Watching the writhing system deflect, distract, threaten world order….

SPECIAL REPORT: DOJ Memo: “Michael Cohen has heard Trump say things about Epstein”

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Zev Shalev, Ellie Leonard, Lev Parnas, and Dean Blundell

Jan 14, 2026Subscribe

MICHAEL COHEN AND THE EPSTEIN FILES

Investigative journalist Ellie Leonard broke major news on today’s show about Michael Cohen’s previously unknown connections to Jeffrey Epstein’s network. Leonard, who has been meticulously combing through the Epstein files, discovered that Cohen was working on Epstein-related matters as early as 2003 – years before his official role as Trump’s personal attorney. According to Leonard’s analysis of the documents, Cohen was involved in the same kind of catch and kill operations he later executed for Trump with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. Blundell observed that Cohen’s pattern was consistent across cases, handling these matters with the same playbook. The discovery raises significant questions about the depth of Trump’s knowledge of Epstein’s activities and when that relationship really began. Leonard explained that Cohen was Trump’s fixer during a critical period when Trump and Epstein were allegedly involved together in the Katie Johnson case.

https://www.narativ.org/p/special-report-doj-memo-michael-cohen

And of Greenland, Nev Shalev writes on Substack today:

Back in April, I exposed how Vladimir Putin —not Trump— laid the groundwork for this crisis. My piece, “Putin’s Arctic Narrative,” revealed how he reframed Trump’s Greenland ambitions as a justified continuation of American history—cherry-picking the 1860s and glossing over Russia’s Arctic Council expulsion after Ukraine.