Treachery of the Elites
“This is the Epstein class”: How a single meeting compromised the American oligarchy.
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Belyakov
Sergey Belyakov is an FSB-trained former Deputy Minister of Economic Development for the Russian Federation who worked under Kirill Dmitriev—currently Putin’s chief negotiator on Ukraine, and CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. Belyakov was also an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, who helped Epstein navigate through the Russian bureaucracy, secure visas, and obtain introductions to senior Russian officials.
Epstein had Russian visas issued nearly every year going back to 2002, including a 2011 visa sponsored by a group associated with Vympel or “V”—a secretive, elite arm of the FSB associated with covert operations abroad, including assassinations.
Belyakov also acted as a kind of Russian fixer for Epstein—including an incident in July 2015 when Epstein asked for help with “a russian girl from moscow” who was blackmailing his rich New York friends.
“Suggestions?”
Epstein’s request came two weeks after Palantir founder Peter Thiel met alone with Belyakov in New York City at Epstein’s urging. Thiel and Epstein had ongoing contact by email, phone, and in person meetings from 2012 until Epstein’s arrest seven years later.
On 7/10/15, the day after Thiel met Belyakov, Epstein emailed Thiel to ask how it went. Thiel said:
“fine. they wanted me to come to moscow. not sure if i can do that”
The Honeytrap
Three weeks later, on 8/3/15, there was an extraordinary, secret meeting between several oligarchs currently on track to be worth trillions of dollars and effectively control the federal government, including: Thiel, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman (PayPal, LinkedIn), Mark Zuckerberg—and Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein took this photo and emailed it to himself, apparently covertly, while he was seated next to Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, whose company had just gone public a few years earlier. Thiel, the first investor in Facebook, was still on the Board of Directors.
Regardless of what they actually talked about, this photo by itself objectively compromises everyone in the room.
Think about it. Why would Epstein send the photo to himself during the meeting since it was already on his phone? Because he wanted contemporaneous proof that he was there in the room—a convicted pedophile, with American billionaires.
Imagine the leverage this meeting gave Epstein and the Russians over Thiel, Zuckerberg, Musk, and Hoffman. It would have been immense.
While Epstein and the oligarchs may not have gone to the meeting to discuss the best way to dismantle the post-WWII world order, topple American democracy, and enslave us all through a techno-fascist surveillance state, that is nevertheless their current trajectory.
Therefore, knowing how this meeting metastasized into the current national and global crisis is crucial to setting the world back on its axis, if we ever can.
$12 Trillion for Ukraine
As an example of why we must not ignore this history anymore, it is currently being reported by Zelenskyy himself that Donald Trump is being sold a “package” of 12 trillion dollars worth of “economic cooperation” by Kirill Dmitriev, Sergey Belyakov’s old boss.
“[Ukrainian] Intelligence showed me the so-called 'Dmitriev package' that he presented in the US – the volume there is about 12 trillion dollars. This is supposedly a package of economic cooperation between America and Russia. That is, we hear about the probability of such or similar bilateral documents between America and Russia."
Note that $12 trillion is almost six times the gross domestic product of Russia. It’s absurd to think Putin could offer Trump anything like that, and—besides being an instantly impeachable offense—entertaining a deal like this smacks of an old man being conned by a timeshare salesman.
I note again that gullibility is a major problem for patients of dementia.
Now, as we enter into another election season, with the fate of the world potentially hinging on the results, we must come to terms with how badly we’ve handled this scenario before—when there also were desperate, compromised oligarchs willing to do almost anything to win.
RNC
About a year after the meeting of billionaires in New York—a few hours before Peter Thiel spoke at the Republican National Convention on 7/21/16, Jeffrey Epstein emailed to say: “good luck tonight. great job.” Thiel wrote back: “Thanks!”
“Great job” is important phrasing because Thiel, Epstein, and Russian proxies were meeting for two years before this. Whose “job” was it?
Thiel’s speech has a lot more context today since we now know what was going on backstage. Everything Thiel said was projection, or deliberate deception using himself as a token. He was not stating a political position; he was acting as a character actor in a transnational criminal conspiracy to steal an election.
“We don’t accept such incompetence in Silicon Valley, and we must not accept it from our government. Instead of going to Mars, we have invaded the Middle East. We don’t need to see Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails. Her incompetence is in plain sight.
She pushed for a war in Libya, and today it’s a training ground for ISIS. On this most important issue, Donald Trump is right. It’s time to end the era of stupid wars and rebuild our country.
When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union, and we won.
Now we are told, now we are told, that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?
Of course, every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay.”
This was the same night that Mike Flynn led the Republicans in a chant of “Lock her up!”—a goal which became the central ambition of MAGA, Pizzagate and QAnon, all cultic movements with pedophilia accusations at the center. All of it was germinated and amplified by Thiel’s resources—with help from the Russians.
Three weeks after the RNC, Epstein emailed Thiel to invite him to his New Mexico rape and eugenics compound Zorro Ranch and asked: “are you enjoying raising your public profile?”
Thiel, presumably because Hillary was well ahead of Trump at this point, responded using a rare exclamation point:
“Not really… need to stop this!”
No Mercy
While we knew some of this before, the fact that infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, and the Russian government were conspiring leading up to the 2016 election can no longer be ignored. All of these facts need hearings, investigations, and, when Democrats get back in power, sweeping prosecutions.
There can be no more failures like the January 6th Committee, which decided to play politics with war by focusing almost entirely on Donald Trump’s incitement that day, instead of actually explaining the domestic and foreign operations that planned and created the violence.
People like Thiel, who effectively created Vice President JD Vance in a lab, were never held accountable for interfering in the political system, so they just kept doing it. Establishment politicians, including Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, Kamala Harris, and the current Democratic Party leadership failed to grasp, or chose not to confront, the actual enemy.
However, with a full year of Trump 2.0 under our belt, the mood, and the message, is changing. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), for example, gave a pointed speech to start his Senate campaign that is nearly a point-by-point refutation of Thiel’s 2016 speech at the RNC.
Slowly, it appears, we are collectively starting to get it: This is the Epstein class. Ruling our attention.
“Now you remember we were told that MAGA was for working class Americans. Do you remember that? But this is a government of, by and for the ultra-rich. It is the wealthiest cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. Ruling our attention.
If you’re Steve Bannon, and your pitch was Trump for the forgotten man and woman. How do you sell any of this?
Trump was supposed to fight for the working class. Instead, he’s literally closing rural clinics and hospitals to cut taxes for George Soros and Elon Musk.
He was supposed to end the globalist world police foreign policy. Instead, we’re doing war for oil and nation building again and threatening to conquer Greenland.
He was supposed to drain the swamp. Instead, this is the most corrupt administration of all time and everybody knows it. Everybody knows it.”
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"People like Thiel, who effectively created Vice President JD Vance in a lab, were never held accountable for interfering in the political system, so they just kept doing it." - yep, and we're reaping their treachery. Excellent article Jim. Looking forward to discussing it in the chat!
I echo Delia's comment below: Nobody gets it like you, Jim.
And I wonder: why is that?
People in Congress have access to more information--or least more easy access--than Jim does, right? So what keeps them from seeing, or acknowledging the whole picture? Is power that sweet that it blinds you?
Reading this piece--seeing the logic flow from 2015 to today--I am beside myself with anger and sorrow, and the turning of events have not even personally touched me. Yet. I am not one of the laid off Federal workers whose lives were turned upside down. I'm beside myself with admiration and love for the protestors in Minneapolis. Thank you Jim for bringing this information, angering as it is, to us.