It was revealed on X today that Steve Bannon has over 15 hours of an interview he did with Jeffrey Epstein months before he died in jail, and the interview has never been released.
I went back and found the Business Insider report. It’s from last year:
Before his 2019 death in jail, Jeffrey Epstein spent hours being interviewed on camera by Steve Bannon.
A clip published by the New York Post in 2021 shows Bannon verbally sparring with Epstein.
Epstein declared he was a “firm believer and supporter” of Time’s Up, the organization founded to fight sexual harassment.
“I made my living from old thinking,” Epstein said from his palatial Manhattan home. “But the future is for the way women think.”
Bannon pushed back.
“Is that kind of sop because of all the depravity you’ve done against young women?” he asked.
It was vintage Bannon. The right-wing operator threw a Molotov cocktail into the political left’s arena, hoping for chaos. And he promoted himself by lashing out at Epstein.
The clip supposedly promoted a documentary, “The Monsters: Epstein’s Life Among the Global Elite,” from Bannon’s production company Victory Films. Before Epstein went to jail on sex-trafficking charges in July 2019, Bannon spent months in the financier’s homes in Manhattan and Paris. He boasted that he shot 15 hours’ worth of video.
Three years later, no documentary has been released. And Bannon’s close relationship with Epstein has been curiously memory-holed.
Bannon grew closer to Epstein in the summer of 2018, advising him on how to handle his myriad legal and media investigations. They continued to spend time with each other through the following summer, when Epstein was arrested in Manhattan on sex-trafficking charges.
The footage remains under wraps.
It has not surfaced anywhere — not in the criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of assisting Epstein’s sex trafficking, nor in numerous civil lawsuits from his victims.
Bannon’s explanation that he was producing a documentary about Epstein was nonsense, according to people who spent time with both men around the time they were in each other’s lives.
In reality, the two acted like friends around each other. And Bannon, these people said, was trying to help Epstein — a notorious sex offender — with his public-relations problems.
I had no idea that Bannon and Epstein were good friends, and he’s got 15 hours of footage from the so-called documentary interview that he won’t release. Wow, that smells really bad.