As we continue to learn more about the Epstein Files, including the gruesome details, due in large part to the valiant leadership of Congressmen Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), we are also beginning to hear more names that are mentioned in the documents. We are also becoming aware of, as Drop Site News put it, “Epstein’s well-established ties to Israeli and U.S. intelligence.”
But one curious name that has appeared in the previously classified data of the late convicted felon sex offender is Ron Paul.
Ron Paul? The successful OBGY, former congressman, three-time presidential candidate, and libertarian icon? In the Epstein Files?
What could Paul, who by all accounts is an absolutely wonderful husband, father and man all around, have to do with the many scoundrels found in Jeffrey Epstein’s personal communications?
Nothing. They loathed him.
Dr. Paul is only mentioned because the participants in these emails were mocking him. Why? Because he was not a part of—and defiantly opposed—the U.S.-Israel war machine so many of these figures were supportive of or were taking part in.
They appeared to be complaining about how in the 2008 and 2012 Republican presidential primaries, virtually all of the GOP candidates were blindly loyal to Israel or on board with bombing Iran.
Except for Paul.
In no particular order, and with names still redacted, we learned about morsels of info like this:
“Any conceivable GOP candidate, with the exception of Ron Paul, will be far friendlier to Israel than the current administration.”
Another:
“The Republican presidential candidates, with the exception of the antiwar libertarian Ron Paul, have seized on Iran as a possible winning issue…”
The Iran “issue” is presumed to mean pressuring for a U.S. intervention on behalf of Israel.
One person in the Epstein Files even called Dr. Paul a “dinkus” for being antiwar.
Tucker Carlson interviewed Paul last week and framed this particular insult of Paul on his program in this way:
“Here, for example, is an exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and one of his friends. This takes place in early 2012 when there was a conversation, as there pretty much always is in the United States for the last thirty years, about when and how we should bomb Iran.”
Carlson continued, “And Epstein’s friend writes to him this: ‘during an election year, everyone in Congress is falling all over themselves to show support for Israel, except for that dinkus Ron Paul.’”
Epstein and his elite friends who were abusing children and then some had nothing but contempt for Paul.
You can’t get much higher praise.
Carlson said of Paul and his appearance in the Epstein Files, “If you can judge a man by his enemies, then Ron Paul is a great man.”
“Jeffrey Epstein did not like the former congressman at all, and plenty of his fellow ghouls agreed,” he continued. “Nearly everyone in America’s corrupt ruling class couldn’t stand the idea that average citizens aligned with Paul on the issues, and they really didn’t want him to become president.”
“He earnestly believes in America First, Carlson added. “There’s little they hate more.”
Indeed. When Paul ran for president in 2008 in 2012, those campaigns occurred in the post-W. Bush and first term Barack Obama-eras, when so many Americans were fed up with U.S. interventions abroad and the Iraq war in particular. Many even voted for Obama in 2008 because he vowed to reverse course on the neoconservative agenda of Bush-Cheney only to ultimately continue it as president.
Paul stood on a Republican presidential debate stage during the 2012 election and told the audience and his party, “Israel should take care of themselves. Why do we have this automatic commitment that we are going to send our kids and send our money endlessly to Israel?”
Throughout his entire congressional career, Paul was vehemently antiwar and was not afraid to talk about how the relationship between Israel and the United States was not particularly always—or ever—beneficial to Americans. This was more novel in U.S. political rhetoric over a decade ago. Less so after Donald Trump’s “America First” rhetoric in his 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential campaigns, even though he did not live up to his words.
But Paul has been consistent throughout.
Paul told Carlson during his interview last week, “I don’t support their policies. Israel is not what the neocons tell us. I think they’re pampered. It turned into this boondoggle of getting stuff for free. Netanyahu has been in this country seven times with his hand out looking for stuff for free,” referring to Israel’s prime minister seemingly record number of times he’s met with President Trump.
Through the Epstein Files we continue to learn about some of the worst people in the world who apparently did not like one of the best.
Which is an indictment on its own.
