(Zero Hedge)—With the Trump administration under fire from angry conservatives demanding the release of the federal government’s information about Jeffrey Epstein, increasing attention is turning to a trove that’s in private hands: Steve Bannon’s 15+ hours of videotaped interviews with Epstein.
The interviews took place between 2018 and 2019. That’s prior to Epstein’s July 6, 2019 arrest on sex-trafficking charges that eventually led to his death in a New York City jail, but after the Miami Herald put a new spotlight on Epstein’s manipulation of the criminal justice system after he was first investigated for sex crimes with underage girls in 2005, with the Herald tracking down scores of his victims.
In 2021, a trailer was released promoting an upcoming, Bannon-co-produced documentary called, “The Monsters: Epstein’s Life Among the Global Elite.” The trailer includes snippets from the interviews. However, nearly four years later, the documentary has yet to be released. Bannon says we can expect to see it early next year.
According to Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, the interviews were part of Bannon’s effort to salvage Jeffrey Epstein’s ruined public image. “[Bannon] told me he has like 15 or 16 hours of videotape of Jeff. He was trying to help Jeff rehabilitate his reputation,” Mark Epstein told NBC News. “They spent a lot of time together.”
According to Michael Tracey, who’s been diving into this summer’s eruption of Epstein controversy at his Substack newsletter, Bannon and Epstein are believed to have first met in December 2017, by which time Bannon was an alumnus of the first Trump administration and — more significantly — a renowned principal architect of Trump’s stunning, establishment-defying 2016 triumph.
Citing Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury, Tracey relates that Bannon participated in a media-strategy meeting with Epstein and others in late 2018 or early 2019. One of those others was former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. “[Epstein] probably can’t be hated any more,” Bannon is quoted as declaring at the planning session. “We’ve flatlined on this. He can’t get deader. While the chances of reviving him are remote, what’s the alternative?”
It remains unclear whether Bannon was helping Epstein as a favor, or as a paid consultant with a recent history of masterful molding of public opinion about a controversial character. At the time, Epstein was shelling out $3 million a month to a British PR firm. Offering another potential insight into the nature of their relationship, Epstein’s Paris butler told Radio France that Bannon was among American guests Epstein hosted in France, with Epstein routinely accompanied by “juenes femmes.”
‘Epstein is the key that picks the lock’ of WHO REALLY CONTROLS the US — Bannon
Adds that resignations at the Justice Dept shouldn’t be the goal, that only brings turmoil
‘We need to get to the bottom of Epstein’ pic.twitter.com/0bBo7vEgfB
— RT (@RT_com) July 12, 2025
Bannon certainly hasn’t been talking like a man caught in an Israeli-intelligence honeypot, starting with his own public accusations that Epstein was tied to Israeli intelligence:
“[The Epstein story] goes right to the intelligence services of both this country and Israel. Let’s be blunt about this. That’s why all the Israel First guys — the Tel Aviv [Mark] Levins and all these guys — say ‘nothing to see here’.”
He’s also been a thorn in Israel’s side regarding the top item on the Zionist state’s agenda. After Israel launched its war on Iran last month and made every effort to maneuver the United States into a major, long-term commitment to conflict, Bannon was among the most outspoken voices on the right calling for Trump to steer clear — for example, telling Newsweek:
“What [Israel] did is they drew us into a war they knew they couldn’t finish. They drew us into a war they knew they couldn’t defend against. So, this is my problem. We need to reset. We don’t have an alliance with them, just like Ukraine. We’ve got to stop saying they’re allies, they’re not allies.”
Amid this month’s firestorm over the Epstein files, which includes widespread suspicions that Epstein was an asset of the Israeli Mossad, Bannon has been calling for Trump to appoint a special counsel to navigate the release of information. “Epstein is a key that picks the lock on so many things, not just individuals, but also institutions, intelligence institutions, foreign governments and who was working with him on our intelligence apparatus and in our government,” Bannon said at a Turning Points USA conference.
Meanwhile, a growing number of people would like Bannon to share his extraordinarily rare asset: More than 15 hours of interviews with a man who’d spent much of his adult life shying away from media inquiries. “Let me see the videotapes. He’s my brother,” Mark Epstein asked, via NBC News.
“We’re going to release the film, the five-part series next year — early next year,” Bannon said last week when asked about the documentary’s status. “You’re going to have to name names, and you’re going to have to understand how the elites of the world but also the intelligence services are inextricably linked in the Epstein story. That’s the key.”
Given the interviews were seemingly done as part of a PR effort on Epstein’s behalf, it strikes us as highly unlikely that Bannon’s videotapes captured anything explosive — but they would certainly make for highly-interesting viewing nonetheless.
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Oh yeah, “We’re going to release it. We promise. But we’ve got to wait until next year, y’know, so we can edit it down to the most useless and boring parts. We don’t need sponsors or anything like that. Do you realize how much money is being thrown at us to keep all of this under wraps? Now that’s worth waiting for don’tcha think?”
It will never be released, it’s earmarked as eternal click bait. The deep state thanks all the fools, demanding the Epstein files be released, for their devoted support in driving a wedge between the MAGA movement.
Judging from the slant of the article I wonder where “Patriot TV” actually originates from. Pakistan? Qatar? Another pro Hamas “America” operation.
It supposedly has a General Michael Flynn connection.
All children are god’s children, Israel slaughters children. On Epstein Island Israel raped American children. Pull your head out of the Tuchus!
Yawn. Move on. We have a nation to save. Not just basement dwelling incel’s need for vicarious jollies.
Bannon who has some insights to offer also has his bombastic incites. You have to take it with a dose of skepticism or due diligence. According to this article Bannon says as regards Israel ” We don’t have an alliance with them, just like Ukraine. We’ve got to stop saying they’re allies, they’re not allies.”
At best his statement is pointless in the face of all the aid we give Israel. The sort of aid has all the hallmarks of an alliance (no nation gives anything without an expectation off influence). Now to be sure a status of “allies” does not imply we must back everything one or the other does or advocates. Treaties and alliances, attitudes and sentiment, are qualified, hedged on, abrogated changed subsequently and it is well understood that written treaties are documents of timely convenience and messaging that last until or to the extent the parties choose.
While in itself not a treaty or particular promise the United State was the first country to formally recognize Israel as a sovereign state in 1948. That has never changed and indeed in2017 President Trump 2017 recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and in 2019 under Trump the United States recognized the Golan Heights as part of Israel. Those recognitions speak to the world that the US sees Israel as a nation, as legitimate as a territory.
There have been many disagreements on policy between the US and Israel as regards other nations in the region in furtherance of variousUS administrations divergent views or attitudes toward Israel’s policies that come up against our interest to be on decent terms with other nations in the region for trade and to sustain peace. Nevertheless the US has been consistent in protecting through aid and diplomacy Israel’s sovereignty. That in all practical understandings constitutes an allied relationship. Indeed Israel is our largest recipient of foreign aid on the planet while we also aid friendly Arab countries in the region.
If Bannon is intimating that there are no direct formal agreements on common goals (usually thought of as an alliance and participants “allies” for that purpose ) from my admitted non-authoritative reading it could be he is all wet on that as well. Consider these more recent species of joint agreements and partnerships re US and Israel from a Wikipedia article extensively sourced: : “In December 2014, Congress passed the United States–Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2013.[107] This new category is one notch above the Major Non-NATO Ally classification and adds additional support for defense, energy, and strengthen cooperation business and academics.[108] The bill additionally calls for the U.S. to increase their war reserve stock in Israel $1.8 billion.[109]. In that recitation we see that arrangement can be bilateral and the status of “ally” is not limited to being a member also of NATO or any other multilateral treaty. Still latter in our relationship is what constitutes an allied effort to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons: “In July 2022, President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Israel as part of a trip to the Middle East. During the official state visit in Jerusalem, Biden and then-Prime Minister Yair Lapid signed a joint declaration extending a 10-year, $38 billion defense package to Israel that had been signed in 2016 under the Obama administration. In addition, the declaration addressed global security issues, such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and committed both sides to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.[138]. That latter description along with so many of President Trumps declarations regarding Iran and nuclear weapons and or joint efforts with Israel to insure that (albeit with disagreements) is an alliance.
We knew Biden was a pedo, Trump being a pedo was a big surprise. Bannon being on the MOSSAD payroll explains a lot.
Bannon should tease by releasing only the questions he asked Epstein, until the full release comes out. People can play let’s pretend on the answers 🙃🙃