

V Spehar also talks friend Chris Smalls beaten by Israeli military
| DEAN OBEIDALLAH AND V SPEHAR JUL 31, 2025 |
I spoke to my friend V Spehar—creator of the very popular Under The Desk News—about the vomit inducing effort of Donald Trump’s allies to paint Ghislaine Maxwell as a victim in the Jeffrey Epstein sex ring. In reality, as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York stated after her conviction in 2021: “A unanimous jury has found Ghislaine Maxwell guilty of one of the worst crimes imaginable: Facilitating and participating in the sexual abuse of children.” Prosecutors noted, “Epstein could not have committed these crimes without her.”
In fact as one of the victims raped by Epstein, Sarah Ransome stated, “Ghislaine was the ringleader…the enforcer” for Epstein’s sex ring.
V explained that any claim that Maxwell was a “victim” is absolute BS. As V also rightly noted, Maxwell stuck by Epstein even after he was dead.
Of course, if Trump believes pardoning Maxwell will help him because she will lie on his behalf, Trump would still do it. There is zero concern by Trump for the pain this will cause the estimated one thousand victims of the Esptein-Maxwell child sex ring. But then again, Trump has never shown compassion for others-especially women.
V also raised a story that demands far more attention and that is of US labor organizer Chris Smalls—one of V’s friends—who was recently assaulted by the Israeli military and imprisoned. Smalls was one of the passengers on the recent trip of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, a grassroots international collective that has sought to bring aid to the starving. people of Gaza. As The Guardian reported, the Freedom Flotilla has confirmed “that Chris Smalls “was physically assaulted by seven uniformed” members of the Israeli military. Adding, “They choked him and kicked him in the legs, leaving visible signs of violence on his neck and back.”
Smalls-who was the only Black person on the ship—was then arrested and imprisoned. V reminded all that Smalls was the labor organizer who organized the Amazon factory in Staten Island, New York. V urged people—regardless of their views on the conflict— “to just call the State Department line as many times as you can.There is an American in an Israeli prison being tortured.”
Hope you enjoy our conversation!



