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NewsReal: Epstein Files - Trump Desperate to Put 'America First' Genie Back in Bottle

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Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:01 UTC

They say dead men tell no tales. Not true in this case. Epstein continues looming large over Trump's second term, with The Epstein Files™ - and specifically the demand to publish them, combined with the efforts to selectively 'massage' and 'tailor' them - practically dictating the schedule and tempo of US domestic politics. Left and Right have come together to force their release, squeezing Trump in the middle, who wants everyone to forget all about them.

Most assume that that's because Trump himself is personally implicated in them. More likely, Israel is, so Trump wants to placate Israeli paranoia in order to focus on making 'big beautiful peace deals' and avoiding another smear campaign like Russiagate, and thus the political chaos of his first term. He thinks he's 'doing MAGA' the only way it can be done, but in the meantime his base is 'noticing' an awful lot and wants the US to completely decouple from Israel.

The divergence is becoming extreme. Can the center hold?

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Buffalo_Ken · 2025-11-16T21:55:49Z

I'll listen later, but first I wonder who got paid what for Kazakhstan to join the so-called "Abraham Accords". That reeks of foul play and likely is just temporary ejaculations of desperate folks in desperate situations self-inflicted and now they turn upon each other most likely - and Kazakhstan - the specific ones agreed to said "deal" must realize the ides of March suffer no fools - and fool you must be to take the bribes and other influence that all who have principle know - is short-lived indeed.

Justified Retribution takes no prisoners.

TBoris · 2025-11-17T03:17:31Z

Let me reword a bit(original text from the article):

Most assume that that's because Trump himself is personally implicated in them. More likely, Israel is, so Trump wants to placate Israeli paranoia in order to focus on making 'big beautiful peace deals' and avoiding another smear campaign like Russiagate

TBoris rewording:

Most assume that Trump is personally implicated in them, including other politicians in both political parties(in the US). These files are active(Palantir https://x.com/TheMaineWonk/status/1976985850933395825), not just frozen copies at the DOJ. Not only are they a possible source of embarrassment and destruction of a politicians career (by design and for centuries), they are accompanied with racketeering. On the carrot side, is bribes (as Buffalo_Ken) mentions above. Once you dip into the box of candies however, there are consequences if you don't tow the line...increasingly for all of us. Trump wants his presidential ratings to soar, but his hands are tied with the blackmail and political favors owed from being allowed to be President by those who funded his campaign. Yes his MAGA base is starting to wake up to all this which is his grace(I think).

TBoris · 2025-11-17T03:24:06Z

TBoris 'Trump's Corporate Colluders' [Link]

President Donald Trump has set up a massive system of patronage, where corporations are circumventing campaign finance laws to buy favors from the Trump administration.

We analyzed more than 150 top donors to Trump's inauguration fund and the White House ballroom construction to figure out which corporations are donating — and what they got in return.

3.1415926535 · 2025-11-17T13:51:06Z

Very difficult to figure out who, did what, in REDACTED!

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-11-18T15:24:36Z

Holy-Moly - glad sott.net is back online - twas "offline" for me the past hour or so - some server in Atlanta apparently - huh....who know I reckon.

I reckon I'll listen to this now but as always I appreciate the NewsCast and the commentors therein of course and let me leave you with this question before I listen to this episode:

Query: If you redacted the word on a document "Confidential", could that document then be released?

Shalmaneser · 2025-11-18T15:56:20Z

Buffalo_Ken FYI: [Link]
A *lot* of stuff has been down this morning. ;>

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-11-18T15:58:51Z

Shalmaneser - so you are experiencing it as well? Very irregular - but I've made some notes. Tis sort of bizarre in a way, but not unexpected - I've experienced similar and just trying to confirm - you have been experiencing likewise?

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Oh - just checked the link - tis a "Cloudfare" issue I reckon.....hmm - what the hell is cloudfare? I hope it ain't run by "ai"...

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PiTV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17277ba1-25f6-4bcc-93b3-b40fc1c0b226_1954x928.png

Shalmaneser · 2025-11-18T16:04:19Z

Buffalo_Ken Cloudflare is, primarily, a CDN or "Content Delivery Network."

Many large sites use CDN's to (usually) provide faster service. Content from the primary site is "mirrored" on servers in different geographical areas so that a server closer to the person making a request can respond.

As Cloudflare is one of the larger providers of CDN services their outage is affecting many other web-based services.

Some more info: [Link]
The DownDetector.com site is also helpful: [Link]

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-11-18T16:05:52Z

Shalmaneser - thankyou! Now the question is - why is it having problems I reckon, but not to get too far off-track.....I mean of course - shit happens - but sometimes it just seems damn near inexplicable!

Regards,

Ken

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-11-18T19:06:25Z

OK - 28 minutes 55 seconds into it - and for sure Trump hung out with the Epstein crowd but he wasn't like the rest of them....is that the takeaway? It probably is true but whats her name is dead now - she apparently committed suicide and if I understood Neil correctly at this moment in the video per the "tranche" released she had kind words for Trump - in contrast to others I reckon - but that is in the court record.

Regardless - Trump hung out with this crowd, and they have chosen to claim it all is a "nothing-burger" which if that was so - then why not release it? Tis all a bunch of dc kabuki drama - and I don't know about you fellas who ain't even citizens in the us of a - but myself - me and my neighbors - we are fucking sick of it. A

And seems to me the gubment was shutdown for quite a bit of time and I'm saddened in a way it has been opened up again for business - so to speak....and one wonders why does Trump support primary contests against Thomas Massie and the lady out of Georgia - Miss Taylor when they seem to be espousing "America First" ideology in the first place - just goes to show how twisted and contorted it all is - how separated it all is from reality.

~

But at the end of the day - facts are facts.

"Cloudfare" the entity it is had some downtime today - and that is a fact.

Candace Owens has been remarkable in her tenaciousness to track down what the hell happened in Utah and the so-called "planes" from Egypt the blue one and the yellow one - are compelling evidence of malfeasance and that evidence is revealed and there is NOTHING to hide it. Tucker Carlson has expressed views outside of the "norm" and gotten a lot of slack for it - makes one wonder if Trump would go after Tucker just like he has Massie? I mean who the hell is Trump beholden to seems a fair question. I ask it?

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So what happens on the ground matters more than speculation regarding Epstein files and this or that - but is it not fact that many thousands of innocent Palestinians remain buried in rubble and that food supplies yet remain unprovided? Oh that is most telling and I could give a shit whether Trump was kind to whats her name - the sad lady passed away in the Epstein story - cause what really matters is the fate of all the folks in Palestine - in Gaza and the West Bank who are essentially being invaded by unscrupulous ones who would just assume take a shit on anybody else they consider "inferior" - including their own mother I reckon - being how twisted and sick they have become - a cancer upon humanity they are......

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So really Trump - Massie is the problem? Are you fucking clueless? Or are you beholden - seems the latter and really don't mess with Kentucky.....and leave Venezuela alone you fool.

Get a clue!

[Link]

Jamso · 2025-11-19T09:47:59Z

Buffalo_Ken "but whats her name is dead"

Poor show BK - her name was Virginia Giuffre, and the least you can do is remember it.

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-11-20T13:32:27Z

Jamso - there are others besides just herJamso - I was speaking of the group of them collectively . So the least you can do is be aware of that.

TBoris · 2025-11-20T14:39:01Z

Buffalo_Ken Yes. I think they were bumped off just because any testimony of a witness (even if Trump wasn't doing someone "under age" or was "nice") is enough to trigger things like: 150 people who witnessed JFK being assassinated, "committed suicide" within one year after the event...

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-11-20T14:44:14Z

TBoris - you know on a "tangent" I read this article today - and really I can't help but wonder why Lew Rockwell even published it: [Link] - Confessions of an Ex-Conspiracy Theorist By Dom Armentano

It kind of pisses me off just to be honest - now I don't go to bed with conspiracy theories but this fella acts as if he thinks Oswald did the deed by his lonesome? Oh gracious me.

~

With that said - there comes a time - when you can't KILL all those who KNOW......there are too many witnesses - and Lady Libra - she demands both balance and justice. As a Leo ( ) I can't deny I'm very fond of Lady Libra - but tis a Scorpio I'm married to - watch out - she will "jab" you with poison if you harm her family - she is ferocious!

Giant Meteor 24 · 2025-11-21T16:06:39Z

TBoris any links to the 150 people suicided? Where can i read that?

TBoris · 2025-11-22T04:49:02Z

Giant Meteor 24 Here is some data on that: [Link] My 150 was in my head for some reason. It certainly wasn't 0.

Giant Meteor 24 · 2025-11-22T16:06:38Z

TBoris bookmarked, thanks!

Jamso · 2025-11-22T17:40:16Z

Buffalo_Ken Well, a) - you did not say or imply in any way that you were speaking of a collective group - you say 'she' two or three times and only later add others, and b) your kind of lame excuse speaks of a little nagging guilt on your part. Best just to be honest. If you want to speak of a collective of victims, name them all - they are all equal in being victimised, and should all be recognised - if you can take the trouble.

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-11-23T20:18:49Z

Jamso - don't be defensive in discourse Jamso - sorry you "read into it" this or that in your mind but what is the point of your arguing this?

Obviously, many young gals got "caught up" in the Epstein web but you want to tell me the difference twixt collective and individual suffering? Is that correct?

What is your "game" pal I ask rhetorically....please don't answer.

But is your effort here to disparage me and if so - why?

Or is just your delicate "ego" - and the need to always 'win' the argument of the day?

Jeesh - we all care about individual suffering and I don't think I have disparaged any of them, so I don't get it why this seems to be a topic of import to YOU - seems most trivial - so nuff said.

~

Please don't answer any of the rhetorical question above - they all are!

If you do, please don't expect a response - none will be forthcoming.

VonCraq · 2025-11-24T14:13:13Z

Buffalo_Ken Good a.m. Happy Thanksgiving! ( spoken tongue in cheek, because the only happy I'd or ides have is to see the the worlds perpetraitors get the death penalty after water boarding. ( misspelled on perp-ose) I enjoyed your discourses, including your arguments with others. Lol. As for me, I have long since resigned myself to the fact that my lot here is to read from the minds who still write their opinions in well spoken manner ( like yours)... Can I add anything to these? Only this, that is the term "web". It is actually a perfect term for the interplay of mankind these days on many platforms. The el-ite's world which reigns or rains above the rest of the world ( sheeple) has game planned these moments for generations and generations, building webs. Their crimes when purposely exposed are only exposed by design..due their weird need to tell the partial truth to the sheep in a strange psychotic form of catholic confession. Maybecthey all believe they will only be in pergatory for awhile and not permenant HELL. When one calls the world a stage, they have nailed it precisely. The actors are all well scripted atcevery level of this world scene. The scenes are well planned. The actors read their lines when called for the scene or "act" that they we preplanned for. Who the directors are, is an argument for the ages. I have my opinion on who they are but few if any here would agree with my answer because it seems everyone needs tangible ( right before your eyes) evidence when in fact the evidence is just strands of a very dark web (made by very skilled spiders) and when the seemingly breaks we the people see it and gather around cheering over the fragments while the rest of this grand web of finance, deceit, and blatant criminal activity continues like a well oiled machined...spider actors and rulers running up and down the main-frame webs catching a wrapping its victims up in living tombs. The web! Btw: Gotta love the Devil's last language for this earth: English. Ciao

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-11-24T23:44:40Z

VonCraq - gracias VonCraq.

Thankyou.

~

Lots of info coming in today but tis good to read what you say - consoling.

So, not to burden you but rather to share my burden - I came across this today and it seems to confirm what you speak of...what I sort of already was or think I was "aware of"..in an indirect manner....."perpetraitors" as you say:

[Link] - The Great Taking Revisited: The Book That Shouldn’t Have Existed (Pt 1) - A Look Back At The Great Taking Book & Why It's More Relevant Than Ever - Parallel Mike Nov 23, 2025

~

If yee be "in the mood" for some somber projections about what is coming down the pike - check it out....myself - seems almost to much to take in just now - but maybe together a "defense" can be established.

VonCraq · 2025-11-25T14:56:01Z

Buffalo_Ken I w ~~ill, read it. Why is it a burden? Because as for me, who has over 5,000 people on my books as patients... 1% want to know.~~

Even family laugh...

stupidity and terrible levels of cognitive bias exist and we're well laid out by programming the generations. So yes the burden is heavy when few carry it.

Weighty things today, very weighty....

Buffalo_Ken ·

VonCraq

· 2025-11-25T17:55:11Z

TBoris · 2025-11-25T19:13:20Z

Buffalo_Ken Thank you for that link highly relevant for these times! From your link:

You are led to believe that you own something, but someone else secretly controls it as collateral. And they have now established legal certainty that they have absolute power to take it immediately in the event of insolvency — and not your insolvency, but insolvency of the people who secretly gave them your property as collateral.

This fits with Catherine Austin Fitt's view of what is upon us, which is a great plundering of national assets in the US(including individuals assets due to defaults). There are already cracks happening in the collateral being used in the private credit markets. In other words, collateral is turning out to be double and triple booked to extend say 3 lines of credit with the same collateral. So for example, if there are defaults on a line of credit of one of the three loans, the collateral disappears for backing the other 2 lines of credit. This is all unregulated credit pools.

Also, to add to the problems we face, Wall Street listed companies have been taken private(starting with Jack Welsh's GE layoffs in 1982) and becoming part of a dark unregulated pool of private companies equity used as collateral (as explained above). See this research report link explaining the problem of private equity and its role in destroying steady employment in the US and also being unregulated since private companies making up private equity pools do not have to disclose their balance sheets to the SEC( security and exchange commission): [Link]

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-11-25T19:37:47Z

TBoris - Didn't Warren Buffet say the "derivative instruments" are equivalent to nuclear bombs? Well that is the truth - but to make matters worse the laws have been amended and they think they can steal this legally - but little do they know - the power of local communities and citizens well armed.

TBoris · 2025-11-25T22:55:48Z

Buffalo_Ken Right. That is what good old "uncle" Warren said: "Weapons of Mass Financial Destruction". You are also correct that the laws were changed such that depositors (or investment accounts) are not first in line when a lender goes under to make whole(during bankruptcy). Instead, it is the holders of the derivatives (legal bets) on say what the price of oil might be in one month from now etc. that get paid out first. So for example, some ones IRA account with say one million in cash would lose $750k (the balance over the $250k FDIC insurance limit). And that is assuming the money is being held at a bank. If it is instead say shares of some privately held corporation(as equity) it could be a total loss. Or if there was a margin call (a lot of folks face that) where they leveraged their balances on the stock market(could lose everything).

but little do they know - the power of local communities and citizens well armed

During the great depression in the 1930s, there were something like 3000+ community currencies. So for example, if you and I were a community we could create our own money(keep track of it on a spreadsheet even) and trade it for goods and services amongst ourselves. Unfortunately in these times 2025, the regular Joe or Jane is clueless about how money is created or used at a local level. And back then there were a lot more local small farms(not bought up by Bill Gates) and businesses(taken down during Covid on purpose "opportunity zones") that could contribute to a local community(trading goods and services). Now in 2025, it is all big corporations(like Walmart) that of course will only accept the upcoming digital stable coins (private version of the CBDCs which are even worse) that will be accepted to buy anything...

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-11-26T19:10:09Z

TBoris - finely stated Boris. You know during my time here at sott.net I think this is perhaps the topic of interest both you and I are most well informed and for which we basically help each other learn more and rarely have conflicting views. My interest in matters of this nature commenced around 2005 time-frame and at the time I frequented many sites where in the good-ole "wild-west" days of the internet many very well-informed folks shared their knowledge. I soaked it all in and over time one learns - who is reliable and who maybe not so much.....

The only thing I would add to your fine post above is that I am of the opinion that (1) necessity is the mother of invention, and (2) local communities could both learn and adjust incredibly rapidly.

Warm Regards,

Ken

parzival · 2025-11-24T07:01:16Z

'The Criminal Infrastructure Thesis: Why JPMorgan’s Epstein Relationship Wasn’t a Failure—It Was the Business Model' by Shanaka Anslem Perera Nov 23, 2025 [Link]
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"...For 21 years, America’s most sophisticated bank ran the calculation: Is facilitating trafficking more profitable than compliance? The answer was yes. They processed payments to accomplices. Purchased helicopters for transport. Cleared wires through Russian banks. All while compliance officers raised alarms that executives overrode. Because the revenue exceeded the penalty times the probability of enforcement. They filed the missing reports AFTER he died. A 300x data dump to build legal defense. Zero executives charged. Stock price unchanged. Senator Wyden’s investigation didn’t expose a failure. It exposed the business model. When profit from crime exceeds expected penalty, institutions optimize for crime. This is not corruption. This is finance working exactly as designed. You’re not living in a world with rule of law. You’re living in a world with rule of math. And the math just proved that above a certain wealth threshold, laws become suggestions priced in basis points. This is the inflection point. What comes next determines whether accountability still exists..."

TBoris · 2025-11-24T13:00:15Z

parzival Thanks for that link. Shows that people at the billionaire+ level don't have to obey the law(as CAF often says "the crime that pays is the crime that stays"). The interesting part about the article I thought was that Epstein wasn't just just collecting dirt on politicians for intelligence agencies like Mossad, he was also a network guy connecting up billionaires and the bankers stood to gain from those relationships(still are!!).

The time frame of these operations go back centuries which the article didn't get into. Also, missing (though not intentional) is the story about the huge pools of cash in the Ivy league schools like Harvard (bigger than most countries balance sheets).

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