Published : 06 Apr 2026, 03:18 PM
Mukhriz bin Mahathir, a Malaysian politician, businessman and son of former Malaysian ruler Mahathir Mohammad has raised several questions about the classified documents released regarding notorious US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
He asked why Epstein had created such an exhaustive permanent record of his own crimes and what should be done with those documents now.
Mukhriz gave his own answer to the first question while placing the second before the world.
In his post, Mukhriz said: “The Jeffrey Epstein files. Three million documents, 2,000 videos, 180,000 images. It’s an almost incomprehensible amount of material. The question we have to ask is: "Why?" Why would anyone create such an exhaustive permanent record of their own crimes?”
“The scale of it gives us the answer. This wasn’t just a record of one man’s depravity; it was a catalogue of the corruption of the global elite. The files named names: billionaires, foreign dignitaries, princes, academicians, top diplomats, and yes, former and sitting presidents of the United States.”
The demand for the release of these documents has been rising since Donald Trump's Republican government came to power. Later, a section of the file was made public by then US attorney general Pamela Bondi. Epstein is accused of trafficking in sex slaves and supplying sex slaves to influential people. It is alleged that illegal activities were carried out in his luxurious mansion on a private island. Minor girls and even children were alleged to have been abused sexually.
Guests from around the world would fly to the island on Epstein's private jet. The guest list included many influential people, including US President Donald Trump, former US president Bill Clinton, Stephen Hawking and Michael Jackson.
Mukhriz, who served as the 11th and 13th Menteri Besar (first minister) of Kedah from May 2013 to February 2016 and again from May 2018 to May 2020, deputy minister of international trade and industry in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration, said in the TikTok post: “We’ve seen the lewd emails, the sexually explicit letters, the incriminating pictures, but this goes far beyond compromising material. A UN report on the Epstein files documents evidence of sexual slavery, torture, and crimes against children, including murder.”
“So, we return to the central question: Why record it all? The hidden cameras on his island, Little Saint James, weren't for personal gratification. They were a tool. Epstein was building a library of leverage. It's now widely reported that he was an intelligence asset taking orders from Israel’s Mossad.”
The former Malaysian deputy minister said, “The purpose was clear: to trap the most powerful people on earth in a web of criminality, all to bend them to the will of a foreign nation—Zionist Israel.”
“Think about it,” Mahathir went on.
“Have you ever watched a world leader make a decision so baffling, so cruel, so opposed to the interest of their own people that you wondered, ‘How is this possible?’ How can a leader so casually bomb civilians, oversee the deaths of tens of thousands, kidnap or assassinate foreign leaders, and lie about it without a shred of remorse?”
How can a leader feel so untouchable that they believe they can literally get away with murder and still be re-elected?, asked the son of Mahathir Mohammad.
“The Epstein files provide a terrifyingly plausible answer. They aren't acting this way because they're strong; they are acting this way because they are compromised.”
He said that Epstein's secret evidence may have been used as a tool to subdue influential people. Their past is a weapon held against them. They do what they are told, not out of loyalty, but out of fear—fear of exposure for their own crimes or a desperate need to protect the secrecy that allows them to continue committing those crimes, the Malaysian politician said.
“And this brings us to Donald Trump. Look at the chaos of his decision-making: the billions in military hardware sent to Israel while cutting food stamps, Medicaid, and housing subsidies at home; the weaponising of tariffs; the unwavering complicity in the war crimes in Gaza; the blind rush toward a new war with Iran; the real possibility of triggering World War III.”
Mukhriz has brought forward the question of what action people will take now that part of the Epstein files held by regulators have been made public.
In his words, there are no other explanations.
“It's not madness, it's submission. It suggests a leader who has no choice. To defy his Zionist handlers would mean the end of his political career, and perhaps much more. But to play along—to play along ensures power, protection, a billionaire’s pension, and the promise of support well into the future.”
Mukhriz said the consequences were inescapable. “In a world where leaders are held hostage by their own hidden past, their actions are no longer their own. Their only master is the one holding the file.
But now, we too have the file. The question is: WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?”