My Experience with John Mark Dougan (BadVolf) & Epstein Tapes Hoax

He claimed to possess surveillance video from inside Epstein’s Palm Beach residence. When I first interviewed him, he stated that he had no direct knowledge of Trump or Epstein. Months later, however, he appeared on Shawn Attwood’s platform asserting that he had obtained the Epstein videos. I contacted Shawn requesting his contact information, but he attempted to restrict access, citing that “there are lives at stake.” I subsequently rebooked Dougan. During the interview he recounted his account of the tapes, and offline we discussed the possibility of using them to corroborate certain plaintiffs whose claims I found credible but for which we lacked sufficient evidence. With legal counsel prepared to support the effort, arrangements were discussed to fly me to Russia. Dougan’s account ultimately collapsed during subsequent negotiations. I later interviewed a true-crime author who had been in Russia with Dougan. The author initially found the claims plausible but later concluded that Dougan was not credible, indicating that the videos in question appeared to have been obtained from Pornhub.