Connecting dots between Vicky Ward’s extraordinary work on "Chasing Ghislaine" and revelations from "The Greatest Heist" reveals the missing link between Epstein and the Russian President.
Thank you SO very much!!! If only mainstream media would retell your story in all it's grim details. I continually refer to you and Narativ on my Substack page.
And is it possible that either Epstein outbid Trump on the "property" with Russian funds, or that the Russian money that was available to Trump went through Epstein, and he wanted a bigger cut which infuriated Trump.
Love how you both bring your knowledge of Epstein and Maxwell together. Loved listening to you both piecing it together for us. I look forward to you both sharing more of your investigative journalism.
It's interesting that you mentioned the Les Wexner empire was a bootlegging empire. Back in the days of prohibition, they built tunnels underneath houses in order to secretly transport 'moonshine.' These tunnels were later used for sex trafficking, transporting the victims secretly. It's been said the sex trafficking was a cover for the money laundering.The falling out of Epstein & trump was over a house that Epstein wanted to buy, because it was designed by his friend Wexner. trump was low on money & borrowed $ from Rybolovlev to purchase the house from under Epstein & then sold it to Rybolovlev. Epstein was angry at trump because he wanted to make that house his home. The house was located in Palm beach & may have had tunnels underneath. Many of the homes in that area did. There was documentation on X thru an article that Rudy had purchased a bungalow across Ocean BLvd from MAL in Palm Beach & Rudy said there was a tunnel under the street leading right to MAL. Rybolovlev eventually tore the house down & divided the land into 3 plots & sold them. Venture Capital (Kelly)on X had a thread with documentation that the Rybolovlev house in Palm Beach was near a mass of underwater cables which the Russians were mapping in order to sabotage.
BTW, I would have left a comment on YouTube (as I had been doing for the last few weeks), on the 8/16/25 Daily Beast video (where Michael Wolff mentions Epstein's secret meeting with Putin), encouraging people to check out Zev Shalev's material on Narativ.org, (specifically this video: "Vicky Ward Confirms: Epstein Name-Dropped Putin as a Client"), but YouTube just notified me on 8/11/25 that I have been permanently removed from YouTube., meaning I am no longer capable of commenting on any YouTube material. Here is a direct quote from their e-mail:
"We have reviewed your content and found severe or repeated violations of our spam, deceptive practices and scams policy. Because of this, we have removed your channel from YouTube." They told me this removal is permanent. The thing is, I have never even used a curse word in any of my comments.
I guess I should regard this as a badge of honor...
You two together are the bomb. All of your incredible research and knowledge shines through and I hang on every word, rewind when I don’t quite understand or if I miss somebody’s name. This is amazing.
I forgot Vickie wrote that book about the criminal Kushner family. All you and Zev have uncovered is the overriding fact that average Americans and Russians have been screwed by their governments for years.
I have been a subscriber since the days of your interview with Steve Hoffenberg. Thank you for pointing out to Vicky on his consistency answering your questions of him. She seemed unconvinced. Her reporting that JE was open about his interaction with Putin, but no memory of Douglas Lees…wow!
For corroboration of Epstein meeting with Putin, see the YouTube video dated 8/16/25, entitled "Trump's Inner Circle Drops F-Bomb Post Putin Alaska Meeting: Michael Wolff | The Daily Beast Podcast" which can be found at this link:
What I'm getting from the final part of the interview is that you and Vicky Ward are hopefully going to revise/adjust the timelines and origins of Jeffrey Epstein's cash. And maybe map out the networks. I'd really like to see the results!
Great show, thank you. When you talk about informants and espionage, you didn’t talk about Trump’s potential role as an informant. Here’s an article Greg Olear wrote about his work on Trump and his mob connections. Olear posits that Trump operated as an FBI CI against the mob in exchange for unfettered/borderline illegal mob affiliated real estate development. You wonder, if after his Atlantic City bankruptcy, he pivoted towards Russian dirty $ in NYC and acted as a CI against the Russians in exchange for permission to cozy up to their money laundering in NY…and this may have been part of the gateway into the higher orbit Epstein/Maxwell transnational activity? And Trump Model Management then acting as a feeder of young girls for Epstein? It might also explain how Trump advanced so far in politics despite his shady transactions? He was a protected CI and FBI couldn’t out him? This Olear reporting (and Unger’s work might suggest the same) may be a missing puzzle piece in Trump’s ascendancy into Epstein orbit.
And if so isn’t that the radioactive material that scares Trump to death, and not the girls?
Thank you SO very much!!! If only mainstream media would retell your story in all it's grim details. I continually refer to you and Narativ on my Substack page.
Would Maxwell/Epstein have been the cutout for Russia dark money that fed Trump or Trump enterprises?
Such an informative conversation.
And is it possible that either Epstein outbid Trump on the "property" with Russian funds, or that the Russian money that was available to Trump went through Epstein, and he wanted a bigger cut which infuriated Trump.
Love how you both bring your knowledge of Epstein and Maxwell together. Loved listening to you both piecing it together for us. I look forward to you both sharing more of your investigative journalism.
It's interesting that you mentioned the Les Wexner empire was a bootlegging empire. Back in the days of prohibition, they built tunnels underneath houses in order to secretly transport 'moonshine.' These tunnels were later used for sex trafficking, transporting the victims secretly. It's been said the sex trafficking was a cover for the money laundering.The falling out of Epstein & trump was over a house that Epstein wanted to buy, because it was designed by his friend Wexner. trump was low on money & borrowed $ from Rybolovlev to purchase the house from under Epstein & then sold it to Rybolovlev. Epstein was angry at trump because he wanted to make that house his home. The house was located in Palm beach & may have had tunnels underneath. Many of the homes in that area did. There was documentation on X thru an article that Rudy had purchased a bungalow across Ocean BLvd from MAL in Palm Beach & Rudy said there was a tunnel under the street leading right to MAL. Rybolovlev eventually tore the house down & divided the land into 3 plots & sold them. Venture Capital (Kelly)on X had a thread with documentation that the Rybolovlev house in Palm Beach was near a mass of underwater cables which the Russians were mapping in order to sabotage.
OMG! Love you guys talking this through - it is truly great & fascinating, how long this has been going on…
BTW, I would have left a comment on YouTube (as I had been doing for the last few weeks), on the 8/16/25 Daily Beast video (where Michael Wolff mentions Epstein's secret meeting with Putin), encouraging people to check out Zev Shalev's material on Narativ.org, (specifically this video: "Vicky Ward Confirms: Epstein Name-Dropped Putin as a Client"), but YouTube just notified me on 8/11/25 that I have been permanently removed from YouTube., meaning I am no longer capable of commenting on any YouTube material. Here is a direct quote from their e-mail:
"We have reviewed your content and found severe or repeated violations of our spam, deceptive practices and scams policy. Because of this, we have removed your channel from YouTube." They told me this removal is permanent. The thing is, I have never even used a curse word in any of my comments.
I guess I should regard this as a badge of honor...
You two together are the bomb. All of your incredible research and knowledge shines through and I hang on every word, rewind when I don’t quite understand or if I miss somebody’s name. This is amazing.
I forgot Vickie wrote that book about the criminal Kushner family. All you and Zev have uncovered is the overriding fact that average Americans and Russians have been screwed by their governments for years.
I have been a subscriber since the days of your interview with Steve Hoffenberg. Thank you for pointing out to Vicky on his consistency answering your questions of him. She seemed unconvinced. Her reporting that JE was open about his interaction with Putin, but no memory of Douglas Lees…wow!
For corroboration of Epstein meeting with Putin, see the YouTube video dated 8/16/25, entitled "Trump's Inner Circle Drops F-Bomb Post Putin Alaska Meeting: Michael Wolff | The Daily Beast Podcast" which can be found at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsCOW2id89c&ab_channel=TheDailyBeast
Michael Wolff discusses this at 22:11 - Epstein's Secret Meeting With Vladimir Putin.
Also of interest in the same video: at 13:25 - Steve Bannon 'Putin Has Something On Trump'.
Michael Wolff may be fairly mainstream, but he claims to have about 100 hours of tapes in his possession (of conversations he had with Epstein).
What I'm getting from the final part of the interview is that you and Vicky Ward are hopefully going to revise/adjust the timelines and origins of Jeffrey Epstein's cash. And maybe map out the networks. I'd really like to see the results!
Great show, thank you. When you talk about informants and espionage, you didn’t talk about Trump’s potential role as an informant. Here’s an article Greg Olear wrote about his work on Trump and his mob connections. Olear posits that Trump operated as an FBI CI against the mob in exchange for unfettered/borderline illegal mob affiliated real estate development. You wonder, if after his Atlantic City bankruptcy, he pivoted towards Russian dirty $ in NYC and acted as a CI against the Russians in exchange for permission to cozy up to their money laundering in NY…and this may have been part of the gateway into the higher orbit Epstein/Maxwell transnational activity? And Trump Model Management then acting as a feeder of young girls for Epstein? It might also explain how Trump advanced so far in politics despite his shady transactions? He was a protected CI and FBI couldn’t out him? This Olear reporting (and Unger’s work might suggest the same) may be a missing puzzle piece in Trump’s ascendancy into Epstein orbit.
https://open.substack.com/pub/gregolear/p/tinker-tailor-mobster-trump?r=5ipvvs&utm_medium=ios
23:00 minutes in. Question from Vicky, "How did you get into all this thing?"
Fascinating answer, and there we start a new narrative.