Author and journalist Whitney Webb appeared on Wednesday’s PBD Podcast, a journalist who has dedicated much of her recent time exposing the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein.

The Wall Street Journal obtained a treasure trove of documents relating to Epstein and his meetings. Larry Summers, former Treasury Secretary, the co founder of LinkedIn and the former Prime Minister of Israel were all revealed to have met with Epstein multiple times. This signals more than just a passing relationship, and how corruption permeates into the halls of power, subtly but substantially.

Filmmaker Woody Allen was another, who is still making movies even after a damning HBO documentary released harrowing recordings of his ex-wife Mia detailing Allen’s abuse of their daughter.

Some of the elites have admitted to knowing about Epstein’s crimes far before they hit the mainstream. A clip surfaced of Cindy McCain in 2022 (wife of deceased Senator John McCain) saying everyone knew what Epstein was up to. “Epstein was hiding in plain sight, we all knew about him. We all knew what he was doing. But we had no one that had the legal power to go after him. They were afraid of him for whatever reason.”

For some reason, that declaration didn’t make a blip in the press.

Webb notes, “It’s frustrating as Americans, we have been sold a vision of government that is so divorced from this. Do we really represent the values that we project around the world that we’re supposed to have internalized? But people act like it’s fine.”

Home team member Vincent Oshana brings up Mark Middleton as a reason as to why no one in power dares speak out.

The official rub is that Epstein took his own life.

He was an aide to former President Bill Clinton, who has visited Epstein island more than any other political figure on his list.

Middleton’s suicide was determined to be the cause of death by coroners last May. At that point he said he was found without a weapon. But then magically, in February, The Daily Mail found documents saying there was a shotgun found next to his body. Middleton’s family tried to block those documents noting the change from becoming public.

Webb continues, “no one in the media even bothers to look into who Mark Middleton was. No one wants to touch that stuff like China-gate. Our intelligence services have, for very long time have been involved in Southern Air Transport illicit arms deals and drug trades.”

The China connection is an important one to ruminate on. Middleton made frequent trips to China throughout his career, so it is possible that a lot of financial malfeasance with the nation and the Clinton administration would be exposed.

The press did their best to cover up that connection, but a 1996 Washington Post Article speaks volumes.

“Mr. Middleton mentioned that the reason he came to Taiwan was to raise money for Clinton,” said Chen Yu-chun, a political scientist who worked as the campaign spokesman for Taiwanese presidential candidate Lin Yang-kang.

But the Clinton administration wanted to cover that part up for whatever reason. On its face, raising money seems relatively innocuous. So why go through hoops and hurdles to deny it? There might have been more under the hood had any further investigation occurred.

The Post article continues …

“But Chen’s account of the meeting with Middleton has added another puzzling element to the spreading controversy over the Democrats’ campaign finance activities in the Asian American community. The Democratic National Committee and the Clinton-Gore campaign have issued statements saying that Middleton has had no direct or indirect money-raising duties in the 1996 campaign, implying that Middleton was acting entirely on his own if he solicited funds in Taiwan or billed himself as someone with access to Clinton. Middleton did not return phone calls from a reporter.”

All these groups, Webb notes, that the US is ostensibly at odds with, have deep financial ties to their government. She notes how HSBC got caught laundering millions to Mexican drug cartels. They were slapped on the wrist with a multi-million dollar fine. And so was JP Morgan, who willingly loaned to Epstein post his initial 2008 conviction. That one was for soliciting prostitution of a minor. Even then, people knew that Epstein got off easy, and he was still a sex offender. Deutsche Bank now has to give up 75 million dollars for its involvement.

“And for a lot of people its hard to wrap their mind around this stuff, and it clashes with reality so intensely people get cognitive dissonance,” Webb said.

Bingo. Hear no evil, see no evil. But if you keep listening to PBD, you’re gonna get the truth, whether it makes you feel good or not.

 

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