's relevant to the story as we are warming up on learning about the Mossad and Israel.
Epstein hired at Dalton despite no degree; complaints from students
Now let's get back into Epstein's timeline. In 1974, just a few months after dropping out of the Courant Institute, Epstein is inexplicably hired at that Dalton School — where our government guy with the weird fantasies and published books is heading up the school. And why is Epstein hired? He's hired to teach mathematics and physics despite not having a degree in either, at a prestigious school, for $50,000 a year.
By 1976, Epstein is dismissed from teaching at the Dalton School. Parents were complaining about the weakness of his teaching. It was also alleged by students — NPR did a long article on this — that he was often in the company of young girls he'd taught outside of the school. This is a blurb from a New York Times piece:
"Eight former students who attended the prestigious school during Mr. Epstein's short tenure there said that his conduct with teenage girls had left an impression that had lingered for decades. One former student recalled him showing up at a party where students were drinking, while most remembered his persistent attention on the girls in hallways and classrooms. She said, 'I can remember thinking at the time that this is wrong.'"
That is a quote from Scott Spiser, who graduated from Dalton in 1976.
The Midas touch: Bear Stearns and the SEC investigation
Well, no matter, because then he left, and in 1978 the legend goes — and this is kind of the hand of Midas, the Midas touch of all of this — the legend goes that through a connection at the school, he was tutoring someone's kid, and then he somehow gets into a situation where he meets the CEO of Bear Stearns. That CEO is Alan Greenberg, who then decides to make him a junior assistant on the trading floor. He obviously knows nothing about finance. But within just four years, he rises through the ranks and becomes a limited partner at Bear Stearns. What?
Don't worry, by 1981 he departs Bear Stearns. Some employees say that he was fired, but Jeffrey Epstein has always maintained that he resigned of his own free will after a relatively minor violation with the SEC that resulted in a relatively minor fine of $2,500. That's his story, and he was sticking to it.
Curiously enough, his departure coincided with the very day the SEC was opening a procedure to look into insider trading — insider trading they alleged had occurred in the context of a corporate takeover bid being led by Edgar Bronfman Senior, who was the head of Seagram's. Now, if that name is sounding familiar to you, it's because yesterday I told you not to forget it. Edgar Bronfman Senior was the guy working at this time with Robert Maxwell because he was also heading up the World Jewish Congress and working with Maxwell on the Refusenik crisis — essentially, we want Russian Jews to come settle in Israel, and the Russian government is saying no.
I want to be clear: in this very year, 1981, Edgar Bronfman becomes the president of the World Jewish Congress and focuses on that project to lobby Russia to grant visas to Russian Jews to depart to Israel. And you have to ask yourself — we know that at that same time he's working with Jeffrey Epstein, and the SEC is going, wait, I think some insider trading just happened here. You have to wonder what suddenly convinced the Russians to allow that to take place. Was there a financial incentive provided? Was Robert Maxwell the only Israel-first hotshot committing financial crimes to help Israel? Because remember, he's robbing pensions. What's going on over here with these banks getting into trouble?
I will note that per a 2003 Vanity Fair article, the SEC never officially brought proceedings against Bear Stearns for insider trading, but the questions seem to indicate that the body was remarkably skeptical of Epstein's answers. Vanity Fair writes that some sources wondered why, if he had such an important role at Bear Stearns — he's a partner — why would he have left over just a small fine of $2,500? Something else was clearly going on there.
Epstein's interests: transhumanism, Harvard donations, and political giving
Now, the next part of Epstein's biography gets a little murky, and I want to tell you what he was interested in — what was his public life profile. He had all of this money. We don't really know how he has it or how he gets it, but he's everywhere. He was passionate about issues relating to human consciousness, brain function, and particularly transhumanism. He had spoken about how he planned to freeze his body to be reanimated in the future when science allowed it, and he envisioned the insemination of dozens of women with his sperm in order to, quote, "strengthen the genetic heritage of the earth."
I'm just going to park right here and say that sounded like I could have been reading ideas from Elon Musk. I just — that is something he talks about a lot. He's interested in human consciousness. I have always maintained that there's something weird about Elon Musk's background. It gives me the Midas touch feeling. But parking that aside, these were Epstein's ideas, not Elon Musk's. They just would have been kind of the same. And so he supported Germinal Choice, which is a sperm bank of Nobel laureates.
Jeffrey Epstein also gave tens of millions of dollars in donations to Harvard. I say "of course" because, as we have learned, Harvard is running some sort of a Mossad operation. I feel very confident stating that. It's very clear to me that you are seeing all of these people going through Harvard — mysteriously getting in, not very bright people — and suddenly being put in positions of power.
He then made some curious donations given the fact that he does not have any children. He donated $25,000 to a children's tennis club in Maryland. He donated $30,000 to a preschool in New York. He donated $15,000 to a private girls' school that is a stone's throw away from his New York mansion. In 2017, he made another $50,000 donation to the UJA — the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York — which is openly committed to world governance, to establishing a one-world government.
Epstein also gave to a ton of politicians. Some interesting names on this list: President George H.W. Bush definitely stands out. Former Secretary of State John Kerry stands out. The Clintons are on the list as well. Governor John Kasich is on this list. Senator Chuck Schumer is on this list. He primarily gave to Democrats, but it is quite telling which Republicans he decided to give to. Former Senator Bob Dole. Somebody should definitely prod that narrative and see what motivated him to give to these people, especially in states he didn't live in.
Iran-Contra, Robert Maxwell, and Epstein's arms connections
Jumping back into our timeline: 1981 is this big year. You've got him with Edgar Bronfman. Edgar Bronfman is working factually with Robert Maxwell. And that was also the year that began the Iran-Contra affair that we discussed yesterday. The Iran-Contra affair is what connects Epstein to Robert Maxwell — not just via Edgar Bronfman, but also through the Refusenik scandal, and also as Ari Ben-Menashe-Menashe told us, the insistence at that time was coming from Robert Maxwell in his office in London, telling them that they needed to just let Epstein into the arms discussion. Include him. Your bosses have told you this guy is good and now you've got to include him on these arms deals. And Ari Ben-Menashe-Menashe was like, even though we were instructed to, we thought he was an idiot, we thought he was incompetent, and so we did not involve him. But yes, he ended up getting together a nice little business of blackmailing American politicians.
What happens in 1987 is kind of relevant because it is rather appropriately a British defense contractor — his name was Douglas Leese — who recommended Jeffrey Epstein as, quote, "a genius with no morals," to Steven Hoffenberg. Steven Hoffenberg was the CEO of a financial company called Towers Financial Corporation.
We should just acknowledge right now, before we get into what happens with Towers Financial Corporation, that what Ari Ben-Menashe-Menashe told us is obviously true. I'm just trying to help out this administration, by the way, because they're saying they don't know whether or not Jeffrey Epstein was tied to another government. They have no idea if he was working for another government's secret service. They have no idea if he had ties to intelligence services elsewhere. This is the answer. If I can do this from my house, I feel like maybe the feds could do this. Maybe start with Ari Ben-Menashe-Menashe, who's on record saying that. Maybe start with Bronfman. Look into that whole thing.
This confirms that what Ari Ben-Menashe-Menashe said was true — that Robert Maxwell got Jeffrey Epstein involved in weapons. And Vicky Ward, a journalist, reported also that Epstein had operated on behalf of the Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. Now, if you're remembering the whole Khashoggi thing, you're like, oh, I remember that name — Jamal Khashoggi, that was the quote-unquote journalist who was murdered, the Washington Post columnist. Jamal Khashoggi was not just a Washington Post columnist. His uncle Adnan — and this is according to the US Defense Intelligence report — was cited as one of the largest drug exporters from Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s. And also, Victor Ostrovsky, who we mentioned yesterday — he's the guy who defected from the Mossad — also claimed in his book that Adnan's loyalty was not to Saudi Arabia but was actually to the Mossad. He was apparently a longtime recruit of the Israeli Secret Service.
So it is very clear that Jeffrey Epstein was working with, for, and around the Mossad. This is absolute nonsense to pretend that he wasn't. This also explains why he had a Saudi passport. Again, if we're able to figure this out from home, do we really think that Trump and the administration and Pam Bondi, with all the files before them, can't do that as well?
Towers Financial Corporation: the Ponzi scheme and Epstein's escape
Anyway, back to Towers Financial Corporation. Jeffrey Epstein is now there. A defense contractor recommends that he gets that position, and what happens is that it becomes one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in United States history — the biggest until Bernie Madoff would come years later.
Steven Hoffenberg, the CEO, ended up going to prison for crimes related to their schemes and the bank's eventual collapse. He claimed that while at the bank, it was actually Epstein who, quote, "was very heavily involved in the illegal side of the company, from money laundering to espionage to arms trafficking. Most of this work was criminal. After that, Epstein was able to finance his criminal enterprise — the financial trust company and J. Epstein and Company — with the assets and money from the Towers Financial crimes." End quote.
But Jeffrey Epstein did not go down with them because in 1993, Jeffrey Epstein left Towers Financial just before its collapse. While Steven Hoffenberg then spent 18 years in prison as the mastermind of the Towers Financial Corporation fraud, he actually claimed that it was Epstein who was the mastermind. He tried unsuccessfully to sue Epstein three times after he was released from prison in 2013. He said Jeffrey Epstein was the true architect and that Jeffrey Epstein had manipulated him.
I tend to believe that, given what we are seeing in these patterns. Yeah, I would think that someone sent him as an agent. Defense contractor hires a guy you can trust, and then Jeffrey Epstein is actually working on behalf of — who? Maybe not your company. Maybe not America at all. These financial crimes, this pattern — Robert Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein — it's very clear they're robbing the piggy bank. The people that suffer are the people whose pensions it was. When Robert Maxwell robbed the pension funds of the Mirror Group, in America the same thing — when these Bernie Madoff scams happen and they say, oh, the money's all gone, and your entire savings has been depleted, but you're just going to have to work harder.
Epstein's deposition: the Leslie Wexner question
I think we can probably stop there in the Jeffrey Epstein story because next we need to get into his mysterious relationship with Leslie Wexner, because it's a very odd relationship. Years later, when Jeffrey is actually being deposed related to his crimes with minors, it is interesting to hear the questions that the prosecutor is asking him throughout the deposition. Take a listen.
Prosecutor: Do you consider yourself to be bisexual?
Jeffrey Epstein: No.
Prosecutor: In any event, you did develop a sexual relationship with Leslie Wexner at some point in time. Is that true?
Jeffrey Epstein: No.
Prosecutor: Mr. Epstein, how long have you been sexually attracted to underage minor females?
Defense attorney: Objection, harassing, argumentative.
Prosecutor: Are you kidding? I mean, I don't feel like I'm divulging any secrets here.
Defense attorney: Move to strike.
Prosecutor: Mr. Epstein, were you sexually abused as a minor?
Jeffrey Epstein: Again — were you sexually abused as a minor? I'd like to respond to any questions that seem to be relevant, but I would like to respond to any relevant question at this time. However, my attorneys have counseled me that I cannot provide answers to the questions relevant to this lawsuit today. I must accept their advice or risk losing my Sixth Amendment right to effective representation. Accordingly, I assert my Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights to the United States Constitution.
Candace Owens: Of course, it is a legal strategy — especially when you know they're cooking up that he's just going to sign a plea deal and get away with it and then just be running the sheriff's office in Miami. It is a strategy to say just plead the Fifth about everything. But if my lawyer said plead the Fifth about everything, and some questions were just so absurd — what made the prosecution ask him whether or not he had a sexual relationship with Leslie Wexner? What did they know? What became apparent when they were looking at what was before them and trying to charge him, and then somebody comes in with the hand of Midas and says, leave that guy alone, he's ours? What made them ask that question? It's a very specific question: do you have a sexual relationship with Leslie Wexner? And it's a very specific question to ask him whether or not he was molested in his youth. There's a lot more that we have to unpack.
Who is Trump protecting? The Kushner question
I wanted to leave time today to take a look at what could possibly be motivating Trump in this moment, because it is very relevant to consider that question.
I don't believe — and I know that some of you guys were in the comments really mad at me about this — I said I don't believe that Trump is in the Epstein files. You're like, Candace, come on, he's obviously in the Epstein files. And I still maintain, I am being genuine with you when I say that I really do not think that Trump is in these files in a way that he's nervous about coming out. I just don't see that. I do believe, however, that he could be motivated to protect someone else who would be implicated by this blackmail scandal. He definitely is somebody that I think would move mountains to protect his children. And I would almost say, especially Ivanka. I don't think Ivanka Trump is in the files. I don't think that she's caught on camera doing anything.
But there is something about the story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka that is now making me uncomfortable. Throughout the first term — and I was very much around them — I will say this: Jared and Ivanka are lovely people. They are very kind. And I am not covering them to pretend that they've ever done anything wrong that I know about. But I think it made a lot of people in the MAGA movement uncomfortable that Jared was so intimately involved. He was the person that had Trump's ear. The king's adviser holds a lot of power. Jared was that person. Everybody knew that if you wanted to get something done, you went through Jared. Jared was running the White House the first term. He just was. And his demeanor is such that when he was doing it, he was doing a very good job because everybody likes Jared — which is to say that he doesn't ruffle any feathers in the process.
What bothered me was that Jared had so much power and he got a lot done that he wanted through President Trump. But then when Jared left his post at the White House, suddenly we learn that Saudi Arabia injects $2 billion into his fund. This is a headline from the Wall Street Journal: "Jared Kushner's new fund plans to invest Saudi money in Israel." And the fine print reads: Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund committed $2 billion to Mr. Kushner's Affinity Partners — that's the name of his fund — agreeing to allow investment in Israeli firms for the first time. So that happens as soon as he leaves the White House.
And then you go, okay, your father is running again, and Ivanka is nowhere to be seen. When I say nowhere to be seen, I mean that even in the lead-up — okay, that's fine, you say you want to leave politics and spend time with your family, that was the official story. But she was so unaffected by the 2024 race that she didn't even dedicate a post to voting on the night of the election. I'm not kidding. The night before the election, while everyone's worried about whether or not we're going to have a country — the panic that you feel when you're a citizen and it matters who's going to lead this country, like it actually matters — not Ivanka. She didn't even say, "Hey, I'm going to stay out of it, but vote who you want to vote." She did a birthday tribute to herself. The night before the election, she wrote: "This past week I turned 43. Reflecting on life's lessons, here are some truths that I've learned along the way. One, family and friends are everything. Two, forgive people — it frees you. Three, everyone's a teacher. Four, avoid lashon hara, which is gossip. Five, trust yourself. Six, nourish your body. Seven, get sunshine."
I'm like, wow, that's nice. And I realized: this means that she is not impacted one way or the other. It means that they have classed into that part of society where elections don't matter because your family's good either way. Jared just got two billion. You guys are gone. You don't even care if your father wins this election. You're not even saying go vote. There's nothing.
Forbes investigation: where Kushner's Saudi money went
Regarding the money, Forbes did a deep dive on where that money was going. The headline was: "Why Jared Kushner will become a billionaire no matter who wins." That was the energy I got from her post. Doesn't matter. And in that article, it tells us, quote:
"Affinity had a slow start, deploying almost no capital in its first year while Kushner learned the ropes and navigated a turbulent pandemic market, but it's since picked up the pace and has now invested about $1.6 billion in at least eight firms in Brazil, Germany, Israel, the US, the UK, and the UAE in industries ranging from finance to energy. Its most notable investments so far are the ones that it made in Israel. In September of 2023, Affinity announced a $110 million deal for a 15% stake in the automotive and credit business of the conglomerate Shlomo Group. It was the first ever known investment by Saudi and Qatari wealth funds in Israel."
They say it's significant because neither Gulf state has diplomatic relations with Jerusalem, and Kushner had to obtain waivers from both governments to make that happen. So he is acting as an intermediary between Qatar and Israel and getting this deal done — while the rest of us are being accused of being funded by Qatar for some reason. I guess this is fine.
The Shlomo deal was closed in January, and six months later, Affinity bought some $130 million in shares of the publicly traded Israeli financial services firm Phoenix Financial. And this is what Jared had to say about that: "It's only brought me closer with my investors. The fact that I'm investing Gulf money into Israel post-October 7th — that's very important. We need to bring everyone together."
I really do wish that money was being invested in America. You used the office to facilitate deals that would help you and your family. Of course you did that. But what's also striking is Jared's post, because then you wonder: what is his vision after October 7th? We know what it is, because just a few months after October 7th, Jared was on stage at Harvard — Harvard, of course — and he had this to say.
Jared Kushner: I think that both sides are spending a fortune on military. I think neither side really wants to have a terrorist organization enclaved right between them. I mean, Gaza's waterfront property. It could be very valuable if people would focus on building up livelihoods. You think about all the money that's gone into this tunnel network and into all the munitions — if that would have gone into education or innovation, what could have been done. And so I think it's a little bit of an unfortunate situation there. But I think from Israel's perspective, I would do my best to move the people out, and then clean it up.
Candace Owens: That's a very nice way of saying ethnically cleanse the region, clean it up, and then we've got some valuable waterfront property. Then we know Trump's talking about building Trump hotels, and it really makes you wonder. That was February 15th, 2024, and he already had a real estate vision for people being moved out of Gaza.
Jared Kushner's Harvard admission and Charles Kushner's crimes
So we go back to our indicators. Regarding the Midas touch, it has been reported — and this was not a political report, this was done in 2006 before Jared Kushner was in the public domain — that Jared Kushner got into Harvard because of this Midas touch. He did not have the grades to get in.
The guy who reported this is Daniel Golden. He wrote a book in 2006 called The Price of Admission. He was investigating why so many of the elite's children get into Harvard despite not having the academics to do so. And Jared Kushner came up in his investigation naturally. According to his research, he writes, quote:
"New Jersey real estate developer Charles Kushner — that's Jared's father — had pledged $2.5 million to Harvard University in 1998, not long before his son Jared was admitted to the prestigious Ivy League school. At the time, Harvard accepted about one of every nine applicants."
He then went out and spoke to former administrators of Jared's high school — the Frisch School — about this peculiarity. And in his book, he quotes the administrator as having said, quote:
"There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought that he would on the merits get into Harvard. His GPA did not warrant it. His SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure there was no way this was going to happen. Then lo and behold, Jared was accepted."
That's a former official of the Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey.
Golden also discovered that Charles Kushner was on the board of something at Harvard — on some commission — along with his wife, and that they were allowed to be on that commission despite the fact that he had by then already been found guilty of financial crimes.
And when you talk about sexual deviancy and blackmail, I am really questioning why on earth Trump thought it was appropriate to name Charles Kushner as the ambassador to France after granting him a pardon. Because what do we know for a fact about Charles Kushner? We know that when he went to prison, it was for tax evasion and for witness tampering. And if you're wondering whether or not he was guilty, you don't know how disgusting the story is. The attorney general at the time who put him away was Chris Christie, attorney general of New Jersey. I'll let you listen to Chris Christie tell it, because Margaret Hoover was questioning him on PBS's Firing Line.
Margaret Hoover: I was surprised that you didn't give yourself more of a defense for prosecuting Charles Kushner in the book.
Chris Christie: I just think that it was so obvious he had to be prosecuted. I mean, if a guy hires a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and videotapes it and then sends the videotape to his sister to attempt to intimidate her from testifying before a grand jury — do I really need any more justification than that? I mean, it's one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted when I was US attorney. And I was US attorney in New Jersey, Margaret, so we had some loathsome and disgusting crime going on there. But I just laid out the facts, and any objective person confronted with those facts knows I had a moral and an ethical obligation to bring that prosecution.
Candace Owens: Like, I know a lot of people have beef in their family. Everybody's got family issues. This is not your regular family issue. Could you imagine this? Your sibling is getting in trouble for tax evasion. You have information that the government wants, so they want to make you a witness. To stop you from being a witness, your brother goes to your husband, decides to hire a prostitute to seduce him, video records your husband having sex with a prostitute, and then once he gets that recording, he goes to you and threatens you with it. I am speechless. More speechless that Trump granted him a pardon. And I only say that — that's one thing, okay. You want to do favors. That's what pardons are all about at the end of a presidency anyway. But to then give him the ambassadorship of France.
Maybe he was overqualified for that, actually. Sexual deviancy — maybe he was overly qualified for that position. But it makes you wonder why he wanted it. Why somebody in their 70s wants — and I don't know if he speaks French, maybe he does — why would he want to be the ambassador of France? What are the perks of being an ambassador? Oh, you become an intermediary. I think that's some of the perks.
But these questions should be asked now because it seems like we have been completely played over something as sinister as crimes against children. We're being called stupid. We're being called weaklings for saying, excuse me, there's not just smoke here, there is fire, and I don't like it. I don't like Jared's involvement in the Middle East. I think it's a conflict of interest at best for Trump right now. What Ivanka and Jared are up to — their path to becoming billionaires — is a conflict of interest at best. Who are they more loyal to? Who is Trump more loyal to? Are Ivanka and Jared more loyal to Israel? Is Trump therefore more loyal to his child Ivanka than he is to the United States? Are these fair questions? I think they are.
You're gaslighting us, and we're going to continue to ask these questions. There is no stone that I will leave unturned when it comes to harming children. This was the red line, and it is absolutely foolish for Trump to think that he can redirect the energy of MAGA somewhere else and tell us, oh no, don't look over there.
Reader comments and closing reflections
Candace Owens: What are you thinking? Because I'm thinking a lot. I don't like it at all. Just not feeling this version of Trump at all. And I'm not going to shy away from saying that.
St. writes in the comments: "Can I admire your courage? Truly world-class journalism. No man dares to publicly talk about this." Yeah. Well, you can see why. You look at their lives — what has happened to people. The problem is, if we all stay quiet, then we're never going to reach critical mass. And I think we have finally reached critical mass on the topic of Israel. And that's why they're starting to pass these speech laws, especially first and foremost at Harvard. Looking at what Trump's administration did at Harvard — why is that? Why was Harvard so central to it? This is what we're doing: we are redefining antisemitism. Exactly the same woke crap that was happening when the left had power, but they were doing it under racism. This is speech law. I don't care if you're offended because you're Black or because you're Jewish or because whatever it is you think you are that makes you special. You're not special. You can deal with speech. You need to go home and cry. You can do that. But you don't get to threaten our speech because you think you're untouchable. That's ridiculous.
Again, Harvard, the Midas touch. They all go through Harvard. I'm telling you, I know a lot of idiots that went through Harvard. It never made sense to me unless it's an operation. Unless it's an op running through there.
Radison writes: "Muslim man here, born and raised American. Just want you to know how awesome you are and let you know how many Muslims around the world appreciate everything that you do." Thank you. I mean, there is so much to unpack with this. By deception, thou shalt do war — especially, of course, in the Middle East. I think Israel has caused a lot of the problems in the Middle East. What's happening right now today — they're bombing Damascus. It was Benjamin Netanyahu that funded the terrorists. So when you see these stories, they're wiping history. Go look: Benjamin Netanyahu funded al-Nusra in Syria. He is the reason he toppled Assad's government. They were protecting Christians. Now Zionists are going, look what's happening, Christians are dying in Syria. Yeah, at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu. Who is ISIS? Is anybody still buying that that's Muslims? Is anybody really not buying that that's the CIA and the Mossad? Does anybody not naturally ask those questions now, given the fact that ISIS never attacks Israel? It doesn't make sense. For whatever reason, everyone they attack, it helps out Israel at any given time.
Al-Nusra, which was initially basically an arm of al-Qaeda in Syria — I talked about this with Scott Horton, we did hours on this, he really is the expert on this, we talked about what was going on in Syria — that is Benjamin Netanyahu. He toppled Assad. They keep telling you that these people they are toppling are the murderous, insane people. We knew what was going to happen. The second they toppled Assad, Israel moved their borders, and they're doing everything a lot faster now all around — whether it's in Lebanon, Syria. They are getting crazy, and it's very clear this is all part of a plan. This did not happen because of October 7th. This was a plan, and Benjamin Netanyahu is executing it. That is my opinion, and I'm going to state it while it's still safe to do so in this country.
CA writes: "How much do you think the information that Trump has on hand is worth? Zero if released. Millions or billions if kept secret. His billionaire friends will be happy to pay up for him to keep quiet." Yeah. I don't think — I think it implicates Israel. It's that simple. And in order for his future generation of wealth, the billionaires that will be passing the mantle to Ivanka and his family — if they're invested, as I believe they clearly are, in Israel — then you don't want Israel to go out of American fashion. It's that simple. I think that's the most obvious answer. At the end of the day, he is a businessman. That's what Trump has always been — a businessman. He likes deals. Again, I'm surmising here, but these are fair questions to ask given the fact that he's now resorted to calling his base stupid.
New Safar writes: "Candace, identity laundering lets elites rewrite the truth, just like they buried Epstein's client list. Same playbook. Erase the past. Control the narrative. When will we demand receipts from the untouchables?" We're doing it now. We're demanding it now. We're having these conversations now openly. This is what I am committing my time to because it is so much deeper than you guys even realize. And as we get further along this series, you are going to realize that nothing that we have been told — we are quite literally living in a matrix. We're living in a matrix. And the same people have had power. They have stolen, plundered. They made you think that they're naturally successful. They've all had the hand of Midas on them. They've stolen from us.
I want to leave you on a philosophical point here. Think deeply about what it means if people that are underqualified just have a hand of Midas on them in life and are getting fake credentials at universities. While the rest of us are trying to get a student loan and putting ourselves into debt, these people are getting into these schools underqualified. And then they're getting into companies to work for, underqualified. Because what are these people at the end of the day? They're actors. This is theater. So we're competing, and there's no way we can break into the elite class because they're all acting. That would make us what? Think about that philosophically. It makes us slaves. It's a new form of slavery. It's a modern plantation. Same owners, same exact owners of the plantations. And they have us throwing ourselves into debt — credit card debt, this, that. Then there are these financial crises. They're dumbing us down, putting us through the public schools while they have their own special programs and schools that they get to go through, making us stupid, arguing about dumb issues. And they're not losing any power. They're not losing any sleep. They don't even care who's going to win the presidency. They're like, whatever. That's what a matrix is. It's all fake. It's literally all fake.
And that is what the Epstein story threatens. You pull the fabric there and it implicates so many countries, and you realize that none of these characters are real. These characters are just being inserted into places to serve Israel. That makes Israel the master of the universe. And that's troubling because this is a state that has a hexagram on their flag — even though they're lying about the history of the Star of David. It's a hexagram. It's a cult. You can't just wipe that away. There are tons of books showing you that that's a hexagram. What are you pretending? It's a cultic symbol. You start looking into Aleister Crowley, who had the Star of David on his books. He was a committed occultist. He established a religion that believed in sex magic — sexual deviancy and things of that nature. Yeah, that is a religious symbol. No, it's a hexagram.
The Star of David used to be the flag of Morocco. Why? That's weird. It's not a Jewish symbol historically. What was going on in Morocco? What was going on in Algeria and Tunisia and Morocco? André Gide — we'll get to all of that. Aleister Crowley — what were they doing there? Initiations. Why would they put their hexagram in those countries?
And for those of you that don't know, somebody just gave money and said, "All roads lead to the occult." Yes, it is an occult nation. There's no question about that. Everything that they are involved in is occult. And that's why we have to wake the world up to this very quickly, because they have a lot of power. And the only way that we are going to be able to fight this is by being willing to tell the truth.