What if the financial architecture currently moving Saudi sovereign wealth into American companies, building an investment corridor between the Gulf states and Israel, and positioning a president’s son-in-law as the indispensable broker of a new Middle Eastern economic order was not designed by any of the people currently operating it?

What if the blueprint for all of it, the specific structures, the specific mechanisms, the specific argument for why Saudi Arabia needed to escape the Western banking system and anchor itself at the center of a new global financial order, was drawn up in the summer of 2016 by Jeffrey Epstein, writing emails to the senior adviser of the Saudi Crown Prince?

And what if, when Epstein died in a federal jail cell three years after those emails were written, the whole plan kept moving, changing hands so smoothly that the people now operating it are collecting management fees from the same sovereign wealth fund Epstein had asked to see the organizational chart of?