This is a smoking gun.
The video clip is from a conference on The Scourge of Human Trafficking, held January 9, 2020, with Cindy McCain and host Nicole Bibbins-Sedaca.
For years on Twitter I tried to contact McCain and Bibbins-Sedaca to ask about these comments, and never received any response.
Now Cindy McCain was not just a nobody like me, or even a somebody like Whitney Webb - she not only is a very wealthy and connected woman in her own right, but she was married for 38 years to one of the most powerful men in American politics, John McCain.
Cindy McCain is now Chairwoman Emeritus of the McCain Institute, which, among its other objectives, claims to “Combat Human Trafficking.”
Let’s look at the transcript of the video:
Sebastian: Hi, my name is Sebastian. Thank you both so much for your worth. Mrs. McCain thank you so much for your work with the institute and coming here, talking to us. So, I’m gonna shoot straight. The perception of a lot of young people is that there is an untouchable ring of governmental and economic elites in this country that not only benefit, as you mentioned, but actively participate in sex trafficking. Jeffrey Epstein1 was an example - Robert Kraft was arrested not far from here on trafficking charges - and so we - in terms of this as a grass roots movement, to push, to combat against this issue, are these power players a priority for us right now? Can we even touch them? Or is this a pipe dream that we need to address in the future somehow?
Cindy McCain: You know, it’s like everything. It hides in plain sight. Epstein was hiding in plain sight. We all knew about him. We all knew what he was doing. But we had no one that was, um, legal aspect that would go after him. They were afraid of him. For whatever reason, they were afraid of him.
So Cindy McCain, the widow of one of the most powerful people in the world - who happens to head an influential institute, one of whose missions is ostensibly to fight human trafficking - is, at a human trafficking conference, asked about “an untouchable ring of governmental and economic elites in this country that not only benefit, as you mentioned, but actively participate in sex trafficking,” and her response is not, “What are you talking about? That’s conspiracy nonsense.”
Instead, she nods in agreement, says, “We all knew about [Epstein]. We all knew what he was doing. But we had no one that was, um, legal aspect that would go after him. They were afraid of him,” and somehow this is not the lead story on every network in the world for the next three months?
“Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?” Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he’d had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had “been told” to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta.
This is from a Jocko Willink podcast:
"You would think that every reporter in that room just has nothing to do anymore except figure out what [Acosta] meant by that.
What do you mean this mass serial child-trafficker 'belongs to intelligence'? What did you mean by that? And nobody is asking him that question."
Family man Alan Dershowitz explains in this clip that “the Lady Rothschild” introduced him to Jeffrey Epstein. So who is “the Lady Rothschild”?
Lady Rothschild is, among other things, on the Board of Trustees of the McCain Institute.
Since June 2002, Lady de Rothschild has been the Chief Executive of E.L. Rothschild LLC, a private investment company with investments in media, asset management, information technology, agriculture and real estate worldwide. Holdings include The Economist Group (UK), Bronfman/E.L.Rothschild, real estate and financial instruments. Lady de Rothschild has been a director of The Estee Lauder Companies since December 2000 and The Economist Newspaper Limited (member of the Audit Committee) since October 2002…
She is co-host of the Conference on Inclusive Capitalism and Founder of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism. She is a member of the McCain Institute for International Leadership Board and the Executive Committee of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and a board member of the Alfred Herrhausen Society of International Dialogue of Deutsche Bank, the Elumelu Foundation (Africa),the International Advisory Board of Columbia University School of Law, FAI (Fondo per L’Ambiente Italiano) and the ERANDA Foundation (de Rothschild family foundation)…
Lady de Rothschild is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (USA), Chatham House (UK), the International Advisory Council of Asia House (UK), the International Institute of Strategic Studies (UK) and the Foreign Policy Association (USA).
These self-styled “guardians of inclusive capitalism” – among them COP26 special envoy for finance Mark Carney, and the CEOs of Salesforce (Marc Benioff), Johnson & Johnson (Alex Gorsky), Mastercard (Ajaypal Singh Banga), BP (Bernard Looney), Visa (Alfred Kelly), State Street (Ronald P. O'Hanley), Bank of America (Brian Moynihan), as well as State of California treasurer Fiona Ma and OECD secretary-general Angel Gurría – Pope Francis urged them to make capitalism an “instrument for integral human wellbeing”.
If you’re getting strong Eyes Wide Shut vibes, you’re on the right track.
Until 2016, [Ghislaine] Maxwell lived in a $5 million New York townhouse bought by a company with the same address as Epstein's business office.
Tax records reviewed by Business Insider show the Manhattan townhouse was purchased for $4.95 million in October 2000 by an anonymous corporation with the same address as Epstein's finance office on Madison Avenue.
Business Insider was unable to confirm that the seller of the home is the same Lynn Forester that has been linked to Epstein.
Epstein’s mansion “welcomed a steady stream of the Davos crowd”
One source who’s done business with Epstein told me that Epstein’s 21,000-square-foot townhouse on East 71st Street welcomed a steady stream of the Davos crowd in the past decade. The source said Bill Gates, Larry Summers, and Steve Bannon visited the house
Chelsea [Clinton] had ties to Epstein and Maxwell, Band said; he showed me a photo of Bill and Chelsea posing with Epstein and Maxwell at the King of Morocco’s wedding. Chelsea remained friends with Maxwell for years after the press revealed Maxwell was a close associate of Epstein’s. For instance, Chelsea invited Maxwell to her 2010 wedding at the Brooke Astor estate in Rhinebeck, New York, after Epstein had pleaded guilty in Florida to procuring sex from a minor.
“Ghislaine had access to yachts and nice homes. Chelsea needed that,” Band told me.
“In middle age, Trump had enough self-control to understand that his worst instincts were best received by men who were an awful lot like him.”
The shadow of Clinton’s sexual history and his associations with other men who have terrible legacies of sexually inappropriate-to-criminal behavior have for decades hung like a greasy and unscrubbable film over the Democratic Party he once led. Clinton palled around not just with Epstein but with Charlie Rose and Harvey Weinstein and Trump himself.
Epstein is known about town as a man who loves women—lots of them, mostly young. Model types have been heard saying they are full of gratitude to Epstein for flying them around, and he is a familiar face to many of the Victoria’s Secret girls. One young woman recalls being summoned by Ghislaine Maxwell to a concert at Epstein’s town house, where the women seemed to outnumber the men by far. “These were not women you’d see at Upper East Side dinners,” the woman recalls. “Many seemed foreign and dressed a little bizarrely.” This same guest also attended a cocktail party thrown by Maxwell that Prince Andrew attended, which was filled, she says, with young Russian models. “Some of the guests were horrified,” the woman says.
Horrified, yet did nothing.
“What is so amazing to me is how his entire social circle knew about this and just blithely overlooked it,” she said of his penchant for adolescents.
While praising his charm, brilliance and generous donations to Harvard, those she spoke to, she said, “all mentioned the girls, as an aside.”
“Not one person helped us,’’ said Sarah Ransome, a native of South Africa who successfully sued Epstein and his then-partner, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2017 for trafficking her when she was 22. “Everyone around us had to know, because we looked so broken. But no one did anything.’’
Anyone who spent any amount of time with Jeffrey Epstein had to know exactly what he was into, and - at best - they just didn’t care.
I was inspired by a guy named Robert P. Williams, a blues guy. And he said 'no man or woman knows what trouble really is in this world', and I took it to mean [that] it could always get worse. And that's the sort of thought you can never really identify true trouble or the blues or whatever because always it can go further.
And so the song's about the real child of hell, which you never really see. You're in a bar, or you're in some place, and something strange starts happening, and then all of a sudden you feel like that thing is there, that real child of hell is there, and causing this thing, working its evil way. You turn around to look for it and you can't see it. Turn around to get and it's not there.
Watch what both women do simultaneously around 26 seconds into the video, when Epstein’s name is mentioned.
It hides in plain sight.