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What Did Jeffrey Epstein's Calendar Reveal? (Part 2) (6/12/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. So,
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now that the Wall Street Journal has released their article
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or multiple article series about Jeffrey Epstein's calendar, it seems
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that some in the legacy media are finally taking notice
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of what was going on here and they're starting to
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at least talk about it a little bit. And today
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we have an article from Vice News, which isn't really
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known for their exemplary Epstein coverage. They have an article
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out talking about the relationship between Epstein and Bill Gates.
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So let's see what Vice News has to say about
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this relationship, and let's see how often we have to
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correct them. Headline what we know and don't know about
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Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein. This article was authored by
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Tim Marshman, and like I said, it was published by
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Vice News four years after the relationship between Bill Gates
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and Jeffrey Epstein was first made public. Surprisingly little is
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known about it, largely because Gates and his public relations
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team have consistently refused to answer basic questions, concealed information,
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and said things that aren't exactly true. Gates has expressed
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exasperation at being asked questions about Epstein claiming to have
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answered them for the one hundredth time, but never has
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said how many times the two met or when, And
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because much of what he has said has proved to
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be at best misleading, his explanations of the nature of
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the relationship lack credibility. So far, so good from mister
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Marchman here, because that's exactly what happened. Bill Gates is
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somebody that was very close to Epstein. No matter what
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his denials tell us, the facts tell us something different.
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And all of the paling around that should really tell
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you all you need to know. Nobody's driving around New
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York City going to meetings with somebody that they're not
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friendly with. I mean, you might go to meetings with
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people you're not friendly with, but you're not driving there together.
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You're not paling around moving from one locale to the next.
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All of this has a paradoxical effect on the public's
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understanding of the relationship between the one time world's wealthiest
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man and now deceased child sex trafficker who mysteriously close
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to some of the world's most powerful people, including former
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Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. I'm surprised they even
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mentioned Bill Clinton in this article. Usually they'll just say,
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you know Donald Trump and then mention alex Acosta. A
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sort of version of Gresham's law has been at play,
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with bad information driving out good. Everyone already knows about
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Gates and Epstein, even if much of what they know,
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such as the claim which periodically goes viral that Gates
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visited Epstein's private island dozens of times, isn't actually true. Well,
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they're not lying about that. I've never seen anything to
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confirm that Gates was there does of times, or that
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Gates engaged in abusing anybody. That's not what I'm saying.
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My point is this, Why is somebody like Bill Gates,
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mister richest man in the world, even thinking about trying
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to get money from somebody who has been convicted of
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crimes like Jeffrey Epstein. Where's the thought process there? How
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is that even a thing? If you're Bill Gates, don't
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you have a bunch of other people you can get
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money from. So none of it makes sense. And as
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far as the pictures go, I have to say, there
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are a lot of fake pictures surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, the
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people that were hanging out with them and the island.
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But does that mean there are no pictures of Bill
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Gates down there? I can't say that. I don't know
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for sure now. I haven't seen any pictures of Bill
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Gates hanging out on the island or anything like that
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that have been confirmed. And the people that put out
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the fake pictures and stuff like that, they're really only
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hurting the case overall, because what it does is it
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gives room for people like this author to start calling
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people conspiracy theorists. And while there certainly are a bunch
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of conspiracy floating around surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, one thing is
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a goddamn certainty Jeffrey Epstein and his criminal enterprise. Oh
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it was a conspiracy, all right, but not a conspiracy theory.
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A conspiracy to human traffic and longder money. That's what
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the conspiracy was. No theory added to the end of that, folks.
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This means that genuinely new information such as that contained
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in a Wall Street Journal story published this week doesn't
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have quite the impact it might well not for nothing,
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mister author of the article. That's because people like you
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think that you have a handle and a grip on
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the Epstein story, when the reality is you most certainly
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do not. Gates' strategy of obfuscation has left them closely
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associated with the infamous criminal, but also created confusion that
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diminishes the power of new revelations. No, they do not.
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Only if you're somebody who's worried about giving ammunition quote
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unquote to the other side. You know that a lot
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of these journalists are political activists making pretend that they're journalists.
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The effect of all of this is that the public
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remains in the dark about the nature of the close
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association between one of the world's most powerful men and
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the pedophile who sexually exploited dozens of children, which began
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after Epstein had already been convicted of procuring a minor
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for prostitution in two thousand and eight and just served
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over a year in prison. Later, the sweetheart deal he
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obtained from prosecutors would be revealed by the Miami Herald,
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and a series of reports would lay out the cottage
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industry that sprang up around Epstein systematically paying off and
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silencing his victims. The cottage industry, well, guess what, mister
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journalist advice. There wouldn't be a cottage industry if you
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and your pals in the legacy media did your fucking job.
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How about that? Instead of trying to gas people up
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to hate their neighbors, why not direct them towards their
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real Nay, and those enemies are scumbags like this Bill Gates,
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Jeffrey Epstein and all of the other so called elite
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that don't give a fuck about you. Oh you're poor,
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that's all right, Let the meet war. The Journal story
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is based on calendars. The paper's reporters obtained and documents
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one day September eighth, twenty fourteen, on which Epstein had
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arranged to meet with several powerful figures in New York,
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Among them was Gates, with whom he was scheduled to
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spend six hours spread across meetings with four different people
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at four different locations, including Epstein's townhouse. It also documents
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four additional days on which Epstein and Gates were, according
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to Epstein's calendar, scheduled to meet, at least three of
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which appear to have been previously unknown. This is extremely
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significant because it substantially increases the amount of specific known
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meetings between the two and shows that they were meeting
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on specific dates late into twenty fourteen. In fact, the
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relationship had caused conflict between Gates and his then wife,
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Melinda French Gates, which would ultimately end in their divorce.
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But here's the thing, mister author, We've been telling you
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this for years. How many people have been telling you
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about the close nature of the relationship between Bill Gates
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and Jeffrey Epstein, and how many of these journalists let
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their own bias get in the way from them believing it.
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As Bill Gates said many times before, a spokesperson told
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the journal it was a mistake to have ever met
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with him, and he deeply regrets it. This is the
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line Gates has gone with for years. To understand just
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how inadequate an explanation it is requires understanding what we
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definitely know about his relationship with Epstein and how we
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know it. In August twenty nineteen, four days after Epstein
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died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell. So a
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guy who's decrying conspiracy theories is out here talking about
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Jeffrey Epstein died of suicide in his jail cell, and
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he knows that for a fact. Why because the government
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told them, Oh, okay, well that's cool. If you want
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to believe that, then that's great. But me. I'm gonna
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need a little confirmation, especially when it's Bill Barr being
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the voice telling us that he's the guy who saw
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all of the evidence, he saw the videos, he knows
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what happened, and we should all believe him. Here's an idea,
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release those videos to the public. How about that. What's
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stopping you from doing that. It's not a state secret.
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We're not talking about national security here. We're talking about
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a child molester who died in a jail cell. Let's
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call it what it is. Now. Give us the information
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and give us all of the details, full and complete transparency.
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Nothing else is acceptable. And instead of working towards that end,
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reporters like this one, journalists like this one instead get
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on here and cry about conspiracy theories, instead of taking
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the time to write a big ass article demanding accountability.
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After CNBC reported that Gates and Epstein had spoken more
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more than once and met at least once in New
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York in twenty thirteen, after which Gates, according to people
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with knowledge of the matter, flew upon Beach on Epstein's
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private plane. A spokesperson told the network Epstein never provided tax,
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a state or services of any kind to Bill Gates. Now,
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it was just his friendship, right, his companionship Epstein such
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a cool guy that I want to go and hang
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out with them. Is that what Bill Gates said? Because
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remember we're talking about a man who could be with
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anybody he wants in the whole world. He chose to
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spend his time with Jeffrey Epstein. And there's no amount
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of spin or nonsense that any reporter or journalist can
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toss on that to change it a bit. More than
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two weeks later, France Info reported that, according to Epstein's handyman,
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Gates and French Gates had been guessed at Epstein's luxury
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apartment on Avenue Folk in Paris one hundred percent. They
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were just like Harvey Weinstein was a guest there and
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so many others. Any hint of business or a personal
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relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Bill and Melinda Gates, a
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spokesperson told the outlet is totally false, only to find
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out that it's not. But you're all engaging in conspiracy
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theories here, Mike. Around this time, the Wall Street Journal
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interviewed Gates, who was promoting a Netflix documentary about himself,
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asked to describe his relationship with Epstein, Gates said, I
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met him, I didn't have any business relationship or friendship
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with him. I didn't go to New Mexico or Florida
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or Palm Beach or any of that lies all of
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its lies. And if he has nothing to hide, why
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is he lying about this relationship. A week after that,
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on September sixth, twenty nineteen, The New Yorker published a
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report about the relationship between Epstein and the MIT Media Lab.
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In October twenty fourteen, Gates had donated two million dollars
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to the lab. An email from director joy Eto to
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the magazine obtained said this is a two million dollar
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gift from Bill Gates directed by jeffre Epstein. A spokesperson
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told the magazine that any claim that Epstein directed any
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programmatic or personal grant making for Bill Gates is completely false.
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Several days later, the journal interview, which took place before
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The New Yorker broke the MIT story was published, carried
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a statement from a Gates spokesperson. Although Epstein pursued Bill
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Gates aggressively, any account of a business partnership or personal
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relationship between the two is simply not true, and any
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claim that Epstein directed any programmatic or personal grant making
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for Bill Gates is completely false. Oh yeah, I'm sure
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it's all false. All of this is just bs and
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we all just made it up. They were never friends,
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They never hung out, they never palled around. Bill Gates
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never flew on that plane. On October twelve, twenty nineteen,
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The New York Times published what was and remains the
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most in depth examination of the relationship between the software
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tycoon and the criminal. You mean, the pedophile. What's making
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you not call him that? Mister author of this article.
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Mister Gates met with mister Epstein on numerous occasions, the
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Times reported, including at least three times at mister Epstein's
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palatial Manhattan townhouse and at least one staying laid into
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the night. According to the paper, the two men were
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introduced by Boris Nikolitch, the science advisor for gates multi
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billion dollar foundation. The report identified three distinct occasions in
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two thousand and eight on which the two had met
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a party in January at Epstein's townhouse, a conference in
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March in Long Beach, and to get together in May
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again at Epstein's townhouse, where they were surrounded by the
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likes of Nicolitch and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, as
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well as on one occasion in September twenty thirteen, when
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the two met when Gates flew to Palm Beach on
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Epstein's private airplane from New Jersey, though it wasn't clear
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if this was the same twenty thirteen flight on which
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CNBC reported. So I think that we can take from
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this that Bill Gates was on that plane more times
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than it was documented. I think that's a safe assumption here.
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Bill Gates regrets ever meeting with Epstein and recognizes it
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was an error in judgment to do so. Bridget Arnold,
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a spokesperson for Gates, told The Times. She asserted that
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her client, who had spent decades as the richest or
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one of the richest men in the world, had had
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security apparatus of a head of state, had flown on
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Epstein's private plane without knowing who he was. She would
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not say how many times the two had met, And
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it's always the same story. I'm so sad and mad
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that I was hanging out with Epstein. I regret my
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relationship with them. No, you regret getting caught, You regret
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being outed. As of October twenty nineteen. Then, despite the
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various carefully phrased denials of a business or personal relationship
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he made and that were made on his behalf, reports
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which Gates did not dispute, documented at least five distinct
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meetings between him and Epstein over a period of nearly
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three years, for in New York and one in Long Beach.
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It had also been reported that Gates had flown on
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Epstein's private plane and visited his Paris apartment. Stuff that
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we have been talking about here literally for years. Okay,
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it's nice that the legacy media is finally catching up,
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but we've been talking about this stuff for years. This
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all amounted to solid evidence of a substantial relationship of
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some kind between the two men, and as the person
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closest to Gates was aware, there was more of the
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public didn't know. When The Times published its investigation into
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the relationship, The Wall Street Journal would report years later,
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Melinda French Gates held calls with divorce lawyers, one issue
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that led to her want to end the marriage. The
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paper were reported accurately, as she confirmed last year in
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an interview with CBS, was her husband's relationship with Epstein.
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She was also aware of another meeting between the two
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two men in September twenty thirteen, which hadn't been known
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to the public and wouldn't be until The Daily Beast
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reported it in twenty twenty one. She knew about it
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because she had been at it, and, according to The Beast,
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soon after said she was furious at the relationship. Can
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you imagine your husband hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein. I
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wanted to see who this man was, and I regretted
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it from the second I stepped in the door, She
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told CBS, I had nightmares about it afterwards. Two years ago,
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The Daily Beast reported that Gates and Epstein had in
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fact met dozens of times into twenty fourteen, and that
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Epstein had counseled Gates on his struggling marriage. Your characterization
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of his meetings with Epstein and others about philanthropy is inaccurate,
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a spokesperson told The Daily Beast. I don't buy that
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for a minute. The Daily Beast has done real good
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work when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein in his pals,
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and I have to believe that what they did here
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was solid as well, because when we're talking about a
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guy like Bill Gates, He's done nothing but lie, so
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why would I give him the benefit of the doubt
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at all? While it's possible this review inadvertently omits other information,
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all of this together amounts to about what we knew
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about the relationship between Gates and Epstein before the Journal
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published its story this week. We knew they had met
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at least six times between twenty eleven and twenty thirteen,
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and perhaps as many times as late as twenty fourteen,
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that the relationship played a key role in precipitating Gates's divorce,
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and that Gates denied there was any business or personal
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relationship between him and Epstein before extensive documentation of the
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relationship caused him to shift to simply expressing regret for
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meeting with Epstein in an attempt to secure billions of
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dollars for global public health projects. The Journal's reporting established
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that the two were regularly meeting later than had previously
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been specif documented, including in the months leading up to
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the two million dollar gift for MIT Media Lab that's
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MIT internal record show as having been given and directed
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by Epstein. Due to opaque labeling of a graphic, it's
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not clear if the earliest meeting documented in the calendars
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was in September twenty thirteen, and if so, whether it
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was one of the two meetings that month that was
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previously reported on. So it isn't clear exactly how many
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new meetings were revealed, and I don't think that really matters, honestly.
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I think that it reaffirms what we already knew, and
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when you have this documentation following along with what we
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already knew, I think there is zero debate to be
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had about the relationship between Epstein and Bill Gates. These
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dudes were tight and it was a lot more than
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just paling around talking about work. In the years since
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its ties to Epstein were first reported on, Gates has
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repeatedly addressed them in public. In twenty nineteen, at a
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deal book conference, he described the relationship as a mistake
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in judgment. In twenty twenty one, he told CNN it
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was a huge mistake to spend time with them. This year,
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he told Australia's ABC, I shouldn't have had dinners with
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them and expressed exasperation at having to answer questions about
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the subject for the one hundredth time. Well, you give
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one hundred different answers every time you're asked. There are
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many open questions about the exact nature of the relationship
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between Gates and Epstein. Saying so doesn't imply that the
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answers must be untoward, or that gates explanation that he
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met with Epstein to discuss philanthropy and ended the relationship
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after it became clear that continued dialogue would prove fruitless
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is untrue. It's amazing how this author continues to give
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Bill Gates the benefit of the doubt given the journals
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reporting this week, though, the most basic and easily answered questions,
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which Gates could address with one number and two dates,
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seem more important than ever, how many times did he
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meet Jeffrey Epstein and when did he do so for
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the first and last time. It can't be a surprise
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that in the absence of such basic information, conspiracy theories,
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some ridiculous and some less so, would thrive. And it's
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all about the conspiracy theories, right, That's all these people
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want to talk about. But think back a few years
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when they were telling us that Bill Gates hanging out
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with Jeffrey Epstein was a conspiracy theory too, And just
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like most things that have to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
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It's all a conspiracy theory until it's not all right, folks,
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that's going to do it for this one. All of
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the information that goes with the episode can be found
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