In 2011, Peter Thiel obtained New Zealand citizenship after spending just 12 days in the country. It was granted quietly, under an "exceptional circumstances" clause. The public didn't find out until 2017.

That same year his documented relationship with Jeffrey Epstein begins in the DOJ files. Financial discussions, network introductions. Thiel visiting the Manhattan townhouse often, with lots of “dietary restrictions”. Later, an invitation to Zorro Ranch. He appears throughout, right up to 2019.

Zorro Ranch had managers. A married couple — New Zealand nationals, former NZ Defence Force — Brice & Karen Gordon, who ran Epstein's property for years. They were present when the FBI arrived in 2007, and whose interview notes are conspicuously absent from the public release. The New Mexico Truth Commission has named them persons of interest and they are currently described as being in hiding.

And then there's Reid Hoffman — also documented in Epstein's files, also part of Thiel's world — who once told a reporter that among a certain class of Silicon Valley billionaire, saying you're "buying a house in New Zealand" is "a wink, wink, say no more." A bunker, an exit. Insurance against catastrophe.

I'm not telling you what to think here, I'm telling you what the documents show.

The full investigation is coming. Thank you for being here with me while we map it out.