Jeffrey Epstein Claimed to Have Meddled in Israel’s Elections
Newly released files show Jeffrey Epstein claiming to have been involved in Ehud Barak’s 2019 election challenge to Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s well past time to ask questions about the billionaire pedophile’s links to Israel.
Recently published emails shed light on Jeffrey Epstein’s entanglement with Israel, primarily through the figure of Ehud Barak. (Davidoff Studios / Getty Images)
“Now you can understand why Trump wakes up in the middle of the night sweating when he hears you and I are friends.”
That’s one of the sensational, damning Jeffrey Epstein messages that has been roundly quoted since being extracted from the more than 20,000 documents released by the House Oversight Committee last week, a seeming reference to the power Epstein held via the damaging information he had amassed on the rich and influential, the now-president included.
Yet oddly, what has been universally left out of media coverage of that quote is what it was in reference to: Epstein appeared to be taking credit for former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak’s reentry into Israeli politics in 2019, which aimed to topple current prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the second of what would be three Israeli elections in a year.
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