Ben Swann
American independent journalist and founder of Truth in Media
Ben Swann (American independent journalist and founder of Truth in Media) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include United States war with Iran, Drone warfare, Wikipedia.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Other remarks
Swann speculates that a foreign entity may be targeting top U.S. scientists in nuclear, space and anti-gravity research.
“a foreign entity that is specifically targeting the nuclear, space, anti-gravity, like the top scientists in this country”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 1:04:36
Swann contrasts Trump's attacks on allies with Roger Ailes's Fox News rule against attacking colleagues.
“And one of the rules he had was no shooting inside the tent. If you were on his team, you never attacked somebody else who was on that channel”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 50:05
Swann argues that building something, economic or not, is essential to a meaningful life.
“You don't build something in your life, you don't have a life worth living”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 29:30
Swann argues that AI will become the gatekeeper of all information, as search engines already partly are.
“AI's main function will become the gatekeeper to all information, which has already happened to some extent with search engines”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 11:25
United States war with Iran
Swann cites reports that a near-deal in U.S.–Iran talks in Pakistan collapsed after a call from Netanyahu.
“Netanyahu gets on the phone and it ends. And according to the Iranians, Vance didn't even come back in the room after the call”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 45:50
Swann claims the USS Gerald R. Ford was damaged by Iranian missiles rather than a routine fire and is out of commission for two years.
“We now know that because of the fire aboard the USS Gerald Ford, it's out of commission for the next two years”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 37:25
Swann argues the Iran war cannot be won without obliterating the country, which he says would trigger a world war.
“The problem is it's not a war that's winnable, right? The only way you can win that war is you have to go in and obliterate an entire country full of people”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 33:06
Drone warfare
Swann believes the U.S. has used about half its Patriot missile supply in the war's first six weeks.
“I think we've burned through half of our entire Patriot supply in the first six weeks of this war”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 36:13
Swann claims Iran destroyed a $600 million U.S. specialized radar plane in Saudi Arabia with a cheap Shahed drone.
“It was sitting in Saudi Arabia and they cut it in half with a $20,000 Shaheed drone”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 35:47
Wikipedia
Swann claims Wikipedia was co-opted by government agencies and NGOs that funded it and gained control of its content.
“government agencies and NGOs and all those groups funded it. They got into it and they got control of it”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 15:47
Swann says he was the first person to have his Wikipedia page locked, which happened after Pizzagate.
“I was the very first person to ever have their Wikipedia page locked”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 12:51
Jeffrey Epstein
Swann says the jerky references in Epstein's emails look to him as though they could be associated with cannibalism.
“What I would say is from the emails that I have read and putting context to it, it looks very much like it could be associated with cannibalism”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 7:39
Swann says pizza is mentioned 911 times in the released Epstein files, never in reference to an actual order.
“Whereas if you look through the Epstein files, 911 times pizza's mentioned”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 6:32
Pizzagate conspiracy theory
Swann says the FBI has known since 2007 that pedophiles use pizza-related coded language.
“The FBI, since 2007, have been talking about the fact that they knew that pedophiles communicated this way, with that specific kind of language”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 5:35
Swann argues that Pizzagate was a set of questions rather than a conclusion, and that the Epstein files validated some of its clues.
“Pizzagate was not a conclusion, right? It was a series of questions that were being asked about whether or not this was real”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 3:56
Alex Jones Sandy Hook defamation cases
Swann argues that lawfare is selectively applied, and that every media company could be bankrupted over its COVID reporting.
“you could bankrupt every media company in the entire country over COVID because everything they told you was wrong”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 56:36
2026 United States midterm elections
- Prediction · due Nov 2026
Swann predicts that Republicans will lose the 2026 midterm elections.
“And they know that when they lose the midterms, because they're going to lose the midterms at this point”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 44:58
Universal basic income
Swann believes universal basic income will ultimately become necessary because there will not be enough jobs.
“I think a universal basic income will ultimately become what has to happen”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 28:35
Technological unemployment
Swann predicts that AI will eliminate low-level CPA, paralegal and accounting jobs, as well as trucking.
“It's going to end, I think, low-level CPA paralegal jobs are all going to be gone”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 25:43
Anthropic
Swann says Anthropic lost its Pentagon contract for refusing to let its AI be used for autonomous killer robots and profiling.
“And one of those things was they refused to allow their AI to be used for autonomous killer robots”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 23:36
Deepfakes
Swann warns that it will soon be impossible to tell real video from AI-generated video.
“we're really headed towards a time where you're not going to be able to tell the difference between what is real and what is not”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 16:27
Predictions
1 pending
- Prediction · due Nov 2026
Swann predicts that Republicans will lose the 2026 midterm elections.
“And they know that when they lose the midterms, because they're going to lose the midterms at this point”
Digital Social Hour: The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980 (May 25, 2026) · Listen from 44:58 · 2026 United States midterm elections
Appearances
The Epstein Email Pattern Nobody Can Explain... | Ben Swann | DSH #1980Digital Social Hour · May 25, 2026 · 1 h 6 min
Ben Swann tells Sean Kelly about the Epstein emails, AI censorship and deepfakes, automation and UBI, the Iran war, and fractures in Trump's coalition.
Often appears with
- Sean Kelly · 1 shared episode