A declassified FBI memo from the Epstein files, released on Friday, includes incendiary allegations about US President Donald Trump.
The memo says that Trump was “compromised by Israel”, that convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein worked with Israeli intelligence, and that a Jewish religious group calling itself Chabad-Lubavitch sought to hijack his first term in office.
The memo, written in 2020, formed part of an FBI investigation into domestic or foreign influence over the US electoral process. It draws on information from a confidential human source (CHS) and appears among a vast trove of Epstein-related files released by the US Justice Department.
Chabad-Lubavitch, a religious Jewish sect founded in Russia, has grown to an estimated 90,000 members. Its messianic, ultra-Orthodox ideology has repeatedly been linked to hardline settler colonial politics in Palestine.
The memo also cites Berel Lazar, a Chabad member and the former chief rabbi of Russia, describing him as a close adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Chabad is basically state-sanctioned Judaism. It is used by Putin to keep tabs on all the Russo-Jewish oligarchs,” the FBI memo adds.
The source goes further, saying: “Trump has been compromised by Israel. And Kushner is the real brains behind his organization and his Presidency.”
Honestly, this one leak seems to tie things up too neatly. Suspiciously neatly, specially if you have “problematic” preconceptions. Like, Trump is compromised by an ex-Mossad agent, who’s also the world sex-traficking kingpin, through Trump’s Jewish son-in-law, and it all ties back up to a Russia-based organisation led by a Putin advisor? It fits too perfectly into the “Trump is an anomaly” narrative. I’d be happy to be proven wrong, but I don’t trust this one.
It all checks out to me. What’s much stranger is why Genocide Joe and Holocaust Harris were so unconditionally supportive of Israel
That’s the thing that irks me, it has all the people that the run-of-the-mill USian “moderate” agrees is bad, and none of the actual political reasons why those actors act like they do. Are we supposed to believe the Trump admin supports Israel because of Epstein? And Putin?? Seems too Great Man-ish to me. Also very convenient for (actual) anti-Semites to write it off, but that’s a tangential point.
I mean you can’t just ignore the insanely massive Israel lobby in the US and say it’s only Epstein. Any US politician that doesn’t swear fealty to Israel has a bajillion dollars of smear campaign thrown against them, and the entire mainstream media.
Basically anyone who sells out to Israel is rewarded and anyone who doesn’t is expunged.
I’m not ignoring it, I’m afraid of it being reframed under the rug of “foreign influence” and “bad actors”. I see the Israel Lobby as a US sub-operation rather than a particularly Israeli one. I believe the US controls Israel rather than the other way around, and Zionist psyops are just another tool for maintaining the relationship no matter how domestically unpalatable it becomes. If there was no Epstein and no worldwide sex-traficking ring or related blackmail, I can still see Trump, Biden, Clinton, Obama or any other bourgeois spokesperson enacting the exact same policy because of material conditions, not being personally compromised through a Jewish relative. The MIC doesn’t need to blackmail their representatives to maintain support for the rabid dog white supremacist military colony in the Middle East. If anything, these revelations could be a prelude for smoothly replacing Trump the Person with another Trump the Politician.