rant · moment 17 of 18
Leslie Wexner, the Press's Willful Stupidity, and the Franklin Scandal
from 161 - The Los Angeles Liars · #161
12 min
Tim dissects a Wall Street Journal article portraying Victoria's Secret billionaire Leslie Wexner as a naive victim of Epstein, arguing elite journalists are either complicit or willfully obtuse compared to ordinary people who'd immediately suspect foul play. He connects it to the historical Franklin child-trafficking cover-up scandal, dead investigators, and Chris Matthews' claim that politicians needed Epstein's plane because they were 'too poor to travel.'
- Wall Street Journal ran an article about Leslie Wexner, Epstein's money guy who owns Victoria's Secret, asking how a man who sold things to women ended up bankrolling someone who exploited women.
- Tim on whether press figures are complicit or 'literal retards'—a dumb person could easily suspect Wexner and Epstein were abusing kids together, but Ivy League journalists can't put it together.
- Wall Street Journal headline frames Wexner's mistake as trusting Epstein too much, as if billionaires are known for being trusting and kind.
- Wexner gave Epstein a seventy-million-dollar townhouse and money for an island, then Epstein used it for recording equipment and child abuse—yet the press treats this as gullibility rather than conspiracy.
- If you explained this story to someone at Golden Corral eating a yeast roll, they'd immediately say the two guys must be in cahoots; regular people understand it, but media figures don't.
- The Epstein-Wexner relationship is being framed like The Music Man, a con artist just happening to dupe all these billionaires, rather than a deliberate criminal partnership.
- Chris Matthews on MSNBC suggested politicians flew with Epstein because they're too poor to travel otherwise and needed his plane, ignoring that politicians and billionaires have other ways to fly.
- CIA and Mossad have been using sexual blackmail, assets like Epstein, drug trafficking, and human trafficking for decades, and now seem to be in panic mode trying to contain the story.
- Franklin scandal was this exact story without the internet—authorities imprisoned a girl in solitary for two years, killed the investigator and CIA director William Colby, and buried it all.
- Elite education and privilege insulate people from understanding how the world works; they lack the critical thinking and suspicion that comes from being railroaded by the system.
- Black people don't have trouble believing this conspiracy because they've dealt with systematic unfairness their entire lives and know the system makes things up.
Jeffrey EpsteinLes WexnerFranklin scandalWall Street JournalChris MatthewsVoxBill ClintonWilliam ColbyMossadCIAVictoria's SecretAlex JonesMSNBCVirginia GiuffreABC World News TonightGary Caradori