New Delhi: Documents released by the US House Oversight Committee recently and a new tranche of some 18,000 Epstein emails obtained by Drop Site News, have claimed that Jeffrey Epstein allegedly offered to set up a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in mid-2019, just two months before his arrest in the child sex trafficking case.

The revelations were made on the same day when Trump signed a legislation authorising the US Justice Department to finally make thousands of pages of files on Epstein public.

Not only that, the documents have revealed that Epstein allegedly maintained a relationship with high-profile Indian political and business figures in the years before his death.

According to the Drop Site report, the correspondence comes from the Yahoo inbox of Epstein. 

The report stated that the recipient of Epstein’s messages in 2019 pushing to set up a meeting with Modi is redacted in the House Oversight Committee releases. However, the details “match closely with the contemporaneous activities and locations of Steve Bannon”. 

The unidentified person discussing Modi told Epstein that he was in Kazakhstan, whereas Bannon, who at the time was the chairman of the advisory board of We Build The Wall, was attending a conference there at the same time. 

While Bannon was fired from the White House in 2017, he remained influential in the MAGA world, and offered advice to Trump on political strategy.

According to the Drop Site report, Bannon messaged Epstein on May 23, 2019, the day Modi won a commanding majority in the Lok Sabha elections and secured re-election as prime minister, saying, “I’m doing a one hour show for India on Modi while here – bringing American Hindu guys with us.”

Epstein reportedly responded, “his focus wants to be stopping China.” 

Bannon did an interview with the WION the next week and discussed Modi, and the importance of a US-India relationship in depth.

Epstein had reportedly pressed further for a meeting: “I can set”, “you should meet with modi”, he allegedly wrote. Bannon reportedly replied, “please”, followed by Epstein asking when he could do it.

Epstein sent further messages to Bannon pushing for contact with Modi, according to the report, encouraging him to overcome any obstacles to the meeting. One of his messages reportedly read: “my guy said to tell you that you are missing a great opportunity, look at your underwear. it either says made in china or made in india. . how is it possible that you guys don’t understand shared goals.”

While the disclosures by House Oversight do not show any significant intervening correspondence between Bannon and Epstein on the subject, hours later, Epstein reportedly wrote again: “modi on board.”

At the time of publishing this report, neither Bannon nor Modi’s office responded to Drop Site’s requests for comment.

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