“Are you a spy?” I asked, hoping to catch Epstein off guard with the question.
“Of course I’m a spy,” he happily replied.
“But…if you actually were a spy, you wouldn’t admit to it, would you?”
“Why not? Everybody’s a spy.”
JD Vance recently went on Joe Rogan’s podcast and said that, indisputably, Jeffrey Epstein was working for the Israelis as an intelligence asset, and, he added, probably for the CIA. Now… as the Vice President of the United States, he might reasonably know if Epstein was working for the CIA—and, by the by, if he was working for the CIA in a clandestine role, revealing that would be a federal crime. Likewise, the United States government would certainly have a pretty good idea if Epstein was an Israeli spy. So here too, Vance is either revealing some top-flight intelligence or talking through his hat.
I can tell you, Epstein wasn’t an Israeli spy, certainly not in the deep state, cross-allegiance, John Le Carre sense that Vance was implying. Vance was instead nodding to a general MAGA conspiratorial view of Epstein, and of a more specific idea of the Israelis working to subvert the U.S., and, arguably, of Jews as deeply suspect in all regards.