Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein described himself as a “Tier One” sexual predator in a videotaped interview released by the Justice Department Friday.
The financier, who was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019, while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, clarified that he was at “the lowest” level of perversion in response to questions from an unseen, unidentified interviewer.
During the rambling, hours-long sitdown, Epstein was quizzed on whether any of his wealth came from handling “dirty money.”
“No, it’s not,” he responded later adding that was the case “because I earned it.”
“You earned it by advising the worst people in the world,” the interviewer said, “that do enormous, bad things, and just to make more money.”
“Ethics is always a complicated subject,” Epstein responded before discoursing on donating money to polio vaccination efforts in the developing world.
“Instead of asking me whether that money should be given to these children for vaccines, I think you might want to ask their mothers — who receive the vaccine, who know their child now won’t get polio — and ask them if Epstein should have helped these people with their money,”
When the interviewer asked Epstein, “What percentage of people do you estimate would say, ‘I don’t care; I want the money for my children?’” the notorious New Yorker fired back: “I would say everyone says, ‘I want the money for my children.’ I think if you told them the devil himself said, ‘I’m going to exchange some dollars for your child’s life — ‘”
“Do you think you are the devil himself?” Epstein was then asked, to which he answered: “No, but I have a good mirror.”
It’s unclear when the interview was recorded, but judging by Epstein’s appearance, it may have taken place shortly before his July 2019 arrest
The video was one of 2,000 released by the Trump administration Friday, along with up to 3.5 million pages of documents and 180,000 images, in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act signed into law by Trump this past November.
