Michael Tracey
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 20 Feb
Michael Tracey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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frenzy insofar as claims around such things as truly grotesque child sacrifice, mutilation of infants, bathing toddlers in blood, all the most nightmarish scenarios you could possibly dream up were alleged in the 1980s.
And
taken deadly seriously by the authorities, resulting in, as you alluded to, a good number of people actually being thrown in prison for many years.
And it was found to be just a gigantic hoax.
But maybe a more apt parallel that also would have been apt even before this latest record production is that the satanic panic frenzy of the 1980s was ultimately...
concluded to have originated really with one woman who was just straightforwardly mentally ill, delusional, needed to essentially be institutionalized, and yet she would make claims about child sex abuse that the authorities countenanced or gave credence to.
And there's a similar thing going on with the Epstein mythology.
Now, when I mention the Epstein mythology, I'm not talking about the 2007-2008 Florida non-prosecution agreement or that whole scenario that Sager brought up in piecemeal before.
That's a different element of this whole story.
The mythology developed later.
mostly around 2014 with the introduction of these new claims by Virginia Roberts Gufray and her lawyers, Bradley Edwards, Paul Cassell, later David Boies, in which she alleged that she had been child sex trafficked around the world and that she knew that Epstein enforced this child sex trafficking operation via blackmail.
And also she made specific allegations against three particular individuals, Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, John Luke Brunel.
And then also she accused a generic category of other high profile persons who she didn't specify as also victimizing her like prime ministers and politicians and presidents and so forth.
So that's basically the origin of what I would call the mythology, which
is just sort of a different order or magnitude than the initial Palm Beach prosecution, which was effectively a local crime.
But in terms of the parallel to the Satanic Panic,
Virginia Roberts Kufre was a profoundly disturbed, mentally unwell person who was validated and legitimized and now continues to be celebrated as some kind of martyr for truth, even though if anybody had used a lick of discernment as to her claims, it would have been found that she could not be treated so credulously.
Maybe she needed some help, but this idea that she would
be the basis for this global scandal that's rocking all these countries.
It's just outrageous.
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