🌊 Breaking Down Viral Claims About Epstein: Part 2

Did Bill Gates get STDs from a Russian hooker? Is Epstein playing Fortnite in Israel? Was he Israel’s fixer?

This is Part 2 of a two-part series on the wildest Epstein claims. If you missed Part 1 – about Epstein winning the New Mexico lottery and leaving prison before his death – read it here.

“What did we learn about Israel and Jeffrey Epstein in the latest file dump?”

That’s the type of question the modern news landscape fails to answer. Legacy outlets won’t touch it, and alternative sources – podcasters, TikTokers, and X influencers – will mishandle it. But it’s a question many Americans are asking.

The gap between what legacy media covers and what Americans are talking about has allowed a massive conspiracy ecosystem to flourish. It’s an ecosystem that thrives on clickbaity hooks like “they’re lying to you!” or “what we just learned is SHOCKING,” and refuses to tolerate any nuanced, complex, or boring viewpoint. It’s an ecosystem that rewards sloppy, unrepentant conspiracy peddlers like Candace Owens who hide behind the veil of “just asking questions” to promote their lucrative nonsense.

On that note, has she discovered who killed Charlie Kirk yet? She’s published ~50 consecutive episodes on his death, netting her seven figures in revenue, and seems to be further from the truth than when she started. It’s amazing and damning for the media ecosystem that she’s grown her audience while pushing theories like “he time traveled!” and botching the most basic concepts in aviation, ballistics, and the English language (check out the account “Candace Owens trying to read” on X).

It’s in this ecosystem that the latest Epstein files have spawned countless conspiracy theories and resurfaced some classics like “Pizzagate.” Pizzagate was the conspiracy that Democratic leaders operated a child sex ring in the basement of Comet pizzeria in Washington, DC. The theory originated with WikiLeaks and culminated with a man driving to Comet to rescue kids from the basement. It turns out there weren’t kids there – or a basement – but he shot it up anyway. After that, even many of the truthers abandoned that one.

But now it’s back! Tucker Carlson just posted an interview with – ironically – a former pizza delivery worker and conspiracy connoisseur Ian Carroll titled, “It looks like Pizzagate is basically real. Ian Carroll explains.” We’ve documented some of the numerous lies and comically false predictions Ian Carroll has made before and don’t have the time to go into this one.

Side note: It is strange that pizza was referenced hundreds of times in the Epstein files, like in emails like this: “This is better than a Chinese cookie… lets go for pizza and grape soda again. No one else can understand.” Or in ones like the below screenshot:

These are strange emails, and it is possible that “pizza” was a code word that some of Epstein’s guests used, and it’s possible that he used it himself. But in what way does this validate Pizzagate? We couldn’t say it better than @realmaddox:

Oh man, the pizzagate people totally got it right! Other than the location, people involved, methods, communication channels, victims, timelines or any verifiable details whatsoever. People were laughing at them back then, but who’s laughing now? Literally everyone, dorks.

In this deep-dive, we look at three more claims that actually have some more substance to them: Bill Gates and STDs, Epstein and Fortnite in Israel, and Epstein as a Mossad agent.

Starting with Bill Gates.