Important Insights into the New Epstein Files Release - Interview with James Corbett, February 2026

18.02.2026 | www.kla.tv/40369

Interviewer: We're joined today by the groundbreaking investigative journalist and author who has spent the past two decades putting mainstream media narratives into the bigger context, showing the bigger picture of the world. It's great to have you back, James Corbett. James Corbett: Glad to be here, thank you for having me. Interviewer: Well James, I'd love to ask you a few questions about the latest Epstein file release. And maybe to start off this, how do you evaluate the credibility of this latest file release with the three million files? James Corbett: I, for one, Well, that's an interesting question, actually, because I was inclined to say that I do not question the credibility of what has been released, but I mean that in a specific context. I believe that these really are documents that the DOJ has on file and has been working with that are related to the Epstein case. But having said that, there are, of course, some of the most sensational claims and ideas from these files do not stem directly from, say, Jeffrey Epstein's personal internal emails. It's more like this is an anonymous tip that the FBI received from some anonymous person, and it's presented in a document, and it's... I understand to the average person who's just digging through and taking a look here and there, they'll see an FBI document with a rather salacious claim on it and will immediately say, oh, look, here is proof from the FBI that such and such an event occurred when actually what they are looking at is just an anonymous tip that may or may not have been investigated and may or may not have any credibility at all. So the evidence itself is credible in the sense that, yes, it's really a document that I trust really did come from the DOJ. But that doesn't mean that it actually represents the truth. And once you start digging into details like that, you start to see that, yes, in a way they could be releasing actual documents, but some of those documents may not only not get us closer to the truth, they may actually distract us from the truth. Interviewer: Right. James Corbett: So the idea that this could, is in some way, some form of limited hangout is, I think by definition true, since we know we only have about half of the 6 million pages or so of documents in the DOJ's Epstein files, at least what they admit to. We know that we have only received half of that. So we know that this is a limited hangout of some variety. But I have noticed that there are those in the independent media who will poo-poo the entire thing, everything that is contained in here. And generally from what I've seen from people who have not spent a single second looking through any of these files or weighing the evidence with regards to any of the documents. I wish it were that easy to simply dismiss this, say it's a distraction and move on to something else where I don't have to actually sift through documents and do reporting. But unfortunately, reality is such that generally we actually do have to dedicate a serious effort to understanding, reporting, connecting dots, finding documents and determining the actual worth or lack thereof of those documents and the evidence they contain. That's a lot of work. And I understand why a lot of people don't want to engage in it. So I certainly do think that there is valuable information to be gleaned from these documents, even though I am sure it is not the bottom of the Epstein rabbit hole. Interviewer: Right, and you've been starting to do that and published a lot about it already. And so maybe to start out with with the content of those files, one of the probably most horrendous and terrifying parts of the files is what you titled as „Epstein's Black Market in Babies“. Can you tell us briefly what that is about? James Corbett: So there are unfortunately disturbing pieces of these files, documents, etc. that do indicate that at the very least, again, it's not like there is definitive proof here, but there are multiple accusations of Epstein and Maxwell and potentially others using some of these women, these victims, as human incubators. And we even have that, for example, from one particularly disturbing document that I have, that in fact, it was a series of documents of journals of someone who was a victim who was undergoing therapy after having been victimized by Epstein, who was leaving detailed journal entries in cryptic code about being used as a human incubator. It's talking about flushing the fetus down the toilet and other such truly reprehensible things. And so when these things are combined together, it certainly does paint a picture. And it certainly does paint a picture when combined with some of the other reporting that we've known for some time now. Last year, I had an extensive article up on „Epstein eugenics, the plan to seed the human race“, talking about that that bit of the Epstein story that did come out in 2019, at least a little bit, but was never really thoroughly reported on. Talking about the many people who had said that Epstein had talked about seeding the human race with his genes in some sort of bizarre breeding project that he was trying to operate out of his Zorro ranch in New Mexico. And I did some reporting on that last year, talking about the very, very many connections between Epstein and eugenics and various scientists, the scientific community. And we have more of that, those pieces of that puzzle coming out, not only with the black market babies story and whatever that might indicate about the actual selling of some of these babies, but also in the correspondence between Epstein and some of the researchers out there who are literally working on cloning, including human cloning and other such things that were talked about in Epstein's personal correspondence. So there's definitely a bigger, bigger story here that I still haven't seen a lot of people reporting on. Interviewer: Wow, now I'm just going to move on to the next thing already because we only have a short time, which would be, could you briefly explain to us what is Pizzagate and what do these new Epstein files tell us about Pizzagate? James Corbett: So back during the 2016 presidential selection race in the United States, people might remember that Hillary Clinton's chief of staff at the time, John Podesta, was spear phished. Essentially, he received an email to his Gmail account saying, your account is being hacked from Ukraine, so you better go change your password and providing a link. And Podesta, being the idiot that he is, apparently asked his IT team, is this legitimate? And they said yes. And so he went and changed his password. And lo and behold, we have the hack of the Podesta emails. Or at least that's the story that we've gotten about where that hack of emails came from. Whatever the case may be, in that email trench is where certain people started to find evidence of a code of sorts, where pizza was apparently being used in some sort of cryptic reference scheme towards some sort of pedophile sex ring. And this was tied back to a pizza parlor in Washington, D.C. And there are a lot of strange strange connections and strange social media posts and other such things in that story. But people may or may not remember that story from about a decade ago, which culminated in an actual shooting taking place at that pizza parlor as someone came in, convinced he was going to uncover the whole incident and ended up shooting a server with a bullet somehow and getting arrested. And from that point on, of course, any discussion of Pizzagate was absolutely derided as total deranged conspiracy theory, theorizing of the worst sort and probably part of some sort of Russian election interference campaign or something along those lines. At least that was the way that it was portrayed in the mainstream media and and lovingly aped by people in certain online fora, like Reddit and other very establishment internet locales, until this latest release of Epstein emails, which shows, again, a strange compulsion of Epstein and his correspondence to talk about and evaluate pizza in extremely odd and puzzling ways that don't make sense if you are talking about literal food. I pointed out some of them in the recent article I wrote, 10 Things I Learned from the Epstein Files, where I link to some of the message chains that Epstein was involved in, where people were talking about butt pizza and things like this. The pizza monster. Talking about a pregnant woman and that's the pizza and things along these lines. Again, people can look into this for themselves and see that there certainly seems to be a strange code of some sort going on here. And perhaps, I suppose, Epstein's defenders, if such people exist, could say that this is maybe those people taking up this strange internet's crazy conspiracy theory and making light of it, or something along those those lines. But I would invite people to take a look through the emails themselves and come to their own conclusion about what these many, many, many references to pizza and grape soda, „only you and I will know what that means“ and and other such cryptic references might mean. Interviewer: Now, which persons within Epstein's network stand out to you as especially noteworthy? I know that's a hard one. There are many, but pick the one or two best. James Corbett: There are way too many. Yeah. No, it's an excellent question because we do need to start looking at individuals and the way that they're connected. And one that I just randomly stumbled upon was Kathy Ruemmler, which was not a name that was in my mental Rolodex. I had never really thought about Kathy Ruemmler or who is this person. But I did point in my episode on this just last week, I pointed out that there was a correspondence between Epstein and this Kathy Ruemmler talking about the possibility of genetically engineering pigs to have non-cloven hoofs so they would be kosher and thus, I guess, edible by Jews and Muslims, I guess. Something along those lines. It was just such a strange email that I pointed it out. And from that, I started to follow the thread of, well, who is this Kathy Ruemmler? Well, as it turns out, she was a she was in the Obama administration back in the early two thousand ten‘s. Until she was forced out or she she left to to go into private practice and ended up at Goldman Sachs as, I believe, a legal assistant or lawyer on their team and was apparently at one point being considered to go back into the Obama administration as the attorney general. But apparently that didn't pan out because, as it turns out, she had been involved in that. Remember that story about in Colombia, there were some secret service agents and other White House officials who had gone ahead of the Obama administration at some conference or something that was taking place in Colombia and they all got busted for escorts and prostitutes etc. Well apparently some of the latest correspondence shows that Kathy Ruemmler was involved in that and in covering up what had happened there etc. and was consulting with Epstein on PR advice about how to handle the PR fallout from this etc. So again, there's some weird connections going on there. Long story short, apparently Goldman Sachs has just sacked Kathy Ruemmler from their legal team. Interviewer: Bizarre. James Corbett: We've heard, of course, by now about Peter Mandelson, the ex-British ambassador to the US from the UK, who had to give up his seat in the House of Lords over the disgrace that's happened right now. And now there are questions about current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and what he knew and when and why he overlooked what was already known about the Mandelson-Epstein relationship. Of course, though, I would think that probably of more relevance are Epstein's ties to Israeli intelligence of various sorts. For example, his hosting, Ehud Barak's personal assistant, and a former Israeli military intelligence officer in his Manhattan apartment for weeks at a time, along with Epstein's many, many, many relations to the Israeli government, to Ehud Barak, to various deals that were being done. There was the cryptic, or the interesting, not even cryptic, very out in the open reference that Epstein made to Peter Thiel saying that, „as you know, I'm a representative of the Rothschilds.“ Was that meant in jest or was that meant seriously? Well, he certainly did have a relationship with the Rothschilds, both Ariane de Rothschild of the Swiss Rothschild family in particular, as well as the Rothschild group generally. I can't remember particularly which banking arm it was, but one which he had a $20 million dollars contract with, handling some of their funds. So again, there's that whole thread to unravel. And then there's Epstein's many, many ties to the big tech broligarchs like Elon Musk, like Reid Hoffman, people of that ilk. And now we get to watch Musk and Hoffman tweeting at each other in some tweet war about who is more guilty in the Epstein files, interestingly. And there is, as I said before, that interesting connection between Epstein and a whole host of scientists and people of interesting background. Of course, the big name scientists like Stephen Hawking, but also some interesting scientists like George Church, who probably most people don't know, but is probably one of the current operating scientist who is most closely associated with modern day eugenics. So again, there's there's a lot to explore. And unfortunately, it is too much for any one person to handle or to synthesize, which is why I think this has to be part of a collective open source effort to really start reporting on these different data points. Interviewer: And why do you think the establishment, like the US government, put out these files right now? Who benefits from that? James Corbett: Well, yeah again, since we know that at least half of the tranche of documents has not been released, then the real question is what has not been released and why has that not been released? I think that's probably the more operative side of the question because there's no doubt that putting out literally millions and millions of pages of documents even if they are all 100% true, well, here you go, here's the tidal wave. And I think that if there is a strategy here, it may be the tidal wave strategy. Here's a tidal wave of documents. Of course, it's not the half of the documents that we want to keep to ourselves, but here's half. It's a few million pages, have fun. And some people will fall under the bus, but the oligarchy itself will survive. That might be one of the factors at play. Of course, this is all speculative because I am not privy to whatever decisions are being made on the inside of all of this, but it certainly seems that there is a at the very least, a sort of flood the zone technique that is being deployed here, where they are trying to put out so much information that, in a sense it will overwhelm people who are trying to put these pieces together. I think to the extent that this is a coordinated or crafted plan, I would assume that that is the strategy that's being employed rather than asking, why are they putting it out now? It's more, why are they putting it out in this way? And what are we expected to do with that information? Interviewer: Wonderful. Maybe one last question, because there are the the believers in QAnon and that secret military operation handling Trump. They're really happy about this because this proves that QAnon is right and Trump is our man and he is draining the swamp, he's exposing the establishment. What I mean, what do we know about Trump being complicit or implicated in this and what is your statement, what would you say to these QAnon followers? James Corbett: I have certainly seen the online chatter about QAnon was right. And so I am tempted to say QAnon was wrong, but that's not even correct. I would say QAnon was right in the exact same way a broken clock is right twice a day, insofar as it is incidentally right about some of the things that may have been claimed under the rubric of this QAnon operation, whatever that was. But QAnon was wrong about many, many, many, many very specific identifiable things that were said, at least under the name of that QAnon account, originally on 4chan and then 8chan and wherever else it ended up online. And I went through that in my documentary on hopium, „A brief history of hopium“. So if people want to find out about the details of that, go to CorbettReport.com/hopium. And I go through some, just a few of the very specific things that were completely wrong, going right back to, of course, the very first Q drop, so-called, on 4chan that was talking about how „Hillary Clinton was under arrest, guys, and everything's going down and it's all happening on such and such a date.“ And guess what happened on that date? Absolutely nothing. And they were wrong over and over and over about all of those specific predictions of various people being arrested at various times and it's over, the deep state is is done, et cetera. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong again, wrong on every count. Only right when QAnon broke the news about Epstein. For example, just one example, at least three years after I reported about Epstein in a 2015 podcast I had about political pedophilia where I was talking about Epstein and the Prince Andrew story and everything at that time, But I certainly take no credit for breaking that story because there were people like Nick Bryant, who's been on this case for decades and was in fact the person who actually released the Black Book and the flight logs in the first place, online. So people like that were right. Nick Bryant was right. QAnon just happened to pick up and regurgitate some of those pieces of information that it took from other people. And now people are saying QAnon was right. That is wrong. And QAnon was wrong about everything important that QAnon was claiming about the white hats on the inside who are coming to save the day and „don't worry guys, Trump 1.0 back in 2016, 17, that's the end of the deep state and we don't have to worry about this anymore. The good guys have taken over.“ Oh wait, that was all total nonsense, total rubbish meant to keep the people placated and to stop them from actually demanding justice. And so I hope that the real thing that we learned from this is QAnon was wrong about everything that mattered and was only right when it was plagiarizing the work of real researchers. Interviewer: Great. Where would you send people like the two or three best independent resources to understand the Epstein network and Epstein himself better? James Corbett: I would definitely say that people should be familiar with the work of Whitney Webb. She, of course, wrote the two-volume „One Nation Under Blackmail“, which is well over a thousand pages of densely worded and and extensively footnoted information, with literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of references and links pointing to, not only to the Epstein story, but the window into the larger idea of blackmail and espionage and underworld of crime and organized crime and how these things tie into political machinery, et cetera. It's an incredibly documented voluminous work. And from there, of course, if people are interested, they can check out, of course, not only Whitney Webb's work at Unlimited Hangout, but my interviews with her on this subject. And if I may toot my own horn a little bit, Interviewer: Sure James Corbett: I would again send people to not only my recent podcast episode, an article on this subject about what I learned from the Epstein files, but also that previous recording I was talking about with regards to Epstein eugenics, the plan to seed the human race. Because again, I think that's an incredibly important part of this. that hasn't been adequately explored. But one other exploration research that I think deserves highlighting is a recent post by Sayer Ji of GreenMedInfo, who was doing the deep dive on these new Epstein documents and what they show about the Epstein / Gates / Rockefeller nexus in the pandemic infrastructure that was being set up in the 2000s and the 2010s. And there are documents in this new release of documents that are that show more about how that came together and how pandemics were weaponized and financialized in order to make a lot of money for certain well-placed individuals. So that's an incredibly important research project that Sayer Ji has been undertaking there. Interviewer: Well, thank you very much, James, for this dense information. We'll definitely link all of that below the video so everybody can go do his own deep dive into this, as you said before. Thanks so much for coming on and sharing your insights into this. James Corbett: Thank you.

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Sources/Links: James Corbett’s recent article and episode on the Epstein files: https://corbettreport.com/10-things-i-learned-from-the-epstein-files/
https://corbettreport.com/what-i-learned-from-the-epstein-files/
Epstein Eugenics: The Plan to Seed the Human Race https://corbettreport.com/epstein-eugenics-the-plan-to-seed-the-human-race/
A brief History of Hopium https://corbettreport.com/hopium/
Whitney Webb’s work: Books: One Nation Under Blackmail Vol. 1 and 2 https://unlimitedhangout.com/author/whitney-webb/
Sayer Ji’s deep dive on the pandemic infrastructure laid out in the Epstein files: https://x.com/sayerjigmi/status/2018374717426503946
Epstein Files from the DOJ: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-publishes-35-million-responsive-pages-compliance-epstein-files
https://www.justice.gov/epstein
Related Information from Kla.TV: https://www.kla.tv/JeffreyEpstein-en
https://www.kla.tv/SatanicRitualAbuse-en
James Corbett’s Book Reportage: https://reportagebook.com/