March 10, 2023 - Epoch Times
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| One of President Bill Clinton's top former aides, who also happened to have connections to Jeffrey Epstein, well, he apparently just killed himself. | |
| Specifically, the man in question is Mr. | |
| Mark Middleton. | |
| And in the 1990s, during the Clinton administration, Mark served in the White House as an aide to the President. | |
| And notably, during his stint in Washington, Mark was the one to sign in Jeffrey Epstein to the White House on seven different occasions. | |
| Furthermore, when you examine the contents of Jeffrey Epstein's Little Black Book, you find that on page 76, there's an entry for Mark, including his name, his address, and several phone numbers. | |
| Which would seem to make sense, because Mark was not only likely Epstein's contact within the White House, but also there might have been something else. | |
| Because according to an internal White House investigation that took place during the 90s, Mark Middleton was attempting to be something like an international dealmaker during his stint in Washington. | |
| Here's an article from the Daily Beast of all places that gives a bit more color to what was happening. | |
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| And now, here's what the report on the matter said. | |
| Quote, A friend of Clinton's from Arkansas and an early addition to the president's campaign, Mark joined the administration in 1993 as a special assistant to Chief of Staff Mack McLarty. | |
| Over that same time period, a source with knowledge of the situation told the Daily Beast that Middleton met with Epstein in the White House at least three times. | |
| It is unclear what they discussed or for how long. | |
| Middleton did not respond to repeated calls and emails for comment or to a reporter who visited his home in Arkansas. | |
| Although, to be fair, if a reporter from the Daily Beast ever showed up to my house, I would also probably just tell him to go kick rocks. | |
| But regardless, the report continues by saying that Middleton also had a connection to Donald Trump, and then it continues by writing this, quote, Hobnobbing with businessmen like Epstein and Trump was part and parcel of Middleton's White House job, according to a 1999 report from the House Committee on Government Reform. | |
| But it also got the lawyer in trouble with the administration once he left. | |
| And indeed, the trouble that Mark found himself in had to do with the fact that it appeared that he was using his White House access to become something like an international dealmaker. | |
| Specifically, in the late 1990s, shortly after Mark left the White House, the LA Times ran a story, you can see it up on your screen, documenting how Mark Middleton's executive privilege was actually revoked after an internal investigation within the White House determined that he was abusing both his connections as well as his position. documenting how Mark Middleton's executive privilege was actually revoked after Here is specifically what that report said. | |
| Quote, The decision came in response to indications that Middleton, a former aide to presidential advisor Thomas McLarity, had flaunted his White House connections in an effort to become an international dealmaker. | |
| Among other things, he is accused of using his White House business cards and keeping a voicemail message on the White House telephone system long after he had left his job there. | |
| He is also accused of taking business clients to the White House dining room without authorization and portraying himself as someone with influence among President Clinton's inner circle. | |
| Now, it is worth mentioning that Mark denied these claims. | |
| But what's undeniable is the fact that the White House did revoke his privileges nonetheless. | |
| Also, it's worth noting that within a New York Post article, it says this, quote, Mark was also reported to have flown an Epstein's infamous Lolita Express jet. | |
| However, take that with a grain of salt, because for the life of me, I have not been able to confirm that fact with the flight logs that are publicly available, and so I don't know exactly what the New York Post is basing that claim on. | |
| Regardless, with all that as the backstory, you fast forward to May of 2022, and sadly, Mark was found dead on his ranch over in Arkansas. | |
| Now, initially, the police report wasn't made public, but after a Freedom of Information Act request and about a year's worth of time, eventually it was unsealed. | |
| And what the police report revealed was that Mark was found on his ranch with a gunshot wound to his chest and an extension cord tying his neck to a tree. | |
| But the report also stated that there was no gun found at the scene. | |
| Here's an excerpt from the report of the finding officer, the officer who actually found the body. | |
| Quote, Returning to the vehicle, I began an inventory search and upon searching the vehicle, I was able to locate the purchase agreement that had Mark E. Middleton's name on it. | |
| There were a few other items located in the vehicle. | |
| I opened the trunk lid and located a gun case that had three boxes of 12-gauge buckshot but no weapon. | |
| However, despite this excerpt, the death was ruled to be self-inflicted. | |
| And so you might be asking yourself at this point, how could that be possible? | |
| How could there be no gun at the scene, but the death was ruled to be self-inflicted? | |
| Well, despite what the official report from the finding officer said, a new set of documents from within the police department gave a contrary claim, saying that actually, they did find a 12-gauge shotgun about 30 feet away from the body. | |
| Here's what the new set of documents claim. | |
| Quote, Causing it to discharge and strike him in the chest and then he fell from the bench causing the extension cord to become tight cutting off his breathing. | |
| With the official explanation here for why the gun was so far away from the body being that it just recoiled 30 feet. | |
| Now, whether you believe that or not, that is the official explanation. | |
| Although, to be frank with you, if the police report said that the gun was 100 feet away, I wouldn't believe it. | |
| But 30 feet is within the realm of possibility. | |
| Regardless, though, I'd love to know your thoughts. | |
| What do you really think happened here? | |
| Please leave your thoughts in the comments. | |
| I'll be reading them later today. | |
| And also, I want to point out one thing. | |
| I usually like it when people give me the benefit of the doubt, and so typically I try to give other people the benefit of the doubt as well. | |
| And so while everything that we discussed was based on facts and supported by evidence, we ultimately don't know what the truth is. | |
| Maybe it really was the case that Mark was trying to establish himself as an international businessman, We're good to go. | |
| Regardless though, the reason that this particular case even crossed my desk, crossed my radar, was because I was doing research on a separate, suspicious, Jeffrey Epstein-related suicide. | |
| You see, almost exactly a year ago, in February of 2022, a French modeling agent, who happened to be a close associate with Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead in his prison cell over in Paris. | |
| Specifically, the man's name was Jean-Luc Brunel. | |
| You can see a photo of him here with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on their airplane. | |
| And Mr. | |
| Jean-Luc was found, just like his friend, hanging by his neck in his prison cell. | |
| Now, in case you've never heard of him before, back in the year 1977, using funding from Jeffrey Epstein, Mr. | |
| Jean-Luc Brunel co-founded a modeling agency over in France called Karen Models, as well as MC2 Model Management here in the U.S. French authorities have been investigating Mr. | |
| Brunel for several years now as a part of their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. | |
| And they eventually arrested Mr. | |
| Brunel at an airport as he was trying to board a flight to Senegal on suspicion of drugging, sexually assaulting, and sexually harassing multiple minors as well as multiple adults. | |
| And by the time that Mr. | |
| Brunel was found hanging in a cell, he had already been there for over a year as French authorities were building up their sexual trafficking case against him. | |
| Now, it's worth noting that up until the very end, Mr. | |
| Brunel denied any wrongdoing. | |
| And even after his death, his lawyers claimed that he had been, quote, crushed by the allegations, and they blamed his death on a media judicial system. | |
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| On the flip side, however, some of the alleged victims in this case, they were just disappointed that justice would never be served. | |
| For instance, here's what a Dutch former model who claimed that Mr. | |
| Brunel had drugged and sexually abused her when she was a minor, here's what she said, quote, After more than two and a half years of fighting for justice, since I reported Brunel in September of 2019, it's a huge disappointment he will never face a judge. | |
| Then another one of the alleged victims, she wrote this on Twitter shortly after Mr. | |
| Brunel's death, quote, I'm disappointed that I wasn't able to face him in a final trial to hold him accountable, but I'm gratified that I was able to testify in person last year to keep him in prison. | |
| And so that is the status of this case. | |
| We're still looking into it, but to be frank with you, the amount of publicly available information that's available to journalists regarding Jeffrey Epstein's giant underground empire is just amazingly stark. | |
| The man seemed to have a rolodex of anyone and everyone, And yet all the files remain sealed and not available to the public. | |
| They're just sitting on some FBI server without having the light of day shone on them. | |
| It really makes you wonder. | |
| Regardless, if you'd like to read more about either of the two cases that we discussed in today's episode, I'll throw all my research notes down into the description box below this video so you can peruse them at your own leisure. | |
| And furthermore, I'd love to know your thoughts. | |
| Do you think Jeffrey Epstein's death was really self-inflicted? | |
| And what about Mr. | |
| Jean-Luc Brunel? | |
| The circumstances between them were extremely similar. | |
| In fact, I didn't mention it earlier, but in Mr. | |
| Brunel's cell, at the time of his death, the cameras were reportedly not recording. | |
| So what do you really think is going on here? | |
| Please leave your thoughts in the comments. | |
| I'll be reading them later tonight, as well as well into the weekend. | |
| And then, until next time, I'm your host, Roman from the Epoch Times. |
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