The Disciples of Epstein: Billionaire Hypocrisy, Christian Morality, and the Predator Class

The Secret Handshake, Washington D.C.

There’s a new gospel being preached from the private jets and boardrooms of the global North, and it’s not the one Jesus taught.

We’re living in an era where billionaires, presidents, and Silicon Valley powerbrokers cloak themselves in the language of Christian values. “Faith, family, tradition,” they declare. “Moral decay must be reversed.” And the faithful lap it up, because the message sounds like a warning from on high.

But this isn’t Christianity as liberation; there is no grace, humility or justice. This is Christianity as a cage, a moral cudgel wielded by a predator class that doesn’t apply its own sermons to itself.

Let’s be clear: the people invoking ‘Christian values’ right now are some of the most corrupt, lawless, and morally bankrupt actors on the planet.

They are not elites. They are predators.

The Predator Class Puts on a Halo

Consider Elon Musk. He’s the world’s richest man, controls X (formerly Twitter), and claims he wants to preserve “Western civilisation” through Christianity and order. He has platformed and amplified voices calling for a return to religious values, cracking down on what he calls “woke mind viruses” and sexual degeneracy.

Musk’s name appears in Epstein’s orbit - not just once, but multiple times. Whether through meeting invitations, scheduling notes, or recently revealed invitations to the island, the association is there. Musk has denied any close relationship, and we’ll likely never know the full extent, but what’s clear is this: like Trump, he hovers close enough to raise serious questions. And yet, these men, all touched by the stink of Epstein’s network, now present themselves as arbiters of morality. They talk of faith and decency while history whispers otherwise.

Maxwell and Musk at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars Party.

Then there’s Peter Thiel - venture capitalist, PayPal co-founder, backer of far-right political candidates, and unapologetic Christian nationalist. He speaks of rebuilding society through “spiritual renewal” and a return to sacred values. He’s bankrolled the likes of Blake Masters and J.D. Vance, both of whom frame their political mission as a moral crusade.

But Thiel’s name, too, appears in Epstein’s orbit. He reportedly visited Epstein’s homes more than once. And while his defenders say he had no idea what Epstein was up to, that excuse is getting very old. The list of men who “didn’t know” is longer than the island runway Epstein used to land his plane full of girls.

And then there’s Donald J. Trump. President again. Serial liar. Convicted sexual abuser. Former Epstein associate.

And the poster boy for lies and moral hypocrisy.

Secrets and lies.

J.D. Vance and the Death of Catholic Conscience

Which brings us to the most slippery figure in this morality play: Vice President J.D. Vance.

Vance likes to speak of Christian values. He styles himself as a conservative Catholic devoted to the rebirth of American moral order. He talks about protecting the family, restoring godliness, and rejecting the decadence of liberal culture.

But what does his Catholic morality tell him about men like Trump?

Here is a man found liable for sexual abuse in a court of law. A man who had had multiple extra-marital affairs, A man who publicly lusted after his own daughter. A man who paid hush money to a porn star, mocked disabled people, bragged about walking in on underage girls in dressing rooms, and once suggested dating teenagers wasn’t a problem if they weren’t too young.

What does Vance’s Christianity say about that?

This is what Christianity has become in the mouths of power. Not a faith, but a fig leaf. A convenient script for controlling those they view as beneath them. A tool to shame, discipline, and distract the working classes while they themselves lie, cheat, and walk free.

The Moral Panic is a Mirror Trick

In the UK and the US, our screens are saturated with stories of moral panic.

Trans people are ruining women’s spaces. Single mothers are destroying the family. Immigrants are bringing disease and crime. Woke leftists are corrupting the youth. The family is under attack. Porn is out of control. Christianity is being pushed out of the public square.

This is the illusion they sell. That we - the public - are in spiritual crisis. That only they can save us.

But the real threat isn’t drifting in on a rubber dinghy in Dover. It isn’t scrolling through TikTok in a teenager’s bedroom. It isn’t living quietly in a bedsit or a refugee hostel or a non-binary body.

The real threat is docking in Monaco. Flying in on a private jet. Clinking glasses on a boat outside Ibiza. Whispering in the ears of presidents and tech giants and Supreme Court justices.

We are being distracted by those who have nothing, so we won’t look up at those who have everything.

They are the moral rot. They are the collapse. They are the threat.

Stop Calling Them Elites

It’s time to stop dressing this up with soft language. These people are not ‘elites’. That word implies merit. It implies distinction. It implies some kind of earned superiority.

What exactly is elite about travelling with traffickers, lying to the public, manipulating elections, and shielding paedophiles?

These men are not elite. They are parasites. A predator class who feed on wealth, on power, on secrecy, and on the broken bodies of others. Some have raped. Some have watched. Some have helped. Some have looked the other way. Some have silenced the victims.

They do not fear law. They do not fear shame. They believe themselves untouchable - and why wouldn’t they? They’ve built the world to reflect their immunity.

They moralise not to protect you. But to control you. They want to tell you who you can love, how you must dress, what you may teach your children, how you may live, and what your suffering should look like.

They will shame a woman for taking the pill, while flying to an island to abuse a trafficked girl.

That is the scale of the hypocrisy we are dealing with.

This Should Be the Scandal of the Century

Jeffrey Epstein died in a prison cell. Ghislaine Maxwell is in jail. The girls have testified. The stories have been told.

And yet, the files remain sealed.

The Epstein Files - the full guest list, the flight logs, the financial records, the unsealed depositions - are still being kept from the public.

Why?

We know who some of them are. We know Trump was a close associate for years. We know he boasted about Epstein liking girls “on the younger side.” We know Epstein visited Mar-a-Lago. We know Trump hosted him. We know he joked about walking in on underage pageant contestants. We know Trump has been accused of rape and sexual assault by multiple women. We know he was found liable in court for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll.

And yet, he is president again.

We know Musk met Epstein. We know Thiel was in Epstein’s orbit. We know powerful men, again and again, have tried to bury this story.

We know what this is.

It is a crime. It is a cover-up. And it is a scandal so grotesque, so wide-reaching, and so politically explosive that even now, five years after Epstein’s death, the full truth is still being denied us.

Release the Files. Name the Names.

We are told to move on. We are told there’s nothing to see. That this is all just internet conspiracy. That the real threat is immigrants, or drag queens, or people getting too many benefits.

But we see them.

We see them on their yachts. On the covers of magazines. In the White House. In the Senate. Controlling the internet. Shaping policy. Spouting Scripture. Promising salvation.

And we do not believe them.

If there is justice left in the Western world, the Epstein Files must be released: unsealed, unredacted, and in full view of the public.

Because this is about who rules us now. It’s about what kind of world we live in. It’s about whether power can rape and lie and laugh and still be handed the keys to the kingdom.

We are not governed by elites. We are governed by predators.

Let this be the line we draw in the sand:

Release the files. Name every name. The world is watching, and we are not afraid of the truth.

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