05/04/2026
Based on news reported today by LA Magazine's Harry Thompson below, and based on our artificial intelligence-analyzed Epstein files as victims of Epstein, we discovered Putin (who money was managed by Jeffrey Epstein, see above) has been on the run since the Epstein files were released, and since about the same time as Aileen Cannon (1) unlawfully-sealed the Epstein files in Jack Smith's Report Part II concealing flaws in her own appointment; (2) unlawfully-sealed Epstein's much closer link to Putin and Russia than Trump (other than Russian financing Trump's sons EACH admitted to separately) which unjustly puts the spotlight on Trump holding the bag of Epstein evidence he stole, which Cannon sealed, as 'engineered' by Epstein is what the DOJ files support (Epstein was tracking Cannon's rise from prosecutor to judge over Smith's Epstein files under Trump 1.0), and this is also reasonable inference; (3) unlawfully-sealed Brady evidence for the Editor of Uprights News; (4) unlawfully-sealed Brady evidence for other Trump investigators; (5) unlawfully-sealed Brady evidence for a whole lot of other folks; and/or (6) as well as unlawfully-sealed 1-3 million pages of Epstein files concealing the flawed appointments of other GOP judges, evidence which our Editor provided to Trump, Epstein, and Russia investigators 2024-2025 and/or their representatives, including Jack Smith.
Jack Smith has since specified "evidence beyond a reasonable doubt" for both his cases, and he has specified that his case does involved government fraud, which Special Counsel Durham admitted to Congress in 2023 "cheating (disqualifying voter/elections fraud) in a conspiracy with the enemy in US elections (a type of government/voter fraud) in 2013-2016+", and Mueller specified Trump had engaged in ongoing RICO obstruction of justice for the same as an accessory after the fact, paraphrasing the three of them together.***
We have since learned in the Epstein files that Epstein was likely blackmailing Vladimir Putin, as is evidenced by the way he handled the accounts of those he was blackmailing, including but not limited to Leon Black, supra.
More specifically, Ghislaine Maxwell emailed her sister from prison to give her orders to move the blackmail evidence against Leon Black of Edge Foundation, who they referred to as a spigot expecting to dry. John Brockman emailed Epstein to specify that Edge Foundation members could be motivated with their photos and bad press in a "Prince Andrew Treatment" manner. Black was clearly blackmailed, and Edge Foundation members also being blackmailed.
Furthermore, and collectively, the Wexner deposition, invoking 5th Amendment when questioned on Edge Group/Foundation, makes clear Wexner and Black were blackmailed on the order of a quarter to half a billion dollars in "fees" between the two of them alone, where Epstein forced them to hand over control to their accounts in a quicksand-like manner, first blackmail by association post-conviction, then a favor to stalk, retaliate, and/or intimidate a non-billionaire Epstein victim, specifically the Editor of Uprights News, then more favors, then snowballing into kidnapping, lynching, entrapment, retaliation, and intimidation of Editor 2013-2014 to RICO obstruct 2013-2026+, then snowballing into shell companies (maybe Palantir), the use of military technologies and contractors on US civilians (certainly provable), in gross violation of the False Claims Act and the Protected Whistleblower Acts, but also Sarbanes Oxley (as Ruemmler admitted to Epstein above), and mooting everything coming out of any Trump or GOP judge as a result, but then Epstein had Ruemmler by the balls, while he gamed Epstein's Clintons versus Epstein's Trump 2016 Elections, able to blackmail them all, able to blackmail both candidates into position, the Attorney Generals, their White House Counsel, on both sides of 2016, "engineered" by Putin (per Sater and Cohen email dated 11/03/2015).
Epstein took control of Leon Black the spigot's account, and Wexner's, and Putin's, and thus we argue Putin was blackmailed in the same manner as Black was, and in the same manner Wexner was, Rothchilds, Gates, and/or others in Edge Foundation were is a reasonable inference.
The Brockman email to Epstein made clear that all of the Edge Foundation members who harmed the Editor of Uprights news were subject to "The Prince Andrew Treatment", specifying the use of photos/likeness and bad press/defamation, which is what was used by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, East Bay Express, and Revelation Studios against our Editor 2004-2026+. U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General fingered Musk and Google founders in Epstein's trafficking financing, but what if they were blackmailed into joining JP Morgan, to finance Epstein $15 million or more in "finder fees"? The Brockman-Epstein email makes clear Google founders are targets of the blackmail and need motivating/blackmail via photos and bad press Andrew-style.
The lawsuit by Jane Doe and the lawsuit of Katie Johnson along with the released Epstein files specify what Barr, Trump, and Leon Black sought to desperately conceal, that Trump, Black, and Barr had been compromised by Epstein, and so he owned them. The photos of Andrew lurking over a lifeless body, Mountbatten's SCL's Cambridge Analytica instantly in Epstein's pocket along with all EYE communications, Cambridge Analytica managed by Epstein's Bannon and Oakes, owned by the Mercers. Mercers, Google, and Rockefellers financed Federalist Society, which picked or affiliated all 6 SCOTUS GOP 'justices', which struck down compensation to Epstein victims, and changed laws in an emergency manner, including gutting and attacking the Constitution and whistleblower rights and Special Counsel investigations to magically make disqualifying crimes installing SCOTUS into office disappear, to conceal the flaws in half of GOP SCOTUS, bad actors, behaving badly, and in bad faith, who may be removed, and all of their changes voided, and so moot from the start.
We now suspect that in order to remain in power, Epstein blackmailed US, French, and Russian billionaires into all sorts of crimes they didn't want to commit, but had to, or else, "The Prince Andrew Treatment", with leaked photos and bad press if the billionaires didn't respond as spigots to Epstein and Maxwell.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin is retreating into bunkers amid fears of assassination, according to sources cited by The Financial Times and Russian outlet IStories.
Putin and his family no longer visit their residences around the country, according to sources close to Putin and European intelligence services. Kremlin staff have been dissuaded from using public transport, face-to-face meetings have been reduced, and security checks have increased.
The disappearing act comes after a drone strike hit an upmarket apartment building around four miles from the Kremlin. The attack was five days before the annual Victory Day parade—which celebrates defeating the Nazis—was held in Moscow’s Red Square. Paranoia about assassination attempts via drone attack has risen since March, according to a source close to European intelligence.
Meanwhile, another source close to Putin said that January’s abduction of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro by the U.S. spooked the Russian leader.
Putin’s involvement in the war in Ukraine is reported to have increased to the point of micromanagement, taking up more and more of his attention. In turn, that’s pulled him away from running the country and handling civilian matters, according to the FT report, which cites two people who speak to Putin.
“Putin spends 70 percent of his time running the war and the other 30 percent meeting [someone like] the president of Indonesia or dealing with the economy,” one source said. Meanwhile, his family has stopped visiting their residences in Valdai and the Moscow region, although Putin is understood to have worked from a bunker in Krasnodar in the south of the country for weeks.
His location has become a hot topic this year, with Radio Free Europe publishing an investigation in March claiming that Putin was using three offices in three different places across the country, all of which look identical.
It comes as independent Russian outlet, IStories, published a report citing a European Union intelligence service report, which said that in March Putin became concerned about a potential coup plot.
It comes as the president’s popularity dips amid spiraling war costs, huge losses of men, and even internet blackouts.
The FT reports that people who work around Putin, from cooks to bodyguards and photographers, are not allowed to use electronic devices around him and are barred from using trains and buses to get to work, having to travel privately.
Those same staff have also reportedly had security measures installed at their homes.
Meanwhile, CNN, which has also reviewed the report, said visitors to the Kremlin are each screened twice on entry.
Top officials in Putin’s government have pointed the finger at one another over security failures, prompting Putin to demand that his Federal Protective Service also ensure the protection of 10 of his top generals.
Meanwhile, he has only made two public appearances this year. Last year, he made more than 17 trips and meetings."
We believe Putin went on the run, because the DOJ had to release the files that proved Putin was blackmailed by Epstein, along with Trump, Edge Foundation billionaires, and others, to keep Epstein in power, and part of that was stalking, retaliating against, intimidating, and harming the Editor of Uprights News.
***Correction: We previously reported learning that Jack Smith had specified a $50 billion government fraud conspiracy, in the context we employ AI on a regular basis and it makes mistakes, and the fraud has cost the government $50 million to date, ChatGPT AI has since specified. We will investigate if Smith specified $50 million or $50 billion is what some of this government fraud has cost us implied Smith.
"WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers in a closed-door interview on Wednesday that his team of investigators “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that President Donald Trump had criminally conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to portions of his opening statement obtained by The Associated Press.
He also said investigators had accrued “powerful evidence” that Trump broke the law by hoarding classified documents from his first term as president at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and by obstructing government efforts to recover the records.
“I made my decisions in the investigation without regard to President Trump’s political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 election,” Smith said. “We took actions based on what the facts and the law required — the very lesson I learned early in my career as a prosecutor.”
He said that if asked whether he would “prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether the president was a Republican or Democrat.”
The private deposition before the House Judiciary Committee gives Smith his first chance to face questions, albeit behind closed doors, about a pair of investigations into Trump that resulted in since-abandoned criminal charges between the Republican president’s first and second terms in office. Smith was subpoenaed earlier this month to provide both testimony and documents as part of a Republican investigation into the Trump probes during the Biden administration.
The former special counsel cooperated with the congressional demand despite having volunteered more than a month earlier to answer questions publicly before the committee, an overture his lawyers say was rebuffed by Republicans.
“Testifying before this committee, Jack is showing tremendous courage in light of the remarkable and unprecedented retribution campaign against him by this administration and this White House,” one of Smith’s lawyers, Lanny Breuer, told reporters Wednesday. “Let’s be clear: Jack Smith is a career prosecutor, who conducted this investigation based on the facts and based on the law and nothing more.”
Trump told reporters at the White House that he supported the idea of an open hearing, saying: “I’d rather see him testify publicly. There’s no way he can answer the questions.”
Smith is expected to discuss both of his investigations of Trump but will not answer questions that call for grand jury materials, which are restricted by law, according to a person familiar with the investigation who insisted on anonymity to discuss the interview. He is also expected to correct what he regards as mischaracterizations from Republicans about his work, including about his team’s use of cellphone records belonging to certain GOP lawmakers, the person said.
Smith was appointed in 2022 to oversee the Justice Department investigations into Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss to Democrat Joe Biden and his hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Smith’s team filed charges in both investigations.
Smith abandoned the cases after Trump was elected to the White House again last year, citing Justice Department legal opinions that say a sitting president cannot be indicted.
Republicans who control Congress have sought interviews with at least some individual members of Smith’s team.
In recent weeks they have seized on revelations that the team, as part of its investigation, had analyzed the phone records of select GOP lawmakers from on and around Jan. 6, 2021, when pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to halt the certification of Trump’s election loss to Biden. The phone records reviewed by prosecutors included details only about the incoming and outgoing phone numbers and the length of the call but not the contents of the conversation."
By ERIC TUCKER and LISA MASCARO Associated Press"
Smith spent over $50 million on the investigation to come to these conclusions of evidence beyond a reasonable doubt regarding Trump's fraud.