In an apologetic talk with staff at the Gates Foundation, the Microsoft founder defined his connection to Epstein. Gates stated he first met the person in 2011 — after Epstein had been convicted as a intercourse offender — and mentioned elevating cash for world well being initiatives. The two males met a number of occasions in varied places till 2014, when Gates decided the funding plan was going nowhere.
At that time, Gates could have additionally discovered himself getting in deeper with the creepy con man than he ever needed to be. Among the many hundreds of emails uncovered by the Epstein scandal is one during which Epstein remarks on amorous affairs Gates had with two Russian girls. Within the assembly at his basis, Gates acknowledged having extramarital relationships with a Russian bridge participant and a Russian nuclear physicist, and stated Epstein needed to make use of that data in opposition to him.
“I made big mistake,” Gates confessed to his colleagues. “Our status is on the road and what was the upside? On reflection, nothing.”
The exceptional factor revealed about Epstein over the previous yr is his big expertise for making connections with wealthy and highly effective folks, and his talent in leveraging these connections to insinuate himself into the lives of individuals with even extra wealth and energy. Having gotten conferences with Gates, he thereafter referred to him as “my good buddy Invoice Gates” as a tactic to reveal his affect and lure new suckers into his huge net.
In an electronic mail, Epstein advised now-disgraced British politician Peter Mandelson that he was having “monstrous enjoyable” with Gates throughout a go to to Seattle. Epstein’s hyperbole proves nothing. Gates insists he by no means went to Epstein’s non-public Island or his New Mexico ranch, the place the wheeler-dealer saved his harem of underage intercourse slaves.
However one factor we all know for positive, actually sensible folks can do actually dumb issues. Gates is only one title on a protracted listing of good folks — principally males — who failed to acknowledge Epstein for what he was. Some had been really fooled, some knew and didn’t care, and a few eagerly indulged themselves in all that Epstein provided, figuring they’d all the time be protected against penalties by their cash and energy.
Till there’s proof to the opposite, I’ll give Invoice Gates the good thing about the doubt and assume he suits into the primary class; yet another wealthy rube with an enormous mind who didn’t see the lure door in entrance of him.
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