1/ 86% of Americans told the Washington Post they want every Epstein file released.
Nearly 3.5 million pages already are. But the problem is that almost no one has read or thoroughly evaluated them.
I’ve spent nine months reading them, with my team. Here is what’s in the public record, with the documents: 🧵👇
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2/ The files are not mainly a story about one man’s crimes, though those are documented and monstrous.
They show finance, philanthropy, science, and state power operating as one, with a convicted predator at the switchboard for a decade after his 2008 conviction.
My primary conclusion is that the nation-state is no longer the central unit of power - it is the shadow network itself, which operates beneath the layer of accountability associated with democratic institutions, and whose architecture of impunity allows it to stay entirely above the law.
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3/ Start with the money.
Epstein set the plans in motion. A major U.S. bank drafted the structure for a proposed $100 billion philanthropic fund.
That fund never launched. A parallel one did, anchored by a global philanthropy.
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4/ The U.S. government signed a ten-year agreement with it. A cabinet secretary issued it operational instructions in 2025.
Every step is documented. The documents are public.
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5/ In the correspondence, an offshore arm of the planned fund is described as “especially for vaccines.”
In a separate document, a “strain pandemic simulation” appears as a Gates private-office deliverable, dated three years before the pandemic.
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6/ The protection reached into governments.
Epstein’s jet had its visa waiver authority renewed five months after his pilot told Customs he was a registered sex offender.
A prince asked him to help draft Buckingham Palace’s denial of a survivor’s accusation.
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7/ A former prime minister served as his channel to Moscow. A former White House counsel worked on his Gates project a month out of office.
And a million dollars of Epstein’s money now sits in an emergency-call company inside American 911 centers.
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8/ All of it after his conviction. Removing him did not remove the arrangement around him.
Every claim in SHADOW EMPIRE is footnoted to a document at justice.gov/epstein, with its federal Bates number. Check the argument. Don’t trust it.
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9/ This thread is the short version.
Since February I’ve published a 30-part series on the files, every piece sourced to document numbers. The first thread alone reached 4.7 million views.
The full series: sayerji.substack.com/t/epste…
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10/ The long version is the book.
SHADOW EMPIRE: The Epstein Files. 34 chapters. Every claim footnoted. #1 in Amazon’s Law Witnesses category before publication.
Pre-order: shadowempirebook.com
Let there be light.
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Direct pre-order links:
Amazon: amazon.com/dp/1510789138
Barnes & Noble: barnesandnoble.com/w/shadow-…
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