The interview is two hours long.
After one hour I can report it is interesting but fairly dry analysis of macroeconomics and the housing crisis market crash. Steve Bannon the aggressive white nationalist who used to be working with Trump's government was the interviewer. He was not a hostile interviewer.
There are a few small nuggets of interest. Apparently when the market crashed Epstein was in the SHU - solitary confinement for protection in prison (he says "jail" but does jail have a SHU?). He says it was because he was rich and people wanted financial advice and money. Bannon hints that it might be because of the "nature of his crimes" but Epstein shuts that down and says people just respected his financial genius and wanted him to save their pensions (and some wanted money).
Sounds like the GP (general population who don't need protection) were trying to shake him down but he was well protected.
He also blames Clinton for the housing crisis.
One bit of dry financial analysis that made me think was that he pointed out that due to fractional reserves, the more debt there is in the economy, the more money there is, because banks can take your debt and loan it out 5-10 times.
@AThousandYoung saidWhy do you think bill and Hillary are afraid to testify to congress?
The interview is two hours long.
After one hour I can report it is interesting but fairly dry analysis of macroeconomics and the housing crisis market crash. Steve Bannon the aggressive white nationalist who used to be working with Trump's government was the interviewer. He was not a hostile interviewer.
There are a few small nuggets of interest. Appare ...[text shortened]... n the economy, the more money there is, because banks can take your debt and loan it out 5-10 times.
@Mott-The-Hoople saidThey aren't.
Why do you think bill and Hillary are afraid to testify to congress?
@AThousandYoung
Oh how I wish I was there to laugh at Epstein and call out his lying.
He says he was kept in the SHU (special housing unit) because other inmates kept asking him about financial advice?
LMFAO other inmates are broke as Fuk.
He was kept in the SHU because he would have been extorted for his money because of his crimes.
The second time he went to jail, they probably told him he's going to genpop and he knew it was a death sentence or worse so he ended it.
Yes jails have a few isolated cells for high profile people or heinous crimes and Epstein had both.
My theory is the first time around he was put in protective custody but when he went back he was clearly a repeat offender and they threw him in general population. I don't know, just speculation.
The last 27minutes start out slow but get VERY interesting.
1:30 to 1:52
The first little bit of interest is when Epstein starts making gendered comments.
"Women have intuitive intelligence...women aren't really that interested in measuring"
LOL
Then he talks about how Blacks aren't less intelligent than him because they know how to avoid getting eaten by lions in the jungle..."their intelligence is just different..."
Funny - sounds very racist but I agree in principle. He just phrased it very poorly.
The last 5 minutes are the best.
OK. The last five minutes. This is where it gets good.
At 1:52-1:57, after an exchange where Epstein and his assistant seemed to acknowledge that their time was up, Epstein didn't leave but kept talking.
There's a slightly awkward exchange where Epstein is talking about Aristotle's amazing memory and scribes etc and then Bannon brings up Jesus. "Jesus of Nazareth was the same way, right? He never wrote anything". Epstein makes a comment about how Jesus was a carpenter so he had to have had a carpenter's pencil to do his job by writing on the wood. Seems a bit irreverent.
Then Bannon takes off the gloves and swoops in like a mighty Iron Eagle.
"Should institutions which search for truth and knowledge...should they take your money?"
He then compares Epstein's financial donations to hypothetical donations of gold teeth taken from concentration camp Jews by Adolf Hitler!
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Epstein says something about how honest minds can differ about such questions kind of like "your people in Charlottesville".
Bannon tries to pressure Epstein into explaining why some institutions might hypothetically not want his money. He asks him straight
"Is your money dirty money?"
Epstein stammers. Bannon presses.
"Just answer the question. Is your money dirty money?"
"No it's not".
"Why is it not dirty money...you earned it advising the worst people in the world who do enormous bad things just to make more money".
Epstein avoids the question.
Bannon points out that Epstein is a "what, Class III sexual predator?"
Epstein responds "Tier 1 [the least severe type]"
Bannon says Epstein is a criminal and asks him "Are you the Devil himself? You have all his attributes"
Epstein makes a comment about seeing a movie like that then "we have to go".
@AThousandYoung saidYou used to hang out with Epstein? WtF?
From 1:00 to 1:30 he switches to physics and philosophy. His knowledge of the science is impressive. It's not too interesting.
He sounds just like a guy I used to hang out with who grew up in Brooklyn.
@AThousandYoung saidWhy, oh Why, do you socialists not mention that Mandani’s mother is listed in the Epstein files????
It just dropped, I haven't watched it yet
[youtube Epstein Interview]oIEYmflX090[/youtube]
Maybe I missed it?!?!
You people are like going to the circus!!!!!
https://www.newsweek.com/zohran-mamdanis-mother-named-in-new-epstein-files-114470
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