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0:00 Epstein's Israel connections
9:11 Epstein's history of blackmail
22:19 Was it suicide?
26:45 Epstein's creepy relationship with Trump
31:52 Why won’t Trump release the files?
38:35 The Israel connection(s)
50:57 Some Epstein-Wexner weirdness
56:59 What’s the deal with Ghislaine?
1:03:27 Was it suicide? (cont’d)
1:15:47 Influence operation or personal fetish operation? Or both?
1:26:54 Epstein's strangely light 2008 sentence
1:32:45 The political cost for Trump
1:37:03 How dangerous is Trump?

Mickey's Substack: kaus.substack.com

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded August 11, 2025.

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