Middle East Eye reports:

A declassified FBI memo from the Epstein files, released on Friday, includes incendiary allegations about US President Donald Trump.

The memo says that Trump was “compromised by Israel”, that convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein worked with Israeli intelligence, and that a Jewish religious group calling itself Chabad-Lubavitch sought to hijack his first term in office.

The memo, written in 2020, formed part of an FBI investigation into domestic or foreign influence over the US electoral process. It draws on information from a confidential human source (CHS) and appears among a vast trove of Epstein-related files released by the US Justice Department.

“CHS advised Chabad is doing everything they can to co-opt the Trump presidency,” the memo states regarding his first term.

Chabad-Lubavitch, a religious Jewish sect founded in Russia, has grown to an estimated 90,000 members. Its messianic, ultra-Orthodox ideology has repeatedly been linked to hardline settler colonial politics in Palestine. [Continue reading…]

“I’m jewish so say whatever you want, but…Chabad Lubavitch is an organized crime cult. It originates in Russia…They are Russian jews. They are involved in a global network…The shortest line between Putin and Trump is through a man called Beryl Lazar.” https://t.co/Obqdun7uXP pic.twitter.com/rLCbXkih12

— Henri Fjord (@henri_fjord) November 14, 2025

Wikipedia: Because of Berel Lazar’s connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin he is sometimes called “Putin’s rabbi.”