Musk on Epstein: "What day will be the wildest party on your island?"

BarcelonaThe massive publication this Friday of over three million pages about the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein The process of identifying and reviewing documents by the U.S. Department of Justice has concluded, although it will most likely not put an end to speculation about the case. Lacking a more detailed analysis of all the material, the most harrowing revelation is the discovery of a complaint filed with the FBI in 1996, a document that would prove that federal authorities already had sufficient evidence against the financier almost a decade before the first complaint of child abuse. In the mid-1990s, his pedophilia and prostitution ring was just beginning to operate. This is the largest release of official information to date on the activities of the American financier, who was convicted of child abuse in 2008 and who committed suicide in August 2019 in a Manhattan prison while awaiting a new trial for child sex trafficking. The latest documents released include the names of prominent figures such as Elon Musk, theformer Prince Andrew from England and also Donald Trump, although no information has surfaced confirming criminal activity by the US president. What emails do seem to confirm is that the owner of Tesla and X had a relationship with the pedophile. Musk had previously said that Epstein had invited him to his island but that he had refused to go. The new emails show that Musk had discussed traveling on more than one occasion, including a proposed trip in 2012, when he asked Epstein: "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"

Emails from November 2012 show that Epstein asks Musk how many people he would need to transport by helicopter to the island, and Musk replies that it would only be him and his then-wife, Talulah Riley. A month later, in another email, the tech mogul asks the pedophile if he has any parties planned because he needs to "let loose." In another batch of emails from late 2013, the two discuss a visit to the financier's island and plan the logistics and dates. However, there is no evidence that Musk actually made a trip to Epstein's island.

Mentions of Trump

In the new batch of files, the US president is mentioned hundreds of times, according to several media outlets. Donald Trump was a friend of Epstein, but insisted he had no knowledge of his sex crimes.

Among the new documents is a list compiled by the FBI last year with accusations made against Trump by people who called the Threat Operations Center's information line. The list includes numerous accusations of sexual abuse against Trump, Epstein, and other figures, although many of these accusations are unsubstantiated and based on unverified information. "Some of the documents contain false and sensational claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI just before the 2020 election," the US Department of Justice stated.

In a statement this Friday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche denied any special protection for the president in the process of reviewing the documents. "We have not protected the president, and there is no action to withhold anything to prevent Donald J. Trump's name or the names of other individuals from being released," she asserted. Blanche detailed the scope of the released documentation: more than three million pages, accompanied by some 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. In total, nearly six million potentially relevant documents were identified, but only about half have been made public. The rest have been excluded "because they contain child sexual abuse material, personal data of victims, or information protected by legal privileges," according to Blanche. While the files contain some mentions and photographs of Trump with Epstein and associates, Blanche made it clear that this "does not constitute any evidence of criminal conduct," and that the Justice Department's goal is transparency, without filtering for political reasons. The complaint was filed.

Regarding the aforementioned 1996 complaint, it was filed by Maria Farmer, who went to the police and then the FBI accusing Epstein of stealing intimate photographs of her younger sisters and of participating in acts related to child pornography, as well as threatening to burn down her house. New York Times In late December, Farmer reported on the abuse her sister Annie suffered when she was 16. The disclosure of the complaint within the documents released today corroborates her account and the inaction of the federal agency.

The 1996 complaint comes to light in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed by Congress and signed by Trump in November 2015. The document could open a deep crack in the official narrative of the case. Until now, the focus has been primarily on the 2008 Florida investigation. Epstein avoided a federal trial that year thanks to a controversial non-prosecution agreement and was sentenced to thirteen months for prostitution with minors, with daily releases from prison for work. The existence of a much earlier federal alert raises a key question: why didn't federal agencies act when it was still possible to stop the expansion of the abuse network? The fact that the document has been in the FBI archives for decades fuels suspicion of a possible combination of institutional negligence and serious coordination errors, or even tacit protection of the financier, who for years maintained relationships with influential figures in the political, economic, and social spheres. Six years after Epstein's suicide, the massive declassification of the files does not close the case; on the contrary, it opens a new chapter of uncomfortable questions about political, judicial, and administrative responsibilities, which are now documented and accessible to members of Congress and representatives of the victims who wish to continue investigating.