Ben Shapiro’s hilariously bad Epstein take

What this episode is about

Ben Shapiro's recent video titled "The Real Jeffrey Epstein Story" has garnered significant backlash, with a notable ratio of 5,400 thumbs up to 16,000 thumbs down, reflecting widespread criticism of his views. Commenters have accused Shapiro of promoting government propaganda and perpetuating cover-ups, highlighting dissatisfaction with his defense of Israeli leadership amidst controversial subjects.

Key takeaways

• Ben Shapiro's Epstein video: a 5.4k thumbs-up plea that met 16k thumbs-down reality—love it when predictions miss by that much!
• Fans call out Shapiro for 'government trust' contradictions. Trust issues are soured quicker than milk left out in the sun!
• A social media post declares Shapiro "the gaslighter-in-chief"—seems like transparency dropped out faster than Epstein’s associates.
• Shapiro's YouTube ratio screams failure louder than a reality-check slap—maybe he should've checked his fan base pulse first!
• Netanyahu's laundry situation is shocking, but Shapiro's Epstein narrative? That's a clean-up job even he can't spin!

Who speaks in this episode?

• Ben Shapiro (Host) · 7 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: BB Netanyahu, Ben Shapiro, Washington Post
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Daily Wire (company), Ben Shapiro
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Leslie Wexner, Mega Group
4. 15:00 – 20:00: Mega Group, Ben Shapiro

Notable quotes from "Ben Shapiro’s hilariously bad Epstein take"

• President here in America, you have to have been born here in America. Makes sense. Well, on December 30th, 2023, Ben tweeted, I'd gladly wave the born in the USA requirement for Netanyahu.

  about Ben Shapiro · at 1:57

• Every so often going all the way back to 2011, but recently Washington Post interviewed an ex White House staff member that said when world leaders travel to the United States…

  about Washington Post · at 3:39

• Bad as it could go, you know what? We put out the narrative that we want to push and that the donors and backers of this channel and the Daily Wire want us to push. And so at…

  about Daily Wire (company) · at 6:04

• Minister of Israel can't claim. I didn't know. Everybody knew after the Florida thing, after the Florida case, the now former prime minister of Israel was seen coming in and out of Jeffrey Epstein's townhouse roughly 30 times.

  about BB Netanyahu · at 10:40

• Talks about Lesie Wexner in his whole hour of telling the story, maybe 30 seconds or less. He said, Yeah, his he was really connected close with this guy named Lesie Wexner who…

  about Leslie Wexner · at 11:59

• Has supported over 500 Israeli professionals studying at Harvard's Kennedy School. Additionally, Wexner co-founded the Mega Group in 1991, a network of wealthy Jewish philanthropists that has backed pro-Israel initiatives such as.

  about Mega Group · at 14:52

• Also, since Ben put out that video, a surf a picture, a photograph surfaced of Epstein on his plane with his butler and Epstein is wearing an IDF sweatshirt.

  about IDF · at 21:22

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Ben Shapiro — Person · Referenced commentator / subject of critique · 5 mentions · first at 0:01
  The episode centers on criticizing Shapiro’s YouTube video framing of the Epstein case and alleging he downplays Israel-related connections and prosecutorial influence.
• Leslie Wexner — Person · Referenced financier/philanthropist in Epstein network discussion · 2 mentions · first at 12:14
  Presented as a major benefactor and enabler in Epstein’s rise (money, power of attorney, Manhattan property), and as a figure whose broader pro-Israel philanthropy is argued to be downplayed.
• BB Netanyahu — Person · Referenced political figure used in argument about Israel ties · 4 mentions · first at 1:21
  Raised as an example of Shapiro’s pro-Israel posture and as part of the episode’s claim that Israel-linked relationships around Epstein are being minimized.

Companies & orgs

• Daily Wire (company) — Company · Referenced organization · 2 mentions · first at 5:09
  Mentioned as a backer of Ben Shapiro's channel and narrative.
• Washington Post — Company · Referenced source · 1 mention · first at 3:30
  Mentioned as a source for a story about Netanyahu's laundry habits at the White House.

Concepts & topics

• IDF — Concept · Referenced concept · 4 mentions
  Mentioned in the context of Epstein wearing an IDF sweatshirt, suggesting an Israel connection.
• Mega Group — Concept · Referenced concept · 3 mentions · first at 14:58
  Mentioned as a network of wealthy Jewish philanthropists backing pro-Israel initiatives.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Check this out, folks. This is kind of funny. So, here we have old Ben Shapiro. About a month ago, Ben put out a video titled The Real Jeffrey Epstein story. Time to get real with Ben. Currently, the video is sitting at 5.4,000 thumbs up and 16,000 thumbs down. Not good. Let's read some of these comments. All right, so top comment. Ben, you cannot trust the government. Also, Ben, you can trust the government. You're a coward. 3,000 likes. Next one. This is what modernday propaganda looks like. 2.7,000 likes. The next one, Ben Shapiro is helping the obvious cover up. 2.4,000 likes.

0:57 The next one, the gaslighting from this little goblin is just unreal. Almost 400 likes. The next one, hey Ben, nobody believes you. And they go on and on and on. This is a tough story to have to cover for old Ben because Ben's whole thing is that being allies with Israel is awesome and that Netanyahu and the government in Israel is totally good and trustworthy.

1:41 Hey folks, welcome back to the show. Hope you're doing well. So, over the years, Ben Shapiro has had some really bad takes on some things. One of the ones I always think about is one from 2023. He's talking about how here in America, we have the law. In order to be president here in America, you have to have been born here in America. Makes sense. Well, on December 30th, 2023, Ben tweeted, "I'd gladly wave the born in the USA requirement for Netanyahu. Dude's a badass." Yeah, cool, Ben. And then he had a real terrible JFK assassination take recently when he put out an article titled, "Why does it matter who shot JFK?"

2:31 What? All right, Ben. And now here we are. Possibly his masterpiece, a one-hour YouTube video, the real Jeffrey Epstein story. And you guys saw how it's doing. It's honestly hard to put out an opinion that does that bad. Especially with the big following that he has. He has 7 million YouTube subscribers. You think his fans would swoop in with a little bit of support, circle the wagon for him? Yeah, Ben, this is believable. I'm with you, Ben. This is what I think, too, Ben. But if you go look at the comments, pretty much across the board, even from his fans, it's I've been your fan for a long time, Ben, and I've watched the show forever, but this is some really awful stuff. So, let's go over Ben's Epstein take and talk about why it's bombing so hard. Oh, real quick. I want to tell you a funny news story that I always think about when Netanyahu comes up. Recently, Washington Post did a article about this, but I

3:37 looked it up. It's popped up in the news every so often going all the way back to 2011, but recently Washington Post interviewed an ex White House staff member that said when world leaders travel to the United States, they get to stay in a guest house on the White House grounds. And a service that they're offered is if they have any laundry or dry cleaning that needs to be done, they can give it to the White House staff. The White House staff will take it away, wash it, dry it, dry clean it, fold it, and deliver it back to them all nice and complete and done. Pretty cool. And the ex White House staffer said, "Pretty much nobody takes advantage of the service except the Netany and Yahoos who oftent times bring between four and eight full suitcases of dirty laundry to be done.

4:34 I was picturing some poor bastard in the basement of the White House scrubbing Netanyahu's dirty underwear, thinking, "Man, when I dreamed of working in politics, this is not what I had in mind. This is awful. I have four more full suitcases of this. Between four and eight full suitcases of dirty laundry, I would be embarrassed to hand that much dirty laundry to someone to do." It's like don't be afraid to have a little class in decency. All right, so let's get into Ben's Epstein take. I would love to be a fly on the wall of Ben's production meetings for his YouTube channel because he's me he mentioned in this video. He goes, "My producer said that a bunch of the subscribers were mad because of the last Epstein video I did. I left out the the part of the story where the cameras outside of Epstein cell had three minutes edited out of the footage and people were saying, "Why did you leave

5:34 that out? That's kind of weird you left that out, Ben." And he was saying, "I was I was waiting for it to be verified." On this show, we wait for things to be verified before we talk about them. So, I would really love to be a fly on the wall of the meeting after this video comes out and it's performing the way it is. I mean, what what's the conversation like? Are they saying, "You know what? Even though the comment section is ridiculously bad and the like to dislike ratio is about as bad as it could go, you know what? We put out the narrative that we want to push and that the donors and backers of this channel and the Daily Wire want us to push. And so at the end of the day, people can say what they want in the comments, but this is the narrative that we want to push and we pushed it. Is that how it goes?

6:26 Because I feel like Ben's a smart enough guy that when he's getting ready to film himself talking for an hour about how Epstein did kill himself and that there's no list because there's no clients because no one was blackmailed and there's no Israel connection and the deal that Epstein got in 2006 in Florida was just quote horrifyingly bad prosecutorial discretion. It wasn't that someone high up in the government called Alex A. Costa and said, "You got you got to deal with this. If he goes down, we all go down." You remember that party from a couple years ago.

7:04 You deal with this. Get it done. He belongs to intelligence. Leave him alone. Figure it out. Ben doesn't think any call like that was made. He thinks that US Attorney Alex A Costa was sitting at his desk, not influenced by anyone higher up in the government or intelligence or anything, was sitting at his desk deciding, okay, so we have Jeffrey Epstein. There's 40 corroborating witnesses, really awful sex crimes. How should we deal with this? He thinks without any influence at all, just horrifyingly bad prosecutorial discretion that Alex Aosta decided all on his own that you know what we should do? We should do a nonprosecution agreement not only for the named co-conspirators, but all the possible unnamed co-conspirators. Let's do this whole thing behind all of the victim's backs.

8:03 Let's make it so Epstein doesn't have to go to prison. That That would be awful. So, we'll put him in his private wing of the county jail. We not We're not going to close the cell door. Can we leave the cell door open? It's a little bit cramped in here. I would feel better if we left the cell door open. He gets to leave 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. On the seventh day, he doesn't even have to come in. You know what? I need a day. I've been here at night all six days. My nerves are frayed. I need a day. He denied the victims the opportunity to do sentence impact statements.

8:47 All of that. Ben Shapiro, this is the most laughable part of his whole take. Ben Shapiro is saying all of that had nothing to do with higher up influence in the government. It was just simply horrifyingly bad prosecutorial discretion. It's like, come on, Ben. The saying that he did kill himself with the cameras in the cell not working, the cameras outside of the cell having the three minutes edited out, the guards that were supposed to be watching were sleeping, and the log book page for that night missing. That's one thing to say. I do think he killed himself. All right. But to say that that deal that he got in Florida behind all the victim's backs and what's funny, he doesn't mention the reason that Epstein got rearrested in 2019 was a judge ruled that some sort of conspiracy happened that you can't go behind the victim's back and give that deal. It just doesn't make sense.

9:55 And so that in a way a judge ruled that some sort of conspiracy happened. And so everything that Ben talks about this story, everything's minimized and downplayed. And it seems like he's Epstein's lawyer arguing the case again. And it's like, why? Why, Ben? And of course, he minimizes the Israel connection to a degree that becomes absurd. So let's talk about that for a second. One of the funniest aspects of the Israel connection is now former prime minister of Israel after the Florida case and everything happened and he served the bogus sentence after that. So the former prime min prime minister of Israel can't claim. I didn't know. Everybody knew after the Florida thing, after the Florida case, the now former prime minister of Israel was seen coming in and out of Jeffrey Epstein's townhouse roughly 30 times.

10:59 A few of those times wearing a disguise. How funny is that? I picture the classic glasses, plastic nose, and bush bushy mustache disguise doing the exaggerated tiptoeing of a cartoon cat burglar. And the paparazzi are in the bushes across the street waiting for something to try to get a salacious picture. And one of them goes, "Wait a second. Is that the prime minister of Israel?" Then the other one. No, I think that's just a guy wearing glasses with a bushy mustache tiptoeing. Oh, all right. Well, let's go get a hot dog. Nothing seems to be happening right now. So, we got the prime minister in and out 30 times wearing a disguise. And then Ben minimizes his relationship with Le Lesie Wexner to a point. It's like, come on, Ben. He talks about Lesie Wexner in his whole hour of telling the story, maybe 30 seconds or less. He said, "Yeah, his he was really connected close with this guy named Lesie Wexner who either founded or

12:12 co-founded Victoria Secret. And Leslie Wexner gave Epstein a lot of money and that's it." And it's like, well, Ben, he didn't just found or co-found Victoria Secret. He owned LBRs, which if you look at all the stores the LBRs owned, it was half of the mall during mall heyday. And not only that, he didn't just give Epstein a lot of money, which he did, he gave Epstein everything. He made Epstein, soon after he met him, power of attorney. Epstein could sign checks. He could sign his tax returns. Everybody that worked for Elbrands was going, "Who is this guy?

12:56 Why would you sign over power of attorney to this guy?" He let Epstein run fake Victoria Secret model auditions to creep on the models that thought, "This is my dream. I've always wanted to be a Victoria Secret model." It wasn't even a real audition. just Epstein sitting there going, "All right, can you twirl again for me?" And people that had been great employees to Les Wexner, worked hard, put their nose down to help the company, been a company man, would go to Les Wexner and go, "This guy is ruining everything.

13:30 He's ruining our great reputation. He's having these fake these fake auditions for models. You got to do something." And Lex Wester just would never do anything. He gave he gave Epstein the biggest single family house in all of Manhattan so much money. I don't even think you could ever figure it out. People have figured out for Epstein's lifestyle with all the planes and the island and everything, he was that's billionaire. He would have to have been a billionaire to have that type of lifestyle. and no one can really figure out where the billions came from other than just Leslie Wexner giving it to him.

14:15 And so the connection with Leslie Wexner was minimized a lot by Ben. And it's probably because if you look into what Leslie Wexner was into other than running Elbrands, he had a foundation. And I read this in my last video, but it's important. the Wexner Foundation which he established which with his wife Abigail in 1983. The foundation focuses on developing Jewish leaders in North America and public sector leaders in Israel with programs like the Wexner Israel Fellowship which has supported over 500 Israeli professionals studying at Harvard's Kennedy School. Additionally, Wexner co-founded the Mega Group in 1991, a network of wealthy Jewish philanthropists that uh has backed pro-Israel initiatives such as Birthright Israel and the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education. his founda his foundation's explicit support for Israel, including funding for projects enhancing its public sector and

15:28 Jewish leadership, aligns with Zionist principles of strengthening the Jewish state and people. And so I looked more into the mega group. That's just a few Jewish billionaires put all of their money together. In 1991, Vanity Fair says, "In 1991, Wexner co-founded um a philanthropic organization of Jewish billionaires known as the Mega Group, which uses some of its vast resources to shape Middle East policy." And so shaping Middle East policy usually means just more war. And so to think to minimize Epstein and Wexner and the mega group, all of that down to I think he co-founded Victoria Secret and gave Epstein a lot of money. All right, moving on.

16:29 Also, while Epstein was awaiting sentencing for the 2006 Florida thing, somehow, even though he is arguably the biggest flight risk of all time, owned multiple planes, knew a bunch of PI pilots, owned a private island, had multiple passports with different names. You can't be more of a flight risk than that. They allowed him to flee to Israel while they were coming up. What the sentence was that he didn't fight the charges. So they him, his lawyers and Alex A. Costa, they were figuring out, all right, what's the sentence going to be? The whole like the cell door gets to stay open. He gets to leave for 12 hours a day. he gets to leave to go to Israel and hang out there, which it seems like he was just hiding out there to make sure the deal. If they couldn't cook up a acceptable deal, then he just would have stayed there. And but they did and he came back and did it. So there's that. And again, Ben Shapiro left all of

17:36 this stuff out. Everything's minimized. Everything he's working alone. Ben Shapiro called him a Sam Bakeman Freed type character, but with a lot of sex crimes. He just was tricking rich people out of their money and then committing these sex crimes all alone. Also, his main confidant is Gain Maxwell and her dad has a crazy story. Glenn Maxwell's dad has a really impressive military career. Apparently, he stormed a machine gun tower all by himself, saved a bunch of people, got the highest medal of honor that you could get for the military he served in, became a billionaire, owned the production companies and everything. And the story is the Israeli government hit him up and said "Listen we're this tiny little country. We're a new. If we don't have people like you that have money and power and brains to support us, we're not going to make it.

18:47 We really need you to answer the call and and help us, you know, become an older, more strong company." And Glain's dad apparently really was honored by that that he was reached out by the at the time the prime minister and and really answered the call and he ended up somehow he figured out how to smuggle weapons, missiles and everything from where he lived in the UK down to Israel. So, a lot of the weapons in the first Israel war against Arabs came from Galain Maxwell's dad. And then he funded a lot of MSAD operations and stuff from the from his the money wrapped up in his company. A lot of it was his employees retirement and that ended up going really bad. And his death is the same peculiar type death that Epstein had.

19:42 But anyway, he was called by Seymour Hurst a really respected journalist. He was called a MSAD like that he was said that he was it was reported that he was working for MSAD and they said no he's not Gain Maxwell's dad's people said no he's not. They filed a lawsuit. You can't say that. And then a week later is the mysterious death of Galain Maxwell's dad. And then all of a sudden after he died, the lawsuit disappeared. They didn't even deny it anymore. They said someone on behalf of Gla Maxwell's dad said, "Oh, I'm running out of batteries." said um he was fully justified in writing what he did about being connected to MSAD. And he Gla Maxwell's dad was buried on some very special olive hill facing a very special wall.

20:42 All of the prime ministers and for former prime ministers went to the funeral. So he was ne he was not Israeli, never lived in Israel, but was buried in Israel in the special place with everybody there given a hero's funeral. And so all of that was left out of Ben. So, you could see why he killed himself. There's no list. There's no Israel connection. There's no blackmail. And the deal he got in Florida is just horrifyingly bad prosecutotorial discretion. You could see why Ben's video isn't doing so hot. Also, since Ben put out that video, a surf a picture, a photograph surfaced of Epstein on his plane with his butler and Epstein is wearing an IDF sweatshirt.

21:37 So, saying that there's no Israel connection is getting more absurd by the day. I doubt IDF sweatshirts are a big hot seller on the military surplus market. Like I was picturing a poor owner of a military surplus store trying to sell those but having a hard time like hey welcome to Sharp's military surplus. Just wanted to let you guys know I have a hot deal on IDF crew necks. So let me know. I got all the sizes. I got a bunch of them. And wherever you go this fall and winter you can show your support for the IDF. Okay. Yeah. No problem. But if you change your mind and you do want one, just let me know. Like I said, I got a bunch of them, so let me know.

22:26 Going through this story for the past month kind of hit me. I have no power or influence because nobody has ever tried to blackmail me. And I have never tried to blackmail. Once you see how much how often blackmail is used in the power political world. I've never even been invited to a party with disturbing art on the wall. That's how you know you're getting close. Like if you're at a party and you're like, "Why is there a painting of Satan strangling a tied up kid?" They're like, "Ah, yeah, don't worry about it. Here, come to the basement. We want to show you something."

23:07 Let me see what else I got. Where are we at? 21. All right, folks. I think I'm going to cut it off there. Have a great weekend. I'll see you next time. Why? Sting Y. Shamita.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Ben Shapiro’s hilariously bad Epstein take"?

Ben Shapiro (Host).

What is "Ben Shapiro’s hilariously bad Epstein take" about?

Ben Shapiro's recent video titled "The Real Jeffrey Epstein Story" has garnered significant backlash, with a notable ratio of 5,400 thumbs up to 16,000 thumbs down, reflecting widespread criticism of his views. Commenters have accused Shapiro of promoting government propaganda and perpetuating cover-ups, highlighting dissatisfaction with his defense of Israeli leadership amidst controversial…

What is mentioned in this TRUE CRIME Loser episode?

7 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Ben Shapiro, Leslie Wexner, BB Netanyahu, IDF, Mega Group, Daily Wire (company). Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Ben Shapiro’s hilariously bad Epstein take"?

The episode runs 23 min; the transcript is about 3,354 words in 26 timestamped sections.

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