"The president is basically admitting that he is in those files by covering up in this way," Zev concluded. "This is a major conspiracy to obstruct justice. It's a major cover-up of the truth, and the President of the United States is doing it... In front of our eyes."
The smoking gun arrived Friday in ten hours of recorded lies. Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted child trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein's partner, was granted complete immunity to absolve Donald Trump of decades-long criminal involvement in history's largest blackmail operation. What Americans received instead of promised FBI Epstein files was the most audacious presidential cover-up in modern history—choreographed between the Oval Office and a federal prison cell.
Immunity To Lie
The conspiracy revealed itself in the opening moments of Maxwell's July interview with Trump attorney Todd Blanche. FBI agent Spencer Horn explained the unprecedented deal: "What this agreement does for you is it gives you protection. So what it means is that the government cannot use what you say today against you... But whatever you talk about today, you have what's called immunity."
Immunity to commit perjury. Immunity to obstruct justice. Immunity to lie for the president of the United States.
"The only reason she was given that agreement was so she could pathologically lie and perjure herself and protect certain people," Dean Blundell observed during Friday's emergency FiveStack broadcast analyzing the bombshell release. "That was the only reason because to that point, every lie that she told... those are the kind of lies that land you in jail forever."
Trump’s Hand-Drawn Birthday Message To Epstein
When Blanche asked about Epstein's famous birthday book containing messages from powerful figures, Maxwell delivered another impossibility. Asked if she remembered requesting a letter from President Trump for the book, she responded: "I do not."
Pressed on whether she would have been the one to ask, Maxwell deflected: "I did ask some people. I don't remember Mr. Trump. I don't remember who I did ask, but Epstein also asked people himself directly. So it could have happened that way."
The birthday book is documented evidence of their network's reach, containing messages from world leaders and celebrities. For Maxwell to claim she doesn't remember whether she solicited Trump's contribution—given their documented decades-long friendship—defies credibility. It's another carefully scripted lie designed to minimize Trump's documented participation in Epstein's inner circle.
The Ehud Barak Memory Hole
One of Maxwell's most revealing lies emerged when discussing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Initially claiming no memory of him, her response shifted tellingly when Blanche pressed further:
"Do you know what nature of his relationship was with Mr. Epstein?"
"I don't."
"Were you ever with them together?"
"I think I met, I have a memory of meeting Ehud once. But I don't know if he was with Epstein or... I don't remember. I just know that I did see him."
Dean immediately caught the slip: "Yeah, Ehud, yeah. Like, first name."
The casual familiarity exposed her lie. Barak and Epstein met regularly—documented evidence shows monthly meetings for over a year. Photographs captured Barak entering Epstein's Manhattan townhouse wearing a disguise. Yet Maxwell claimed ignorance of their relationship while unconsciously revealing intimate knowledge by using his first name.
"I think Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein met every month for a year," Zev noted. "It's not like they just occasionally met. They were doing business together."
When Maxwell Really Met Epstein
Maxwell's most fundamental lie concerned her first meeting with Epstein. She testified: "I met Mr. Epstein in 1991. I'd never heard of him or met him before. No one in my family had together either. My father never knew him."
Zev immediately exposed this fabrication: "We have an eyewitness who was there, who met Jeff Epstein in the office of Robert Maxwell," referencing Ari Ben-Manashi's documented testimony placing Epstein in Robert Maxwell's office during the 1980s.
THE GREATEST HEIST: Chapter 6 - The Concorde Deception
Ghislaine Maxwell's $4,000 Concorde flight to New York in November 1992 was carefully constructed to land dual meanings to divergent audiences. Her late father, Robert Maxwell, would have delighted at the PR spectacle it caused on two sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
The evidence is overwhelming. "Hoffenberg knows that Epstein worked for Douglas Lees, who worked with Adnan Khashoggi in the 1980s, in London," Zev explained. "The likelihood of all that happening at the same time that he would have met Epstein is pretty high. But we have an eyewitness who was there, who met Jeff Epstein in the office of Robert Maxwell."
Maxwell's 1991 story was manufactured cover. As Zev documented: "What was constructed in 1991 was her leaving after the death of her father on the Concord and arriving in the arms of her so-called lover at the time, Jeffrey Epstein, who was going to set up this new life for her. But that was cover. That was just the story that was spinning the world."
The truth reveals a much deeper conspiracy. "She was the one cleaning up the files after Maxwell died. To remove any reference of Epstein from any of the documents that they shredded. She shredded all the documents aboard that yacht after Maxwell's death. Specifically, the crew was told, according to one reporter, was to remove any documents with Epstein's name on it."
When Maxwell Really Met Trump
Maxwell's testimony about meeting Trump reveals similar deception through careful omission. She testified about possibly meeting him in 1990: "I may have met Donald Trump at that time because my father was friendly with him and liked him very much... So I don't remember if I did meet him or not in 1990 with my dad, but I knew that that's how I knew about than Mr. Trump."
But Dean referenced Zev's photographic evidence that destroys this timeline: "If you go to your sub stack, narativ.org, greatest heist, part seven. There's a picture of Donald Trump in what, 1989?"
THE GREATEST HEIST: Chapter 7 - The Cultivation of Donald Trump
Donald Trump slipped off his shoes to board Robert Maxwell's Lady Ghislaine. Everyone had to—Maxwell insisted. He claimed it was about protecting the plush carpeting, but at 6'1" and 300 pounds, Maxwell enjoyed the power advantage of towering over his guests—a giant among the shoeless, literally looking down on everyone.
Zev provided the crucial context: "The pictures from 1989 where they met. They met in 1989 on board the Lady Ghislaine, which is named after her, on her father's yacht. And that's Trump."
The 1989 photograph shows Trump on Robert Maxwell's yacht with Ghislaine visible in the background. This wasn't a casual meeting—it was the beginning of a partnership that would span decades. Maxwell's claim of uncertainty about whether she met him in 1990 deliberately obscures the documented 1989 encounter that launched their criminal association.
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