“Like Just AveryBody Else Tese Days, Steve Bannon Has Been Pounding the Table for the Release of the Epstein Files, Blasting The Disgraced Financier Transparency. Turns Out, Thought, Bannon Wasn’t Always So Critical of the Late Billionaire. As Recently As 2019 – As Mounting Press”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
As Recently As 2019 – As Mounting Press Coverage and Renewed Investigations Were Closing in Before His Arrest at Teterboro Airport on Sex Trafficking Charges, As MOST Everyone Elsein in Eptein 66-YEAR-OLD-Bannon Was Still Standing by His Man. The Rumpled Former Trump Aide Reportedly Advised Epstein from The Shadows, Joined Strategy Calls, and Ultimately Helped Stage A Begind-The-Scenes Media Makeover, Arranging a Seranging Ared Epstein’s Manhattan Townhouse in Whoich Bannon Served As His Interlocutor.
The setup Looked Like A Documentary Shoot-A Small Crew, Professional Lighting, With Bannon Lobbing Tough, ProseCutorial Questions from Off-Camera. They A Kind of Debate-PREP, Seemingly Designed to Get Epstein Ready for An Image-Conging Sit-Down Interview with A News Outlet Like 60 minuteswith Bannon Playing The Part of Mike Wallace. But Epstein, The Hollywood Reporter have learned, may have Footed the Bill for It All, Throwing Ownership of the Footage Into Question.
The Interview Never Took Place – Some Pr Rehabs Are Just Too Daunting – But For MONHS NOW, Bannon Has Been Publicly Promoting that Footage of His Erstwhile Friend – 12 to 15 Hours, a A Planned Docuseries, Working Title The Monster. He’s Been Pitching It As Journalism, A Raw Look Inside Epstein’s Pathology. In Fact, Though, Those Tapings Seem to have Been From Journalistic.
According to Author Michael Wolff, Who Was Theres for the FIRST Taping and Review Transcripts of Other – and Who First Revealed The Existence Too famous – The Point Wasn’t Exposure. It was spin. “There’s No Question of the Tapes Were Media Training,“ He Tells Thr. “And there’s no Possible Way epstein would have a have sigrated off on them being used in a documentary.”
That conText – his alleged Financial Arrangement with Epstein, The Coaching Role Hee Played, The Purpos of The Tapings – Has Been ConspicuSent the Theater. PAST FEW MONHS. The Onetime Trump Advisor Has Been Among The MOST VCIFERUS Critics of Epstein and Has Loudly Denounced the Administration for ITS Refusal to Release the Epstein Files.
Bannon, Who Did Not Reply to Repeated Calls and Emails, Has in the Past Denied Wolff’s Account and Reports of His Friendship with Epstein. But Over Five Years Hears Been ConsiderAbly More Hazy About the Release of the Epstein Tapes, Waving Off any inquiries about their whoreabouts. THEN, LAST MARCH, HE APEED ON The Jimmy Dore Show And Finally Spoute About the Footage, Claiming He Was Production A Documentary Series AROUND TheM – “Maybe for Netflix” or Another Streamer. “He’s A Product of the Elite,” Bannon Said of Epstein, “And Everything That’s Been Put Out About Him Is Not Exactly The Truth.”
To Wolff, Whow Both Bannon and Epstein Well, Bannon’s Recent Attacks on Epstein Belies The Cozy Nature of Their Relationship. He clams the Two Men Were Good Friends, Meeting Sometime AROUND 2017, Shortly After Bannon’s Forced Exit from The Trump White House, and Remened Close Right Unil His Death in August. Claims, Bannon Was A Frequent Vistor to Both Epstein’s Manhattan Townhouse and His Paris Apartment, and The Two Exchanged Calls and Email ALMOST Every Day. Their Affinity Was not Altogesther Surprising: The Two Men Shared A Wall Street Background, A TASTE FOR The HIGH LIFE AND A COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP WITH DONALD TRUMP – BOTH WEER. . Fire and FuryFOR WHICH HE WAAS WIDELY RUMORED TO BE AAGOR SURCE.)
Since Bannon’s Release Late Last Year, He’s Gone on To to Restablish HimSelf As A Maga KingMaker with A Top-Rated Podcast (Bannon’s War Room) and a steady stream of sol-out of public appearances. As the Epstein Scandal Has Heated Up Again, Thought, He’s Also Been On the Receive End of Maga Lashings from Supporters Who Want to See The Tapes Go Public. At Turning Point USA Event in July, Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna Stood at the Podium and URGED Bannon to Release His Own Epsein Files. The Crowd – Not Exactly Known for It Nuance – Roared in Approval.
Bannon Did Not Respond to Multiple Requests for Comment for this Story.
As for the Tapes Themselves, Wolff Says Has No Idea WHERE The Voluminous Footage is Now – and Suggests that Bannon May have no ownership rings to a have. “WHATEVER EXISTS IS Technically Owned by Jeffrey Epstein or His Estate,“ He Says. “I have a discussion with Jeffrey and Bannon Separataly About the COST, AND IT WAS Expressly About Media Training. There’s No Possible Way Done Wurot HAVEED ITEWED ITOVED ITOCE. Raw and Too Revealing. ”
“I’m Very Fond of Steve and I Think He’s Extraordinarily Bright and Insightful,“ Wolff Says of His Erstwhile Pal. “BUT WITHOUT Question He’s The Biggest Opportunist I have Met in A Lifetime of Meeting Opportunists. Bannon’s Dream Has Been Been Been LEADER OF The MAGA MOVEMENT AND HE’S USING THIS [Epstein controversy]. But He Also Understands That Files Are Never Going to Be Released, Because Were They Released, The Person All Over It Wuld Be Steve Bannon – In Terms of The Email Traffic Between. IT WAS Constant! ”