NOTE: None of the images here wouldn’t run on the evening news. I didn’t share anything I thought might be triggering, exploitative, or shocking. However, if you even think you might be activated by this, please don’t watch it.
Thanks to Josh Walkos for the tip, and h/t LB for alerting me to it.
Coupla things:
The DOJ videos are redacted. The faces and bodies of all of the innocents, whether minors or adults, are covered by big black rectangles.
Even with the redactions, I found some videos that disturbed me because of their extreme creepiness, and what they implied: a young teenage girl in a bikini, practicing strutting like a model; an even younger girl playing with a puppy; someone brandishing a flogger (which you can barely make out because of the black square); Epstein sitting at a desk while a gaggle of teenage girls gather in front of him; way too many teddy bears. I am not sharing any of those clips here.
There are a lot of surveillance videos of MCC, the NYC prison where Epstein died, some of them hours long.
Most of the videos are shot in locations I did not recognize.
When I can hear the (adult) women talk, they speak in heavily-accented English. One video has two Russians, a man and a woman, thanking “Jeffrey” profusely.
I hesitated making, and posting, this video, but I decided that, as the Epstein material will come out eventually, the potential news value outweighs my reluctance to be a voyeur. Someone might notice something here that is important. And as I said up top, there’s nothing here they wouldn’t show on the evening news.
Here is a transcript, edited for clarity:
Yesterday I was sent a video clip from a tech guy who figured out a bypass for some of the Epstein files.
So I’m sitting on the couch, actually I’m watching the basketball game, and I type one of these things in and the first thing that comes up is, boom, this grainy black-and-white video. And it’s obviously surveillance footage, from a room where the people in the room don’t know that the cameras are going. And I thought, “My God, this is probably what he’s been filming all this time.” He had people come and wire up all of his properties years and years ago. And they probably had this, you know, kind of low grade, low res, black and white surveillance style footage. Makes it very hard to see anybody or anything, at least what they showed us in these files.
So I started to collect some of the videos. And none of them, I should say upfront, are horrifying or violent or anything like that. They’re not, I hope, triggering. Otherwise, I wouldn’t show them. But I think taken together, maybe they’re worth something and have some news value. So I just wanted to show you a glimpse of what I saw so that you know what’s in there.
There’s also, I found just random stuff. Like, there’s men in the videos that I don’t know who they are or what they’re doing or what their purpose is or how they are connected. And probably just some of the videos are not even relevant. I know there were at least a couple that I saw that had porn URLs stamped on them, which are just things that he probably downloaded that he liked, and don’t have any meaning other than that.
There were a lot of videos of real estate, where people were going through these kind of nice apartments, clearly in New York City. And I wonder if they’re the apartments that Mark Epstein owns, at least in name, where some of the trafficked women lived. But I don’t know. It might just be—I have no idea what—what it means or what it is.
Most of the videos are redacted. I should say also, anybody that’s a minor in these videos, they have a black rectangle over them and you can’t see anything, which is good. So you’re not going to go in there and just be bombarded with images that you don’t want to see. And again, I wouldn’t share them otherwise.
So there seems to be a lot of videos of these girls kind of—some of them take the videos themselves, some are selfie videos; some of them, someone’s filming them, probably him, we assume—and it seems like he’s training them to be able to present themselves in the way that he wants. You know, how to walk and all that stuff. I don’t know. It’s really creepy, and I’m not gonna share any of them beyond just a few heavily-redacted ones so you get a sense of what’s there.
And every once in a while you can hear something, somebody say something. But mostly it’s just random images, random clips. Most of them are shorter than 10 seconds. And I don’t know who put them together. I don’t know what order they’re supposed to be in.
The other takeaway about this is how beyond frustrating it is that our federal government, the FBI, for years has known about this, for years went around collecting information. I don’t know when they took these files initially. I mean, it was a long time ago. He died in 2019. You know, he’s been gone a long time, and we’ve had six years now of doing this, and we still don’t have any investigation into the men. We don’t have any—any facts, really; any presentation of these files in a way that makes sense.
It’s just dribs and drabs. It’s being released a little bit at a time, piecemeal, but it’s not even like piecemeal like it’s a TV show. It’s as if there’s 8,000 different TV shows and they’ve spliced and diced them all into these little sections. And that’s what they show you, so that none of it makes sense.
And it’s just really frustrating to me, and sad. So many people are out there doing really good work, trying to uncover this stuff and figure out ways to see what we want to see and get to what we want to get to, which is the truth.
But we shouldn’t have to be doing this, man. It’s just not fair, you know? We pay the government to do stuff. We pay the FBI. We pay all the salaries. We pay the Department of Justice to investigate this stuff and to bring these people in. And to subject everybody over and over and over again to the unpleasantness and the trauma, the triggering—it’s really…it’s evil, is what it is.
I mean, if we had a functional justice system, we wouldn’t have to be doing this. These people would already be in jail. They would already be tried. We would know what they did without having to go through all the evidence ourselves. Not that we’re not going to continue to go through the evidence and make sense of it all, but it’s not fair.
And it pisses me off, on so many levels. It’s not fair to the survivors, who have to re-live their trauma every time that something comes out like this. Every time there’s a new trench of these files released, it’s a traumatic experience for these women. So it’s not fair to them, certainly.
It’s not fair to, you know, law abiding citizens. It’s not fair to all the citizen journalists who are out there trying to make sense of it all. And it’s not fair to justice. You know, it’s just not. These are evil men who did evil things, and they need to be punished. And I want them to be punished without having to participate in the explanation and the investigation. I think that’s not too much to ask.
Nadler during the Pam Bondi hearing said to her, “What’s going on with the investigation?” And that’s when she sort of lost her mind, because there is no investigation. Nothing’s happening. It’s just a waste of time. Blanche and Bondi and Patel are just kicking the can down the road. That’s what they’re there for.
And I don’t know what we’re going to find in these videos, but the things that I’ve seen released so far? There’s nothing here that’s incriminating or…anything, really. It’s just—it’s a lot of weird music in the background, and creepiness, but not anything actionable. Not anything we haven’t learned before or didn’t already know. Jeffrey Epstein had a lot of girls around, and he was really creepy towards them. We knew this already. I don’t need video evidence of it. I already believe it.
But it does make it seem more real when you see just how many of these videos there are, how many different people there are that were involved and just the length of time that it went on.
So I wasn’t sure—I’m still not sure if I’m even going to show this, but I feel like the newsworthiness of it outweighs the concern. You know, I’m like, I don’t know. I feel voyeuristic even looking at these videos.
But what am I gonna do? What else are we supposed to do? Like, it’s not my fault, or your fault, that we’re reduced to this. It’s the fault of the government for not doing their fucking jobs. And if they did their jobs, none of this would be necessary.
