{"id":321548,"date":"2026-01-13T08:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=321548"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:23:36","slug":"i-didnt-know-about-epsteins-crimes-because-im-gay-disgraced-former-british-ambassador-to-the-us-lord-peter-mandelson-uses-the-gay-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=321548","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Didn\u2019t Know About Epstein\u2019s Crimes Because I\u2019m Gay\u2019: Disgraced Former British Ambassador to the US, Lord Peter Mandelson Uses the \u2018Gay Card\u2019 To Try To Evade Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Peter Mandelson (left) pictured shopping with Jeffrey Epstein on December 27 2005 in St Barts in the Caribbean<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Paul Serran \u2013 The Gateway Pundit Jan 12, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Mandelson thinks we are all gullible simpletons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Disgraced former British Ambassador to the US, Lord Mandelson, has claimed to have been \u2018kept in the dark\u2019 about Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s sex crimes \u2018because he was gay\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2026\/01\/11\/lord-mandelson-did-not-know-about-epsteins-crimes-gay\/\">The Telegraph<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe peer was sacked as ambassador to the United States last year after it emerged [that] he had urged the financier to fight for early release from prison.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lord Mandelson claimed that, because of his sexuality, he was \u2018kept separate from what [Epstein] was doing in the sexual side of his life\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He described Epstein as his \u2018best pal\u2019, but argues he was kept \u2018at the edge of this man\u2019s life\u2019.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mandelson had &#8216;very close&#8217; links to Epstein.<br \/>\nHe nicknamed him Yum Yum.<\/p>\n<p>How in God&#8217;s name is he still in the Labour Party and House of Lords?<\/p>\n<p>It stinks to high heaven.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Goosey (@Goosey30111568) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Goosey30111568\/status\/2002274692896362851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cIn his first interview since losing his job, Lord Mandelson refused to apologize to Epstein\u2019s victims for writing to him after his conviction for sex offences, claiming he was not culpable for any of Epstein\u2019s criminal activity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even a Labour Cabinet minister was led to say he had been guilty of \u2018deep naivety\u2019.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In a BBC interview, Peter Mandelson just claimed he never saw young women on his visits to see Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here\u2019s a photo of Peter Mandelson alongside a scantily clad young woman during a visit to one of Epstein\u2019s houses.<\/p>\n<p>The lying is truly shameless. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6PImrpiQD7\">pic.twitter.com\/6PImrpiQD7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Evolve Politics (@evolvepolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evolvepolitics\/status\/2010335304415080489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BBC\u2019s Laura Kuenssberg carried water for him, and asked whether he was never offered sexual favors by Epstein \u2018because he was gay\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe replied: \u201cPossibly, some people will think that because I\u2019m a gay man, I was unsensitized, or I wasn\u2019t attuned to what was going on. [\u2026] I don\u2019t really accept [any guilt]. I think the issue is that because I was a gay man in his circle, I was kept separate from what he was doing in the sexual side of his life. [\u2026] I mean, he in a sense had three buckets of people in his life, the business and the financial, the political and the academic, and then what he was doing with young women.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2026\/01\/i-didnt-know-about-epsteins-crimes-because-im\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandelson must really think the public is stupid. Doesn\u2019t he know that there are also reports that Epstein kept young men on his island, housed separately from the girls? Thus far that part of the scandal has been kept hidden but it will inevitably come out. 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