By Wayne Allensworth
I have a relatively low bar regarding the Trump administration’s policy in the Middle East: Just don’t get us into a war with Iran. I accepted the political expediency of playing the pro-Israel card, both as a gesture to Christian Zionists in GOP and to President Donald Trump’s donors and family members. Lately, Trump has exceeded expectations on that score, distancing himself from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and asserting a more independent (from Israel) stance regarding the Gaza conflict and American regional interests. Those are positive developments.
But there are, shall we say, loose ends, and troubling ones at that. For instance, why is the FBI and Justice Department dragging its feet on releasing all of the material on Jeffery Epstein? If Epstein wasn’t murdered in jail and did, in fact, commit suicide, then let’s see the evidence and end the speculation. Still, the manner of Epstein’s death is a secondary issue, even a distraction from the main questions related to the case. What, for instance, was Epstein up to? It appears that he was gathering compromising material, what the Russians call kompromat, on Western elites on “Epstein Island.” And it was kompromat showing Western luminaries engaging in sex acts with underage girls. That’s just the sort of material that would interest spy agencies. Material that could give them leverage over people who have influence and access to policy makers, or who were themselves policy makers, as well as to government secrets.
Which brings us to investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald and the recent scandal sparked by the release of video of him engaged in disgusting “kinky” homosexual acts. I agree with Matt Walsh’s take on Greenwald’s lifestyle and his adoption of two boys. But Greenwald’s personal behavior is not the main issue in this story. I have cited Greenwald’s reporting a number of times here. He was indispensable in disseminating, for instance, Edward Snowden’s revelations about U.S. intelligence agencies’ spying on Americans. Greenwald backed Trump’s appointment of Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence and has supported the president when he acted as a peacemaker, criticizing him when he has facilitated Israel’s warmaking. The Jewish Greenwald has consistently opposed Israeli policy regarding the Palestinians, and has attacked Israel’s ruthless war in Gaza, while not at all condoning Hamas or Islamic terrorism. He has defended free speech and derided the Trump administration’s support for laws that appear to be aimed at suppressing criticism of Israel by branding such criticism “anti-Semitic.” But the bigger issue for American patriots is the question of the power and influence of The Israel Lobby and its agents in American life. Such laws are but one indicator of their influence.
Greenwald is not only an impassioned critic of the Netanyahu government’s Gaza war, but also asks an important question that has occurred to many of us: Who was Jeffery Epstein working for? Greenwald has voiced the suspicion that Epstein’s employer, sponsor, and overseer was Israeli intelligence. Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislane Maxwell were apparently closely connected to the Israelis and to Israeli intelligence. The Israeli connection might explain a lot of things. How, for instance, apart from the impact of a constant barrage of Holocaust stories in American media and the obvious financial influence of The Lobby in Washington D.C., Zionism has exerted such a powerful hold on Western politicians. From the attack on the USS Liberty and Israeli spying to the never-ending flow of weapons and other support to Israel, the West and especially the United States have acted more like vassals than patrons of the Zionist state. The fear of crossing The Lobby is tangible in the halls of power. Recall the revelation from GOP Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Every congressman has an AIPAC, The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, “babysitter.”
The timing of the Greenwald tape’s release suggests that the most likely hand behind it was that of Israel or its agents and sympathizers here, including, possibly, U.S. intelligence. Was Greenwald warned to cease and desist in a blackmail attempt before the tape was released? He admitted the authenticity of the video material but says his work will not be affected. He added that his “political enemies” were behind the release of the video. One point to consider is that widespread indifference to sexual deviance in our society undercuts the impact of such kompromat. Greenwald said that he was not embarrassed by the video. On the other hand, the Epstein material involves underage girls — and probably a lot of married customers with children, which changes the calculus a bit in that case.
The Trump administration is doing good work, making great strides, early on, in the right direction. The Achilles heel of MAGA is the Middle East and the impassioned belief of many Americans that the United States has an obligation to take sides in an endless conflict unrelated to our interests, one that could drag this country into another destructive war that would wreck Trump’s America First agenda. The Lobby and its supporters in this country are pushing hard to do just that. President Trump has thus far shown some resistance to the war party.
Mr. President, the Swamp and the Deep State are not entirely homegrown. They represent segments of an international network of globalist power brokers and foreign interests that has had a stranglehold on our country for far too long. The people who elected you have for decades witnessed interests both domestic and foreign dominate “their” government. It seemed that the only people who did not have a lobby in Washington were the American people, the patriotic core that supports you. Your efforts will fail if the globalist network is not weakened and eventually dismantled in its entirety. I’m assuming that your advisors have convinced you that it is not politically expedient to release all the Epstein material. Not now, at least. Depending on what’s in it, that material could cause a political earthquake, one that, perhaps, you couldn’t contain. But the pro-Israel lobby has been the most powerful among many in the D.C. Swamp. If America First means anything, if American sovereignty is to be affirmed, that has got to stop.
I’m aware of the feuding between Trump and Elon Musk. It’s the kind of personal drama we have come to expect in a Trump administration. The feud might, however, be over. At one point, Musk claimed that Trump’s name was in the Epstein material. It’s well known that Trump knew Epstein and associated with him in the 1990s. A lot of people in elite circles did. I’m inclined to doubt, however, that Trump was one of Epstein’s customers for underage girls. He doesn’t seem like the type, and he had plenty of access to women, as his private life indicated. Trump also reportedly banned Epstein from Mara Lago as well. Apart from that, if Trump was implicated, wouldn’t his political enemies have released the material on him? Unless, of course, they themselves were implicated. You see how this works? It’s a convoluted web. Yet Trump is not behaving as if anyone — including Israel — has the goods on him. His recent distancing of himself from Netanyahu being a case in point. If Trump does release the Epstein material, I’m positive that those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome would never believe that he wasn’t involved. Musk’s frustration with the spending in Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget bill, was by the way, reflected in the Rasmussen polling I wrote about earlier. Republican respondents approved of Trump but don’t trust Congress, the GOP included. They want the DOGE cuts formally implemented.
Finally, eradicating foreign influence in our country is inextricably linked to removing illegal aliens and ending the influence of their sponsors here, including those underwriting the obviously coordinated Los Angeles mobs. We are under attack by a globalist hydra and must decisively lop off its heads.
Chronicles contributor Wayne Allensworth is the author of The Russian Question: Nationalism, Modernization, and Post-Communist Russia, and a novel, Field of Blood.
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