Trump’s Epstein Scandal EXPLODES Worldwide

What this episode is about

The release of extensive documents related to Jeffrey Epstein has unveiled intricate connections between Epstein and numerous high-profile individuals, including Donald Trump, sparking global repercussions. Key developments include calls for Prince Andrew to testify before U.S. Congress and significant fallout for former British ambassador Peter Mandelson, who faces a criminal inquiry due to his ties to Epstein and alleged misconduct in handling confidential information.

Key takeaways

• When royalty meets scandal, accountability seems like a distant dream—hello, Prince Andrew.
• Mandleson's resignation sparks concern: how deep does Epstein's influence run in political corridors?
• Leaking bailouts via email? Only the elite can afford such outrageous impunity.
• Epstein's web reveals a startling reality: are our leaders really vetted or merely connected?
• Norway’s future queen cozying up to Epstein illustrates a troubling trend among global elites.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Ben Rhodes (Guest) · 8 min speaking
• Tommy Vietor (Host) · 5 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Andrew King Andrew King, Donald Trump, Kier Starmer
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo Accords, Paul "Dizzy Hips" Blair
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Ahood Barack, Virgin Islands
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Donald Trump

Notable quotes from "Trump’s Epstein Scandal EXPLODES Worldwide"

• The British system and none in ours. then there's a guy named Peter Mandlesson. last September, Peter Mandlesson lost his job as Britain's ambassador to the US because of a…

  about Peter Mendelson · at 1:01

• The Mandlesson thing is a big deal because again, our British listeners know this, but Peter Mandlesson is a gigantic figure in British politics.

  about Paul "Dizzy Hips" Blair · at 3:40

• Jeffrey Epstein. There's audio files of their conversations. It's clear that Epstein's kind of like helping him set up his post-p prime minister life financially. He's telling…

  about Ahood Barack · at 6:08

• Compromising information on people who are also his friends he found weak spots like these royal families are weak spots in high society these are people who have like a lot of…

  about Virgin Islands · at 7:36

• I would think so. And like Trump wants this to be the end of the story. I think it's just the beginning of the next chapter because now there are so many documents and so many reporters and.

  about Donald Trump · at 10:40

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Peter Mendelson — Person · Key referenced political figure (UK angle) · 6 mentions
  Presented as a major UK political operator allegedly tied to Epstein, facing resignations and potential criminal investigation for sharing confidential government information.
• Donald Trump — Person · Referenced political figure (US angle) · 3 mentions · first at 0:15
  Cited as one of the powerful Americans connected in the Epstein files; discussed in terms of mentions in documents and implications for further investigation.
• Andrew King Andrew King — Person · Referenced public figure (UK royal scandal) · 2 mentions · first at 0:30
  Used as a prominent example of Epstein’s international reach; the episode notes additional photos in the latest tranche and calls for testimony.
  Tranch of files includes even more photos of Prince Andrew and Prime Minister Kier Starmer is now calling on him to testify before the US Congress about Epstein. So that's kind of a remarkable step for Star to make.
• Ahood Barack — Person · Referenced political figure (Israel angle) · 4 mentions · first at 6:01
  Discussed as having expanded correspondence and audio with Epstein, framed as Epstein helping set up his post–prime minister financial life and discussing tech/politics.
• Kier Starmer — Person · Referenced political leader (UK) · 1 mention · first at 0:44
  Mentioned as calling on Prince Andrew to testify before the US Congress, illustrating UK political pressure and accountability framing in the episode.
  Less large royal estate. But this latest tranch of files includes even more photos of Prince Andrew and Prime Minister Kier Starmer is now calling on him to testify before the…
• Paul "Dizzy Hips" Blair — Person · Referenced political figure (context for Mandelson) · 1 mention · first at 3:43
  Mentioned to situate Peter Mandelson’s stature as part of Blair’s inner circle and the New Labour era, underscoring why the allegations are politically significant.

Places & events

• Nobel Peace Prize — Event · Referenced event · 1 mention · first at 5:44
  Mentioned in the context of the chair of the selection committee being involved with Jeffrey Epstein, highlighting the scandal's reach into prestigious institutions.
  But she's not even the only Norwegian VIP to get caught up in this. like the former prime minister and the chair of the Nobel Peace Prize selection committee was vacationing on Epstein Island.
• Oslo Accords — Event · Referenced event · 1 mention · first at 5:54
  Mentioned in relation to diplomats involved in the Accords having financial ties to Epstein, showing the scandal's impact on historical diplomatic achievements.
  No, the former a former foreign minister had dinner with him a couple times. There's two diplomats who helped negotiate the Oslo Accords have financial ties to Epstein. So…
• Virgin Islands — Place · Setting · 1 mention · first at 7:40
  Mentioned as a location where elites, including those connected to Epstein, would visit, illustrating the global reach of Epstein's network.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 All right, so let's talk about Epstein. By now, I'm sure the audience has heard about this massive trove of files related to Jeffrey Epste that came out of uh DOJ last week. This was in response to a law passed by Congress. Um there's millions and millions of records. They show this vast web of connections to rich and powerful people all over the US, including Donald Trump and others. We're going to try to focus on the international angle. Um because this scandal is now truly global. So a couple examples, Ben. So starting in the UK, um we have covered the uh the downfall of a creep formerly known as Prince Andrew um who was stripped of his royal titles and asked to move from, you know, one royal estate to a slightly less large royal estate. But this latest tranch of files includes even more photos of Prince Andrew um and Prime Minister Kier Starmer is now calling on him to testify before the US Congress

0:48 about Epstein. So that's kind of a remarkable step for for Star to make. Um, then there's

0:53 some other Americans I'd like to see testify before Congress, too, by the way. For sure. Yeah. I was like I was like, let's get some

0:59 There's a weird theme here, which is like there's a lot of accountability in the British system and none in ours. Um, then there's a guy named Peter Mandlesson. Um, last September, Peter Mandlesson lost his job as Britain's ambassador to the US because of a previous trunch of Epstein files that showed their relationship like being far deeper and um going on longer than it should have. Uh, but the fallout from this latest trunch is massive for Mandles. So, he's resigned from the Labor Party. He's resigned from the House of Lords. On Tuesday, the Times of London reported that Mandlesson will face a full criminal inquiry or a full criminal investigation for forwarding along highly confidential uh British government information, including seeming to tip Epstein off about the EU's response to the debt crisis, I believe, in 2010. I think was that what that email was? Like he basically told a guy, a financeier with Wall Street

1:47 connections that the EU was about to do like a 500 billion euro bailout. Yeah. Pretty bad.

1:53 Yeah. I I think starting with the British piece of this, you know, this has been interesting. I I I ended up spending a lot more time morbidly scrolling through this uh content than I thought for a couple reasons, right? One is just the absolute depravity and that's where Prince Andrew comes in, right? just people, men behaving like the absolute worst versions of human beings uh as it relates to the mistreatment, trafficking, abuse of girls. I think the other thing that jumps out though, Tommy, is beyond just the conduct of the global elite, there were real stakes involved, right? So you take the Mandlesson thing, that is not a small matter. That is like a senior government official trading the most sensitive inside market-based information. You and I were in meetings about the same bailouts. I remember being in meetings about ECB bailouts.

2:49 And I mean, I'm not saying I'm pure, you know, like I'm a hero. I just you don't

2:55 it was unthinkable that you would like leak that information. It's like, hey, I know and and put it the brazeness, the impunity to put it in an email. It just shows you

3:03 forwarding this from Gordon Brown. Hey, I just heard like Tim Gener talking about this, you know? I mean,

3:08 which by the way, all this is happening right now because Trump administration officials are using this kind of insider information to bet on events on Kelshi market, right? Their accounts are getting set up being like, will Maduro be deposed 100 grand into the into the table that it's going to happen by the end of today? Oh, wow. I won my bet. How did that happen? Right. So,

3:27 so no, I I think it's a theme here that there was actual real stakes, power, intelligence agencies, market moving information that was circulating in this web that Epste had built. I also think the Mandlesson thing is a big deal because again, our British listeners know this, but Peter Mandlesson is a gigantic figure in British politics. This guy inner inner circle of Tony Blair, new labor comes in.

3:51 He was kind of at the center. You know, Britain is a pretty clubby place. London is even more clubby place. Westminster the most clubby place. He was the kind of guy that was constantly whis talking to journalists, talking to political operatives. Like

4:03 it was like a master communication. I met him. He's a charming guy. Like he's a good communicator,

4:08 right? And by the way, he's gay. So he was not like part of the sex crimes. It was just one of, you know, I mean, maybe it's not strange. It is just odd um that he was sort of like so close with this guy. but also seemingly Epstein uh funneled a bunch of money to his partner which he like seemed to pretend he didn't know about but now there's records of it

4:25 and he kind of got off on just being in the center of the action and and and I I think that the lesson you know we all have to look a little harder at our elites after this Epstein stuff and in the in the UK case it's that you know how did this guy come back like how did he get the job as ambassador the British intelligence services I would be absolutely flabber flabbergasted if MI6 didn't know the depth of Peter Mandlesson's connections to Epstein. So, how did these guys sign off on him becoming ambassador to the United States? Pretty important job. Um, after this,

5:00 yeah, he must have lied in his vetting or something. Um, a few more examples, Ben. So, the the royal family in Norway has gotten swept into this. So, the latest run of files has revealed uh that the crown princess, her name is Metamerit, uh, she's the woman in line to be queen, was extremely chummy with Jeffrey Epstein. We had a bunch of email correspondents between 2011 and 2013, which is well after his plea deal in Florida. Um, she was chastised by the the prime minister of Norway for showing bad judgment. And this is happening for at a very challenging time for her because her son from a previous marriage is on trial for 38 charges, including four counts of rape. So, this is yeah, very scary time for her. I mean, it's horrible. All of it's just awful. Um, but she's not even the only Norwegian VIP to get caught up in this. like the former prime minister uh and the chair of the Nobel Peace Prize selection

5:46 committee was vacationing on Epstein Island. Not a good few months of the Nobel Peace Prize.

5:50 No, the former a former foreign foreign minister had dinner with him a couple times. There's two diplomats who helped negotiate the Oslo Accords have financial ties to Epstein. So, that's bad. Uh we've talked about uh Israeli the former Israeli prime minister Ahood Barack before. He's been named in these files, but now there's even more correspondence between Ahud Barack and Jeffrey Epstein. There's audio files of their conversations. It's clear that Epstein's kind of like helping him set up his post-p prime minister life financially. He's telling him he's describing to him what Palanteer is for the first time in one of these audio recordings.

6:21 Yeah, it did make you wonder about Ahoud Barack's uh keeping up with the times.

6:24 What the hell? I know. Yeah, there also there's a conversation from Defense of Israel.

6:27 They have a conversation about Obama. I said that to you. I I love that. Jeffrey Epson like has like an interesting and like very accurate I think read on Obama and Ahwood Brock's like read political playbook once in like 2007.

6:41 He's like he's close to Valerie Jared. I was like where's the the MSAD? Give me that brief. U in the UAE there's like a top executive at the Dubai based logistics company that's like sending porn links around. uh the Slo the Slovakian National Security Adviser resigned after messages between him and Epstein came out where they were like talking about women and that also I think discussing a forthcoming meeting with the Russian foreign minister. So Ben, I just we'll pause there, but it is just it's staggering like how this guy was able to get his tentacles into so many different people and just like I don't know convince them that he was interesting or important or could connect them or was a financial genius.

7:18 I don't maybe there was some some abilities there that we don't know about but my god

7:24 look he he definitely operated um like an intelligence service himself right like almost unto himself in the sense that he built a network he got compromising information on people who are also his friends he found weak spots like these royal families are weak spots in high society these are people who have like a lot of money and a lot of time on their hands and no real jobs and they go to places like the Virgin Islands, right? And so he kind of burrows in. I mean, that's what I take away from these worlds. Like this is a way to kind of burrow into the elites and you kind of probably follow that pathway to other people.

7:57 I thought the Barack thing, a Barack thing was really interesting because it shows you how this works. We've said a few times, particularly when we talk about like Jared Kushner, that the payoff for government service, right, comes on the back end, i.e. like you do something to scratch the back of rich people and then or or say the Gulf and then when you leave in Jared's case you get a $2 billion you know investment in your fund the A Brock thing was he's literally coaching him he's like I can get you on this board I can get you on this board he's literally setting the guy up you know and I think it is a good window for people into how this kind of revolving door elite works where even people who seem like they're very powerful in some ways are subordinate to wealthy people because those wealthy people are the people that are going to make you money when you leave government, right? And so that all

8:46 becomes one self-looking ice cream cone of corruption. I I also think like we should just pause on this intelligence question because you know there's weird links that why can this guy set up meetings with Russians, right? He clearly was doing a lot of stuff uh that benefited the Israeli government. The the Russian Russia and Israel have two of the most aggressive intelligence services in the world. And there's one email from Epstein where that goes to like a I think a former deputy economic minister, a Russian guy, where he's like, "Hey, there's a woman in town from Moscow that is blackmailing a businessman that she slept with. It's bad for everyone.

9:23 Um, here's her address." Yeah. It's like real ominous scary stuff. Ominous stuff. Right.

9:29 Anyway, sorry. No, no. And that's right. I mean, I'm curious what you think, Tommy, because I know you, but these questions, you know, I don't claim to know the answer, but the idea that, you know, based on what we're seeing that like the I mean, at a minimum, the MSAD, the FSB, and, you know, who knows about the CIA, right? Like must have been paying pretty close attention to showing up at that island because they know those people are compromised. You know, at a maximum, this guy favor trades. you know, he didn't necessarily have to be on the payroll of an intelligence service to work with them and to say, "Hey, Russia, I send me some women and I'll send you some information or something, right?"

10:07 Or or whatever the thing is, you know? So, I I do think that some people are right to suggest like, "Why are we not seeing more investigation into this guy's links?" And I'm not just pointing at Israel, I'm pointing at Russia, and I'm curious about his links to the US. What would this guy to your point like had just a revolving door of some of the most powerful, richest, famous people in the world coming to his island, flying on his plane, sending him emails, unclassified emails about sensitive Like I I I have to think there's an intelligence piece somewhere.

10:40 I would think so. And like Trump wants this to be the end of the story. I think it's just the beginning of the next chapter because now there are so many documents and so many reporters and investigators can pull on these threads and try to figure out more. And there's all this stuff that was redacted or withheld for various reasons. And like look, the the government, we should just be honest, like the 30-day timeline to get all these documents out was probably not remotely feasible. Yeah. Um and I I don't like I'm not trying to criticize the authors of the legislation, but like

11:07 are you standing up for Todd Blanch? the the I mean I'm just standing up for the fact that like to this day I was talking to a journalist today going through the archives who was like man there are still uh naked photos in these archives that have not been redacted you know and it's like just horrible that they put the victims through this and you know there's collateral damage and people but um

11:27 I I I think that like there's a lot we need to to know here and look look Donald Trump's he's he's mentioned like 38,000 times so far according to the New York Times but this is a guy who didn't use email doesn't use email so like We we don't really know. It's like the tip of the iceberg for him.

11:41 And to your point about Mandlesson, you know, being potentially prosecuted, uh there's so many crimes in these uh you know, documents, I also out of you know, real concern. It's so haunting to see you know the the pictures of these girls with like black boxes and and are they okay? Like um what happened to some of those girls? Like are they cuz it seemed like they were literally being treated like cattle.

12:07 Well, yeah. There's like occasionally some emails from Epstein to like clearly one of the victims where he is like a sociopath.

12:12 Yeah. Just awful. Thank you for watching this excerpt of Pod Save the World, the show that Ben Rhodess and I do every week about the biggest issues in global politics, national security, foreign policy. Uh please subscribe to Pod Save the World on YouTube. If you want to watch the rest of the episode, go over to the Pods Save the World page, become a subscriber, but also please subscribe to Pods Save America on YouTube. We are trying to build a progressive media counterweight to all the right-wing garbage you will find on YouTube. And what that means in practice is when people search for political news, they find TPUSA, they find Ben Shapiro, they find people named clavvicular that are looks maxing. It's not good. It's not good for anybody. Subscribe to Positive America. Help us get good information into the algorithm. And also, it's free.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Trump’s Epstein Scandal EXPLODES Worldwide"?

Ben Rhodes (Guest), Tommy Vietor (Host).

What is "Trump’s Epstein Scandal EXPLODES Worldwide" about?

The release of extensive documents related to Jeffrey Epstein has unveiled intricate connections between Epstein and numerous high-profile individuals, including Donald Trump, sparking global repercussions. Key developments include calls for Prince Andrew to testify before U.S. Congress and significant fallout for former British ambassador Peter Mandelson, who faces a criminal inquiry due to his…

What is mentioned in this Pod Save America episode?

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How long is "Trump’s Epstein Scandal EXPLODES Worldwide"?

The episode runs 13 min; the transcript is about 2,697 words in 35 timestamped sections.

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