Here’s Who Helped Arrest Prince Andrew
Here’s all you need to know about Prince Andrew, Epstein—and Trump
This morning, British police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor—the former Prince Andrew—over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. At 3am local time, 6 unmarked police vehicles arrived at Andrew’s residence on King Charles’ Sandringham estate.
Take that in: a member of the British royal family is now in custody because of the Epstein files.
But here’s what the billionaire press won’t say: this arrest happened because independent media refused to let the Epstein story die. While they tried to convince you it was a minor news story, we kept digging through the horror of what Jeffrey Epstein built in Palm Beach. A systematic operation that trafficked young women to the world’s most powerful men.
Prince Andrew’s arrest proves what I’ve been saying for years: reader-funded journalism can achieve what billionaire newsrooms refuse to attempt.
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The Damning Evidence They Ignored
The Epstein files reveal Prince Andrew wasn’t just a social acquaintance of a financier. He was an active participant in what amounted to a criminal conspiracy.
Within minutes—minutes—of receiving confidential trade reports from a Southeast Asia trip in 2010, Andrew forwarded them to Epstein. He shared “confidential briefs” on Afghanistan investment opportunities while British soldiers were dying there. He invited Epstein to dine at Buckingham Palace, promising “lots of privacy.”
The files contain photographs showing Andrew in compromising positions and years of business discussions about using his “aura and access” for financial gain. He paid Virginia Giuffre $16 million to make her lawsuit disappear. A woman who died by suicide last year, never seeing justice.
Corporate media had access to every single document. They chose not to connect these dots because their cocktail party friends were implicated in the same web of corruption.
Mainstream media had the same evidence we did. But they serve power, not readers. We’re people-powered. We’ll never let the big stories die. Please consider upgrading your subscription today.
The Palm Beach Horror They Won’t Describe
Let’s be clear about what Jeffrey Epstein was running: a trafficking operation that destroyed the lives of young women. From his Palm Beach mansion, he orchestrated a system that recruited teenagers under the guise of massage work, then trafficked them to men like Prince Andrew.
These weren’t “escorts” or “masseuses.” They were kids. Epstein’s victims described a surveillance system, controlled environments, and a network that used money, gifts, and drugs to maintain compliance. They described being “presented” to powerful men at parties, including events where Trump was present.
Corporate media sanitizes this with euphemisms because they think the truth is too uncomfortable. Independent media calls it what it was: systematic sexual exploitation of minors by some of the world’s most powerful men.
Trump’s Million Mentions
Here’s another fact the billionaire press buried: Donald Trump’s name appears over one million times in the unredacted Epstein files, according to Rep. Jamie Raskin who has access to the full documents. In the publicly released files alone, Trump and his properties are mentioned over 38,000 times.
38,000 times.
The files reveal that in 2006, Trump called Palm Beach police to say “everyone has known he’s been doing this” about Epstein. Yet Trump continued socializing with Epstein for years afterward. FBI documents contain unverified assault allegations against Trump, including claims involving a 13-year-old victim.
Corporate media mentioned these revelations once, then moved on.
Why Independent Media Made This Possible
While CNN treated Epstein as yesterday’s news, independent journalists kept the pressure on. A citizen journalist created the searchable database at epsteinsearch.info so ordinary people could investigate the 3.5 million documents for themselves. Reader-funded outlets kept connecting the financial networks, the flight logs, the compromising photographs.
We promoted the Epstein story, day in, day out. We kept the story alive when corporate outlets wanted it to disappear. We refused to let Epstein’s victims be forgotten while powerful men hoped everyone would move on.
Even now, with Prince Andrew in custody, the cover-up continues. The Justice Department released only half the Epstein files, violating federal law. Trump’s DOJ redacted over 96% of his mentions in the public release. Hundreds of pages remain completely blacked out.
Corporate outlets mention these redactions, but don’t dig into them.
Independent media refuses to accept managed disclosure. Every subscription to Raw America funds journalists who treat evidence as more important than access, who serve readers instead of shareholders.
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P.S. Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre never lived to see this arrest. She died by suicide last year, another casualty of a system that protects powerful predators.
The corporate outlets that ignored her story for decades will now pretend they’ve been covering it all along. Don’t let them rewrite history. You know who did the work to make today possible. Now help us finish it.