All the President’s Children
Trump's Epstein Files Cover-up and the Israeli Intelligence Connection
On Monday, July 7, 2025, the Department of Justice released a memo that essentially closed the file on the infamous financier and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. Among the significant findings by the DOJ and FBI as outlined in the memo:
“This systematic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list.’ There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
“After a thorough investigation, FBI investigators concluded that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on August 10, 2019. This conclusion is consistent with previous findings, including the August 19, 2019 autopsy findings of the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the November 2019 position of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in connection with the investigation of federal correctional officers responsible for guarding Epstein, and the June 2023 conclusions of DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General.”
Donald Trump came into office promising unprecedented transparency. He specifically promised the complete release of all classified and hidden government files on the Epstein case; the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations; the 9/11 files; and more. A congressional committee, led by Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna—the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets—has even promised to investigate the Epstein case publicly, incorporating new testimony and declassified files.
As someone who has been investigating and writing about the Kennedy assassination and subsequent cover-up for over twenty years, this writer can say, unequivocally, that the recent DOJ/FBI memo is nothing less than an outrageous attempted cover-up of the Epstein case. But what exactly are they trying to cover up?
The Israeli Intelligence Connection
After researching the case for some time (I highly recommend reading Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales by investigative journalists Dylan Howard, James Robertson, and Melissa Cronin), I believe that at the heart of this cover-up is the connection between Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Israel's intelligence services, the Mossad and Aman.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to the White House—when the DOJ/FBI released their memo—is also not a coincidence.
Multiple credible sources—including a former Israeli army intelligence agent named Ari Ben Menashe—have confirmed that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were recruited as assets by the Mossad and Aman sometime in the late 1980s and that they ran what in intelligence parlance is known as a “honeytrap” operation to blackmail people that the intelligence services targeted.
A honeytrap is a tactic that intelligence agencies the world over use, where an intelligence target—a politician, a businessman, someone with access to sought-after information or connections, and anyone of value—is lured into a sexually compromising situation, usually involving prostitutes, and is filmed/photographed clandestinely. Then they are blackmailed by the intelligence agency with the compromising material.
The blackmail can serve many purposes, but it is usually used to force the target into cooperating with the intelligence agency, to work undercover for them (becoming an agent or a double agent), or to provide them with any sought-after information.
In the case of Epstein and the Mossad/Aman, the targets were the West's rich and powerful. Men like Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, billionaire Glenn Dubin, Bill Gates, Marvin Minsky, billionaire Leslie Wexner, and even President Donald Trump were likely targets for blackmail, manipulation, and “persuasion.”
The suspicion now is that there were many other rich and powerful “clients” of the Epstein/Maxwell sex-trafficking-pedophilia ring and that the DOJ, FBI, and White House have decided to cover it all up for reasons unknown.
Here is what we know:
Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, the British publishing magnate Robert Maxwell, was long-rumored to be a Mossad operative. Author Gordon Thomas alleges in his book, Robert Maxwell: Israel’s Superspy, that Maxwell used John Tower, Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, to facilitate the sale of a bugged version of the PROMIS software to Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory. This would have allowed Mossad backdoor access to two of the most important nuclear research and national security facilities in the United States.
British intelligence agents affiliated with the British Foreign Office suspected Maxwell of being a double agent, according to internal documents. They called Maxwell “a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia," who had ties to both Russian and Israeli intelligence.
When Robert Maxwell died under mysterious circumstances on his yacht in November 1991, Israel afforded him virtually a state funeral. His service was attended by "Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli President Chaim Herzog, at least six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence and many dignitaries and politicians, both government and opposition, and was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem."
However, the most evident proof of Epstein’s intelligence links comes from a former Israeli military intelligence (Aman) agent named Ari Ben-Manashe, who admitted in numerous interviews that Epstein and Ghislaine were two of their agents. As recounted in the book Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Ben-Manashe says that Epstein became involved with the Mossad and Aman through Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell, and himself in the late 1980s. The following is an extended excerpt:
“Although it has been reported that he [Epstein] first encountered Ghislaine after her father’s death in New York, one insider—a former high-ranking official for the organization that is said to have killed Maxwell—has insisted their connection came far earlier.
Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli spy and alleged “handler” of Robert Maxwell, said of Epstein: “Maxwell introduced him to us, and he wanted us to accept him as part of our group.”
Ben-Menashe claimed that Epstein and Ghislaine were already dating in the late 1980s, and that Maxwell Senior grew fond of the young upstart.
“Epstein was hanging around with Robert Maxwell and the daughter was hanging around there too, and that’s how they met,” he told our team’s James Robertson in an interview from Montreal. “Just two young souls, they met.”
“Maxwell sort of started liking him, and my theory is that Maxwell felt that this guy is going for his daughter,” Ben-Menashe said. “He felt that he could bless him with some work and help him out in like a paternal [way].”
“According to the former spy, the ultimate order to embrace Epstein and involve him in the ongoing arms deals came from “the bosses” at Israeli intelligence headquarters.
“They were agents of the Israeli Intelligence Services,” he told Robertson.
“Later on [Ghislaine] got involved with Israeli intelligence together with him. But not in this arms deal with Iran business,” Ben-Menashe also told Zev Shalev, former CBS News executive producer and investigative journalist for the website Narativ.
“These guys were seen as agents. They weren’t really competent to do very much. And so they found a niche for themselves—blackmailing American and other political figures.”
In closing, Ben-Menashe told Robertson, “Mr. Epstein was the simple idiot who was going around providing girls to all kinds of politicians in the United States. See, fucking around is not a crime. It could be embarrassing, but it’s not a crime. But fucking a fourteen-year-old girl is a crime. And he was taking photos of politicians fucking fourteen-year-old girls—if you want to get it straight. They would just blackmail people, they would just blackmail people like that.”
Further confirmation of Epstein's links to intelligence comes from none other than the former US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, who prosecuted Epstein in 2008, and later became President Donald Trump’s Labor Secretary (in Trump’s first term): Alex Acosta.
In July 2006, Acosta and the FBI began their investigation of Epstein’s many sexual assaults and rapes of underage girls at his mansion in Miami. What resulted was a disgusting travesty of justice: despite returning a fifty-three-page indictment of Epstein, Acosta agreed to a plea deal, negotiated by Epstein's lawyer Alan Dershowitz, that was unheard of in its leniency for a sexual assaulter of underage women.
The deal granted immunity from all federal criminal charges to Epstein, along with four named co-conspirators and any unnamed "potential co-conspirators." It also effectively shut down the ongoing FBI investigation and sealed the indictment. Lastly, Acosta broke federal law by not notifying Epstein’s victims of this extraordinary plea deal.
From Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales:
“Overall, it was outrageous. At the time of this writing, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is conducting an investigation into how his case was handled. Florida State Senator Lauren Brook was one of the forces behind the inquest.
“Epstein enjoyed an unprecedented and deeply troubling level of leniency and luxury while incarcerated,” she said. “We need answers if we want accountability.”
So, who was responsible for Epstein’s incredible, once-in-a-lifetime sweetheart deal?
Then–US Attorney Alex Acosta has insisted it wasn’t him. Acosta was asked about his role in the debacle while being vetted by Trump’s transition team, before taking up his position as Secretary of Labor. He insisted he’d only had one meeting about the deal, according to reporter Vicky Ward—a claim that matches the Miami Herald’s reporting on the West Palm Beach Marriott breakfast rendezvous.
Acosta had “been told to back off,” because Epstein was “above his paygrade,” Ward wrote, that “Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ . . . and to leave it alone.”
But exactly who was the “intelligence” agency pulling the strings? Epstein’s plea deal mysteriously hinted at the “valuable consideration” he’d been given for information he’d provided to federal prosecutors behind the scenes. The nature of that information has never been made public, and many assume that it is connected to his work as a federal witness in the prosecution of individuals connected to the 2008 collapse of his former employer, Bear Stearns.
Let’s restate: a US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida was directly told to “back off” because “Epstein belonged to intelligence.”
Then there is former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
Between 2013 and 2017, Barak met with Epstein at least 30 times at his mansions in Florida, New York, and his private Caribbean island near Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands. In 2015 alone he met with Epstein monthly for the entire year. He also flew twice on Epstein’s private jet, the Lolita Express.
These meetings were well after Epstein’s pedophilia became publicly known and his conviction and sentencing in Florida for procuring minors for prostitution. Barak ludicrously maintained he knew nothing of Epstein’s past activities at the time.
Barak was photographed numerous times sneaking into Epstein’s townhouse at 9 East 71st Street, face covered, and followed soon thereafter by young women.
Barak maintains he “never participated in any party or any other ‘inappropriate’ event with him [Epstein]” and had “never met him with girls or minors, not even with adult women in the context of any inappropriate behavior.”
Why was the former Prime Minister of Israel and former head of Aman, Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate, meeting with Epstein so many times over five years?
The official story is that both men were investors in an Israeli startup company called Reporty Homeland Security (rebranded as Carbyne in 2018). Barak was the controlling shareholder and chairman of the board. The CEO of the company was Amir Elihai, a former special forces officer. The company's Director was Pinchas Bukhris, a former director general of the Defense Ministry and commander of the IDF's cyber unit, 8200 (Israel’s equivalent of the National Security Agency). Epstein was an investor who invested millions of his dollars.
During this period, Epstein was also traveling to and from Israel, apparently meeting with Israeli defense officials and scientists. The Palm Beach Daily News reported, "Beleaguered billionaire Jeffrey Epstein [was at] at the Tel Aviv Hilton in Israel, where, a spokesman says, 'he was spending Passover, meeting with Israeli research scientists, and taking a tour of military bases.'"
Links to the Director of the CIA
In addition to Epstein’s apparent relationship with Israeli intelligence, there also appears to be a relationship with the previous Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns.
Burns met with Epstein on three separate occasions in 2014. The first meeting took place in Washington, D.C., while Burns was serving as Deputy Secretary of State in the Obama administration. The next two were at Epstein’s townhouse on the Upper East Side in Manhattan.
Burns claims the meetings with Epstein were to discuss private financial matters. CIA spokeswoman Tammy Kupperman Thorp stated, “The director did not know anything about him, other than that he was introduced as an expert in the financial services sector and offered general advice on transition to the private sector. They had no relationship.”
Burns’ meetings with Epstein coincided with Epstein’s regular meetings with Ehud Barak, which leads one to speculate if the separate meetings were related to each other. However, there is no direct evidence that Epstein met Burns and Barak simultaneously during that period.
Netanyahu’s Visit
On July 7, 2025, the Department of Justice announced that “it is the determination of the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation that no further disclosure [of the Epstein files] would be appropriate or warranted.” Case closed, according to Attorney General Pamela Bondi.
On the same day and at the same time that the DOJ released its memo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was visiting the White House to meet with Trump.
In the context of Epstein’s links to intelligence services, one could easily surmise that the two events—Netanyahu’s visit to the White House and the DOJ’s closure of the Epstein files—were related.
It is the firm opinion of this writer that the two events are no coincidence and that Trump privately discussed the Epstein issue with Netanyahu. The two men likely agreed that further disclosure of the files would reveal Epstein’s close ties to Israeli intelligence and perhaps even American intelligence. Further disclosure would also uncover the use of Epstein in an Israeli intelligence honeypot/blackmail operation using underage women as sexual bait.
These inconvenient truths could never be revealed, as the reputation of the State of Israel would suffer even further damage than it has already suffered due to the war in Gaza. Thus, they launched a cover-up of the files that very day.
It is also very likely that President Trump was worried about his name appearing in the files. We now know this to be true, according to recent reporting by The Wall Street Journal. By Epstein’s admission, he was Trump’s “best friend” for ten years, and they socialized very often. The WSJ now reports that Trump’s name appears in the files numerous times.
Perhaps Netanyahu not-so-subtly reminded Trump of this fact in their meeting. Perhaps Netanyahu also reminded Trump that Israeli intelligence agencies had copies of the hundreds of blackmail tapes that the FBI seized from wall safes at Epstein's various properties following his death at the Metropolitan Correction Center in lower Manhattan.
Fortunately, for the sake of truth, this cover-up was so blatant, and the timing so obvious, that it immediately blew up in the White House’s face.
Public outrage has been swift and severe. We now witness an extraordinary moment where even many of the MAGA faithful are openly rebelling against the Trump administration over the non-disclosure of the Epstein files.
What seems indisputable, at least to this writer, is that the sloppy cover-up of the remainder of the Epstein files is in part to protect the operations and reputations of American and Israeli intelligence agencies.
Using a known and sentenced pedophile to blackmail American and European politicians and the economic elite would directly implicate these intelligence services in monumental crimes of pedophilia, sexual assault, and rape of girls. Not something the Mossad, Aman, and CIA would want on their historical resumes.
It now seems very likely that the cover-up of the Epstein case will become a major scandal for the Trump administration—one with all the ingredients to cause a Watergate-style collapse of the Presidency. Only this time, the next Woodward and Bernstein won't be titling their investigative report, All the President’s Men; they will be titling it, All the President’s Children.
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Well done Jon. The Epstein Affair has two dimensions. the moral corruption of those who enabled Epstein and the political corruption that kept him in business. The first drives the passion of the MAGA base. The second is an opportunity for Democrats to repudiate Clinton legacy. If we lived in a functioning democracy Congress would hearings and call Alex Acosta and other participants to explain these events under oath. I said if.
My association with JFKFACTS began in 2014. At that time, I was a complete novice on Mossad and Israel’s lobbing efforts of our elected Senators and Representatives. Not so much anymore, but I may never fully comprehend the significance of the erosion of our democracy since 1947. The establishment of the State of Israel and the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947, which birthed the Central Intelligence Agency comprised of many individuals sympathetic to Israel and their desire for nuclear weapons which has certainly arrived at our door in July of 2025. Jon Denby and Jefferson Morley, I am extremely grateful for this “All Things Israel 101” expose. Oh, the woes that our US Government now faces, all the while “partially” funded by Israel, who has received US Funds since the 1960’s?! Talk about conflict of interest. OUCH!!