05/22/2026
We and the rest of America don't know what to make of an Anti-weaponization Fund -- which we most certainly just applied to (put us down for the whole thing because you owe us more), and for-cause -- almost $2 billion to be split by whom or if anyone at all?
This is coupled to some imaginary wholesale immunity for Trump and his family for all of their crimes by way of not allowing them to be investigated again, overtly furthering the Russia, Durham, and Smith obstructions, but also investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and other enemies of the United States.
But because we were victims of Trump and Epstein, but likely due to Epstein more than Trump, and because we were victims of former administrations, massive government fraud, and Trump's business activities, and also his children's business activities, this new sweeping "may not investigate" leaves us wondering who we can shoot on 5th Avenue to get away with the same? A claim Trump once said he was able to do -- and looks like he wasn't joking -- but now we know why, due to Jeffrey Epstein's stranglehold over Edge Foundation 'participants'.
Here are a small number of ways our Editor is linked to Trump's business activities seal by Cannon.
First, there was Trump's personal retaliation against our Editor, a protected whistleblower in 2007, when Trump refused to hire our Editor for one of Trump's businesses (his business interests in The Apprentice), then Trump Tower was involved in 2015 in the whistleblower intimidation and retaliation against our Editor, via Trump Organization, joined by Trump's business interests at Trump Plaza (Wildensteins also linked to Epstein), which then furthered Ruemmler's weaponization of the government against us under the direction of Epstein is now a reasonable inference, under Barr, also compromised by Epstein via "being present during" Leon Black's sex trafficking abused, and of course the question is why?
Why would Bill Barr allow himself to be put in a position of blackmail by Jeffrey Epstein? Barr later was part of a large GOP we have reported on who met with the brother of our Editor, while our Editor was trying to prove Barr and Trump were de facto officers behaving badly and in bad faith. Epstein controlled the accounts of others and moved hundreds of millions in different way, laundering across the accounts of others he could blackmail it seems.
Then there is the time that Morrison England tied to our matter RICO obstructed CA from accessing Trump's taxes and/or business financials with Jeffrey Epstein, Russia, and/or others, and so investigating the Editor of Uprights News immediately implicates Trump's businesses, and so the Editor can never and no longer be investigated per the DOJ, having been harmed by Trump's businesses, Epstein, Russia, GOP, Dems, and/or others for 24 years now and counting, which would be his defense for every and any investigation coming from Trump, Epstein's lawyers, Trump's lawyers, Russia's 2016 lawyers, and the like. Morrison England was linked to Joseph Dongo and our Editor's entrapment and RICO obstruction conspiracy 2013+, supra, and/or Dongo worked for one of Trump's businesses and recruited, infiltrated, and/or spied on our Editor, who had reached out to DOJ then about all of this, and then was entrapped and RICO obstructed thereafter -- weaponization of government to RICO obstruct Edge Foundation government contractors from being held accountable for tens of billions in government fraud, so the same was and still is RICO obstructed.
Then there is the Rosneft sanctions dropping and sale of 19.5% of Rosneft which ends up flowing through Glencore, Qatar, the Chinese, British Petroleum (who just dropped 19.5% of Rosneft), and then Qatar handed Trump a $400,000,000 or so private jet, in the context Trump was allegedly supposed to get a percent of the Rosneft deal, and so a $400 million-in-kind jet Trump can now sell, sounds about on par.
And that is linked to Mayflower Hotel and Trump's family, and Trump Tower meeting June or July 2016, and lots more, so if Trump's "businesses" can't be investigated, then neither can the Editor of Uprights News, ever again, says Bondi, but that was before she leaked "Trump's business interests" as the reason he stole files, and then Bondi was immediately fired to install Trump's business lawyer as the Attorney General, who will enforce that Trump, his entire crime syndicate harming the Editor of Uprights News can never be investigated is a conspiracy with Clarence Thomas and Aileen Cannon to RICO obstruct justice for the Editor of Uprights News, weaponizing the government against him again, for the 24th year in a row. And so we definitely applied for the anti-weaponization fund, and you can give us the whole thing, because you owe us so much more.
TRUMP TOOK GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS FOR "BUSINESS INTERESTS" FINDING EQUALS INTENT
Per Hans Jonsson's reporting, May 18, 2026, Trump took government documents for his "business interests", "You’ve heard about the Epstein files. Millions of documents. Celebrity names. Private jets. Islands. A mystery death in a “suicide-proof” cell. The story that ate the internet for weeks.
But here’s what we don’t talk about enough:
While everyone was arguing about which celebrity appeared on which flight manifest, a completely separate vault was being welded shut — one flight above the noise, one floor closer to actual power.
Jack Smith’s Volume 2.
Same era. Same administration. Same pattern of concealment. And possibly, the same reason.
What You Already Know (And What’s Missing From It)
When we first wrote about the Tale of Two Volumes back in June 2025, the story seemed almost comically absurd: a Special Counsel finishes a two-part report on a sitting president, Volume 1 comes out, Volume 2 disappears behind a judge’s order. We dressed it in Lord of the Rings costumes and called it a bedtime story.
It wasn’t a bedtime story.
It was the opening chapter of something much heavier.
Since then, the situation has evolved from “legally questionable” to “institutionally terrifying.” Here’s what we now know — all confirmed, all documented — that changes everything about how you should read this story.
The Three-Layer Framework: What’s Really In That Vault
Layer 1 — What’s the Obvious Answer? (Surface)
When the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 and found over 300 documents with classified markings — scattered in showers, closets, storage rooms — the obvious question was: Why did he take them?
The obvious answer the administration wanted you to accept: He forgot. Or it was bureaucratic confusion. Or the Biden DOJ was playing politics.
Volume 1 (the one they released) told us Trump probably would have been convicted for trying to overturn the election. Clear enough. Disturbing enough. Moving on?
No. Because Volume 2 is about something different — and far more specific.
Layer 2 — What Are We Missing? (The Blind Spot)
Here’s what leaked out — not because anyone wanted it to, but because the DOJ accidentally included sealed material in a document dump to Congress in March 2026, and Rep. Jamie Raskin caught it:
Finding #1: The documents were tied to his business interests.
Jack Smith’s office documented that “Trump possessed classified documents pertinent to his business interests — establishing a motive for retaining them.” This wasn’t about sentimental keepsakes. The theory of the crime was financial.
Finding #2: One document was classified at a level seen by only six people in the U.S. government.
Among the documents Trump retained were some so sensitive that only six people in the entire U.S. government had access to them. Six. The President, the Vice President, and four others. This is not the classification level of a routine defense memo. This is the level of “if this leaks, people die.”
Finding #3: A classified map was shown on a private plane.
Among the previously undisclosed information is evidence that Trump once shared a classified map with passengers traveling on his private plane — one of whom was Susie Wiles, his future White House Chief of Staff.
Finding #4: Nuclear submarine secrets were shared with a foreign national — who then shared them with 45 others.
Months after leaving the White House, Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with a member of his Mar-a-Lago Club — an Australian billionaire who then allegedly shared the information with scores of others, including more than a dozen foreign officials, several of his own employees, and a handful of journalists.
That Australian billionaire — Anthony Pratt — allegedly told investigators Trump revealed exact details about the capabilities of U.S. submarines, including how many nuclear warheads they routinely carry and exactly how close they can get to a Russian submarine without being detected.
Pratt then shared that information with 11 Australian officials, 10 foreign nationals, three former Australian prime ministers, and six journalists.
The information — if accurate — described the stealth capabilities of America’s most secretive weapons systems. To foreign officials. At a golf club. Over what we can only assume was a very expensive cocktail.
Finding #5: Iran military plans were shown to a biographer’s assistant.
Trump is accused by the special counsel of showing individuals on at least two other occasions sensitive government records after he left office, including a Defense Department memo allegedly containing classified information about plans for how the U.S. would attack Iran if it ever decided to do so. This happened during a meeting organized to help write a book about Mark Meadows.
He showed classified war plans to a book author. For a book. About someone else.
Layer 3 — What Question Should We Actually Be Asking? (The Reframe)
Here is the question nobody is asking loudly enough:
If the documents pertained to his business interests, and if his business interests included receiving $2 billion through his son-in-law’s fund from a Saudi sovereign wealth fund — what, exactly, was the exchange?
The timeline is not subtle:
June 2022: Trump allegedly shows a classified map to passengers on a private plane, including his future Chief of Staff
July 2022: Kushner’s new investment firm receives a $2 billion commitment from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund
August 2022: FBI raids Mar-a-Lago and finds 300+ classified documents
Rep. Raskin wrote: “This glimpse into the trove of evidence behind the coverup reveals a President of the United States who may have sold out our national security to enrich himself.”
These are documented facts. The thread between them has not been legally proven. But it is — as prosecutors put it — a motive.
The Epstein Connection: Not the One You’re Thinking Of
You came here asking: what does Volume 2 have in common with the Epstein files?
The answer isn’t a name on a list. It isn’t a shared location or a shared timeline.
The answer is structural.
Both cases follow an identical architecture of concealment:
In both cases: the most dangerous information is not what was released. It’s what they’re making sure you never see.
In both cases: the mechanism of concealment is legal, procedural, and therefore nearly invisible.
In both cases: the powerful agree across party lines that the public doesn’t need to know.
The Epstein files gave us a kompromat operation — powerful people compromised, behavior recorded, leverage maintained. The Epstein files made visible a system where information is the currency of power.
Volume 2 may be the receipt for the same transaction. At a higher level. With higher stakes. And without the lurid headlines to make it legible to ordinary people.
The Mechanics of the Disappearing Act
Let’s talk about how this actually works, because it’s more elegant than you think.
Step 1: Create a legal reason for secrecy. Judge Cannon blocks Volume 2 in January 2025, citing the pending cases against Nauta and De Oliveira. Plausible. Reasonable on its face.
Step 2: Remove the reason without releasing the information. The DOJ drops the charges against Nauta and De Oliveira in January 2025. The legal excuse — protecting their trial — evaporates. The report stays sealed anyway.
Step 3: Make the concealment permanent before anyone can object. Judge Aileen Cannon permanently barred release of Jack Smith’s classified documents report one day before it was set to become public following the expiration of a temporary injunction. One day.
Step 4: Have everyone agree it should stay buried. Both Bondi’s DOJ and Trump’s legal team agreed the report should never be released, calling Smith’s work “unlawful from its inception.” The DOJ called the report something that “belongs in the dustbin of history.” Trump’s lawyers asked Cannon to block “current, former and future” Justice Department officials from ever releasing it.
Step 5: Accuse transparency advocates of partisanship. When Rep. Raskin caught that the DOJ had accidentally included sealed material in their own document dump, a DOJ spokesperson called Raskin’s claims “baseless” and called his letter “a cheap political stunt almost as if taking cues from members of the corrupt Jack Smith prosecution team.”
The people who accidentally released the sealed information called the person who noticed it politically motivated.
That’s the architecture. Legal scaffolding. Procedural camouflage. Institutional consensus.
The Accidental Confession
Here is the part that deserves its own paragraph, its own breath, its own moment of silence:
The DOJ — while trying to build a case against Jack Smith, trying to prove he was politically biased and illegally appointed — accidentally handed Congress the evidence that most clearly describes what Trump was hiding.
The evidence against Donald Trump collected by Jack Smith and memorialized in his records is so damning that even DOJ’s carefully curated production cannot fully excise findings that the President sold out national security to advance his own business interests.
They handed Raskin the receipt while trying to burn the filing cabinet.
And what was Raskin’s response? Not a press conference. Not a viral moment. A letter to Pam Bondi. A letter that called out, with precise legal language, the exact contradiction:
The DOJ appears to view the judicial order as rules for thee — Jack Smith — but not for me.
The Cannon order forbids releasing Volume 2. The DOJ simultaneously cited that order to gag Smith while producing documents to Congress that appear to violate that same order — when it served their political purposes.
One rule for investigators. No rules for the investigated.
A Monty Python Interlude (Because We Need to Breathe)
Scene: A courtroom. A gavel. A Very Official Judge in Very Official Robes.
JUDGE CANNON: The report shall not be released.
PUBLIC: Why?
JUDGE CANNON: Because the defendants haven’t been found guilty.
PUBLIC: But the charges were dropped.
JUDGE CANNON: Correct. They are innocent. Therefore, the evidence of what they did shall be sealed forever.
PUBLIC: That’s... not how evidence works?
JUDGE CANNON: The report belongs in the dustbin of history.
DOJ (helpfully): We agree.
TRUMP’S LAWYERS: We’d like the dustbin burned.
PUBLIC: You’re releasing other parts of the investigation to attack the investigator —
DOJ: That’s different.
PUBLIC: How?
DOJ: That part helps us. This part doesn’t.
PUBLIC: Ah.
The gavel falls. The vault closes. Someone orders a very nice lunch.
What the Facts Actually Say, No Spin
Let’s lay it flat:
Confirmed:
300+ classified documents were found at Mar-a-Lago during an FBI search
Jack Smith’s team documented that at least some documents were tied to Trump’s business interests
One document had a distribution list of six people in the entire U.S. government
A classified map was allegedly shown to passengers on a private plane, including Susie Wiles, now White House Chief of Staff
Trump allegedly shared details about nuclear submarine capabilities with an Australian billionaire, who shared that information with 45 others, including foreign government officials
Trump allegedly showed Iran war plans to a biographer’s assistant
Volume 2 was permanently sealed on February 23, 2026 — one day before it was scheduled to become public
The DOJ accidentally included sealed material in a document production intended to attack Jack Smith
All parties — Trump’s lawyers, his DOJ, and Judge Cannon — agreed the report should never be released
Not proven:
That any classified information was deliberately sold or exchanged for money
That the Saudi investment in Kushner’s fund was connected to any specific documents
What exactly Volume 2 concludes about motive, method, or damage to national security
The gap between those two columns is Volume 2.
Why This Is More Concerning Than the Epstein Files
The Epstein files gave us names. Famous names. Outrageous behavior. The moral horror of what happened to the victims. These things matter — enormously.
But the Epstein files, for all their weight, describe a private criminal enterprise. A network of individuals. A system of blackmail and leverage operating alongside official power.
Volume 2 describes something potentially different: official power being used — allegedly — to serve private financial interests. Not a side operation. Not a parallel network. The President of the United States, with access to the most sensitive secrets on Earth, allegedly retaining documents tied to his own business deals while showing nuclear secrets to a foreign national at a golf club.
The Epstein files are about what happens in the shadows alongside power.
Volume 2 may be about what happens inside it.
That’s why it’s sealed.
That’s why everyone agrees it should stay sealed.
That’s why the DOJ called it a document that “belongs in the dustbin of history.”
History, in this formulation, is what they bury.
What We Should Be Watching
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has pending motions from American Oversight and the Knight First Amendment Institute. They’re fighting to force release through FOIA law. They are, as of now, the last legal avenue.
American Oversight said Cannon’s ruling “continues a troubling pattern of decisions that shield the president from public scrutiny and place secrecy above the public’s right to know.” “American taxpayers funded this investigation, and they have a right to know what their government uncovered, particularly on matters of national security.”
That appeal is still moving. It has not been decided. It matters.
Watch it.
The Closing Thought: On What They Don’t Say
The Epstein files taught us something important: the noise — the celebrity names, the speculation, the viral outrage — is often the distraction from the signal.
The signal in the Epstein files was: a private intelligence-style operation, running for decades, apparently protected by powerful institutions, used to collect leverage on powerful people.
The signal in Volume 2 may be: a sitting president, allegedly using the most classified information on Earth as a business asset, while the institution designed to investigate him is captured by the people he appointed.
Both signals point to the same thing:
Power protects itself. Law becomes the shield instead of the sword. And the most important information — the kind that explains everything — is the information they make structurally impossible to read.
This is not a conspiracy theory. It’s a documented pattern.
The question isn’t whether something is being hidden.
The question is whether we’re paying attention to the right vault.
Pay attention. Do your best. Pay it forward."