❓WHAT HAPPENED: Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, warned President Donald J. Trump and the late Charlie Kirk against Lord Peter Mandelson—now facing a criminal investigation following fresh revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein files—before his appointment as British ambassador to the United States.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Raheem Kassam, Peter Mandelson, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and President Trump.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Kassam issued his warning on The Charlie Kirk Show in January 2025, over a year before the new Epstein scandal broke in February 2026.

💬KEY QUOTE: “[T]he idea that Keir Starmer, the current Prime Minister, would shove somebody like Lord Mandelson into the embassy in D.C. and expect him to be taken seriously is a great affront to President Trump, it’s a great affront to the American public and what they voted for,” Kassam told Kirk.

🎯IMPACT: Mandelson resigned from political roles, and investigations are underway into potential misconduct.

Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, warned the U.S. against Lord Peter Mandelson, now facing a criminal investigation due to newly-released Jeffrey Epstein files showing him leaking confidential information to the pedophile financier, in January 2025, over a year before the current scandal. Speaking to the late Charlie Kirk on his show, Kassam said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s move to appoint Mandelson as ambassador to the U.S., despite an already extensive history of scandal in Britain, was a “great affront to President Trump [and] the American public and what they voted for.”

Kassam highlighted Mandelson’s past, including his involvement in the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and his already well-known connections to Epstein, as reasons for concern. Mandelson had also publicly attacked President Trump on numerous occasions, calling the America First leader a “danger to the world” and “little short of a white nationalist and a racist.” Kassam noted Britain’s pattern of appointing ambassadors hostile to Trump and argued that the Trump administration should reject Mandelson’s diplomatic credentials.

Kassam’s warnings were validated in recent days when the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released more Epstein-related documents, revealing that Mandelson’s ties to the sex trafficker were much more sinister than previously suspected, including payments and the leaking of sensitive information during the financial crisis, when Mandelson was the British government’s Business Secretary. Mandelson has since been referred to the Metropolitan Police for investigation and is set to resign from the House of Lords, and may be stripped of his title, awarded by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, altogether.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has expressed regret over Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador, which was already terminated after a previous Epstein release showed him offering support and advice to the sex trafficker following his 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution. Notably, however, Starmer appointed Mandelson despite having prior warning that he was a potential security risk, and his friendship with Epstein being public knowledge.

Mandelson is also linked to the recently assassinated Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, through the now-former Prince Andrew, another Epstein associate, and his former boss, Tony Blair, who courted the Gaddafi regime. Kassam was early to sound the alarm over the Gaddafis ties to the British establishment, too, playing a large role in exposing the links between the Gaddafi Foundation and the London School of Economics (LSE), led by Blair acolyte Sir Howard Davies, in the 2000s.

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