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A poster showing Jeffrey Epstein and US President Donald Trump with the text in Greenlandic \u201cNO PEDO\u201d is displayed on a bus stop shelter in Nuuk, Greenland, on January 24, 2026. (Jonathan Nackstrand\/AFP)<\/p><\/div>\n
By Elis Gjevori
\nMiddle East Eye<\/p>\n
A declassified FBI memo from the Epstein files, released on Friday, includes incendiary allegations about US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
The memo says that Trump was \u201ccompromised by\u00a0Israel<\/a>\u201d, that convicted paedophile\u00a0Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>\u00a0worked with Israeli intelligence, and that a Jewish religious group calling itself Chabad-Lubavitch\u00a0sought to hijack his first term in office.<\/p>\n The memo, written in 2020, formed part of an FBI investigation into domestic or foreign influence over the US electoral process. It draws on information from a confidential human source (CHS) and appears among a vast trove of Epstein-related files released by the US Justice Department.<\/p>\n \u201cCHS advised Chabad is doing everything they can to co-opt the Trump presidency,\u201d the memo states regarding\u00a0his first term.<\/p>\n Chabad-Lubavitch, a religious Jewish sect founded in Russia, has grown to an estimated 90,000 members. Its messianic, ultra-Orthodox ideology has repeatedly been linked to hardline settler colonial politics in Palestine.<\/p>\n The memo also cites Berel Lazar, a Chabad member and the former chief rabbi of Russia, describing him as a close adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n \u201cChabad is basically state-sanctioned Judaism. It is used by Putin to keep tabs on all the Russo-Jewish oligarchs,\u201d the FBI memo adds.<\/p>\n It identifies Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as a supporter of the group and a key force within Trump\u2019s inner circle.<\/p>\n \u201cOn the day Trump was elected President, Ivanka Trump and Jared [Kushner] were at the gravesite of Rabbi Schneersom [sic] who was the most powerful Rabbi in the Chabad network,\u201d the memo states.<\/p>\n The source goes further, saying: \u201cTrump has been compromised by Israel. And Kushner is the real brains behind his organization and his Presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n The memo also says Epstein worked with US and foreign intelligence. \u201cCHS became convinced Epstein was a co-opted Mossad Agent,\u201d it says, pointing to prior FBI reporting.<\/p>\n \u201cEpstein was close to the former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, and trained as a spy under him,\u201d the memo adds.<\/p>\n Epstein and Barak had a decade-long relationship. Barak,\u00a0who was also a senior Israeli military intelligence figure earlier in his career,\u00a0visited Epstein\u2019s New York town house more than 30 times between 2013 and 2017.<\/p>\n In one email exchange, Epstein wrote to Barak: \u201cyou should make clear that i\u00a0dont work for mossad. :)\u201d Barak replied: \u201cYou or I?\u201d Epstein responded: \u201cthat I dont :)\u201d.<\/p>\n The document links those claims to Epstein\u2019s 2008 plea deal, describing an alleged conversation involving his lawyer, pro-Israeli academic Alan Derschowitz, and then-federal prosecutor Alex Acosta, who was told Epstein \u201cbelonged to intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n The FBI files reveal that according to CHS, Derschowitz\u00a0himself had “been co-opted by Mossad and subscribed to their mission”.<\/p>\n