President Trump delivered on his promise to release the Epstein files.
Something disturbing became apparent from them.
And Jeffrey Epstein has one scary connection to the Deep State exposed by a Trump official.
Jeffrey Epstein's intelligence connections ignored by media
Former Trump State Department official Mike Benz reviewed the newly released Epstein documents and identified something the legacy media buried.
Benz walked through documents showing Epstein served as the authorized signatory on contracts relocating Southern Air Transport from Miami to Columbus, Ohio in 1995.
Southern Air Transport was a CIA proprietary airline exposed during the Iran-Contra scandal for running guns to Nicaragua and drugs back to the United States.
"Jeffrey Epstein negotiated the contract to move the CIA's proprietary airliner, Southern Air Transport, which was busted running drugs and guns during Iran-Contra," Benz explained. "He personally was the authorized signatory on the deal with Southern Air Transport to move it to a military base in Columbus, Ohio, to service the Limited."¹
Nobody just convinces the Central Intelligence Agency to relocate its covert airline operations.
That requires trust, permission, and powerful protection from intelligence-connected figures.
The Columbus connection leads directly to Leslie Wexner, the billionaire retail magnate who handed Epstein control over his entire fortune in 1991.
Wexner lived in Columbus and owned The Limited retail empire headquartered there.
Think about what that means. The same airport where CIA planes ran guns to Nicaragua suddenly became the logistics hub for Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch.
Southern Air Transport relocated to Rickenbacker Airport after Wexner's company assembled a generous incentive package.
Former Iran-Contra planes were now flying clothing shipments from Hong Kong to Wexner's Limited Brands stores.
And Jeffrey Epstein orchestrated it.
The billionaire network protecting Epstein
Epstein's relationship with Wexner goes far deeper than business deals.
Wexner co-founded the Mega Group in 1991 with Edgar Bronfman – a secretive network of billionaires focused on pro-Israel causes that included Steven Spielberg and hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt.
And Epstein had access to all of them through Wexner's sponsorship.
Here's what nobody in the media wants to discuss. The National Security Agency's 1997 counterintelligence report identified "MEGA" as a suspected Israeli mole in the State Department.²
One year later, The Wall Street Journal revealed the Mega Group's existence – twenty billionaires working on behalf of Israeli interests.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak met with Epstein 36 times between 2013 and 2017, according to visitor logs.³
Barak was photographed leaving Epstein's Manhattan mansion with his face covered to avoid surveillance cameras.
That's not the behavior of someone just catching up with an old friend.
Ghislaine Maxwell's father Robert Maxwell served as a Mossad asset before dying under mysterious circumstances in 1991.
Israel gave Robert Maxwell a state funeral when he passed.
Former senior Israeli intelligence official Ari Ben-Menashe claimed he saw Epstein in Robert Maxwell's office multiple times during the 1980s.⁴
And then there's the plea deal that let Epstein walk with a slap on the wrist in 2008.
Alexander Acosta, the federal prosecutor who gave Epstein that sweetheart deal, later admitted he was told Epstein "belonged to intelligence" and to "leave it alone."⁵
Let that sink in. A federal prosecutor was ordered to back off a child sex trafficking case because the predator had intelligence connections.
The media focused on salacious photos of Bill Clinton in a hot tub while ignoring the intelligence infrastructure surrounding Epstein's operation.
That's not an accident. That's a cover-up.
Clinton flew on Epstein's planes 26 times according to flight logs, often with Ghislaine Maxwell as a passenger.
The Department of Justice confirmed the redacted person in Clinton's hot tub photo was one of Epstein's victims.⁶
But Clinton's trips on Epstein's private jet are treated like a curiosity instead of what they actually represent – access to the highest levels of American power for an intelligence-connected predator.
Democrats demanded transparency about Epstein for months while Trump was campaigning.
They couldn't stop talking about releasing the files and exposing everyone connected to Epstein's crimes.
The moment President Trump authorized the Justice Department to release the files, Democrats fell silent.
They knew what the documents would reveal about their own connections to Epstein's network.
How deep the intelligence operation ran
The Epstein story was never about one wealthy criminal with a private island.
It was about an intelligence operation that gave a college dropout access to presidents, prime ministers, and CIA aviation infrastructure.
Think about the protection required to pull that off.
Epstein moved billions for Wexner, relocated covert airline assets, and had 24-hour surveillance cameras in every residence capturing compromising footage of the world's most powerful men.
And somehow federal prosecutors were told to back off because he "belonged to intelligence."
Your government protected this. For decades.
While American families struggled to make ends meet, while communities were destroyed by policies these elites crafted, the intelligence community protected a trafficking operation.
Former CIA counterintelligence officer John Schindler concluded Epstein's operation required "a small army" to maintain over decades with hundreds of victims.⁷
One person doesn't build that kind of protection alone.
And that protection didn't come cheap – it came from taxpayers who had no idea their money was funding the security apparatus that looked the other way.
President Trump's decision to release the Epstein files exposed relationships and access that intelligence agencies spent decades concealing.
Mike Benz connected dots the establishment media refused to acknowledge.
And Americans finally got a glimpse of how deep Epstein's intelligence connections actually ran.
¹ Wall Street Apes, "Mike Benz just examined Epstein files," X, December 22, 2025.
² John Schindler, "Former NSA counterspy says Jeffrey Epstein was part of Israeli network," Washington Times, January 10, 2024.
³ "US media barely touches Epstein links with Israeli intelligence," Electronic Intifada, July 29, 2025.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ "Jeffrey Epstein intelligence asset theories gain momentum," NewsNation, July 23, 2025.
⁶ "DOJ releases Epstein files and the first batch is short on new information," NPR, December 19, 2025.
⁷ Washington Times, January 10, 2024.
