The Epstein Scandal: A Call for Truth and Accountability

By Colonel Rob Maness (Ret.) – March 13, 2025

On a recent episode of The Rob Maness Show, I sat down with Mike Dillon, host of Maha with Mike on Lindell TV, a man who went to high school with some of Epstein’s victims at Royal Palm Beach High School. His firsthand perspective brought a chilling clarity to the human cost of this nightmare. These weren’t just names in a file; they were teenage girls—classmates—who came back to school with crisp $400 bills and designer bags, lured into a web of exploitation by Epstein and his partner-in-crime, Ghislaine Maxwell. Mike’s account of how this trafficking racket spread like wildfire among students, even crossing school lines, paints a picture of a predator who didn’t just prey on individuals but systematically corrupted entire communities.

And yet, here we are in 2025, years after Epstein’s suspicious death in federal custody, with more questions than answers. Attorney General Pam Bondi promised transparency, rolling out binders of “known information” that left Americans angrier and more suspicious than ever. Mike and I agree: those binders were a slap in the face—a dog and pony show meant to appease, not inform. When Bondi finally got a truckload of boxes from the FBI’s New York office after firing its head, we heard nothing more. Silence from the Justice Department is deafening when human trafficking—a multibillion-dollar scourge—remains unchecked, and the powerful names tied to Epstein’s operation stay hidden.

Let’s be clear: this isn’t just about Epstein or Maxwell, who’s rotting in prison for 20 years where she belongs. It’s about the lever-pullers—the decision-makers in Congress, their staffs, U.S. Attorneys’ offices, and beyond—who’ve escaped accountability. Mike raised a critical point: why haven’t we seen more civil suits from victims? Fear, he says, keeps them silent. Fear of powerful perpetrators still walking free, some perhaps on our TV screens daily. Fear reinforced by a system that might be extorting parents with threats of exposure, just as I’ve seen in drug and trafficking rings during my Air Force career supervising law enforcement.

The national security excuse for redacting names is flimsy at best. I’ve worked in the classified world—top secret, black ops, you name it. There’s no missile code or foreign intel source here worth protecting. What we’re shielding are the reputations of high-profile figures—people like Bill Clinton, who flew on the Lolita Express multiple times, or Ehud Barak, who visited Epstein’s apartment over 30 times. If an intelligence source was complicit in this child sex trafficking ring, we shouldn’t be hiding them; we should be asking why we let it happen. As I told Mike, if we’re sacrificing kids to “gain intelligence,” we’ve lost our moral compass—and that’s not the America I fought for.

Mike’s right about the money, too. Epstein’s wealth—private jets, islands, mansions—didn’t materialize from thin air. Someone funded this debauchery, likely expecting a tenfold return in favors or influence. I’m convinced it was an intelligence operation, possibly involving multiple nation-states. The redacted bank transfers and jet company names only deepen that suspicion. Why can’t we know who rented the Lolita Express or wired Epstein millions? Unless it’s a U.S. agency or foreign ally, there’s no national security justification—it’s just corruption hiding in plain sight.

The American people deserve more than promises. Alina Habba, counselor to President Trump, said it best in a recent clip: these are rapists—child rapists—and they must face prosecution. I couldn’t agree more. Investigate them, indict them, try them, and if guilty, put them under the jail. That includes Clinton, whose abuse of power as commander-in-chief over a young intern set a precedent for his Epstein ties. If I’d done that as a commander, I’d still be in Leavenworth.

Listeners like Wibb, Jack Spratt, and Coltrane echoed our frustration on the show. Wibb asked about the U.S. Virgin Islands governor—how could she not know what locals called “Pedophile Island”? Jack wondered if the big fish, like Clinton, will be redacted while small fry take the fall. Coltrane questioned Bondi’s integrity, citing her $25,000 Epstein donation from years back. These are fair questions, and they demand answers—not silence.

This isn’t a conspiracy theory; it’s a conspiracy fact. The flight logs proved Clinton was there. The hard drives and DVDs hauled off Epstein’s island exist somewhere. Kash Patel and Pam Bondi have the tools to unlock this—Sentinel systems, internal searches, the works. If Trump’s administration is as transparent as they claim, let’s see search warrants flying, not excuses piling up.

Mike’s pushing transparency through his Maha with Mike platform and airwaterhealing.com, where he’s raising funds for trafficking victims. I’m pushing it here. But it’s not enough. We need a people’s movement—moms, dads, veterans, everyday Americans—demanding the whole truth. Rename the Gulf of Mexico if you want, but rip up the NDAs and expose the rot. Our kids, our veterans, our nation deserve no less.

Catch The Rob Maness Show on WorldviewTube, Rumble, and X-Space. Tomorrow, John Thayer joins me to tackle the hundreds of thousands of missing kids still lost in this trafficking abyss. We won’t stop until the light shines on every dark corner.