The MeidasTouch Podcast - Whoa! Epstein Predicted Trump’s War On Iran to Hide Past!!!

Episode Date: March 1, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how Jeffrey Epstein predicted in 2018 in text messages that are now in the Epstein files that when Donald Trump would be cornered by his dark past he would go to war with Iran to hide it and try to distract. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you know who predicted that Donald Trump would start a war with Iran when he was cornered about his dark past and destroy everything? Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein predicted in communications that are in the Epstein files that when Donald Trump was cornered, he would do exactly what he just did now. And Donald Trump is cornered as a result of the Epstein files surfacing. Donald Trump and the DOJ have been caught covering. up Donald Trump's disgusting and despicable past. Donald Trump is panicking and now he has launched what I've been referring to as Operation Epstein Fury or the Jeffrey Epstein War. I know that name has caught on. That's what everybody is referring to this war as. I want to show you the specific

messages from the Epstein Files. Hat tip to the Ferbetti account that says Epstein speculating that Trump, if cornered like a rat, could trigger a larger conflict, including bombing Iran, to create a crisis to try to rally public support back to himself. I want you to take a look at the Bates numbers, EFTA 0-1-2-1-1-3-3-3 and some of the related Bates numbers as well, like EFTA-0-1-2-1-3-4-0. we're going to take a look at some of these messages right now. These are text messages between Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein at or around December 20th of 2018. They are referring to total diversion, but the right is on to him.

Total diversions is what Steve Bannon writes to Jeffrey Epstein. And then Steve Bannon writes to Jeffrey Epstein, everybody here's surprised and happy about it. Nobody quite understand why he did it, including myself. Completely opposite to what I was told in the White House. What is he up to? Spoke with New Syria United Nations envoy, Gere Peterson, who used to work for me. Russians, very good and kind. Then you have, again, Bannon to Epstein.

And then you have Epstein to Bannon. And here's what he says. You guys need to understand that he, Donald Trump, is psychotic and would not blink twice at encouraging an attack on us so he can leap to the country's defense. That's his mindset. If I go down, I'm taking everyone with me. And then Epstein goes to Bannon, cornering a rat, never a good idea. then Epstein goes to Bannon, China, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Iran. He also might have just decided to trade the Kurds to Turkey for them standing down on Saudi.

The game is now on. And then you have Bannon talking to Epstein and saying, my God, is he that cornered? And then Bannon says, you are the invisible in the... the midst of the visible. Who am I in the middle of this thought traffic? Beyond a certain level, there is no physicality in science either. Just mathematical abstractions and consciousness running to a yoga class. More messages here to Epstein. Let's go over here where Epstein then writes over here to himself here as well. He goes worse because it is not only him. It is his family, business, etc. I believe that Mueller is making a mistake and treating him like he is organized crime.

No organized crime leader has a one million man army. Epstein then goes on to write, they are going drip by drip, but rats go crazy before the cage closes. Too much time. The Republicans are beginning to understand. I would not be surprised to see him do things that might encourage a real problem. so he can rush to the country's defense. Either he traded the Kurds to Turkey for Saudi, or he prefers to remove his family before he burns down the house.

Then they go on to say, probably the first. He has also struck my mind. Maybe he will extradite Golan and company. Why would he remove the family? And then they talk about, Epstein says, we only had 2,000 troops there. if he were to bomb Iran, they would be slaughtered. Oh, that would be crazy. Not from his perspective, not from his perspective. So you have Epstein and Bannon right around December 20th of 2018,

right around this time period. And Epstein is saying, when Donald Trump is cornered, when he gets very desperate, he will trigger a war in Iran or Syria. But then they went back, and they specifically were talking about Iran. I think another important fact to point out here as well, do we know where we got a lot of Epstein emails from before the Department of Justice did the initial Epstein file document dump? Remember, there's still about 50 terabytes missing. There's still hundreds of millions of documents,

which I believe to be the most devastating documents that are missing. what has been produced is unlawfully redacted all over the place. And then there's a group of those same files that are unredacted but are still redacted, even though they're supposed to be the unredacted file. But do you know where a lot of the documents leaked out originally where people started to ask questions? Iran. Iran's hackers got into the former Israeli prime minister's email, Ehud Barak.

Ahud Barak was very close. Like he was also the way Donald Trump was previously one of Epstein's best friends back in the day. Ahud Barak closer to Epstein's death was one of Epstein's close and best friends. And they did a ton of business deals together. And they would go around to authoritarian's across the globe and offer defense services and specifically Israeli defense weapons and try to bring the Israeli defense industry to authoritarian regimes to kind of prop them up. And I'm not being like conspiratorial.

These were in the emails. They were hacked by Iranian hackers. They were transferred to a portal where they were posted publicly. And then DropSite was one of the first to actually publish those emails. We did a report on it here on the Midas Touch network. About nine months ago, I would say we did the report on that six to nine months ago. right around, maybe a little less, around October 31st, 2015. What is that?

Six months ago. Leaked emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ahud Barakka's drop site rights reveal that Jeffrey Epstein helped open a secret back channel between Israel and Russia during the Syrian Civil War, planning a meeting with Vladimir Putin to discuss removing Bashar al-Assad and promoting a Russian-led peace plan. notable because Assad gets removed. Donald Trump becomes friends with Al Jalani. Al Jalani then goes to Russia and then cuts deals with Russia.

Then becomes Donald Trump. Remember Donald Trump then sprayed him with Cologne in the White House? So Donald Trump seems to have done the deal that Epstein and Ehud-Brock were trying to do with Putin as it relates to replace. replacing Assad with Jalani and basically moving the leader of Al-Qaeda to now run Syria to be loyal to Putin and to Trump. Do you see what's going on here? Between 2013 and 2016, Epstein advised Ehud Barak on messaging to the Kremlin, coordinated with Israel intelligence contacts, and used his elite network to shape U.S. and Russian policy debates on Syria and Iran. And Iran, their collaboration revealed by a trove of Barack's emails hacked by Handala, that's the Iranian hacker group, and also advanced Barack's global business ventures and Israeli security goals.

Though their effort failed to unseat Assad, it deepen covert ties between Moscow and Tel Aviv. I've got some important news that we can't let slip through the cracks, so let me bring you an important climate update in just about one minute. The Trump Environmental Protection Agency has eliminated the, the 2009 endangerment finding, which established that greenhouse gases are a risk to public health and environmental safety. We cannot let the story go away. This was the entire basis of the EPA's ability to regulate climate warming emissions and allowed the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

So this is just a total giveaway to the fossil fuel industry and will negatively affect attempts to get climate change under control, both here in the United States and around the world. Environmental groups are already suing over the move, and so I'll keep you posted with what happens when we have more updates there. And in an even more underreported story, the Trump administration plans to loosen restrictions on coal-burning power plants,

allowing them to emit more hazardous pollutants, including mercury. The EPA has already exempted 47 companies from regulations to curb mercury and air toxins for coal-fired power plants for two years. We need to make sure that we continue to highlight these stories amid all the craziness, and I'm calling on all of you to speak out.

So let me know in the comments what you think of these moves by the Trump administration. Let me know what you think of these climate updates that we're doing here in general. I want to hear from you. Okay, Ben, back to you. And so here's some of the emails that DropSight published. This was hacked by Handala, the Iranian hacker group. And so here are messages that like Epstein is sending to Ehud Barak. On May 20th, Thorben-Zaglund, remember he's the former prime minister of Norway, and he's a top diplomatic official. and he's since been under investigation, and he's in a lot of trouble right now.

On May 20th, Thorben Joglans going to see Putin and Sochi. Joglan asked that I make myself available to meet with him sometime in June to explain how Russia can structure deals in order to encourage Western investment. I never met him. Wanted you to know. And then Epstein and Ehud Barakker saying, okay, Panetta, Alexander Clark. Then this is from Ahud Barak with a copy to Epstein. Dear George, think of Syria, C.W. Background of Iran's elections and nuke program, global terror, North Korea, etc.

Probably briefing for selected group, thanks, best Ahud, Barack. Then you had from Jeffrey Epstein to Ahud Barak. By the way, these are all right around May of 2013. And here's the message that Epstein was saying. sending to the former Prime Minister of Israel, former defense minister of Israel. He's helping him deliver this message. Wait until it's too late.

Seems to be the new fashionable foreign policy. The unfolding tragedy in Syria has already cost 75,000 precious lives, millions displaced. The complex dilemma recently illustrated in bright colors by the recent juxtaposition of the evidence of nerve agents being used by the Assad regime against its own, alongside the vivid videos of executions and cannibalism, carried out in the name of the rebel God.

Though it appears red lines have been crossed, the world still hungers for waits for a coordinated plan of action. The human suffering has been staggering in a region where the pursuit of happiness often takes a back seat to the pursuit of revenge, the very continuation of the bloodletting will be a strong driving force for sectarian killings for many years to come. In addition, the conflict already has become a powerful magnet for various extremist groups, greatly increasing the odds of a post-Assad Syria ending up at

best as Lebanon, a failed state, or further down the failed line as Somalia. Another factor often overlooked is the likelihood of the much wider use of chemical weapons with every unpunished round of its actual use. This is as a direct consequence of the psychological thresholds being more easily breached as impact of external deterrence wanes. With it comes the undeniable increased prospect of chemical weapons in the hands of terrorist groups as the internal civil war sparks a much wider regional conflict. This could be as a direct result of Syrian attempts to transfer advanced weapon system to Hezbollah.

Israel cannot simply wait until it's too late. They're giving the freaking roadmap here of Donald Trump just took over Epstein's role, it seems. Often overlooked, but of paramount concern should be the strategic distraction caused by intensive risky and resource demanded attention needed in dealing effectively with the Syrian crisis. we cannot take our eyes off the ball. That nuclear ball is moving toward goal in the hands of the Iranian military. Assad's armed forces are weak and heavily affected

by the attrition and infighting, though there are many players on the world stage that can destroy his Air Force and Air Defense within a relative short period time frame. Okay, do you get what's happening here? Is your mind absolutely blown? Okay, you have Epstein specifically predicting that Donald Trump is going to,

once he's cornered, use a war against Iran as a way to distract from being cornered. Then separately in emails that Iran's hacker group, Handala was able to get from Ehud Barak, the former Prime Minister of Israel, you have Epstein laying out the same pretext for war against Iran that Donald Trump followed 13 years later, and it's almost as though Donald Trump is reading the script

that I just read for you. It's like Trump over the past week has been reading Epstein's script from the files that Epstein was saying to Ahud Barak. That's why I just read it for you. And then by the way, there's this email from Epstein to Ahud Barak

May 22nd, 2013. Putin asked that I meet with him in St. Petersburg the same time as his economic conference. I told him no. If he wants to meet, I will need to set aside real time and privacy.

Let's see what happens there. Now, speaking, of Russia on their propaganda network, R.T., they are now having people like Tara Reid, who was their contributor in Russia, their propagandists mocking the U.S. and calling what the U.S. did the Epstein War. They're using my frame. We came up with the name. I mean, we all came up with the name, the Epstein War. But here's what they're saying on Russian TV right now, play this clip. But bear in mind, I don't even think this should be called the Iran War, which is a what they're trying to call it. It should be called the Epstein War because all of this is furthering

to try to hide what the cabal, the basically the elite predator class cabal, is doing. And there's about 9,500 of them worldwide that are actually running the globe. Now, here's what Democratic Congress member Jamie Raskin posted. The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war because the framers insisted that representatives of the people weigh all the vast implications, but now desperate to distract from the spectacular failure of his illegal tariffs, the Epstein files, and spiraling inflation. The president who campaigned on keeping us out of regime change forever wars, like Iraq and Afghanistan, just launched unilateral military strikes against Iran without any congressional declaration of war.

Speaker Johnson must call us into session for a vote immediately. And you have Maga people, saying things like this, even if you start a nuclear war, we will crawl out of the ashes as seven-legged mutants demanding the release of the Epstein files. And remember, as of yesterday, Comer and the MAGA Republicans on the House Oversight Committee did not release the Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton deposition 48, 72 hours after the depositions took place. I just want you to think about it. The depositions were supposed to be released immediately. Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, wanted it to be done in public. Remember, they said, let's do public hearings. And the Maga Republicans were like, no. Why? So that they could keep it secret, right? Keep it private.

Then hide the videotape, which is what they did. Then go out and say Donald Trump has been exonerated by Bill Clinton, push that on American state regime media. Push that narrative so that gets reported. And then by the time you put out the video of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the United States is already in a war and people aren't even thinking about the video anymore. And most people just got the story. Oh, Bill Clinton exonerated Donald Trump. Look at what Comer posted on Friday. Today, former President Clinton exonerated Donald Trump under questioning from the Democrats.

He stated that he has no information that Donald Trump did anything wrong and that Trump. never said anything to Clinton to make him think he was involved with Epstein. Clinton is now the third witness who testified under oath that there is no evidence of Trump committing wrongdoing. Pause right there. That's not even what Clinton said in the deposition and you haven't even released the video of it fully yet. What Clinton said in the deposition is that Donald Trump actually talked about his relationship with Epstein and said that they had a falling out over a real estate transaction, which the Midas Touch network identified as the Sam Gosman, $42 million foreclosure sale to Donald Trump that Epstein was supposed to buy for $30 million

that Trump scooped up from underneath Epstein after Epstein told them about the property. And then Donald Trump sold that property to a Russian oligarch, Dimitri Rybalab. Four years later in 2008, Donald Trump doubled the money that he bought that home in Palm Beach for from Gosman that Epstein was. wanted it by. Trump sold it for $95 million and he bought it for $41 or $42 million. And Epstein thought that there was some shenanigans taking place between the Russians and Donald Trump there and some tax implications and some moving money and cleaning money implications of what Epstein thought. And that's why they ended up having their falling out.

But just think about how sicko it is for Comer to go out there and say, Bill Clinton has exonerated Donald Trump. Do you see what the plan is? And then Trump goes to war against Iran, just as Epstein predicted he would. And remember what Donald Trump was saying earlier in the day. He was saying that he's been fully exonerated yesterday. The same day that he strikes Iran with the preemptive strike with Israel, he claims and lies that he's fully exonerated. Here, let me play that for you. I don't know anything about the Epstein files, you know. I've been fully exonerated. And he also says that Howard Lutnik is a very innocent guy. Well, if you know nothing about Epstein, then how do you know,

which of course you do, though, then how do you know Lutnik's an innocent guy? Here, play this clip. Well, there you have it, folks. Wow. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. New Midas merch. Head to store.midustuch.com today and get yourself the best pro-democracy and show your support. That's store.midastouch.com.