The Epstein files reveal that a vast global conspiracy actually exists - sort of

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The Epstein files reveal that a vast global conspiracy actually exists – sort of
J Oliver Conroy

(Guardian UK) The millions of Jeffrey Epstein files dumped last Friday by the US Department of Justice will provide journalists, conspiracy theorists and interested members of the public with months of reading. And what they will read is enraging.

What makes these files so infuriating, however, is not just Epstein’s horrific predatory behavior, which is well-known, but the more mundane examples of elite conduct that the documents continue to expose. They vividly illustrate a world whose existence many everyday people, whether fevered with visions of the Illuminati or just jaundiced by banal anti-establishment cynicism, already suspected exists: an informal global club of powerful, ultra-rich people who all seemingly know each other, help one another out, and protect each other from the consequences of their depravity.

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Yet the files, especially Epstein’s typo-filled email and text-message correspondences, are fascinating – and ultimately grim – in what they show of how elites act in private, among themselves. At the least, many of Epstein’s powerful acquaintances remained friendly with him years after the notoriously lenient sweetheart bargain, in 2008, in which he pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution, and as survivors continued to accuse Epstein of further crimes.

Donald Trump’s own decades-long friendship with Epstein is already well known, and seems to have ended in a falling-out sometime around 2004; the new files do not appear so far to implicate him in wrongdoing. But they do highlight Epstein’s social ties with other members of the US president’s coterie, including the current US secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick. According to the files, Lutnick may have visited Epstein’s private island in 2012. (Lutnick disputes this, and recently told the New York Times: “I spent zero time with him.”) ..................(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/epstein-files-global-conspiracy