The resurfaced interview captures Jeffrey Epstein not as a mystery figure, but as a man disturbingly at ease with the wreckage he left behind. When Steve Bannon confronts him with the idea that he embodies “the devil,” Epstein doesn’t recoil in horror or remorse. He leans into the moment with a smirk and a line about owning “a good mirror,” as if self-awareness alone could excuse everything.

What follows is a chilling tour of moral gymnastics. Epstein insists he is “the lowest” level of offender, as though grading his predation softens its impact. He shrugs off accusations of “dirty money” with abstract talk about ethics and charity, as if donations could bleach the stain of exploitation. The newly released footage matters because it strips away excuses and conspiracy fog. It shows a man who understood exactly what he was—and chose, again and again, to live with it.