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Well, Prince Andrew is having a really bad birthday. He is royally screwed. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Um, Prince Andrew was arrested and then released, it looks like, 11 hours later. Um, he has been arrested not for potentially being a pedophile or doing any sexual wrongdoing connected to Epstein, but instead, he was arrested for potentially leaking information to Jeffrey Epstein. And I'm going to tell you why I think that's actually more important.
Because the real crime, I believe, with Jeffrey Epstein, not to diminish the crimes of all of the victims who were harmed, there were heinous crimes, I believe, that were committed against women, against girls, children, maybe boys, uh, you know, all all kinds of victims. And I'm not diminishing what they went through. But a bigger crime is the fact that the Epstein operation looked to be a blackmail operation against nations, all to benefit other nations, whether it be Israel or maybe even the United States, if he was working for the United States. But it looked that it looked like he was collecting compromat, uh, for for countries or powerful people to use to gain the leverage that they wanted to get to their agenda.
So this arrest is actually quite important because it showcases that Epstein was looking for information, gathering that information, getting that information, and getting it from high-level people who were connected to their governments. That is the starting point. We already went through the last several years of all of the victims talking about the abuses that they endured, investigations into the sex trafficking rings, the pedophilia. We we still haven't done enough investigation into all of that, but we've at least heard about it for a long time, and there's been investigations on that for a long time. What there hasn't been any real investigation on is the intel gathering operation, the blackmail, whatever it was that Epstein was doing. And this now, this arrest of Prince Andrew could be the opening door to all of that, depending on what Prince Andrew ends up having to say to defend himself. And what happens in court? Will the court then drag out all of the evidence that's in the files that looks like Epstein was actually an intel asset? Would they bring that up in court and say, "Were you selling or trading or giving, for whatever reason, state secrets to somebody who potentially was a spy for a foreign government?" That is massive. That is the door we need cracked wide open because that then takes the power away from the powers that have been manipulating our foreign policy, controlling our government. If we can crack that wide open and expose it, that is going to be the main game-changer because that was the main goal, most of us believe, of that or many of us, I should say, believe of that blackmail operation was to basically influence the foreign policy of other countries.
Um, here's the story that came out with, uh, Prince Andrew being arrested, saying here, "Former Prince Andrew arrested months after losing royal status." So he's no longer Prince Andrew. He's just former Prince Andrew, or they call him Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, saying, "Police arrested the former prince on Thursday on suspicion of misconduct while in office, following weeks of new revelations over his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He was released from police custody 11 hours later under investigation." And, um, they're saying that he has not been charged nor exonerated at this point. So they're investigating, they're questioning, but he has not been charged. Hopefully, he gets charged soon because, again, we need this case cracked wide open.
Says, "Earlier this month, Thames Valley Police said it was looking into a claim that the former prince, while serving as UK trade envoy in 2010, had shared confidential documents with Epstein." One email in the latest US release appears to show Mountbatten-Windsor forwarding Epstein a report from his special adviser about then the then prince's visit to Southeast Asia. And police said they were searching two addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk. Mountbatten-Windsor lived in Windsor Royal Lodge in Berkshire until earlier this month. His new home on the Sandringham estate, a royal residence, is in Norfolk, or at least, how do you say that? I'm not sure how the British pronounce all of these. Um, but he's been released and he's out, and now there's a lot of questions about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that goes beyond just potentially sleeping with young girls.
Um, the documents in question, let me actually show you these. These are the documents in question that have come out during, you know, now that we've seen this latest tranche of 3 million Epstein files. This is where he was exposed. On November 30th of 2010, minutes after receiving official reports from his special adviser, Amit Patel, on a UK government-funded trade visit to Singapore, Hong Kong, and Vietnam, Mountbatten-Windsor forwarded the full reports to Epstein with no accompanying explanatory message. He just forwarded the reports. We don't have anything on that like, "Hey, take a look," "give me advice," or something that maybe would exonerate Andrew, like, "Why did he send these over?" Something that would explain that. Instead, he just forwarded along confidential documents to an Israeli spy. Um, December of 2010, on Christmas Eve, he emailed Epstein a document he explicitly described as "a confidential brief on potential investment opportunities in the reconstruction of Helmand Province, Southern Afghanistan," an area then under British military oversight and funded by UK public money. In the email, he asked for Epstein's comments, views, or ideas as to whom I could also usefully show this to attract some interest.
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Why did he send both of these reports? Why did he send the first report? Um, you know, what was the what was the what was the reasoning for that? Why would he think to send it to Epstein? Was he being compromised as it was, and he was forwarding these documents over to him because Epstein had some sort of leverage on him? Some, you know, sex tapes or something along those lines? Like, what was it? Was he really just greedy and wanting some investment opportunities to make money, or was there something more? And that's why the authorities need to do some investigating. But certainly, it seems, um, you know, they're they're they're saying that they're just investigating him and that they talked to him and they released him after 11 hours. He obviously sent confidential information. That's obviously a crime, right? I mean, it should be so obviously he should be charged. That seems to be the logic that would follow that you're not allowed to be sharing confidential information with people who are outside of your government.
King Charles issued a statement. He says, "I've learned with the deepest concern the news about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and suspicion of misconduct in public office. What now follows is the full, fair, and proper process by which the issue is investigated in the appropriate manner and by the appropriate authorities. In this, as I've said before, they have our full and wholehearted support and cooperation. Let me state clearly, the law must take its course. As this process continues, it would not be right for me to comment further on this matter. Meanwhile, my family and I will continue in our duty and service to you all. Charles R."
What's interesting about this is this statement is he did not issue it, um, like, like royally, uh, officially. He signed it without using his royal titles. You know, he's kind of like, uh, "Little brother screwed up, and yeah, you know, we're just going to have to let the law take its course." So, they're going to investigate and they find out what he did. I mean, it sounds to me like he thinks his brother's guilty. I mean, it kind of looks like his brother's guilty, right? So, what else are you going to say? I mean, you got the evidence in the emails that Andrew was forwarding along information to Jeffrey Epstein. What else are you going to say when you're the king? So, that's what he says. Um, they're going to continue on. They're going to march forward.
Daughters, by the way, are Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. Is that how you say her name? Um, they have not been stripped of their titles. They have maintained their titles even though their dad has been stripped. And they, I don't know if they actually are working royals. I don't know, one of them's not. And maybe both of the girls are not working royals. But, um, but anyway, let's see what Donald Trump has to say about this. Now, you would think the guy that says he was going to drain the swamp would be like, "Hey, you know what? Uh, drain the swamp. You pass along confidential information." I mean, just imagine if this was somebody inside of the, you know, I here I am. I was going to say, "Just imagine if this was somebody inside of the Trump administration that had leaked information to Israel." Imagine the outrage. Or actually, imagine the lack of outrage, because that's really, they would be like, "Well, it's okay. Israel is just an extension of the United States, so they can have all of our state secrets, right?"
Um, this is what Donald Trump had to say about it. "Prince Andrew arrested by the police there, um, related to something with Jeffrey Epstein. Do you think people in this country at some point, associates of Jeffrey Epstein, will wind up in handcuffs too?" >> "Well, you know, I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I think it's very sad. I think it's so bad for the royal family. It's a very, very sad to me. It's a very sad thing when I see that. It's a very sad thing to see it and to see what's going on with his brother, who's obviously coming to our country very soon, and he's a fantastic man, the king. So, I think it's a very sad thing." >> "It's really interesting because nobody used to speak about Epstein when he was alive, but now they speak. But I'm the one that can talk about it because I've been totally exonerated. I did nothing. In fact, the opposite. He was against me. He was fighting me in the election, which I just found out through the last 3 million pages of documents." >> "Make it about yourself." Yeah. "Keep making it about yourself." Well, I've been totally exonerated. This is just such a, it's a, it's, it's a sad thing. It's a shame. It's very sad. Terrible." Yeah, it's sad that he got caught giving state secrets over to the Israelis. I mean, this is where we're at with this drain the swamp movement. Donald Trump is saying, "Oh, you know, it's too bad." You know, almost like, "Oh, he shouldn't be prosecuted for this because, of course, we have to share state secrets with the Israelis. They have us all by the balls, quite literally."
Um, when he says he's been exonerated, is he talking about the Epstein files? Like, there's nothing to see here. I've been exonerated. I'm not in the files at all. Meanwhile, you have Democrats saying, "Actually, you know, Ted Lieu, representative from California says, and I'm not a fan of Ted Lieu." Um, but he goes and says, you know, "Donald Trump, there's there's thousands of documents inside of the files that show Donald Trump was raping young girls." I mean, that's what he claimed. Uh, Donald Trump then, on the other hand, claims he's exonerated. I think there's nothing that's exonerated him, and I don't know if I've seen any definitive evidence that there's been any wrongdoing either by Donald Trump. So, we're still waiting to see the redacted files, what's in the files. And also, of course, there's probably a lot of missing files.
But again, this investigation into Prince Andrew, I think, opens up a new door because this isn't just about, "Oh, there was a sex trafficking ring going on and some of these powerful men were engaging in some, you know, nefarious sexual behavior." No, this is about a blackmail operation, and this potentially cracks the door to start talking about that, to start investigating that, to see maybe courts actually questioning it because it looks more and more like Epstein was an intelligence asset. And if he was gathering information from people high up in the government, such as Prince Andrew, that is a major problem. You've been spied on, and you've now given away state secrets.
Um, Ryan Grim at Drop Site News, they have been doing some excellent reporting on the Epstein files, particularly digging into Epstein's, uh, intel connections. Here's Ryan Grim talking on Megan Kelly's show about the latest where it looks like the Israeli government had actually not only installed but were maintaining security systems at Epstein's apartment. Now, why would a government be doing that for a private citizen? Obviously, they wouldn't. The Israeli permanent mission at the UN was responsible for security at Jeffrey Epstein's apartment. >> "That's in, that's according, yes. So that's according to emails that we found, uh, in the files. So" >> "I, I, I have been reliably told that you are an anti-Semite if you look at all into Jeffrey Epstein's connections to Ehud Barak or Israel, Ryan. So you just tread carefully." >> "So the, the AR, so what, what's probably going on here? So this is related to Ehud Barak staying for such long extended periods of time in his apartment, which undercuts Ehud Barak's previous argument that I barely know the guy. I have no relationship. He was staying so much in the apartment that the Israelis literally took over security for the apartment. So the maids and any and any guests that that went in and out of the apartment had to go through background checks and had to be confirmed and and coordinated with the Israeli consulate at the UN. And at one point" >> "All the time, or just when Ehud Barak was there?" >> "It seems like it seems like all the time because there's a, the handler, this guy named Rafie, who's in the emails. Um, he turns over and you see Barak's wife, like all of a sudden she's getting texted by another Israeli official and he's like, 'Oh yeah, I have, I have the file now. Let you know, let me know who you know, who's going in and who's going out. We're going to, you know, we're, you know.' And Epstein approves like drilling of holes to put in the security equipment. Uh, it can be controlled, uh, remotely. Uh, so that's at least 2016, 2017. Uh, and so that's a level of coordination and connection between the Israeli government and Barak and Epstein that, you know, undercuts a lot of what has been said in the past." >> "So there you go. Uh, even his house was being maintained security-wise by the Israelis. Now, you could say, well, that's because Ehud Barak was there. Well, why was he there so much? So much so, on, I guess would be seemingly official business, constantly there. It's not like you would Barak would be like, 'Well, I'm there because I'm, uh, busy, you know, in this great living it up with all these sex parties.'" Um, you would think, I mean, maybe I suppose maybe, but you would think that they would be beefing up security for a reason because he's actually talking to Epstein. They're doing potentially operations together, whatever it might be. But there's just more evidence that Epstein was in fact working for the Israeli government, maybe even the United States government. And that is going to spell some real royal pains in the ass for Prince Andrew. But like I said, good for us. We're gonna learn more. Hopefully, if they actually charge him, hopefully that case will crack wide open and we're going to start hearing some questions that maybe deserve some answers.
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