If that was true then you would understand how carefully fact-checked every single thing she posts is. If anyone could ever write an accurate history of January 6th and its aftermath it would be Marcy Wheeler. She's one of the best journalists of the modern era.

archive.is/W0hR4

Also this, from Rolling Stone last year: "Journalist Vicky Ward reported in Rolling Stone earlier this year that Epstein had dealings in the arms world in the 1980s that led to his work for multiple governments, including Israel’s."

Epstein lived in the largest mansion in New York's Upper East side. It sold for $51m in 2021. His two islands sold for $60m in 2023. His net worth at his time of death was a minimum of $500m that we know of.

"Some of the Epstein money transfers disclosed in a report from JPMorgan Chase involved accounts at two Russian banks before those institutions were subject to U.S. sanctions. A few transactions red-flagged were for as much as $100 million."

My point is simply that it's not "ordinary rich guy sleaze". There's simply way, way, way too much unexplained money involved. There were around 2,000 billionaires worldwide in 2019; it's an unreasonable amount of unexplained money. Here's a non-paywall link: archive.is/UvMZA

Except for the totally unexplained wealth of Epstein. There's a reason four banks flagged $1.5bn of Epstein transactions as suspicious... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...