The Same Day Charlie Kirk Was 'Shot', the US Senate Quietly Voted 51-49 Against Releasing the Epstein Files

And a close UK friend of Epstein lost his cushy ambassador job.

In addition to intensifying left-vs-right animosity among the sheeple, the patently obvious Charlie Kirk assassination psy-op distracted public attention from other newsworthy events that occurred the very same day.

In the US, on Wednesday, September 10, Senate Republicans voted down an attempt to force a vote on the Epstein files release.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer's attempt to force a Senate vote to compel the Department of Justice to release the Jeffrey Epstein files turned out to be a very short-lived one on Wednesday.

Earlier that day, Schumer took a rare procedural step to tee up the Senate to vote on his amendment requiring the release of Epstein documents ahead of a final vote on a “must-pass” defense spending bill.

Republicans - you know, those ‘conservatives’ who supposedly stand for traditional values and virtues, like not molesting minors - largely stuck together, with 51 GOP senators voting down Schumer's amendment.

Senators Josh Hawley and Rand Paul were the dissenting Republicans, voting with all Democrats to hold a vote on Schumer's amendment.

The amendment would have forced the Justice Department to turn over all files related to Epstein within 30 days of the legislation's passage.

Finally, an Epstein Associate Loses His Job

Peter Mandelson (pictured above, next to Epstein) is a UK Labor politician with what could politely be described as a colorful past. Among the various scandals attached to his name is a close association with modern history’s most famous sex predator.

Mandelson was good buddies with Epstein at least as far back as 2002.

In 2003, he reportedly signed Epstein’s notorious 50th birthday book, his entry describing the New York predator as his “best pal” and signing off with “We love you!”

In 2023, UK media outlets reported on an internal JPMorgan Chase report from 2019 that stated: “Jeffrey Epstein appears to maintain a particularly close relationship with Prince Andrew the Duke of York and Lord Peter Mandelson, a senior member of the British government”.

In 2024, unsealed court documents revealed pictures of Mandelson with Epstein on the latter’s notorious private island Little St James.

Despite publicity surrounding these revelations, in February of this year Mandelson was personally selected by Keir Starmer to become the UK’s ambassador to the US.

On September 10, Mandelson spoke on YouTube show Harry Cole Saves the West in an attempt to explain the Epstein allegations.

On September 11, 2025, further communication from Mandelson to Epstein was published in the UK. This included an email sent in June 2008 after Epstein's conviction for soliciting prostitution from someone aged under 18 but before his sentencing, where Mandelson wrote:

"You have to be incredibly resilient, fight for early release and be philosophical about it as much as you can. The whole thing has been years of torture and now you have to show the world how big a person you are, and how strong. I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened. I can still barely understand it. It just could not happen in Britain. Everything can be turned into an opportunity and that you will come through it and be stronger for it. Your friends stay with you and love you."

On September 10, Starmer publicly defended Mandelson, stating "Let me start by saying that the victims of Epstein are at the forefront of our minds. He was a despicable criminal who committed the most heinous crimes and destroyed the lives of so many women and girls. The ambassador has repeatedly expressed his deep regret for his association with Epstein, and he is right to do so. I have confidence in him, and he is playing an important role in the UK-US relationship."

However, when Mandelson’s lovey-dovey 2008 email to Epstein was published the following day, Starmer finally relented to mounting pressure and fired Mandelson from his ambassador post.

Up to this point, Mandelson seems to be the only high-profile person linked to Epstein who has suffered any negative consequences. The rest of Epstein’s former ‘associates’ no doubt would not like to see this become a trend.

How fortuitous for them that a limelight-grabbing ‘assassination’ occurred around the same time and smothered the Mandelson fallout.

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41 Comments

    • The FBI has all the recordings from Epstein’s various houses of ill repute. If they were really working in the interest of justice they wouldn’t act like a mortuary and bury all the evidence. But we’re not naive, and know that is exactly what they’re all about.

  1. Hope I don’t get in trouble for asking. Is there any proof or actual evidence that 1) Epstein and/or his mostly non-lover Ghisliane Maxwell “trafficked” any females of any age to others? Ot that 2) Epstein molested little girls? I doubt the truth of those charges, so fascinating and supposedly salacious to most people.

    Reading Ghisliane’s transcriped interview–2 hours worth–I came away with the impression she was truthful and wrongly charged.

    The charge Prince Andrew was secret sex fiend is also far fetched and I think, unsupported except by stories circulated by one of Epstein’s massage females. I doubt those stories and much of what I have listened to as told by some “victims” and “survivors”. I do not, of course, claim to actually know what is or is not true, but I have my leanings, as does everyone else.

    My big point is that without good evidence, distinct from claims lodged against his estate for millions dollars payoffs, how can anyone actually know anything about the story of trafficing “girls” to others. Maybe one day one of the others will confess, if any exist.

    • When you say “proof” what do you require? There’s loads of testimony. Of course, people who testify don’t always tell the truth but I’ve seen a documentary where a number of young women testify that when they were underage teenagers they were lured to his place in Palm Springs and were more or less forced into giving him massages if not sex while he was naked. Their testimonies seem convincing to me. There are also testimonies of other women too in other situations, eg, a young woman who worked in a department store who was invited by Ghislaine Maxell to a hotel room where she and Epstein were and pressured her into having sex (I don’t think she did in the end). As I recall, there was threat involved (I don’t remember its nature exactly – something along the lines of we have the power to have you fired) – it certainly seemed very traumatising for her. And then we have clear evidence from people such as Donald Trump saying things like, “He likes them young.” The guy obviously has the best connections anyone could have so it would seem remarkable for him to not actually be guilty if he really weren’t.

      • One young woman who collected a lot of money from Epstein’s estate probably lied about the big lawyer having sex with her; she retracted her charge after he proved he was nowhere near her on the day or block of days, perhaps, that she tied to her accusation. Ghislaine Maxwell explained that the story of Prince Andrew having sex with some girl in her upstairs bathtub in a tiny all walls mirrored bathroom was physically nearly not possible and described a tiny victorian tub etc. The famous photo with her in the background and P Andrew and young woman girl in foreground Ghislaine says was a fake–the outfit she wore was the sweater worn on her mother’s birthday celebrated at her brother’s country property–and the day the young female claimed to have had sex with P Andrew happened to be the day of Mum’s birthday…moreover, Maxwell explained none of those people had ever visited her little house, on any day. That’s testimony too, under oath. Where is actual proof Epstein, and even more absurdly, Ghislaine Maxwell, trafficked “the young” to any individual (excluding Epstein himself). Maybe it’s not relevant–I have no proof of connection to truthful or dishonest testimony: A lot of young women collected a lot of money from Epstein’s estate.

        The word “proof” means: An explanation of causation or responsibility for an event for which no other explanation could reasonably be understood as possible. By the way, do not the rich powerful and important know about cameras? The pics we’ve been treated to always display plain in sight cameras as though that backs up the cover story about sex trafficking for blackmail! Epstein iprobably was involved in criminal activities in laundering huge sums of money–hs specialty moving internationally– for intelligence agencies FBI CIA and other such puke agencies as they grifted and made big trouble at home and abroad. Recall “Iran Contra” from Reagan’s years? It’s much worse today I think. One can imagine that the “intelligence community” might want to keep such information hidden from public awareness–such as it is, it ain’t much. Would salacious stories of sex trafficking avert the stupored gaze of The Public?

        For a long time I believed the charge of Epstein’s sexual blackmailing to be true. There has been plenty of that in and by the “intelligence community”. No question. But they are loyal community people, you know. They hold raffles and cake walks at local school buildings to raise money in the “communities they serve”.

        • I engaged ChatGPT on this subject but for some reason a few responses into the chat it decided I was violating usage policy even though I really only asked the first question and then agreed to whatever further it offered. I cannot share the link but I quote some of the responses:
          1. Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted by a federal jury of sex-trafficking–related crimes (and later sentenced).
          — Maxwell was found guilty on multiple counts for her role in a scheme to recruit, groom and sexually exploit minor girls for Epstein, and was sentenced to 240 months (20 years). This is a criminal conviction reached after a jury trial.
          https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-20-years-prison-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse?utm_source=chatgpt.com
          2. Jeffrey Epstein was federally indicted in 2019 on charges of sex trafficking of minors.
          — The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan filed an indictment in July 2019 charging Epstein with operating a scheme to obtain minors for sexual activity and transporting minors for that purpose. (Epstein died in custody before a trial on those charges.) A federal indictment is a formal criminal charge based on evidence gathered by prosecutors.
          https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/jeffrey-epstein-charged-manhattan-federal-court-sex-trafficking-minors?utm_source=chatgpt.com
          3. Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to state prostitution charges that involved a minor and was required to register as a sex offender under a non-prosecution agreement.
          — The 2008 non-prosecution agreement and related court filings are public documents showing Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges (solicitation/procuring) and that the federal investigation was settled through that agreement. That plea and the NPA are part of the public record.
          https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6184602-Jeffrey-Epstein-non-prosecution-agreement/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
          Intelligence services engage in all kinds of trickery so I think it’s not out of the realm of probability that pretend victims – who might include Victoria Giuffre for example – have been used to undermine real victims just as they used the fake vaccine-injured victim, Maddie de Garay, in the covid scam.
          If Epstein actually pleaded guilty in 2008 and was required to register as a sex offender what possible alternative explanation can you provide other than he was actually guilty? BTW, I do not believe for one second that Epstein is dead.
          To my mind BOTH money laundering and sex trafficking are involved. It’s not a case of one distracting from the other.

          • Convictions and “confessions” are quite frequently false, because the misnamed justice system has the power to very nearly control the outcome of any trial. That is why so few criminal cases go to trial (well under 5%): The defendents plea bargain.

            My purpose is not to defend Epstein. My purpose is to defend reasoned truth as requisite to justice. Proof, in other words. Justice is truth about wrong doing, and truth stands on proof which stands on reason.

            There is very little reliable evidence that Epstein was sex trafficking to other people. If this could be proven, I would accept it as true.

          • I don’t have the impression you’re trying to defend Epstein, i think you genuinely simply don’t believe he’s guilty of sex crimes but of other crimes, however, I think your explanation for this situation too generic. Can you give an explanation for why Epstein pleaded guilty and was put on the sex offender’s register in this particular case if not guilty.

          • Here is a statement I made in my first comment of this thread. I still think this: “Is there any proof or actual evidence that 1) Epstein and/or his mostly non-lover Ghisliane Maxwell “trafficked” any females of any age to others? Ot that 2) Epstein molested little girls? I doubt the truth of those charges.”

            Ghislaine Maxwell in her days of testimony recently, stated that she had sex with Epstein one time, thought they were therefore going steady, immediately found out that was not the way Epstein thought or behaved, and that was the end of their “love” relationship. She testified she had never witnessed any sex trafficking of the young to other people and she was in a good place to observe what was taking place. She said there were no hidden cameras or microphones and she wwould have known because she was in charge of maintenance, construction etc. Epstein was busy with his own private business details. She said that in her observation, after a lot of careful thinking about Epstein’s behavior and mindset, that he had changed from the time of their brief “love” encounter-relationship, in that later he developed, it seemed to her, a prediliction for young women and maybe under age teenaged girls, I forget her take on that particular point of interest; but in any case he was hooked on variety–a harem of young females with constant turnover.

            So did Epstein commit sexual crimes? Maybe he did, or possibly did not, I do not know. If he had sex with underaged teenaged girls, that is illegal. I know of no credible (to me) evidence he was blackmailing powerful important people with honey pot operations, although this is a longstanding intel op that people have mostly caught onto and so avoid. She stated Epstein thought he got a raw deal from the Florida prosecution that confined him to nights in jail, not a sweetheart deal.

            You have naive faith in the integrity of a criminal “justice” (sic) system that rountinely or commonly engages in all sorts of criminal activities to get their targets. Such activities include, among many others, illegal search and seizure, subbornation of perjury, withholding exculpatory evidence, and a lot more. In something like 97% of criminal indictments the defendants choose to plea bargian rather than do battle with a ruthless adversary bent not on justice but on their personal destruction and which holds nearly unlimited power and funding.

            Therefore, while a particular conviction may be valid or partly valid, the fact of a conviction, including a “confession” of guilt, proves nothing…except the accused, innocent or guilty, was charged and tried to protect against personal destruction.

            It is obvious Epstein was murdered in prison, so the intelligence agencies, fbi, cia, et al, did have something important to hide. That may well have been Epstein’s money laundering activities in behalf of those agencies and their grifting corrupt practices and “assets”. Charges of sexual trafficking are salacious and of endlesss fascination to people with nothing better to think about and a good way to deflect attention from true criminal money laundering and funding of all kinds of nefarious and illegal stunts.

          • My belief is that Epstein wasn’t murdered but got out and obviously the story that we are told about his death doesn’t add up. There is no good reason to think he was killed at all – but whatever happened certainly we have no reason to believe the story told.
            You haven’t provided a good reason for why the charges were all about sexual crimes when he was really guilty of the other crimes you suggest. If he were really guilty of other crimes why not make the charges about those crimes, why make them about sexual crimes?
            Ghislaine Maxwell’s testimony doesn’t really mean anything, does it? We expect her to lie her head off.

  2. That guy looks a lot like Bill Gates-he could be his doppelganger. Speaking of which, the notorious birthday book you speak of has a vibe similar to the one at the white house where President Trump hosted the tech monsters, including the aforementioned Gates. They were just dripping with their feigned enthusiasm for Trump’s leadership in the tech field. Funny how they all worked against him in 2016 and 2020. I think the menu for that dinner included shit sandwiches, fake meat (in honor of Gates of course) and bug crusted chocolate tarte for dessert.

  3. As an Englishman in my seventh decade I have to admit to a sneaking certainty that this is also pure bulls**t in preparation for many years, as fodder for the deliberate discredit by “association” of our political class, throughout the western world.

    • Interesting thought. And quite possibly a way to clear out the management class for the implementation of the AI-based new system.

      Who the heck knows?

    • the files are what keep all their puppets in check and performing the slave theater they put in front of us; the threat of releasing the files is what keeps all them in line most likely.

    • well they all want the files released, that’s what they say, of course; Trump said that too. They are all puppets of some behind the scenes rulers; the Epstein files is what keeps them in line most likely; releasing them would mean leverage is gone over their puppets and the puppets at that point would be worthless

      • That means our government is compromised. Dump ALL the data and purge the perverts. We can reset at the midterms.

        This is probably the perfect time to eliminate ALL political parties.

        • well for one thing it isn’t “our” government, it is the real ruler’s government, it is their puppets; the story they tell us is that the political parasites are “ours”, but that it is just so they can implement any tyranny they want and then blame us for it. All presidents are puppets, that is their actual job description, to be a puppet of the people, to do what we want (or 51% want). But even that is tyranny by a majority, which is still tyranny, and none of it makes sense at any level other than to keep us enslaved to each other and this theft and control system, all under the pretense of preventing “chaos”. Plus, say 5 people are ordering food, and 3 want Chinese, and 2 want pizza, but democracy would say, that the 2 people that want pizza can’t have it, they have to have Chinese food, and pay for it too, and if they refuse to pay, they’ll have more money stolen from them, and if they resist that they’ll be caged, and if they resist the caging they’ll be murdered; it makes no sense at least in terms of what their sales pitch is for all this “protecting our democracy”, which literally means “protecting our tyranny by majority”. Anyway, to be saying “our” government, shows that you really don’t see the big picture (few people do); you may want to just start using the correct words like “their professional organized crime gang” instead of “our government”

  4. If you want to get rid of Donald Trump then we have to get the democrats the house majority.

    Everyone has to educate the republican congress representatives and senators about Trump raping women and children.

    Write letters and emails to your state congress representatives and senators.

    THE EPSTEIN/TRUMP FILES HAVE TO BE RELEASED.

    There are house representatives that don’t know how evil Trump and his network actually are

  5. If you want to get rid of Donald Trump then we have to get the democrats the house majority.

    Everyone has to educate the republican congress representatives and senators about Trump raping women and children.

    Write letters and emails to your state congress representatives and senators.

    THE EPSTEIN/TRUMP FILES HAVE TO BE RELEASED.

    There are house representatives that don’t know how evil Trump and his network actually are

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