Latest / Beyond The Horizon / Ohio State Keeps Les Wexner's Name as Democrats Prepare to Investigate Prince Andrew (11/11/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
- 0:03Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we have two articles that
- 0:08Speaker 1: we're going to get to. The first one has to
- 0:10Speaker 1: do with Prince Andrew and the Democrats' new demands. And
- 0:15Speaker 1: the second article has to do with Les Wexner and
- 0:18Speaker 1: the decision that was just announced by Ohio State University
- 0:22Speaker 1: that they're going to keep his name on those buildings.
- 0:25Speaker 1: So I'll keep my whinging to a minimum and we'll
- 0:28Speaker 1: just dive right in. This first article is from the
- 0:30Speaker 1: Daily Mail, and the headline, Democrats to Review Andrew's Links
- 0:34Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein and Demand Unredacted Files Are Handed Over
- 0:38Speaker 1: to British Police. This article was authored by Daniel Bates.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Democrats are set to go after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor over his
- 0:47Speaker 1: friendship with late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein following their victory in
- 0:51Speaker 1: the U.S. midterm elections. After reclaiming the U.S. House of
- 0:55Speaker 1: Representatives and the Senate, Democrats will also renew their demand
- 1:00Speaker 1: that the Department of Justice hand over the full and
- 1:03Speaker 1: unredacted Epstein files to British police. And of course, that
- 1:07Speaker 1: doesn't mean all the files, right? That means the files
- 1:10Speaker 1: that are pertinent to their investigation. So it's not like
- 1:13Speaker 1: they're asking for every single file that has not been unredacted, right?
- 1:19Speaker 1: Or unreleased. They're only asking for relevant information that has
- 1:23Speaker 1: to do with bitch ass Prince Andrew. And the Department
- 1:26Speaker 1: of Justice, well, they can't be bothered. They have other
- 1:29Speaker 1: things to do, like attack people on the internet. Suhas Submaranium,
- 1:33Speaker 1: who sits on the powerful House Oversight Committee, said they
- 1:36Speaker 1: would have to get creative over Mountbatten-Windsor. And I think
- 1:40Speaker 1: that's true. Like, you're not just going to get Prince
- 1:44Speaker 1: Andrew to, you know, cede to your requests. There has
- 1:48Speaker 1: to be some kind of, you know, legal enforcement behind it.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Some sort of threat. Or maybe because of the case
- 1:56Speaker 1: that he's facing now, that's the entry point for the
- 2:00Speaker 1: other questions, right? But with that said, I don't want
- 2:03Speaker 1: anybody getting out over their skis. Because we just don't
- 2:07Speaker 1: know where this investigation is going to take us. And
- 2:09Speaker 1: I still have my doubts about the seriousness of the
- 2:12Speaker 1: investigation when it comes to the Crown and when it
- 2:16Speaker 1: comes to Scotland Yard. Because we've seen them protect Andrew
- 2:20Speaker 1: and Jeffrey Epstein time and time again. So is this
- 2:24Speaker 1: time going to be different? I hope so. But as
- 2:26Speaker 1: a betting man, I wouldn't put a wager on it.
- 2:30Speaker 1: The former prince has so far ignored requests from the
- 2:33Speaker 1: committee to testify as a foreign national. He cannot be
- 2:36Speaker 1: forced to. But Mr. Submaranium said that has been taken
- 2:40Speaker 1: as a sign he has something to hide. He added,
- 2:44Speaker 1: we're going to continue to push for information, and if
- 2:47Speaker 1: they are in newly released files or testimony, we will
- 2:50Speaker 1: find out. It's in Andrew's best interest to cooperate. If
- 2:54Speaker 1: you're not willing to cooperate with an investigation into the
- 2:57Speaker 1: sexual assault and trafficking of underage girls, that's very questionable
- 3:02Speaker 1: in my mind. Well, be that as it may, it's
- 3:04Speaker 1: not evidence. And we're not here for vibes. And we're
- 3:08Speaker 1: not here to, you know, make ourselves feel better. It's
- 3:12Speaker 1: about transparency and accountability. So you better have some evidence
- 3:18Speaker 1: when you're pointing at people, Mr. Submaranium. Now, do I
- 3:21Speaker 1: think that they do have the goods on Andrew, at
- 3:24Speaker 1: least as far as corruption goes? Most certainly. But that's
- 3:28Speaker 1: in the hands of the UK authorities, not in the
- 3:31Speaker 1: hands of our Congress. So my unsolicited advice to everybody
- 3:35Speaker 1: involved is to focus on the people that we have
- 3:39Speaker 1: the goods on first. Let's go after them, show some results,
- 3:43Speaker 1: and then you can start building outward. And if giving
- 3:47Speaker 1: the files to the English authorities... is going to help out, yeah,
- 3:52Speaker 1: they should all be given up. I've said that from
- 3:55Speaker 1: the very beginning. And if the Democrats can make that
- 3:59Speaker 1: a reality, then that's certainly a feather in their cap.
- 4:03Speaker 1: And look, I'm going into this willing to give the
- 4:05Speaker 1: Democrats the benefit of the doubt. But that doesn't mean
- 4:08Speaker 1: I trust them. That doesn't mean I think they're going
- 4:11Speaker 1: to do the right thing. They have to be held
- 4:13Speaker 1: to accountability by the electorate. You know, they rode this
- 4:17Speaker 1: topic to victory here, folks. They had survivors in their
- 4:22Speaker 1: campaign ads, the whole thing. So now they have a
- 4:25Speaker 1: responsibility to do what they said they're going to do.
- 4:27Speaker 1: And you better believe I'm going to be holding them
- 4:30Speaker 1: accountable every step of the way. And they better not
- 4:32Speaker 1: get sidetracked with a bunch of bullshit either. Staff, secretaries,
- 4:37Speaker 1: other people that were around Epstein will have to get creative. Yeah,
- 4:40Speaker 1: no shit. They were all part of the RICO operation.
- 4:44Speaker 1: How come nobody's talking about that yet? They finally got
- 4:47Speaker 1: around to talking about a special counsel. Maybe they'll get
- 4:50Speaker 1: around to talking about Rico at some point. Because anybody
- 4:53Speaker 1: who knows anything knows that this is a Rico case
- 4:56Speaker 1: through and through. There should have never been any doubt
- 5:01Speaker 1: that this is Rico. And the fact that it isn't
- 5:04Speaker 1: tells me everything I need to know. Everybody else can
- 5:07Speaker 1: play their little games and tell you, oh, well, Jeffrey
- 5:10Speaker 1: Epstein's obviously just a sick guy. And, you know, there's
- 5:13Speaker 1: no gigantic umbrella here that he falls under where he
- 5:17Speaker 1: was being protected. And yeah, right. Yeah, fucking right. If
- 5:21Speaker 1: Epstein was just the run-of-the-mill diddler, child abuser, this would
- 5:26Speaker 1: have been over and done with back in 2007. But
- 5:30Speaker 1: that's not what he's ever been. It's always been much worse.
- 5:33Speaker 1: And Epstein has always been more than just somebody that
- 5:36Speaker 1: diddles people. In 2022, Mountbatten-Windsor paid a reported £ 12 million
- 5:43Speaker 1: to Virginia Roberts, who claimed that Epstein trafficked her to
- 5:46Speaker 1: have sex with a former prince, three times in 2001
- 5:50Speaker 1: when she was 17. Mountbatten-Windsor denies any wrongdoing. Ms. Roberts
- 5:55Speaker 1: took her own life last year. The Democrats' victory in
- 5:59Speaker 1: the midterm elections will give them control of Congress from
- 6:02Speaker 1: January for the next two years. And that's plenty of
- 6:05Speaker 1: time to get some shit done. And they better do it.
- 6:09Speaker 1: I don't want this getting backburnered. I don't want to
- 6:11Speaker 1: hear about any other nonsense, pet projects, none of it.
- 6:15Speaker 1: The time is now. Mr. Submaranium said they will also
- 6:21Speaker 1: keep pushing the DOJ to hand over the unredacted Epstein
- 6:25Speaker 1: files needed by Scotland Yard to continue its dull probe
- 6:28Speaker 1: into Lord Mandelson, sacked as Britain's ambassador to the US
- 6:32Speaker 1: last year, as the full extent of his relationship with
- 6:35Speaker 1: the disgraced financier became clear. That's a little more than that.
- 6:40Speaker 1: Wasn't like they were, you know, playing golf together. Mandelson
- 6:42Speaker 1: was giving them confidential information. Not exactly legal. Mr. Submaranium added,
- 6:51Speaker 1: we cannot compel the DOJ to release information to the UK.
- 6:55Speaker 1: We're going to keep pushing on that. If the DOJ
- 6:58Speaker 1: still refuse, he said they will then use their powers
- 7:01Speaker 1: to find information from other sources. All right, well, those
- 7:05Speaker 1: are Mr. Submaranium's words, and we're going to hold them
- 7:08Speaker 1: to him. The days of fucking around with this topic
- 7:11Speaker 1: are long over. And if the Democrats, who just won
- 7:15Speaker 1: the House and Senate, know what's good for them, They
- 7:18Speaker 1: won't backburner this issue. All right, moving on to the
- 7:22Speaker 1: next article. This article is from whio.com and the headline,
- 7:30Speaker 1: Les Wexner's name to remain on Ohio State buildings despite
- 7:33Speaker 1: requests for removal. This article was authored by WHIO staff.
- 7:40Speaker 1: Ohio State University will keep Leslie Wexner's name on campus
- 7:44Speaker 1: buildings according to a decision issued today by the university's
- 7:48Speaker 1: interim executive, vice president, and provost. The ruling turns down
- 7:53Speaker 1: demands from hundreds of petitioners seeking to remove the businessman's
- 7:57Speaker 1: name from university facilities. Something that should have happened a
- 8:01Speaker 1: long time ago. But it is the Ohio State University
- 8:05Speaker 1: after all. You know, home of Dr. Strauss. The decision
- 8:10Speaker 1: follows an October 7th memo saying, From the Standing Advisory
- 8:13Speaker 1: Committee for the Review of University Space and Entity Names,
- 8:18Speaker 1: which reported receiving 512 petitions between January and September, our
- 8:23Speaker 1: news partner at WBNS reported. So there's a lot of
- 8:28Speaker 1: people out there, as you can imagine, who think it's
- 8:31Speaker 1: an absolute disgusting travesty that Ohio State University has Les
- 8:36Speaker 1: Wexner's names all over these buildings. Like, how is that okay?
- 8:41Speaker 1: Because he has a bunch of money? Oh, yeah, well,
- 8:44Speaker 1: Les Wexner, whole bunch of money. Who cares if he's
- 8:47Speaker 1: been credibly accused by Virginia? Who cares if he was
- 8:51Speaker 1: with Epstein throughout all of the financial malfeasance? Who gives
- 8:55Speaker 1: a shit? Doesn't matter because he's rich, right? Fuck, not
- 8:58Speaker 1: one single Republican could be bothered to even go to
- 9:01Speaker 1: the deposition. Tells me everything I need to know about
- 9:05Speaker 1: the people who participated. But those same people, oh, they
- 9:08Speaker 1: had no problem. Showing up for the Clinton deposition, right?
- 9:11Speaker 1: Gotta get our photo op. We gotta throw the MAGA
- 9:14Speaker 1: base a little red meat. It's all pathetic. And it
- 9:18Speaker 1: all culminated with them getting built to ass. That's really
- 9:23Speaker 1: what happened. Like I told you it was going to happen.
- 9:26Speaker 1: I mean, how many times did I tell you guys
- 9:28Speaker 1: that independents were gonna crack these dudes? You can't be
- 9:31Speaker 1: out here running your yap the way these dudes were
- 9:34Speaker 1: running their yaps and think that there's not gonna be
- 9:36Speaker 1: repercussions when you shit the bed. People aren't playing these games.
- 9:42Speaker 1: And the vast majority of people, I know it's crazy
- 9:44Speaker 1: to hear, aren't terminally online. So you have actual people
- 9:49Speaker 1: out there who have real issues, tabletop issues, affordability issues,
- 9:53Speaker 1: cost of living issues, and you're out here yelling about bullshit,
- 9:56Speaker 1: and we're seeing people get gunned down in the street
- 9:58Speaker 1: by federal agents. Petitioner cited concerns regarding Wexner's ties to
- 9:53Speaker 1: deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as well as questions about
- 9:56Speaker 1: his potential knowledge of sexual abuse by former university physician Dr.
- 9:58Speaker 1: Richard Strauss. But look, I don't know if he knew
- 10:19Speaker 1: about that or not. But I'll tell you this much.
- 10:23Speaker 1: He knew about Epstein. He knew what Epstein was. And
- 10:26Speaker 1: according to Virginia and Maria and other girls, he also
- 10:30Speaker 1: knew what Epstein was doing. And that didn't stop him
- 10:33Speaker 1: from giving Epstein money. That didn't stop him from bankrolling Epstein.
- 10:38Speaker 1: But cool. Let's throw his name all over these buildings.
- 10:43Speaker 1: In his ruling issued Friday, Interim Executive Vice President and
- 10:46Speaker 1: Provost Trevor Brown stated that the university policy requires substantial
- 10:50Speaker 1: evidence of wrongdoing, noting that Wexner faces no criminal charges. Well,
- 10:56Speaker 1: that's because there was never a robust investigation, stupid. The
- 11:00Speaker 1: committee is not and was never intended to become an
- 11:03Speaker 1: investigatory body like a law enforcement or auditing organization, Brown stated.
- 11:08Speaker 1: He determined that further review should not proceed at this time.
- 11:12Speaker 1: Calls to remove Wexner's name began a year after renewed
- 11:15Speaker 1: scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein. Wexner also evaded attempts
- 11:20Speaker 1: to serve a subpoena regarding abuse by Strauss, who died
- 11:24Speaker 1: by suicide in 2005. Of course he did. Les Wexner
- 11:28Speaker 1: is the biggest bitch in a room full of bitches.
- 11:32Speaker 1: I cannot stand this man. And the fact that he's
- 11:35Speaker 1: still coming out of this without the Epstein stink on
- 11:38Speaker 1: him is unbelievable. Surviving victims of Strauss reached a final
- 11:42Speaker 1: settlement with Ohio State in June. While the university has
- 11:46Speaker 1: stopped the current review, Brown noted that the review process
- 11:49Speaker 1: allows for further evaluation if new evidence comes to light. Well,
- 11:54Speaker 1: isn't that cute? Isn't that nice? Good job, Mr. Brown,
- 11:58Speaker 1: you absolute dodo bird. Imagine sending your kid to Ohio
- 12:03Speaker 1: State University and on the building, Wes Wexner's name is
- 12:07Speaker 1: just sitting there in a prominent fashion, I mean, what's next?
- 12:11Speaker 1: The Bernie Madoff Business Center? Or maybe they'll have Jeffrey
- 12:15Speaker 1: Dahmer come in and teach a culinary course. I mean,
- 12:18Speaker 1: why just stop with Les Wexner's name on the building?
- 12:21Speaker 1: If you're going to be reprehensible, you might as well
- 12:23Speaker 1: just lean into that shit. But as far as the
- 12:25Speaker 1: decision goes, I'm not shocked. When we're talking about the
- 12:29Speaker 1: amount of money that this dude has pumped into the university,
- 12:32Speaker 1: it was always going to be a long haul to
- 12:35Speaker 1: get his name off those buildings. But I don't think
- 12:37Speaker 1: we've seen the end of this And I think we'll
- 12:39Speaker 1: see more petitions in the future trying to get the
- 12:42Speaker 1: same thing to happen. So, as usual, we'll keep an
- 12:45Speaker 1: eye on it. And if we get some more information
- 12:48Speaker 1: one way or the other, we'll get that added to
- 12:50Speaker 1: the catalog as well. All the information that goes with
- 12:52Speaker 1: this episode can be found in the description box.