Everybody Knows What's Really In The Epstein Files And Who Donald Trump Works For.

Donald Trump committed horrific acts with his "buddy". In 2018, Epstein gave the Kremlin intel on his former friend. Putin has owned Trump ever since. Everybody knows.

Feb 05, 2026

This letter announcing the death of Jeffery Epstein from the Department of Justice was released with the Epstein files in February. The odd thing about the letter is that it is dated August 9th, the day before Epstein actually died. Everybody knows he was murdered. Everybody knows who had it done. That’s how it goes. Everybody knows.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

Everybody knows that the war is over

Everybody knows the good guys lost

Everybody knows the fight was fixed

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich

That’s how it goes

Everybody knows

-- Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows”

“Everybody Knows” is a song by Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen, written with Sharon Robinson and released on his 1988 album I’m Your Man. The lyrics lay out a grim, sardonic view of politics, religion, sex, and inequality, repeating “everybody knows” to suggest that corruption and betrayal are openly understood yet tolerated. Critics have often described it as a bleak social commentary that reads like a prophecy of a decaying world order and the slow collapse of public faith in institutions.

Maybe it was a prophecy of the Trump administration.

Everybody is acting shocked by the recent dump for several million of the Epstein files by the so-called Department of Justice. The Department doesn’t serve Justice anymore; it serves Donald Trump who was close friends with Jeffrey Epstein. Trump even praised him on the record in 2002, noting they both had a fondness for “young women.”

We all know who Donald Trump really is now and what is in the unredacted copies of the Epstein files. There are millions that the DOJ will never release, after denying that such files even existed.

Everybody knows that Donald Trump is working for Vladimir Putin. And now everybody knows that Jeffrey Epstein gave Vladimir Putin, the keys to the cage.

Just follow the chronology. Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump both made multiple trips to Russia. Recent emails posted by the DOJ suggest Epstein met Putin one-to-one. That Epstein and Trump were friends is indisputable. Everybody knows.

October 28, 2002. Donald Trump, on the record to New York Magazine, calls Jeffrey Epstein a “terrific guy,” says they’ve known each other fifteen years, and adds, almost in passing, that Epstein “likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

That quote has been public for twenty-four years. Nobody disputed it then; nobody has successfully disputed it since. Everybody knows Trump said those words. Everybody knows they were once close friends and “partners-in-crime”.

Fast-forward to the summer of 2018. Trump is president. Epstein, though convicted years earlier of sex crimes, is still moving in rarefied circles, still trading on the names he knows and the secrets he keeps. Why isn’t he in prison?

Because between 2007–08, Alex Acosta, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida cut Jeffrey Epstein a “non-prosecution” deal that neatly steered him away from federal charges. It parked him in a state plea, and even broadened protection for potential co-conspirators. Appparently the Florida justice system has a VIP rewards program.

To keep the vibe immaculate, victims weren’t told the full truth about what was being negotiated, which a federal judge later found violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, while DOJ’s own review politely called the whole thing “poor judgment.”

So yes: survivors got secrecy and procedural yoga, and Epstein got the deal of a lifetime—proof that if you’re rich enough, accountability is just another line item you can negotiate down. Alex Acosta got a reward as well. He was made the Secretary of Labor during the first Trump administration.

And it’s while Alex Acosta is Secretary of Labor ( 2017-2019) that Epstein makes a deal with the Russians.

June 24, 2018—three weeks before the Helsinki summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin—Epstein sits down at his keyboard and writes to Thorbjørn Jagland, then secretary general of the Council of Europe. They had long been friends.

The email, now public through congressional investigators, reads in part:

“I think you might suggest to putin, that lavrov, can get insight on talking to me. Vitaly churkin used to but he died. ? ! Churkin was great. He understood trump after our conversations.”

Epstein is offering himself—explicitly—as a private channel to the Kremlin on the subject of Donald Trump. He boasts that he has already tutored Russia’s late UN ambassador on Trump’s psyche. He is not shy about it. He wants the message passed to Putin himself.

UPDATE START (FEBRUARY 14th 2025) After this article was published, the former Norwegian prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland has been charged with “gross” or “aggravated” corruption over his long-running ties to the late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to Norway’s economic crime unit Økokrim. Prosecutors are examining whether Jagland accepted gifts, funded travel and loans from Epstein in ways that were connected to his official roles, including his tenure as secretary general of the Council of Europe and chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

The case follows the release of thousands of “Epstein files” in the United States, in February which revealed frequent contact between the two men, including arrangements for accommodation and trips to Epstein’s properties. Jagland, through his lawyer, has denied any criminal wrongdoing and says he is cooperating with investigators.

One key piece of evidence is the June 24, 2018 email from Epstein to Jagland, then head of the Council of Europe, in which Epstein offered his services as an informal adviser to the Kremlin on how to handle then–US President Donald Trump. Epstein suggested Jagland “might suggest to Putin that Lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” portraying himself as a political fixer with unique insight into Trump’s psychology ahead of the Helsinki summit.

In June 2018, the “Lavrov” Jeffrey Epstein referred to was Sergey Lavrov, who was serving as Russia’s minister of foreign affairs. Lavrov had held that post since 2004, making him one of the longest‑serving senior officials in President Vladimir Putin’s government and the Kremlin’s top diplomat on relations with the United States and other state (UPDATE END)

Three weeks later, July 16, 2018, in Helsinki, the world watches a scene that still feels unreal. The private meeting that preceded the Trump and Putin press conference had almost no American note-takers. The interpreter’s notes have never been made public. What we can all see is the look of victory on Putin’s face when he leaves the room, and Donald Trump, looking dejected and slumping so low that in some pictures Putin actually appears taller than him.

A picture says a thousand words and the Helsinki pictures say: Putin owns Trump. Who’s the boss and who’s the butler? Believe your eyes.

The President of the United States stands beside Vladimir Putin and publicly rejects the unanimous conclusion of his own intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Trump looks rattled, Putin looks pleased.

Now add the emails the House Oversight Committee released just last year. In one, Epstein reminds Ghislaine Maxwell that a certain victim had “spent hours at my house with” Trump, yet “that dog that hasn’t barked is trump… he has never once been mentioned.” In another, Epstein and Michael Wolff openly discuss the political “currency” they would gain if Trump were forced to lie about his relationship with Epstein on national television—either hang him with it or, if it looks like he might win, “save him, generating a debt.”

Everybody knows that Putin owns Trump—and that Jeffrey Epstein handed him the keys to the cage.

At this moment, the public record does not yet contain a signed receipt from the Kremlin, or a videotape changing hands in a Moscow alley.

What it does show us are the friends and allies of a convicted sex offender who collected powerful men the way other men collect stamps, who bragged about his access to Trump, who offered that access to Putin’s foreign minister on the eve of the most embarrassing presidential performance of the modern era. The records show us that in private correspondence, Epstein treated knowledge of Trump’s behavior around young women as negotiable political leverage.Draw the timeline yourself. The friendship, the praise, the kompromat chatter, the offer to the Russians, the Helsinki capitulation. The line is there. Whether it is coincidence, convenience, or something darker is for history—and perhaps future prosecutors—to decide.But the line is there.

And then on July 6th 2019 Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges. This must have come as a shock to Donald Trump and Epstein’s cronies. The cat was out of the bag and in a holding cell.

And some powerful men knew what Epstein could tell the federal prosecutors would destroy them. The blowback would be immense. Remember Alex Acosta, the guy who gave Epstein a get-out-of-jail card and was rewarded with a job as the Secretary of Labor? He resigns, quits, gets the hell out of Dodge that July. Epstein arrested; Acosta runs.

Everybody knows that Epstein was murdered. When? Sometime before 6:30 am on August 10, 2019, when he was found “unresponsive” in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York.

He was pronounced dead at 7:36 a.m. by an emergency room physician (per the DOJ Inspector General report).

He had the most dangerous secrets involving the rich and powerful. Everybody knows that a faked suicide is the best method of disposing of a dangerous person. The combination of a missing cellmate, lapsed tape monitoring, and failure of guards to check on him should set off alarm bells. The confirmation of a homicide by one of the most credible and competent medical examiners, Dr. Michael Baden, confirms what everybody knows.

Baden described the position of the ligature as consistent with homicide.

We know that the signed letter by Trump to Epstein states: “A pal is a wonderful thing, may every day be another wonderful secret. We have certain things in common.” Everybody knows that this was signed by Trump. Everybody knows.

Everybody knows that the interview between Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche (Trump’s former lawyer) and Ghislaine Maxwell was a programmatic cover-up in which she agreed to say Trump was a gentleman—and she was transferred to a low-security “girl’s camp” prison. Everybody knows.

Everybody knows that Trump has been accused of aggressive sexual behavior toward women, as evidenced by his own statement: “You can grab them by the pussy and they let you do it,” and that he was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation in a civil lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll. Everybody knows.

And everybody knows that the Republican Party has been trying to avoid the release of the Epstein files. Speaker Mike Johnson even refused to call the House of Representatives into session to avoid a vote on releasing the files. He delayed admission to the House of Representatives for seven weeks for Rep. Adelita Grijalva to prevent her from signing a request to open the Epstein files. A few days ago, pressure was applied to two women members of Congress to nullify their signatures on a request to open the Epstein files. Everybody knows the files contain information regarding the victims of sexual abuse and their relationships with people of power and prestige.

And everybody knows what should be done to those who participated in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein.

Prince Andrew, who has been admonished for his actions by the King of England, is ostracized from society. Maxwell is in jail.

So everybody knows that the frantic efforts by Trump and his Republican minions to hide the Epstein reports suggests that the information will be politically dangerous to Trump and the Republican Party. Everybody knows.

And speaking of those tangled in the Epstein web, everybody knows about the Trump cabinet members—past and present—who’ve danced too close to the flame. We have to mention him again-- Alexander Acosta, the Labor Secretary who, as a U.S. attorney, cut Epstein that infamous sweetheart plea deal, letting him off with a slap on the wrist and weekends in jail.

There’s William Barr, the Attorney General whose watch saw Epstein “suicide” in custody. Barr’s own father had hired Epstein decades earlier to teach at a fancy school without a degree. Wilbur Ross, Commerce Secretary, popped up in Epstein’s orbit too, rubbing elbows in those elite circles. Fast-forward to now, in Trump’s second rodeo, and the associations keep piling up: Howard Lutnick, the new Commerce Secretary, caught in emails planning a lunch on Epstein’s infamous island long after claiming he’d cut ties. Elon Musk, who turned Twitter into a Russian propaganda tool and botfarm for Trump wanted to party on the island.

Trump has surrounded himself with loyalists who place allegiance above truth. There’s Pam Bondi, Attorney General, who’s been accused of slow-walking file releases and dodging transparency like it’s a bad date. Todd Blanche, Deputy AG (and Trump’s former lawyer), who interviewed Maxwell but conveniently didn’t press her on which “cast of characters” from Epstein’s world ended up in the cabinet. Even RFK Jr., tapped for HHS, admitted to flying on Epstein’s plane twice. These are the folks who might’ve cut deals, looked the other way, or helped bury the dirt—because in this game, loyalty trumps justice every time. Everybody knows.

The song goes on

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking

Everybody knows that the captain lied

Everybody got this broken feeling

Like their father or their dog just died

“Like their dog just died.” Maybe Kristi Noem shot the dog? But we know for sure the boat is leaking.

In the end, the boat ain’t just leaking—it’s taking on water faster than a Trump casino bankruptcy. But hey, grab a bucket and smile; the captain’s got a terrific guy steering us straight into the iceberg. Everybody knows. That’s how it goes.

If Mr. Cohen were alive today, he’d rewrite the song.

Everybody Knows (Who Trump Really Is And What’s In The Unredacted Epstein Files)

Everybody knows key documents are buried

Everybody hopes that he is dying

Everybody knows that he is guilty

Everybody knows the DOJ is lying

Everybody knows the whole thing was fixed

The victims suffer, his friends get rich

That’s how it goes

Everybody knows

Everyone whispers the FBI files got buried

Everyone’s acting like nothing was known

Epstein gave Trump’s secrets to Putin

In Helsinki, Trump was owned

Everybody knew where the jets were going

Everybody guessed which names weren’t showing

That’s how it goes

Every Republican knows

—EHA

Tokyo Paladin with Jake Adelstein

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