Jeffrey Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein was a man of many talents. He was a lawyer, a philanthropist, a gossip, a political consultant, and a spy. And, as it turns out, he was also a member of the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad.
00:01:12.480And Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein were very close.
00:01:18.300I mean, I think among, you know, they were certainly among each other's closer friends.
00:01:25.940And, you know, I think it's been documented that Ehud Barak got money from Epstein.
00:01:33.740And they had various business dealings together.
00:01:39.500But also they clearly enjoyed each other.
00:01:42.160I mean, I saw this again and again and again.
00:01:46.360And obviously Ehud Barak had a very clear connection to Mossad.
00:01:55.000Although Ehud Barak, a former prime minister, was out of power.
00:02:01.020But very much knowledgeable about and engaged in the Israeli politics and the Israeli power structure.
00:02:12.580Having said that, and therefore Epstein himself was very knowledgeable about Israel, about its interests, about its politics.
00:02:29.000And to a degree, about its intelligence.
00:02:33.540My view of Epstein, however, is that he was, he possessed, the information he possessed would be better characterized as gossip rather than intelligence.
00:02:49.200And Epstein was a great gossip, a great purveyor of information, information in whatever form.
00:03:02.460And he was a purveyor of that information to a wide variety of people.
00:03:10.280I mean, he certainly was not, he certainly had no one client he was passing information to.
00:03:16.900Information was part of Epstein's currency, and it was a currency that he used for, I think, financial gain, but also for social climbing.
00:03:31.180So one of the reasons people would come to Epstein's house and sit around his table is that you would hear things that the New York Times didn't know.
00:03:41.340And, but, but, but this was not, this was not carefully shared.
00:03:48.560This was, as, as I say, a gossip's currency.
00:03:56.560I mean, some would say gossip and intel are cousins.
00:04:01.140I can still gossip and give you intel.
00:04:02.980Well, I know, I'm sure that they are, that they are, are related.
00:04:05.480They're just not the same thing, and I'm not sure that if you would, that you would necessarily want your intelligence agent to be one of the world's biggest gossips.
00:04:32.120I would say, because, and, and a part of it, which is kind of weird, when, when he said they had a, at one point, Ehud Barak, they had a scheduled monthly meeting, I think 15 consecutive months.
00:04:43.440And one time in, and these happened like at 2015, 2017, 2013, if I'm not mistaken, somebody can search this and verify it.
00:04:50.320And even at one point, Ehud Barak said, I actually didn't know about his dealings in the past.
00:04:54.520I didn't know that he had these things that were said, which is kind of naive to say that being the prime minister of Israel.
00:05:02.120But, you know, Ehud knew Jeffrey, I mean, I mean, did Ehud know that Jeffrey's, that, that Jeffrey Epstein had clearly had a fetish for young girls?
00:05:16.880I don't know to what extent Ehud knew that, but Ehud certainly was not, did not know, as he now represents Jeffrey Epstein on a casual basis.
00:05:29.320They were close, close, close, close friends.
00:05:32.480Did you, what did you, what was your feeling about Ehud when you were running?
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