By Wayne Allensworth
Whatever wing of the Epstein Party you choose to vote for in November, it appears that the worst fears of the conspiracy theorists were not far off the mark. We are, in fact, ruled by a small, greedy, rootless, cold-blooded, and degenerate gang of elites. It’s a continuum ranging not very broadly from neo-liberals to neo-conservatives, with plenty of Zionism thrown in. The MAGA diehards — people I would distinguish from genuine America First patriots — and the hard left are the foot soldiers of the Epstein class’s right and left wings. They are easily manipulated. They serve not only the interests of techies such as Peter Thiel, but also those of the Davos Politburo, which overlaps considerably with a cabal of Jewish billionaires like Les Wexner and Miriam Adelson. Truly shocking to anyone paying attention — and I count out a very large slice of the public in that regard — is how deeply embedded the Zionist network is in our society. It is worse than I thought. Podcaster Tucker Carlson recently announced that the country’s civic religion isn’t Americanism, which has issues of its own. Rather, it is “Israelism.” You can tell what a ruling class values by what it punishes — and questioning Israel or, far worse, pointing out that Zionism drives American politics and society, can get you excommunicated, not simply from polite society, but from the human race.
Donald Trump’s tragedy is that of a brash, egotistical man who nonetheless had some sense of how the country was, as he put it, being “ripped off.” Yet his personal degeneracy, family ties, and egoism magnified to megalomania by a group of manipulative sycophants — including the conmen and women who portray themselves as Christian pastors and convinced him he is the Messiah — have destroyed him, along with whatever chances America First had to salvage something from the rubble of our collapsing empire. We would be off the mark in trying to pinpoint a single cause for Trump’s panicky response to the Epstein Affair, his reversal on every foreign policy issue in his campaign platform, and his increasingly erratic and bizarre behavior.
Blackmail: Surely it plays a role. The Israelis have a history of blackmailing American presidents and Trump’s ties to Epstein are far greater than his groupies will admit. I recommend podcaster and investigative journalist Whitney Webb, especially her two volume One Nation Under Blackmail, on that subject and the origins of the Epstein network.
Megalomania: We have plenty of evidence for that. Trump’s Truth Social posts suggest a man who appears to believe that he speaks with or even channels the Almighty, conjuring up an alternative reality as he speaks. His post portraying himself as Christ and the comparisons his evangelical camp followers have made between Trump’s travails and those of Jesus are quite telling.
Personal ties: Trump’s father Fred was close to a group of Jewish figures in New York City, and Trump’s mentor in the rough-and-tumble world of business and politics was the notorious Roy Cohn, a man whose style and tactics Trump absorbed: Never be defensive, always attack. Never admit defeat, always declare victory. Everything must be described as a “win.” Above all, deny everything. Cohn was a mob-connected Zionist whose ties to the Cold War Right thanks to his association with GOP Senator Joseph McCarthy made him an influential figure among GOP luminaries for decades. He was also — see One Nation Under Blackmail, for instance — a closeted homosexual who reportedly held sex parties at his NYC pad and blackmailed other participants.
Trump’s favorite child, Ivanka, is married to Jared Kushner, a hard-core Zionist who doesn’t mind fleecing the goyim. Ivanka converted to Judaism and Trump’s grandchildren are being raised as Jews. Trump’s administration includes Zionists like Howard Lutnick, also a friend of Jeffery Epstein, and special foreign affairs emissary Steve Witcoff. Trump’s son Don Jr. and daughter in law Lara Trump own a chunk of a media company registered as a foreign agent of Israel.
Political leverage: The Zionist billionaires have plenty of leverage on Trump as they financially supported his 2024 campaign. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson especially were Trump patrons for some time. After Sheldon’s death, Miriam continued to be a major Trump donor. He owes the Adelsons
Fear of what comes after his presidency: That’s probably a factor as well, and likely inspires Trump’s hints about a third term. The corruption in his second term is blatant. He, his family, and his friends are cashing in on the power of his presidency. Trump has plenty of enemies and makes more every day.
In sum, the very qualities of supreme confidence, overweening ambition, obnoxious brashness, and grating irreverence that made Trump perhaps the only candidate who could shake up an ossified system has made him very vulnerable to being blackmailed and manipulated by that system. That’s his tragedy in the Greek sense, in which a protagonist’s personal flaws destroy him.
Yet Trump’s tragedy is our tragedy as well. The American public that supported him shared his flaws. His oversized ego, bombastic personality, and ruthless competitiveness reflected the flaws in us. For we, too, believe our own propaganda. Like a tragic figure, our collective flaws have overpowered the good in us and are leading to a terrible fall, a reckoning that portends a global disaster. A strong and vital society would not have ever needed to take a chance on a Trump figure. As I wrote previously, Trump wasn’t a Savior, at least not in my eyes. He was a Hail Mary pass in a last-ditch attempt to win a game we were and are losing badly. We were losing badly partly because we have grown to see ourselves entitled to debt-fueled mass consumption and superpower global hegemony. We did not, unfortunately, see that status as a terrible burden, but instead as a mark of “greatness” — in the pagan sense of dominance. Once that dominance was challenged, we showed no sense of prudence. Our pride wouldn’t let us. And the need for “greatness” became cruel and unfeeling.
The war in Iran is the death knell of that “greatness.” I won’t mourn it. Trump’s bluster is failing again —thousands of more US troops are headed for the Middle East as he amps up his blockade of Iran shipping. We are falling into the escalation trap, as former counterterrorism chief Joe Kent recently warned. I doubt any of the present group of political leaders will stop it. For all of them, including the supposedly anti-war Vice President J.D. Vance, have paid homage to Zionism at the Wailing Wall, and showed fealty to their masters and the manipulators who made their careers. As George Galloway recently observed, how many American politicians have ever bothered to do a photo op at, say, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre? We know why they don’t. If Vance and others who opposed this war don’t have the ability to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump, then if they have any patriotism left in them, they must resign and lead an opposition to the Iran war. Yet our Bible thumpers make excuses for the Zionists and try to explain away Trump’s Messianic complex. Their tragedy is the deepest and most cruel of all.
Chronicles contributor Wayne Allensworth is the author of The Russian Question: Nationalism, Modernization, and Post-Communist Russia, and a novel, Field of Blood. For thirty-two years, he worked as an analyst and Russia area expert in the US intelligence community.
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