Posted originally on Jun 6, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

COMMENT: OK. I do not know how Socrates does it, but you said at the WEC that Trump’s term would be divided in half. You saw it working first and then encountered real trouble in the second half. You even hinted that he might not finish the term. Do you have any updates on that comment?

PAK

ANSWER: This blow-up between Donald Trump and Elon Musk is truly a disaster since Musk was Trump’s right-hand man. Musk has spent the past week attacking the GOP’s tax-cut bill just as Trump was pushing for its passage. This is becoming very confusing behind the curtain for many. The GOP was counting on both men. This appears to be what the computer has been warning about, suggesting that it did not see clear sailing for Trump during his 4-year term.

In all fairness, I am not sure what Musk expected. To put out this comment seems to be boring your bridges entirely, and this accomplishes nothing. Musk responded to Trump’s decision to cut subsidies for EVs but not for fossil fuels. He posted, “Whatever,” followed by, “Keep the EV/solar incentive cuts in the bill, even though no oil & gas subsidies are touched (very unfair!!), but ditch the MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK in the bill.” This does create the image of a potential conflict of interest.

This feud has escalated to insults ranging from pending legislation, why Musk left the White House, and how Trump may owe the fact he’s there at all to Musk’s millions. Trump immediately threatened Musk’s contracts, and Musk threatened to kneecap a key tool of the US space program. Musk then even suggested Trump should be impeached for a third time. You do not air your dirty laundry in public. I am surprised by Musk’s actions. This has implications for the financial markets.

Musk has lambasted the GOP bill and said that it will push the national debt close to $40 trillion as a budget-busting “abomination.” Trump, who said he’s “disappointed” by Musk’s sniping, claimed the end of electric-vehicle tax credits (and Tesla’s coming $1.2 billion loss as a result) is what drove his former adjutant away. “Such ingratitude,” Musk retorted. “Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House, and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.”

This is a blow to the future that the computer has targeted. I have dealt with Washington, and Musk seems to be naive. The only way to make serious reform regarding the deficits and debt is through political reform, and this is not the way to achieve that. He has just made himself toxic in the eyes of the GOP.

The comment that the reason the Epstein files are not released is because Trump is in them is going too far. The reason those files have not been released is that all the BS that people think those who went to the island are pedophiles is absurd. I was warned when dealing with Wall Street decades ago:

BE CAREFUL, THEY USE GOOD-LOOKING GIRLS TO GET INTO YOUR OPERATION.

Epstein’s operation was blackmail. They did not use six-year-olds. That would be a pedophile. Using a 17-year-old, which is legal outside the USA since we arbitrarily have the highest age, was for entrapment. The question they are trying to find out is whether the people on the list were blackmailed, but by whom and for what purpose? Did Bill Gates become involved with Epstein to set someone up, allowing Gates to apply pressure? That is just speculation. His wife divorces him over Epstein, but why? Who was Epstein working for?

The circumstances around Jeffrey Epstein’s controversial 2007 plea deal in Florida remain heavily scrutinized, and the question remains unanswered whether the case was explicitly dropped because prosecutor Alexander Acosta claimed Epstein “worked for intelligence.” That remains hanging out there unexplained.

I have said before that Epstein was creating a sophisticated operation for blackmail. Wall Street used Elliot Spitzer to take down AIG head Hank Greenberg because he refused to allow AIG to issue guarantees for Goldman Sachs’ mortgage-backed securities. They used Elliot Spitzer as the DA of NY to remove Hank Greenberg from AIG, which opened the door for the 2007-2009 Crash. Removing Hank Greenberg made the whole Mortgage-Backed CDO Lending possible and the collapse of the Great Financial Crisis. Spitzer was fed info I believe to remove Greenberg by Goldman Sachs. It was Goldman who then sold the idea to AIG when Greenberg was removed. 

Spitzer was just a pawn. He thought he was really cleaning up Wall Street. Then, when Spitzer turned on Wall Street, guess what? The Patriot Act ordering banks to report anything suspicious turned up checks Spitzer wrote to a hooker. So the Terrorist laws were then used to get rid of Spitzer to save Wall Street Investment Bankers.

Do you also remember the former head of the IMF, who also stood in the way of the agenda to remove countries from SWIFT if they did not hand over all people with accounts? Dominique Strauss-Kahn became a target when he was the IMF chief and began to comment critically on the role of the world financial system. I was personally invited to Washington, where Edmond Safra of Republic National Bank paid for the IMF dinner that rented the entire National Gallery. I was invited to demonstrate to me how the NY Investment bankers had the IMF in their pocket.

Strauss-Kahn was conveniently sent a maid to create a sex scandal to shut him up when he saw the corruption in the IMF. They removed him under false accusations and cleared the way for the IMF to become a tool of the bankers and the Neocons. That is how the whole Long-Term Capital Management crisis developed because they bribed the IMF to keep the loans going to Russia so they could buy their bonds by paying outrageous amounts of money. 

Anna Chapman was a Russian Spy caught in New York City. She was swapped for American spies in 2010 and made headlines in New York. She was stunningly beautiful as well as stunningly successful. Well, if you are going to betray secrets, this is far better than the rubber hose treatment. Anna showed up in Ukraine to train with the soldiers leading the rebellion. She has become known as Vladimir Putin’s weapon of mass distraction.

Epstein’s targets were not a bunch of friends from the local pub. They were all powerful people. Not the type that, if you were into 17-year-olds vs 23-year-olds, which I doubt most middle-aged men would know the difference just looking at them, raises serious questions of blackmail.

Take Prince Andrew, whose life has been destroyed. Did you know that had he had sex with that girl in London, it would be legal? From the age of 16, a person is considered to be able to give consent to all sexual activity with other people aged 16 or over. The Legal age is 16 in most countries. So why did Epstein create an island in the USA where the legal age is the highest?  Something is just not right.

Maxwell is in prison for soliciting girls, but again, there were no customers on the list. Why? Her father was part of the club who conveniently fell off his yacht and drowned just in time. The widely held understanding of the events surrounding Robert Maxwell’s death in 1991 is well known.

The Fraud: By the time of his death on November 5, 1991, Maxwell was deeply implicated in massive financial fraud that involved the Club. He had secretly plundered hundreds of millions of pounds from the pension funds of his own companies (including Mirror Group Newspapers and Maxwell Communications Corporation) to prop up his crumbling empire, cover personal debts, and maintain his lavish lifestyle, as they always say.

He was under intense scrutiny, but had not yet been formally charged or summoned to court for fraud at the moment he died. Investigations by banks, auditors, and regulators were accelerating rapidly, and the severe financial irregularities were becoming impossible to hide. He was facing imminent exposure. Key lenders (like banks) were demanding repayments he couldn’t meet, and the true state of his companies’ finances and the missing pension funds were about to become public knowledge. This would inevitably have led to formal legal action, including potential criminal charges and summons.

 On November 5, 1991, Maxwell’s body was found floating in the Atlantic Ocean near his luxury yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, off the Canary Islands. He had last been seen on deck the night before. The official inquest concluded his death was accidental (drowning, likely due to a heart attack or stroke, causing him to fall overboard). This was met with significant skepticism. Given the scale of the fraud about to explode and the powerful enemies he had made (including intelligence agencies he allegedly worked for/with, angry investors, and pensioners), he either committed suicide to avoid disgrace, bankruptcy, and prison. Or, he was murdered by the Club.

Maxwell was at the epicenter of a massive, unfolding fraud scandal involving stolen pension funds. His right-hand man was Bill Browder, who then went into partnership with Edmond Safra and lost perhaps 90%, as the FT reported. The fund collapsed by $4 billion to at best $60 million, and HSBC stopped even providing net asset values. Browder’s name does not appear on Epstein’s list.