TRANSCRIPT:
Okay, so Episode 7: Reisdorf. This is a very interesting episode because, again, most of the story’s told by [Mike] Rinder, and yet we have the Reisdorfs available, but Rinder has to tell it because the narrative’s a lie.
So, you don’t know this is what went down by watching the show—Brandon Reisdorf goes down to the local Church of Scientology and takes a brick and throws it through the window, which could have killed, if not paralyzed somebody for life. And he rightfully gets arrested for committing a hate crime, a violent hate crime, okay.
And so, Leah [Remini] interviews this guy. And she says to him, “You trusted that Church you believed in—that Church—but now that Church has turned against you.” So she takes a guy who has committed a hate crime—who is inspired and incited by her partner [Mike Rinder] in the production—and pursuant to the brainwashing that “you are a victim, you were a victim, you are a victim, and you always will be a victim as long as you’re on the anti-Scientology side,” she tells him, “You trusted that Church you believed in—that Church—but now that Church has turned against you.” That’s what she’s implanting in his mind. So, she puts words in his mouth and he acknowledges it.
Of course, it’s all contradictory to their own words because Lois [Brandon’s mother] earlier in the thing said that Brandon never took to Scientology, because that fit with the way they were spinning the narrative back then. And so he really couldn’t have that much trust in something he never “took to.” But we dismiss all that nuance and contradiction.
So, Rinder and Remini are piling on with what a victim he is and he ultimately, Brandon says, “I’ve been destroyed.” So, the guy who commits a hate crime that could have paralyzed or killed somebody is the guy that’s “been destroyed,” by people that “he trusted,” whom his mother said, he was never in a position of trusting them.
