“If you’re a foreign intelligence service and want secret info from elites, you’re not going to recruit them—they don’t need anything from you. So you recruit someone who has access to them. You fund him, give him tools. Epstein had a private island for a reason.”
Kiriakou also mentioned Virginia Giuffre, the woman who exposed Epstein’s sex trafficking operation and accused Prince Andrew of abuse. Giuffre died by suicide in April at age 41.
He noted that Giuffre and five other women testified about rooms filled with monitors at Epstein’s properties, implying extensive surveillance:
“If there were clients — and I believe there were — and they were sleeping with minors — and I believe they were — every person monitoring those cameras would’ve known. I believe there was a client list. There had to be. There was even a black book — it sold at Sotheby’s. So where is it now? Was it destroyed? And why didn’t Ghislaine Maxwell use it to save herself?”
The controversy around Epstein’s ties and potential intelligence connections has sparked new outrage within the MAGA movement in recent weeks. Supporters of President Trump have turned on Attorney General Pam Bondi after the DOJ declared that no “client list” existed — and reaffirmed that Epstein’s 2019 death was a suicide.
Trump reportedly grew frustrated with the fallout and called for people to “move on,” labeling believers in a cover-up “weaklings” for falling for what he called a “Democrat-run hoax.”
Still, Kiriakou dismissed the idea that Trump is hiding Epstein files due to personal involvement:
“I don’t believe that for a second,” he said.
Kiriakou isn’t alone in suspecting Epstein was a Mossad asset. Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson echoed the claim earlier this month, suggesting Epstein worked for Israeli intelligence and blackmailed U.S. officials.
“The real question is: Why was he doing this? On whose behalf? And where did the money come from?” Carlson asked during a speech in Florida. “He went from a math teacher to owning private jets, a private island, and the biggest house in Manhattan. No one ever investigated it — because no one wanted to.”
Carlson argued that it’s taboo in mainstream media to mention Epstein’s possible Israeli ties — a silence he claims fuels online resentment:
“It’s not anti-Semitic, or anti-Israel to ask these questions,” he said. “You have the former Israeli prime minister staying at his house. Were you running a blackmail operation for a foreign government?”
He was referring to Ehud Barak, Israel’s former Prime Minister, who reportedly met Epstein dozens of times starting in 2013 and allegedly stayed overnight at his residence.
“Every single person in Washington D.C. knows this, and none of them hate Israel,” Carlson concluded.