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Bill Gates and the Machinery Behind Modern Billionaire Image Laundering (6/2/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. When it comes to our so called ruling
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  class and people like Bill Gates, I've always said that
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  they have two faces, one face that they show us
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  in public, and then the other face that they were
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  in private. And that face that they were in public,
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  of course, is perfectly curated. These people have built an image,
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  a persona where they come off as you know, squeaky
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  clean people that are trying to help society, and in
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  pursuit of that, what they do is they wrap themselves
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  in all of this charitable giving and they use that
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  as armor. What do you mean I'm bad? What do
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  you mean I'm an evil guy? You see how many
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  people I tried to save in Africa? How dare you
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  criticize me? Don't you know that I'm giving all my
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  money away? And I would never ever, ever have a
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  relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. I mean all we did was
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  talk a couple of times, Not like he hooked me
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  up with girls, Not like I was trying to ingratiate
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  myself to him, not like I spent a lot more
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  time with him than I ever let on. How dare
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  you say that and then when it all comes out
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  that all of that was true. Now Bill Gates wants
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  to apologize. Now, he wants to admit that he was
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  a little bit friendlier with Epstein than he ever let on.
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  But this time, this time he's telling us the truth.
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  Today's article is from First Post dot com and the
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  headline is Bill Gates mister nice guy image beginning to crack.
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  And since we don't have an author here, we're going
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  to go with staff. Remember how Bill Gates was almost
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  set to visit India for the India AI Summit before
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  pulling out at the last minute. At the time, speculations
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  world online, with many pointing towards the ongoing controversy surrounding
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  the Epstein files. There was little concrete evidence to support
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  the theory, but the timing fuel questions. While I told
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  you at the time, that's what it had to do
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  with and the only reason I knew is because somebody
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  who was attending or supposed to attend, contacted me and
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  told me. They said, straight up, the whole entire thing
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  is about Epstein and about the fact that Bill Gates
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  has been less than honest with not only the public,
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  but with his own colleagues, his own peers. So Bill
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  Gates has caused himself quite a problem, not only with
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  people like us, but within the billionaire circle that he
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  runs with. Now, a new report from The Wall Street
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  Journal offers perhaps the clearest look yet at how deeply
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  the Epstein controversy he may be affecting gates public image,
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  business relationships, and standing among some of the world's most
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  influential figures. And just remember when people call it a
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  hoax or that things are being blown out of perspective,
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  just take a look at all the most powerful people
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  in the world that have been caught up in this,
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  And why don't you ask them if it's overblown, or
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  if it's not real, or if it's a hoax, some hoax. Huh?
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  How much does this hoax cost Leon Black? And do
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  you think that Leon Black is being separated from one
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  single dollar without him kicking and screaming? Do you think
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  he's just gonna pony up a bunch of dough to
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  the Virgin Islands because you know he wants to. He
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  pieced that money off because he knows he was in trouble.
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  He knows that they had the goods. But the USVII
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  they're more interested in getting money. It was never about
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  justice down in the USVII, and that was always my point.
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  And I remember when I first started bringing that up,
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  there were people like, well, what are you talking about, Denise,
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  George has this SECO suit going and it looks like
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  the USBI is the only place that's looking for justice.
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  And I told everybody then, they were looking for a
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  settlement and what do you know, that's exactly what they got.
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  And remember the USVII got more money than the survivors
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  put together. But yeah, it's the survivors who are looking
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  to benefit here. For decades, Gates carefully transformed himself from
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  hard nosed software executive into one of the world's most
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  recognizable philanthropists, and through the Gates Foundation global health initiatives
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  and climate investments, the Microsoft founder cultivated in an image
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  that often overshadowed memories of the fierce businessman who built
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  one of the world's most powerful technology companies. And there's
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  always been stories about Bill Gates being a shark. The
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  thing is his image was carefully curated not only by
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  Microsoft and himself, but by the media, and before social
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  media showed up, when the legacy media built a profile
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  of somebody. That's what everybody believed. If they told you
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  that Bill Gates was a great guy, that's what you believed.
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  Of Course, now we know all of that's contrived in
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  bs and we know that the legacy media was controlling
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  narratives to help people out. Of course, that can't happen
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  anymore because they can't control the narrative. Once the Internet
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  showed up and social media popped off, that was the
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  end of that. And I think that COVID really accelerated
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  the whole thing. I mean, people were locked up in
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  their houses, so they had plenty of time to dive
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  into all this shit. And I think it's ironic because
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  the whole entire goal was to control the narrative. But
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  once you lock people in their houses and gave them
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  access to the Internet basically all day every day, with
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  helicopter money being dropped on them, people are going to
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  dive into some shit. And a lot of people found
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  out that Bill Gates and all these other so called
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  philanthropists aren't the good people that they make themselves out
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  to be. And it came as a shock, but I
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  don't think it's a shock anymore. According to the report, however,
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  that image is beginning to show cracks. The report claims
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  that Gates and his team have spent years carefully managing
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  his public persona, monitoring how he's perceived and shape in
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  everything from appearances to messaging he had. Despite those efforts,
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  recent revelations surrounding his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey
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  Epstein have increasingly become impossible to separate from the broader
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  Gates narrative. I mean, you know, it's bad when people
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  like Warren Buffett are ghosting you. Bill Gates is not
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  exactly the kind of guy that gets ghosted, but that
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  tune has certainly changed over the last few years, and
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  especially recently with the revelations that have come out. The
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  Wall Street Journal reports that internal efforts to tract public
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  sentiment suggests that Gates' favorability ratings have declined as renewed
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  attention has focused on his interactions with Epstein. And look,
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  it's obvious to anyone who paid attention that what Bill
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  Gates was telling us about his relationship with Epstein was
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  a bunch of bs. I mean, you don't have to
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  be a genius to figure that out. All you have
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  to do is listen to what he said and then
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  look at the documentation that was provided at the time.
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  And that was before we even had access to the files.
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  But now that the Epstein files have been released, or
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  some of them, it's very obvious that Bill Gates has
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  always been lying about his relationship and the extent of
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  that relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. So if he's lying about that,
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  what else is he lying about. While Gates has repeatedly
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  acknowledged meeting Epstein and described those meetings as a mistake,
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  the issue has continued to resurface, particularly as additional documents, emails,
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  and reports have emerged over time. And I think it's
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  been the slow drip that has killed a lot of
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  these people. If they would have just got out ahead
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  of it when it all first came out and they
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  were like, look, this is what's going on, this is
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  why I'm caught up in it, I think people will
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  be a lot more receptive to their narrative. But the
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  fact that they hid from it, the fact that they
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  tried to deny it, the fact that they lied about it, well,
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  now people are going to have a lot more questions,
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  and I think those questions are going to probe a
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  lot deeper than just surface level, and they should. I mean,
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  it's about time people have questions. Fuck. I mean, I
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  know everybody's so worried about what Spencer Pratt's doing or
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  what's going on with insert politician here, But bro, we
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  got big problems, and every single one of them originate
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  with these people. Whether it has to do with shitty finances,
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  out of control college tuition, unaffordable housing, or sending your
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  kid to war. These are the people that are making
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  those decisions. And the fact that those very sane people
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  are mentioned thousands of times in those files should terrify everybody.
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  One factor that appears to have amplified the fallout is
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  the role played by gates former wife, Melinda French Gates.
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  In previous interviews, she identified his relationship with Epstein as
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  a significant factor in her decision to end their marriage
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  after nearly three decades together. You'll imagine your wife of
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  thirty years dumping your ass because you're hanging out with Epstein.
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  And it's not like you're some janitor or a car salesman.
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  You're Bill Gates and your wife is like, you know what,
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  You're such a degenerate scumbag. You're such a sick bastard
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  that I'm divorcing you because you wouldn't heed my warnings
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  about Jeffrey Epstein. Just think about that for a minute.
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  And for those of you out there with a wife, her,
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  a girlfriend, you know what I'm talking about. If your
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  wife or your girlfriend has strong opinions about somebody like that,
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  never a good idea to keep hanging out with them.
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  And people can say, oh, what, you let your girlfriend
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  decide who you hang out with? Bro? Sometimes, yeah, do
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  you trust your girlfriend? Do you trust your wife? Do
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  you trust their opinion? I know that I do. And
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  if my girlfriend tells me, hey, look, Bobby, I'm getting
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  a bad vibe from this dude and I don't think
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  that you should be around them, I'm gonna take that serious.
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  Because when it comes down to it, there's nobody I
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  trust more in the world than her. She's my best friend,
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  my partner in life, and the person that I feel
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  is the most honest with me. So if she has
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  something like that to say about somebody, I'm listening. And
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  it's not like Bill Gates Jeffrey Epstein were running around
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  the neighborhood together when they were youngsters, So it's not
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  like they were like lifelong friends. Some dude enters your
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  life and your wife is like, look, not a good guy.
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  Probably not somebody to spend time with. My advice, you
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  should listen. The combination of personal disclosure an ongoing public
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  interest in the Epstein Files has created a reputational challenge
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  unlike any Gates is faced since stepping away from Microsoft's
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  day to day operations. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of
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  the Journal's report concerns Gates' relationship within the billionaire and
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  philanthropic circles he's long occupied. Among the names mentioned is
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  Warren Buffett, gates longtime friend business ally and one of
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  the largest contributors to the Gates Foundation. According to the report,
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  the relationship appears to have cooled significantly in recent months. Yeah,
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  Warren Buffett won't even return his calls. Was absolutely pulled back.
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  You can say what you want about Warren Buffett, but
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  I don't think we're gonna find Warren Buffett in the
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  Epstein files. Certainly not somebody that's having a you know,
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  back and forth with Jeffrey Epstein. And that's because guess what,
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  Warren Buffett knew, just like the rest of these people knew.
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  But Warren Buffett has enough sense not to have any
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  kind of association with him. The rest of these people, well,
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  we can't say the same thing, can we. And I
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  think it's telling. When you lose a guy like Warren Buffett,
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  it shows everybody else just how bad things are and
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  just how serious the situation has become. And I think
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  when it comes to Bill Gates, the situation is very,
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  very serious. Maybe not from a legal perspective, but reputationally,
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  and for Bill Gates that might even be worse. The
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  journal points to comments made Buffett made earlier this year,
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  indicating that he had not spoken with Gates since the
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  latest Epstein related disclosure. While neither man has publicly characterized
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  the situation as a falling out, the report portrays a
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  growing distance between two figures once considered among the closest
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  partnerships in global philanthropy. And there's no doubt about that.
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  They were running around talking about how they're donating their fortunes,
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  the whole thing, and then the newest Epstein stuff comes
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  out and that's the end of that. So all the
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  people out there that think it's overblown, maybe you should
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  make your case to Warren Buffett. I'm sure, he'd be
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  very receptive. The ripple effects reportedly extend beyond personal relationships.
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  Gates has allegedly withdrawn from or missed several high profile
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  events in recent months. He was notably absent from Berkshire
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  Hathaway's annual meeting, an event he had regularly attended for years.
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  Reports suggest advisors recommended that he stay away despite not
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  being formally excluded. Well look the old Hey, look, you're invited,
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  but better if you don't come, better off if you
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  do not come. So maybe not uninvited formally, but uninvited
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  all the same. The journal also claims some speaking engagements
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  and executive gatherings have quietly disappeared from his schedule as
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  organizations seek to avoid becoming entangled in controversy. Whether this
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  represents a temporary reputational setback or a more lasting shift
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  remains unclear. Gates remains one of the world's wealthiest individuals
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  and continues to lead one of the largest philanthropic organizations
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  on the planet, and yet the report highlights a reality
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  increasingly familiar in the digital age. Carefully constructed public images
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  can take decades to build, but only a few controversies
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  to fundamentally alter and I think that the criticism of
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  Bill Gates is just going to continue to grow. He's
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  somebody that lied about Epstein, lied about that relationship, and
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  continues to lie about it. So the fact that his
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  friends are pulling back and ghost in them is not
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  really that unexpected. So my question is will this be
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  the new reality for Bill Gates or is it only temporary.
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