Some propagandists on social media are still working overtime to lump President Donald Trump into the same category as all the other Epstein pedophile playmates. The problem is the release of the files they demanded now offers proof Trump was the first one to turn Epstein in as a child abuser in 2006 and Epstein wrote of his hatred for him thereafter blowing the libs narrative out of the island water, so to speak. In fact, it now appears Donald Trump may be considered the first FBI informant on Epstein.
But release of the 3.5 some odd million “Epstein Files” by the Department of Justice (DOJ) has some people going back to reassess relationships that may have been glossed over and missed before. Two truths are going unreported in the media:
- The absolutely disgusting epidemic of child pornography occurring in America making all children of the world less safe.
- The recent personal and legal (lawfare?) attacks against former D.H.S. agent Tim Ballard, after he came out publically against Joe Biden for his open border conspiracy.
Somebody recently approached me and asked me if I knew how Hollywood seemingly tried to stop the “The Sound of Freedom” movie’s release and told me I should do a story on that obstruction alone. They said, “It is like Disney and all the rest were trying to protect the pedophiles when Disney was built for children!”
For example, did you know the Angel Studios movie “The Sound of Freedom” was actually completed in 2018 but not released until 2023 due to some legal maneuvers to seemingly block its release? Did you know streaming services Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix all refused to take the movie for streaming on their platforms?
Technically the “Sound of Freedom” was not “blocked” by Disney. The film was “shelved” after Disney acquired the distribution rights to the movie from 21st Century Fox in 2019. A legal battle ensued until Angel Studios bought back the rights to distribute it themselves in 2023. Disney may have had legitimate reasons for shelving it such as figuring the topic was too sensitive or knowing Jeffrey Epstein was going to be going on trial and not wanting to taint an entire jury pool before his trial. Who knows?
Mexican filmmaker Eduardo Verastegui and his childhood friend, Alejandro Monteverde, the writer and director of the film “Sound of Freedom,” have dedicated years of their lives to combating child sex trafficking and slavery. After learning about the alarming prevalence of this issue in the United States, and that America was the leading consumer of trafficked children with Mexico having the highest number of victims, Verastegui and Monteverde felt compelled to take action.
The duo drew their inspiration from the remarkable true story of Tim Ballard, a hero who risked everything to rescue children and fight against child trafficking cartels and the pedophiles they supply. Ballard was a Special Agent for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for over a decade. He worked undercover to dismantle child sex trafficking rings. He later gave up that life to become the CEO and founder of Operation Underground Railroad (OUR), an International anti-sex trafficking organization. Their website is https://ourrescue.org.
The movie centers around the story of a brother and sister of Honduras kidnapped one day from their father who thought he had dropped them off with a reputable modeling agency only to return later that evening to find his children and all semblance of a legitimate business gone. Tim Ballard took a boots-on-the-ground personal approach to hunting down the children from Columbia and returning them to their father 1,500 miles away in Honduras.
The budget for “Sound of Freedom” was $14 million. Sound of Freedom went on to bring in $19 million in its theater opening 3-day weekend. To date, almost three years later, with streaming services added, it has topped $250 million! At our house we watch Angel Studios on our Roku streaming stick on our older model Smart television.
CONCLUSION:
In the movie, actor Jim Caviezel offered a narrative as DHS Special Agent Tim Ballard that was shocking:
“Did you know there were over 22 million images of child pornography on the web this past year (2013)? That’s a 5 thousand percent increase over the past 5 years, 5 thousand percent. The fact is it is the fastest growing international crime network that the world has ever seen. It has already passed the illegal arms trade and soon it will pass the drug trade and do you want to know why? Because you can sell a bag of cocaine one time, a child, the most precious child, you can sell a five year old kid 5 to 10 times a day for 10 years straight! Every day ordinary people don’t want to hear it. It is too ugly for polite conversation. But meanwhile over 2 million children a year are being sucked into the deepest recesses of hell.”
Our government now estimates that child sex trafficking is an over $100 billion dollar a year industry. The non-profit Safe House Project offers the following additional statistics. America is the leading consumer of children for sex.
“Every 2 minutes a child is sold into trafficking. 4.8 million people are victims of sex trafficking today. 300,000 American children are victims of commercial sexual exploitation each year. The Average age of entry into the commercial sex market is 12 years old. The average victim is held captive for 23.4 months before escaping, dying, or being set free. In the U.S., 1 in 6 reported endangered runaways are believed to be victims of child sex trafficking. Pimps in America earn up to $200,000 per year per girl. An estimated 30,000 victims of sex trafficking die each year from abuse, disease, torture, and neglect. Over 40% of minor victims of trafficking are first sold by a family member. 1% of victims are ever identified. There are less than 100 beds for child victims in the United States.”
Former president Joe Biden, with obvious public pedophile adjacent behaviors around children, allowed some 350,000 unaccompanied minors to cross the border with some 85,000 of them going missing. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem!Tim Ballard's opening statement during hearing on Biden's border crisis: "A child can be sold up to 20 times a day, six days a week for 10 years or even longer" pic.twitter.com/V7yg9FuPHg
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 13, 2023
The recent ongoing war on the streets of Mexico after the death of the top Mexican cartel leader was killed is about the industries (crimes) of illegal drugs, arms, and child sex trafficking and yet the news only mentions the drugs.
“Local woman describes seeing violence in Mexico after cartel leader killed” – ABC7 Chicago
Recently, with the Epstein Files in the news, the movie and Ballard have had their detractors coming to attack. Seemingly pro-pedophile (Minor Attracted People) and child sex trafficking deniers are spreading false information about the film and Ballard. They are attempting to discredit both and the mission to rescue children from sex slavery.
Since this movie and story is now 3 years old, why do you suppose these propagandists are suddenly ramping up their attacks just now?
© 2026 by Mark S. Schwendau
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