New Eastern Outlook
By Henry Kamens
The Epstein scandal remains a festering indictment of elite impunity, intelligence collusion, and bipartisan cover-up—years after his death, the truth remains deliberately buried beneath redactions, distractions, and silence.
They called his jet the “Lolita Express”, a nod to Nabokov’s tarnished nymphet and a grim joke whispered behind champagne glasses and between ground and flight crews. But in the closed circles of black ops, hush money, and international compromise, some called it the “Liotta Express”—homage to Ray Liotta, the fast-talking, slick-suited archetype of American vice in film. It wasn’t just about sex; it was about leverage and control. A stage set for trafficking influence and blackmail schemes.
Much like a Scorsese film, the Epstein saga had no true heroes—just survivors, opportunists, and voyeurs. It played out in courtrooms and corridors of power, always just out of reach of full exposure. His Little St. James Island wasn’t merely a den of sin—it was a set piece from a psychological thriller, stocked with cameras, contracts, and compromised reputations. Shakespeare had his Prospero; Epstein had his pilots.
He didn’t act alone, and he didn’t fall alone.
When Epstein was found dead in his cell in 2019, the narrative split like a cracked lens. Suicide? Assisted silence? The literature of conspiracy has long blurred with the poetry of facts. As George Orwell warned, “Who controls the past controls the future.” The past—Epstein’s past—is still under lock and key, redacted by those who visited him, funded him, or feared him.
Now, years later, the press pretends amnesia, and fact-checkers cherry-pick truths with surgical precision. The New York Times, once outraged, now tiptoes around the deeper connections. MI6, Mossad, CIA, hedge funds, and a Harvard professor—they all had seats aboard the Liotta Express.
Names once redacted are now retroactively justified, or conveniently forgotten. But literature remembers what courts redact. Film captures what transcripts omit. And some journalists—those “people like”—won’t let it rest.
The film behind the name of the Epstein Island flights
Sometimes you wonder how movies ever get made, not technically but in terms of their content, considering the books that inspired such firms are sometimes “too far ahead” of their time: Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and 1984, etc.
The question is more than just loaded, as it is a proverbial minefield with far-reaching political and geopolitical implications, and that is just for starters. It is even questionable how Vadimir Naboko’s book “Lolita” was able to be published in the United States and Britain in the late 50s.
It was later made it into what many considered to be scandalous movie in the early 1960s’ and remade again in recent years.
But today we are not looking at a book or movie review but to time travel to the present from the past and apply lessons learned and guess how the unfinished script of the latest breaking scandals associated with pedophilia, human trafficking, and geopolitics may end.
As the Nation magazine describes the book and subsequent movie, “Lolita” — “Lolita” by high art transmutes persons, motives and actions which in ordinary life are considered indecent, into objects of delight, compassion and contemplation.”
Currently there is the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, the circumstances of his business dealings, little black book, alleged suicide in police custody, his private island, his elite guest lists, and his ‘proclivity” for sex with young underage girls, and then sharing and organizing such preferences with the “rich and powerful, as out of court settlements and subsequent lawsuits have well-documented.
Despite the time that has passed since his death, the scandal is alive and well, JPMorgan Chase announced a tentative settlement with the sex victims of financier Jeffrey Epstein in June 2023. The bank had which had been accused of being the financial conduit that Epstein used to pay off his victims for several years
As for other incriminating evidence, it was claimed that there are a total of 1,571 names in the proverbial black book, with roughly 5,000 phone numbers and thousands of emails and home addresses. There including celebrities, princes and princesses, high-profile scientists, artists from all over the world, all alongside some of the world’s most powerful oligarchs and political leaders—people like UK’s Prince Andrew, Israeli PM Ehud Barak, , and even former US president Donald Trump.
Trump campaigned on exposing the Epstein Client List, repeatedly promising to put the list of names in the public domain. Attorney General Pam Bondi even claimed the list was on her desk, and that there just needed to be redactions of victims’ names. Now, both she and the head of the FBI claim that there never was a list, in an eye wateringly bad attempt to switch the narrative.
Even worse, was Trump’s flinching reaction to being asked about the Epstein list.
“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” the president asked, according to ABC News. “This guy’s been talked about for years … are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable.”
The president went on to say:
“I mean, I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this, where we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy, with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration.”
What is a desecration, is the covering up of those whom Epstein trafficked underage victims for! Many dyed-in-the-wool Trump supporters are claiming that if there was any list the Democrats would be screaming for its release to damage Trump, due to his well-known friendship with Epstein. This is just ridiculous, as it is blatantly obvious that the American ruling class is implicated in its entirety, regardless of which side of the house they are from.
It also makes one wonder how Ghislaine Maxwell got convicted. She was found guilty of trafficking underage victims for Epstein to his clients, based on Epstein’s “little black book” (ummmm… isn’t THAT a list?!?!?!), but apparently, at least according to the people (and I use the term loosely) at the DoJ and FBI, she wasn’t trafficking them to anyone.
The mind boggles at just how they think anyone with even half a brain can buy this.
Filling, not draining, the swamp
For those who voted for Trump, and his promises to drain the swamp, it only gets worse. Not content with covering up the Epstein client list, Trump is now going full deep state neocon, congratulating Lindsey Graham, notorious war monger, on his birthday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM! He is always there when I need him, and I hope everyone in the Great State of South Carolina will help Lindsey have a BIG WIN in his Re-Election bid next year. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
In addition, in order to distract from the Epstein cover-up, Trump announced he was upset with Putin, and promised more “defensive” weapons for Ukraine, and is considering Graham’s 500% sanctions plan targeted at those who trade with Russia (pretty much everyone aside from the western alliance…..) So much for being a peacemaker.
Not content with this, Trump’s administration is going all in on supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza, threatening to impose additional tariffs on BRICS members and those who trade with them. Trump generally carrying on like a toddler in a supermarket in the candy aisle or at check out.
As Tucker Carlson stated, there are really only two options, the first, that Trump himself is implicated, the second that the cover up is to protect US and Israeli intelligence. It could also be both, but regardless, it is clear that the Trump administration has not only fumbled the ball, but dropped it entirely.
It should be obvious by now, that anyone who still believes the “MAGA America First!” hype is functionally retarded. It is not surprising they want now to bury the Epstein case. The “deep state” can’t afford for the truth to ever come out. When Epstein was being investigated, he got off easy, red carpet treatment in Florida, the prosecutor there was told to back off because he “belongs to intelligence.”
It is worth nothing that Bondi did not deny that when asked, she just said she could get back to them on that (which she clearly never will)!
The US, EU and Israel all have a crisis of leadership these days. It won’t end well.
Henry Kamens, columnist, expert on Central Asia and Caucasus
ConspiracyAnalyst.org 