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Epstein Made Millions Smuggling Guns, Drugs and Diamonds...

Trap More Ross16:58

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Crapmore gang. There's been more and more revelations coming out from the Epstein files. And one of the craziest connections that I discussed in a previous video was the idea that there was a sultan from Dubai, somebody in the very, very high levels of, you know, the government royalty in the United Arab Emirates that was apparently involved in this, this web of depravity that Jeffrey Epstein was engaging in. And we saw that it was exposed who this person was. I spoke in a previous video. There were emails back and forth allegedly of Epstein saying that he had enjoyed a torture video that was sent to him. Apparently, they're saying that this sultan sent it to him and it was a famous video of a guy being tortured in Dubai by members of the royal family and the police. Very, very depraved stuff.

But now there is a crazy thread that's going around on Twitter that is basically saying that this sultan, all right, and his high-level being such a high-level operator in the, in the world of, you know, Middle Eastern power dynamics, royal families, governments. He might have actually provided Epstein assistance in his smuggling and trafficking operations, and it is all getting exposed on X, and you're just not going to believe it. So, I want to break down this thread for you guys in today's video, and you might be shocked at what you hear. So, this is going around, okay, from Adam Cochram. All right, he basically is breaking it down. He's a professor, policy consultant, independent journalist, and father. He's trying to make the world suck less. All right, unfortunately, the world does suck pretty hard right now. And unfortunately, the reason for that is some of the most depraved individuals out here doing the worst things, getting away with it. But no more. We're going to expose them in this video. We're going to expose them on Twitter. And this thread is diabolical.

So this tweet, it says, "The New York Times released a great piece of pictures from Epstein's home showing Trump, Musk, and hidden cameras, but they missed the most important picture that proves Epstein's smuggling crimes and fills in a huge part of the puzzle." So let's just take a little look at these pictures, right? Epstein smiling alongside Pope John Paul II, Mick Jagger, Elon Musk, and Fidel Castro. An insane lineup of people to be tapped in with. Nearby was the photo from 2000 showing Mr. Epstein with Mr. Trump and the future first lady, minus Miss Maxwell. Cropped, cropped Ghislaine Maxwell out of that image. That is hilarious. But also mounted in a corner above his bed was a surveillance camera, as photos showed.

Okay. So, part two says, "This picture right here shows Epstein being very friendly with Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, an Emirati businessman." Okay. He holds three important positions: Chairman of the Jebel Ali Free Zone, Jafza in Dubai, Chairman and CEO of DP World. I still can't get over the fact that it's called DP World. And Chairman of Branson's Hyperloop One. They're looking close. They're looking cozy. Jeffrey Epstein even wearing the headgear there, right? This is pretty crazy. This in itself is a bad look. Why is any of this relevant? When Epstein was arrested for the first time, they found in his safe two passports, one of which was an Austrian passport. The passport was authentic, but included a fake name for Epstein and listed his location as Saudi Arabia. Okay. Had Austrian passport, fake name, and it said he's from Saudi. Okay. And this is some of the paperwork going around that basically says, um, the defendant's July 16th, 2019 letter asserts, "As for the Austrian passport, the government trumpets expired 32 years ago and the government offers nothing to suggest, certainly no evidence that Epstein ever used it. The passport um contains numerous ingress stamps, including stamps that reflect use of the passport to enter France, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia in the 1980s." They've not worked out how he obtained this foreign passport. And more concerning, the defendant hasn't disclosed to the court whether he is a citizen or legal permanent resident of a country other than the United States. Wonder what's going on. Wonder where else he has that he could have run to. According to the defense, this passport was simply a fake for protection. But the government had evidence that this passport was actually used to enter France, Spain, the UK, and Saudi Arabia and other countries during the '80s. It says, "And it just so happens that it was during the 1980s that Jeffrey Epstein was running around Europe, Africa, and the Middle East involved in arms deals with Douglas Lease, Adnan Khashoggi, responsible for the Iran-Contra deal and the Al Yamamah arms deal."

So, I never thought, this is really interesting to me and it actually is answering one of the biggest questions I've had because I've seen that video of Jeffrey Epstein talking about with Steve Bannon about finances. And look, I'm no financial whiz. I studied, uh, I studied A-level economics. Okay. But Jeffrey Epstein wasn't some financial genius. When you see him interviewed about finances, he didn't really have anything crazy to say like, "Oh, cuz he talked about fractional reserve banking. The bank, they only have to hold $1 and they can lend out $9." Anyone that knows about economics and finances, that's not high-level stuff. You don't know. You're not. People are like, "Oh, he's expo, he's exposing the financial system." Yeah, sure. But everyone knows that's how anyone that has even a shred of financial, financial literacy knows that that's how the finance system works. That's how fractional reserve banking works. You give the bank money, it goes into the bank, it holds the money. They can lend out multitudes more money than they have on hand. That's how it works. All right? That's how they allow to enable the economy to grow. Whatever. Okay? Epstein was not some financial genius. How was he so rich? Well, now we're finding out he's out here doing arms deals. Okay? He's running PDF islands. He's managing money for other creeps like Les Wexner, okay? Taking power of attorney of all of their money. He's not really doing, he's not some financial whiz. He doesn't know what he's, he's doing freaky weird shit behind the scenes to make bread. Okay, so he's doing arms deals. Didn't know that.

This continued into the early 2000s when Epstein's wealth rapidly grew, as did his influence in the US and UK, including close ties with Tiffany UK CEO Rosa Monton. At the time, he bragged to several people that he was making a fortune smuggling arms, drugs, and diamonds out of Djibouti, where he knew the owner of the port, which was published in a 2001 article. He was also known to regularly bring guns into the UK. So, he was dealing straps. Now, now we're finding that out. He told several of the same people he's making a fortune out of arms, drugs, and diamonds. He told one person, journalist Edward J. Epstein. What? Wait, what? How that journalist he related to you? That he knew the owner of the deep water port of Djibouti on the Horn of Africa, a smuggler's paradise. So, well, he was basically in charge of it. Okay.

So this is an article written about him apparently from way back. Says, "Dressed more suitably for a shopping trip on Fifth Avenue than an English pheasant drive in his Lobb hunting boots and thousand-dollar Parker. Jeffrey E. Epstein cut a curious figure alongside Ghislaine and Andrew at the Sandringham shooting party. Oh dear. More at home in the world of international finance than the international, uh, the English countryside, the immensely wealthy financier and property developer maintains a mysterious presence in New York. He has a license to carry a concealed weapon, once claimed to have worked for the CIA, although he now denies it. And he owns properties all over America. Once he arrived at the London home of a British arms dealer, bringing a gift, a New York police issue pump-action riot gun. God knows how he got it into the country," her friend said. He's also a close associate of multi-billionaire Leslie Wexner, owner among other companies of Victoria's Secret. Epstein has the use of Wexner's $40 million New York house and owns seven cars, including a V8 Corvette, a 1964 Volkswagen. And he also owns a $3.5 million pink villa in Palm Beach and a $3 million, 26,700 square foot fortress-like hilltop mansion in New Mexico fitted with $600 bed sheets. One local said they think that he's flown in from miles down here. Epstein began working for Wexner in 1985 and by the late '80s had become wealthy through, among other things, handling his worldwide air freight, something." All right. I would actually like to know where the rest of this article went. But anyway, let's continue with this thread. Okay. Bragging about bringing guns illegally into, into England. That's crazy, right?

So, why is there a lot of seven of eight? There's a lot of 718s here. No real clear evidence has ever tied Epstein to Djibouti or suggested any real connection to Saudi Arabia or Dubai or any smuggling other than knowing Adnan Khashoggi and Douglas Lease. That is until today. Until you look up who operated the port of Djibouti in the 2000s. It's none other than shipping company DP World of Dubai, run by Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, which took over port operations formally in 2000 and ran the port until 2018. The economy of Djibouti relies heavily on the strategic location of its port. About a third of all daily shipping in the world passes through the northeast edge of Africa. The port has been at the center of a legal dispute between port operator DP World and the government of Djibouti since 2018 when DP World's port concession was revoked by presidential decree. Didn't like that one. Hey, now this one says Sultan Sulayem has been made chairman of the Jebel Ali Free Zone in 1985, which became the core hub of DP World's future trade. The money to fund the initial port at Jebel Ali was arranged through British Egyptian Mohamed Alajir, who at the time was married to Samira Khashoggi, a Scottish Emirati businessman and Scottish Emirati businessman Mohamed Alajir. Adnan Khashoggi and Bruce Rappaport, both arms dealers and port investors, had cargo come out of the port of Djibouti at that time. All while it was under the management of Illyas Musa Duale, an Ethiopian immigrant to Djibouti, Djibouti, who had studied in France and made prominent connections, uh, with French authorities. In the 2000s, before any public tender offer, DP World under Sultan Sulayem suddenly announced that they had a 20-year project to manage the port of Djibouti. It was unclear how everyone, uh, to everyone, how Sulayem and Duale were connected and got this deal approved. But at the time, Maxwell and Epstein had their claws deep in French society, throwing lavish parties in the Riviera. Their contacts there and those that visited the island are still sealed by courts due to French privacy laws. Oh, the French. Oh, the French and their creepy stuff. And it turns out that one of the contacts was Jack Lang, a French cultural minister with a history of defending PDFs. And who was friends with Woody Allen, Harvey Weinstein, and Epstein. But he also led the Arab World Institute, which three of Duale's professors frequently spoke at and took students to. Trion Signals and Davey, and created the Feta Music and hosted multiple music and theater organizations that Ghislaine Maxwell was a patron of. Let's find out more about that.

So before his 2019 July arrest, Epstein's shadowy nonprofit, Gratitude America, lavished funds on this obscure Paris project and two other international groups: a sex clinic in Rome, Oula Laa, and a Lithuanian ballet company. The French French organization, which has no website or social media presence, launched in 2018, the same year, excuse me, the same year it received $57,897 from Gratitude America. Two of Lang's former aides are officers of the association, while one current employee of Lang's office is a representative of the group. Jack Renard, the group's treasurer, was deputy director and chief of staff under Lang's culture ministry during the 1980s and early '90s. Kristoff Degruel, the association's president, is a city councilor in BL who worked as Lang's chief of staff in the education ministry from 2000 to 2002. In 1977, he published a letter published in Le Monde defending three men in prison for sexually abusing a minor, let's say. Okay. Lang, 81, has defended Woody Allen in the accusations that he messed around with his daughter Dylan Farrow when she was 7 years old. On the day Farrow broke down in tears during a January 2018 interview with CBS This Morning, Lang tweeted in support of Allen, writing #WoodyAllenForever and the typo, "I'll I'll love you." That's that's twisted. That one's twisted, right? That one's actually twisted.

Um, so moving on. The problem is who connected Sultan Sulayem to Illyas Musa Duale and pressured the Djibouti government on this deal, even if he knew Duale at the time? Um, previous evidence only pointed to Epstein knowing Sulayem. As of 2009, uh, 19, oh no, 2009. The 2019 JP Morgan report said that Epstein appeared to have forged close relationships with senior executives of the bank and with government officials, including Dubai's Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem and British politician Peter Mandelson. Epstein tried to connect Mandelson and bin Sulayem to JP Morgan executives Jes Staley and the bank for business deals in international expansions. The journal notes that in December 2009, Epstein wrote emails to both bin Sulayem and Staley to set up a meeting between them. In one email, Epstein told Staley, "Sultan is laying the groundwork for you to establish a serious presence. JP Morgan's reputation in this region is poor."

And so it goes on to say, "However, you'll notice that in this p, this picture is in Dubai, likely in Jebel Ali, and both the men are fairly young. The problem is Epstein never officially visited Dubai other than two short layovers in 2002, which were under 4 hours. But Epstein did visit the Middle East in the '80s and possibly the '90s using his fake Austrian passport, which we know from statements of the US prosecutors who said the passport did have travel stamps." There you go. You got even closer images of Epstein with his sketchy little passports. What a weirdo. What a creep. What a gross creep. I hate his face. His face is punchable as shit.

Um, to date, no one has ever proven the claims of Epstein's smuggling operation, nor proven that he has any contacts in Djibouti or Dubai prior to 2009. That picture in Dubai, some, uh, that picture in Dubai somewhere between 1980 and 2002 proves he already knew Sulayem well at that time. It also makes it likely that Epstein did know Illyas Musa Duale of Djibouti and used this as a way to smuggle assets into France and the UK for the likes of Douglas Lease, Douglas Lease, and Adnan Khashoggi, especially once you know they all had offshore entities open for them around the same time while being a client of Epstein's financial services company and using the same providers and patterns that both Epstein's own entities and the Maxwell family trust used. So you got owners of these trusts in the Pacific, British Virgin Islands, Cypress Investments, um, the Adnanos Group, British Virgin Islands linked to Switzerland, plenty of offshore money, okay, going on. Right.

So it says, "So one small picture helps us confirm the timeline that when Rolling Stone reported in 2001 that Epstein had previously bragged about smuggling via Djibouti, he did have the correct context for this to be true and therefore he likely smuggled guns, drugs, and diamonds. And yes, this took several hours of research to figure out after seeing the pictures. I've also learned Djibouti has pretty shit records." Okay, so we're actually finally beginning to understand how this guy had his money. I think it is absolutely insane. We've heard all of these things. He was a financial wizard. He was a financier. He was smuggling guns, drugs, and diamonds allegedly around the world. All right, that makes sense. All right, he's a scumbag. He made his money bringing death, like death, destruction, and negativity around the world. He was a PDF file. All right, he put nothing but negativity out in the world. He's no financial genius. He didn't help people with their investments. He didn't help people grow their pension funds for retirement. He didn't come up with really smart ways of playing the stock market and picking good stocks and getting his money up and running trades. And he's a piece of shit just like depraved individual who preyed on the weakest and worst people in society. All right, running guns. We can believe in the, you know, your right to bear arms in America. That's all well and good. But smuggling guns into countries where they're not supposed to be. Smuggling drugs, blood diamonds, controlling ports. It's lame. This guy is not respectable. And it's just like, at least we're finally beginning to find out where that money came from. Cuz the idea that he was able to convince the whole world he was this big hot shot financier, brave, br. No, no, no. He's no Warren Buffett. All right.

So, let me know what you thought of this. I'm going to break down a few more other interesting things. I thought this one was a little bit unusual, but this thread was definitely really interesting to me, so I wanted to break that down. I will be doing a full-blown deep dive into Ghislaine Maxwell later on, either today or tomorrow. Um, I'm going to do a full deep dive into Ghislaine Maxwell. I'm going to do a full deep dive into Jeffrey Epstein's cellmates while he was locked up. I think that's going to be really fascinating. So, stay tuned for those. Thank you so much for watching all the content and I will be back in the next video, guys. Peace out. I'll see you.