If you haven’t heard, Sean “Diddy” Combs — and likely much of Hollywood — is in hot water after the U.S. Justice Department unsealed charges against the famous rapper.
The charges allege that he abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct.
Diddy reportedly accomplished this by relying on the employees and influence of the multifaceted business empire that he led and controlled. Under his leadership, this business empire became a “criminal enterprise” that allegedly included sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.
Prosecutors have alleged that Diddy “engaged in persistent and pervasive patterns of abuse towards women and other individuals.”
Diddy also threw and engaged in “sex parties” that were referred to as “freak offs” — which apparently could last for days. At these parties, commercial sex workers allegedly were transported across state and international lines, women allegedly were forced to engage in extended sex acts with male commercial sex workers, and heavy drug use allegedly was involved.
Since these allegations came to light, many celebrities have begun deleting their social media feeds.
“Suddenly now, a bunch of big-time musicians have deleted their Twitter accounts. Usher’s Twitter account has disappeared,” Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” tells Clay Travis, noting that Pink’s account disappeared as well.
“The whole thing sounds like a honeypot,” he adds.
Travis believes it “feels Epstein-esque.”
“There was video being made of sex acts that may have been used for blackmail going forward, and the fact that he has not been able to get out on bail,” he continues, adding, “I think Diddy’s going to get killed.”
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Last week on September 17, Sean "Diddy" Combs, commonly known in the music industry as P. Diddy or Puff Daddy, was arrested and charged with a slew of crimes, including sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution.
The rapper and producer is widely being referred to as the Epstein of Hollywood because, like Epstein, Diddy threw massive sex parties during which he forced guests to engage in sexual activities with prostitutes while being filmed.
Now that Diddy has been denied bail, other Hollywood stars are making suspicious moves, many of them going on a “social media scrubbing spree.”
“Blaze News Tonight’s” Jill Savage and “Fearless” host Jason Whitlock discuss the situation.
Currently, Diddy is “locked up in a Brooklyn penitentiary where he reportedly was put on suicide watch,” says Jill.
Naturally, many are wondering whether or not Diddy will “wind up being Epsteined.”
The other big question is: Who are his co-conspirators? Like the mysterious Epstein list, certainly there are a number of elites on the list of those complicit in Diddy’s crimes, but who are they?
While no others have been arrested yet, “there are Hollywood heavyweights who are apparently spooked.”
One of those people is singer, rapper, and producer Usher, whose “posts vanished off X, only for him to make the excuse later that he was hacked.”
Another Hollywood star who scrubbed her social media accounts is punk singer P!nk. Apparently, several of her posts “were 86ed,” says Jill.
However, “one of the creepiest moments in the saga” actually occurred back in 2016 when Usher was on “The Howard Stern Show” and recounted his wild days living at Diddy’s.
When Usher was just 14, he was apparently sent off to “Puffy Flavor Camp” to “see the lifestyle.”
“There were very curious things taking place,” Usher said in the interview before listing specific celebrities he saw at Diddy’s infamous parties, including Biggie Smalls, Lil’ Kim, Craig Mack, Faith Evans, the band Jodeci, and Mary J. Blige, among others.
Jason has known that the rap music industry is corrupt to the core for decades now.
“It's been my argument for many years — and it's all come to fruition — that the music industry is satanic; it's a sex cult, and as it relates to hip-hop, its role is to instill, impart, make the culture more nihilistic, and Diddy is at the head of that,” he explains.
Now that Diddy has been officially arrested and charged, Jason says that “a lot of people should be nervous — a lot of Hollywood people, a lot of athletes, a lot of the A-list celebrities.”
Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson can’t help but be suspicious about the timing, however.
“Why is he getting in trouble now?” he asks, noting that illegal things happen at debaucherous celebrity parties all the time.
According to Jason, Diddy’s downfall is a result of his cockiness.
“Diddy started suing people and started challenging the establishment that put him in place,” says Jason, adding that Diddy mistakenly assumed that he was equal to the people who installed him at the top of the music industry.
“[He] thought, ‘Hey, I'm a billionaire; I'm the equal of these other people that installed me,’ and the people that installed Diddy are saying, ‘No, you're not; you have a role and a place to stay in; you've gone outside of that, and we will put you down like a sick dog,'” he explains.
“Diddy was a tool to bait people to come to his house and participate in things that they would put on camera, and now you have blackmail information on politicians, other celebrities, influencers,” says Jason.
“You wonder why all the Hollywood influencer celebrity people think the exact same thing — Kamala Harris is the greatest person in the world … she should be president of the United States, and Donald Trump is racist. You can't convince me that everybody in Hollywood thinks that. They think that because they have no other choice but to think that,” he says.
“What’s the next phase? Where do we go from here?” asks Jill.
To hear Jason’s answer, watch the clip above.
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Donald Trump sat down for an interview with famous podcaster Lex Fridman, when he made a suggestion that may have been a dangerous one.
That is, Trump hinted to Fridman that he would release the Epstein files and the client list if he wins the White House.
“What’s the one thing you could say as a presidential candidate that’s pretty much guaranteed that you’re dead,” Glenn Beck comments. “I am going to release the Epstein files and the client list.”
Trump explained to Fridman that he was “inclined to do the Epstein thing” and had “no problem with releasing that list.”
“A lot of big people went to that island. But fortunately, I was not one of them,” Trump continued.
“It’s just very strange for a lot of people that the list of clients that went to the island has not been made public,” Fridman responded, before Trump answered, “It’s very interesting, isn’t it?”
“Remember, Donald Trump is definitely not suicidal,” Glenn says. “But if they could put him in jail, he might become suicidal, and some cameras might go down.”
“It’s happened before,” Stu Burguiere jokes.
The Epstein list is currently with the FBI and overseen by one individual.
“What could possibly go wrong?” Glenn asks. “If it disappears, that would be unfortunate, wouldn’t it.”
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Chad invites filmmakers Carter Andrews and DJ Bolger to the show to discuss their uncanny involvement in the Jeffery Epstein investigation.
Most have a broad understanding of the Epstein case, especially in regard to the financier’s dealings in sexual blackmail and underage girls, but Carter and Bolger claim that “only certain parts of the story hit mainstream news.”
There’s an entire layer of the scandal that the media didn’t cover — specifically the part about Epstein’s mysterious “Zorro Ranch” in New Mexico.
Carter and Bolger, however, have dedicated their YouTube channel to covering what the mainstream media neglected to disclose.
What they share will leave you horrified, perplexed, and totally creeped out.
It all started when Carter and Bolger discovered that all of Epstein’s properties had been raided by law enforcement except for his New Mexico ranch, which Chad describes as “shrouded in secrecy.”
After innumerable attempts to glean information from the FBI, tour the property, and even purchase the property themselves, Carter and Bolger were left with a multitude of answered questions.
But one thing was abundantly clear: There are dark secrets waiting to be uncovered at Zorro Ranch.
While there are still many missing puzzle pieces, Carter and Bolger have already unearthed some disturbing information about the property and the likely horrors that transpired there.
For starters, the 33,000 acre ranch is surrounded by other mysterious ranches, most of which are owned by the King family, the members of which Carter describes as “the oligarchs of New Mexico,” meaning the property is essentially protected by a moat of other properties — “almost like the donut hole in the middle of the donut,” Chad adds.
Hikers have also noted that strange rules govern the lands surrounding Zorro Ranch.
Those who have trekked on what they thought was public property have reported being suddenly stopped by trucks of armed men ordering them to leave, Carter explains.
If that wasn’t suspicious enough, Bolger says they were able to contact a former employee of the ranch who anonymously reported that not only had the Clintons visited (no surprise there) but also big-name celebrities, including John Travolta.
But that’s only the beginning.
Epstein was also “deep in bed with the science community,” Carter says, and was allegedly into eugenics — that is, the study of tampering with gene pools to increase desirable traits while reducing those deemed inferior — a practice that is, unsurprisingly, deeply associated with Nazism.
To learn more about the enigma that is Epstein’s Zorro Ranch and the disturbing Ghislaine Maxwell painting that “is forever etched in [Chad’s] memory,” watch the full clip here.
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The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands accused JPMorgan Chase & Co. last week of servicing the pedophilic child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and helping him to illegally exploit women and minors.
Days later, Albert Bryan Jr., the Democrat governor of the Virgin Islands, had her fired.
Attorney General Denise George filed a lawsuit on Dec. 27 claiming that the bank should have known about the prolific pedophile's illegal activities on Little St. James Island and notified the authorities accordingly, reported the New York Times.
The suit said, "JPMorgan knowingly, negligently and unlawfully provided and pulled the levers through which recruiters and victims were paid and was indispensable to the operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise."
Epstein, a friend of the Clintons and a host to various elites including Bill Gates, was reportedly a client of JPMorgan's high-end banking services for 15 years, even after his 2008 conviction — despite concerns expressed by the bank's employees.
The Times indicated that JPMorgan did not drop him as a client until 2013. He allegedly dropped himself in a unmonitored New York prison cell six years later.
The lawsuit, if successful, would have the bank turn over the profits it made while in cahoots with Epstein and his companies, as well as to pay penalties and damages to the government.
Bryan confirmed George's exit on Sunday, while President Joe Biden and his family were still vacationing nearby in Saint Croix, Virgin Islands. The governor indicated that George, who had served in the role for four years, had been relieved of her duties as attorney general.
"I thank her for her service to the people of the territory during the past four years as attorney general and wish her the best in her future endeavors. Assistant Attorney General Carol Thomas-Jacobs will serve as acting attorney general," wrote Bryan.
The Virgin Islands Consortium reported that George did not warn Bryan that she was going to file the lawsuit ahead of time.
This action, coupled with their long-fraught relationship, might have been the "final straw."
The lawsuit, filed last week, which may yet survive George's tenure, claims that "JPMorgan facilitated and concealed wire and cash transactions that raised suspicion of — and were in fact part of — a criminal enterprise whose currency was the sexual servitude of dozens of women and girls in and beyond the Virgin Islands."
It further states, "Over more than a decade, JPMorgan clearly knew it was not complying with federal regulations in regard to Epstein-related accounts as evidenced by its too-little too-late efforts after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges and shortly after his death, when JPMorgan belatedly complied with federal law."
"Human trafficking was the principal business of the accounts Epstein maintained at JPMorgan," said the complaint advanced by George, mincing no words.
George indicated that this lawsuit was part of an "outgoing effort" to hold the dead criminal's enablers accountable.
It is not the only initiative of its kind launched in recent months. In November, two anonymous women who accused the dead pedophile of sexual abuse filed civil lawsuits against JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank, reported CNN.
The women said that JPMorgan "provided special treatment to the sex-trafficking venture, thereby ensuring its continued operation and sexual abuse and sex-trafficking of young women and girls."
Without this financial help and participation, they suggested "Epstein's sex trafficking scheme could not have existed."
"The time has come for the real enablers to be held responsible, especially his wealthy friends and the financial institutions that played an integral role," one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs, Bradley Edwards, told the Wall Street Journal. "These victims were wronged, by many, not just Epstein. He did not act alone."
A spokesman for Deutsche Bank said the "claim lacks merit." The spokesman for JPMorgan reportedly kept quiet.
On "The News & Why It Matters," BlazeTV hosts Sara Gonzales and Alex Stein, along with actor and director Matthew Marsden, talked about the ongoing saga of Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO and founder of FTX cryptocurrency who is accused of stealing billions of dollars from the customers of his now-collapsed company.
Bankman-Fried faces up to life in prison on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and conspiracy to defraud the Federal Election Commission and commit campaign finance violation. He allegedly used billions of dollars from FTX customers for his own personal use, to repay loans owed by Alameda Research, and to donate millions of dollars to political campaigns.
He was also the Democrats' second-biggest campaign donor, second only to George Soros. Are we about to see another Jeffrey Epstein situation?
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