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Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein And His Rolodex Full Of Powerful Friends (7/15/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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When it comes to Bill Clinton and his relationship with
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Jeffrey Epstein, for me, the biggest problem is how untruthful
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Bill Clinton has been about that relationship. These guys were
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obviously relatively close. And while I have never once said
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that I think that Bill Clinton was abusing girls with
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Jeffrey Epstein, there is no doubt that Bill Clinton acted
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as a vehicle for Jeffrey Epstein to help rebuild his image,
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and not only that, but to open some doors that
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would have never been available to him unless he was
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with Bill Clinton. So when we talk about being an enabler,
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when we talk about somebody who has helped Jeffrey Epstein
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along the way, there is no doubt that Bill Clinton
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is in that conversation, and he's right at the top
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of the list. And in this episode, we're going to
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talk a little bit more about that relationship and the
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receipts that go along with it. Today's article is from
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the Email and the headline Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton's
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Curious friendship. Late pedophile hung portrait of cross dressing Bill
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in his eighty eight million dollar Manhattan Lair made seventeen
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visits to the White House and flew President twenty six
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times on his private jet. So does anybody want to
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discuss any of that? I mean kind of important, right,
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Why in the hell would Jeffrey Epstein be going to
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the White House? And if you have a legitimate reason,
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let's hear it. My biggest problem, like I just said,
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is that Bill Clinton has not answered any real questions.
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And don't refer me to that dumbass statement from twenty nineteen.
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Talk about archaic it might as well be the dead
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Sea scrolls at this point. And with all of the
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developments since the time that that statement was put out,
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don't you think that it would be the proper move
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to go back, look at that statement, readjust it, and
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maybe release a new one. But unfortunately, the legacy media
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will never force Bill Clinton's hand. And just like they
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needed a little help to their buddy Jeffrey Epstein, they're
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gonna need a little help along the way here to
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out there buddy Bill Clinton. So why don't we help
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them along their way and give them that little bit
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of a push. This article was authored by Ben Ashford,
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Jeffrey Epstein's influential friends and the lad acquaintances are being
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unmasked for the first time in newly unsealed court filings.
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But one name stands out among the glittering array of politicians,
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Hollywood stars and royalty. That of William Jefferson Clinton, the
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forty second President of the United States. And remember, it's
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not just because of a comment Bill Clinton made talking about,
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oh yeah, Jeff's a great guy, not just any comments,
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not just some innuendo. Because they were in a picture together.
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These guys were obviously pretty tight. And the question is
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how come they were tight, What were they doing, what
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was their business associations, and also what about the financials.
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How much money did Jeffrey Epstein pony over to Bill
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Clinton and his foundations? That's a pretty interesting question. No.
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Clinton has been linked to the late child sex predator
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for decades and features more than seventy times in documents
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finally made public this week by Judge Loretta Presca. The
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seventy seven year old Democrat claims the pair were barely buddies,
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denies knowledge of Epstein's sex trafficking network, and insists he
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never set foot on Little Saint James, nicknamed Peto Island,
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and the setting for multiple bouts of sexual abuse. However,
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as daily mail dot Com documents, their relationship stretches back
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to Clinton's days in the White House, and the two
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men were once close enough for the former leader of
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the Free World to accept repeated trips to Epstein's private jet.
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Newly redacted files included in the release of documents this
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week have also unveiled the extraordinary claim that the President
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once even went as far as to threaten a magazine
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not to write sex trafficking articles about his good friend. Now,
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I don't know how much I believe that it's possible, right,
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very possible, But we definitely know that Jeffrey Epstein he
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threatened Vanity Fair. He called over there and told them
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the deal, and after Epstein flexed on him, Graydon Carter
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decided not to run the piece. New docs, new questions.
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The specter of Jeffrey Epstein returned to haunt the Clinton's
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this week, when Bill's name appeared more than seventy times
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on newly unsealed court papers. The former president was among
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dozens of Epstein's associates unmasked in a vast document drop
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from the twenty fifteen Glenn Maxwell Virginia Roberts defamation case.
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According to Roberts lawyers, Bubba was a key person in
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the lives of the dead financier and his former lover,
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and the trio enjoyed a close relationship. I don't know
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how anyone can doubt this or deny it. We all
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know how tight they were. What you just get invited
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to somebody's wedding, their daughter's wedding if you're not tight.
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Somebody just has a picture of you on the wall
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wearing a blue dress if you're not tight. So all
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this bs about Bill Clinton not really knowing Epstein, not
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being close to him, not hanging out with him, having
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no idea about anything. None of that tracks. And even
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in the undeniable face of proof about the relationship between
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Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein, the legacy media they just
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have no desire to report the facts. Instead, they just
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keep whitewashing things and making up excuses, Oh well, Bill
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Clinton wasn't involved in the abuse, as if there aren't
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levels to this shit, As if Bill Clinton's involvement wasn't
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a huge boon for Jeffrey Epstein's abuse. It most certainly was.
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And that's not me telling you that that's all the survivors,
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and that's everybody who was involved. So at what point
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does Bill Clinton get abandoned by the Democratic establishment and
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when is he forced to answer some questions. Roberts attorneys
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even sought to depose him in one especially incendiary filing.
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In a twenty sixteen deposition from another Epstein victim, Johanna Schoberg,
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she recalls the dead predator, telling her Clinton likes them young,
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referring to girls. Well, that's not a shock considering what
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happened with Monica Lewinsky. We all know that he likes
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him young. As far as abusing girls with Epstein, though
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so far I have not seen any proof of that.
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Ask what she knew about Epstein's friendship with Clinton, Schoberg said,
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I knew he had dealings with Bill Clinton. However, she
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never met Clinton and never saw him on Little Saint James.
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Her testimony added in other documents, Roberts makes the colorful
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claim that Clinton wants intervened to stop a magazine expose
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about Epstein. Maxwell's lawyers asked Roberts about a twenty eleven
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email exchange she had with a reporter friend in which
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they discuss the merits of selling her now infamous photo
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with Prince Andrew to Vanity Fair. As they spar over
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her recollection of the messages, Roberts replies, it does concern
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me that they could want to write about me, considering
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that be Clinton walked into VF and threatened them not
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to write sex trafficking articles about his good friend Jaye.
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Since the papers were released, former Vanity Fair editor Graydon
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Carter has said the incident categorically did not happen. In
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her own deposition, Maxwell fifty said the claim that Clinton
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had a meal on Epstein's island was one hundred percent false.
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Clinton denies any wrongdoing. Well, considering Glenn Maxwell is a
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known human trafficker and has been indicted for perjury, I
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wouldn't exactly call her a reliable narrator. Clinton in the frame.
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They say that a picture speaks one thousand words, but
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anyone who stumbled across Jeffrey Epstein's peculiar life size portrait
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of a cross dressing Bill Clinton would be more likely
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to be left speechless. The bizarro artwork depicted the former
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commander in chief lounging on a chair in the Oval
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office in blood red heels and a figure hugging blue dress.
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Now ask yourselves, why in the fuck would he have
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this picture on the wall. What is he looking to prove?
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Who is he looking to impress? And why is Bill
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Bill Clinton in a dress and some heels being put
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up there and showcased. You would think that Bill Clinton
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wouldn't be happy with that, right, Hey, Jeffrey, get that
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shit off your wall? Or is it that Jeffrey and
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him are so close it didn't matter. Oh that's just Jeffrey.
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Oh shucks, he's my pal. I mean, for real, look
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at all the craziness about alex Acosta. Imagine if alex
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Acosta had his picture hanging on the wall at Jeffrey
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Epstein's forget it. Imagine if Trump did. Imagine if anybody did.
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But since it's Bill Clinton, it's just a coincidence. It's
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no big deal. It's just art. His kookie outfit was
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strikingly similar to the one worn by Hillary out of
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two thousand and nine Galla dinner for Kennedy Center hon Rees.
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The painting was called Parsing Bill and was created in
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twenty twelve by fledgling Australian American artist Patrina Ryan Clyde.
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It's not clear whether Epstein on the original or a print,
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but it was spotted hanging up inside the Pedophiles fifty
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six million New York townhouse in October of that year.
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It was absolutely Bill Clinton. It was shocking. It was
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definitely a painting of him, a source reveal to Daily
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mail dot com when we revealed the portrait's existence in
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twenty nineteen. It was very provocative, a sexual picture. He
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was wearing heels, a blue dress and his hand was
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in a weird position. Quite why Epstein, who hanged himself
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in prison in August of twenty nineteen, allegedly would have
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such a lurid likeness of the former president in his
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home has been open to much speculation, and again, if
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Bill Clinton wants to end the speculation, it's pretty simple.
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Come out and give a real answer about what happened here.
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Don't give us a stupid ass canned statement from your associate.
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You come out and you tell us what the fuck's
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going on here and why he has this picture of you.
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Imagine if I knew some horrible dark secrets about you,
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and you came over to my house and I have
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a giant painting of you. Joe Rogan joked about on
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his podcast, asked, right, when you walk into the front
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door of you in address, and I'm like, hey, buddy,
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I mean that pretty much sums it up right. There's
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no reason in the whole world for that to even occur.
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I have a lot of really good friends, and I
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don't have any pictures of them in dresses, and I
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certainly don't have him hanging on my wall. So what
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the fuck is the deal here? And why was this
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picture of Bill Clinton prominently hung on the wall? Epstein
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went from university dropout to mercurial money manager, acquiring all
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the trapings of a billionaire playboy, from majestic homes in
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New York, New Mexico, and Palm Beach, Florida, to his
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own Caribbean island. Along the way, the now notorious pedophile
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acquired scores of influential friends, many of whom were listed
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in his little Black Book of Contacts, where he noted
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down twenty numbers and addresses for Clinton, and despite repeatedly
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distancing himself from the child predator and his crimes, Clinton
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was close enough to accept dozens of flights on Epstein's
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private jet, notorious nicknamed the Lolita Express, and We also
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heard back in the day that Bill Clinton had a
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special seat on this plane. So let's not act like
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Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein didn't have a very, very
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tight relationship. They most certainly did. What you should really
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ask yourself is why these activists journalists have refused to
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give you the real deal. Flight log show that Clinton
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flew on the Boeing seven twenty seven tri jet on
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twenty six occasions, traveling to an array of exotic locations
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including Brunei, Norway, Russia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, the Azores, Africa, Belgium, China,
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and New York. Five trips on the plane. Huh is
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anybody else disgusted that Bill Clinton hasn't been called onto
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the carpet? I mean for real, and again, look, just
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to be clear, I'm not alleging that he took part
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in the abuse. What I'm saying is why won't he
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give any answers about what went down, what did he see,
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who was there, who was he paling around with, what
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was he doing with? Epstein? Answered any of these questions?
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And I don't want to hear shit about that stupid
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statement from twenty nineteen. You better come out with something new.
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Dailymail dot Com published never before seen images of the
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forty second president of the United States receiving a neck
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and shoulder massage from Epstein victim Shante Davies during a
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stopover in two thousand and two. So this man was
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getting a massage from somebody who was being actively trafficked
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at the time, and I'm the asshole because I want
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to bring it up and talk about that. I'm the
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asshole because I want Bill Clinton called out on the carpet.
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Here's an idea. Quit playing dumbass politics and hold everybody
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who was involved to account. Hold everybody to the same standard,
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and nobody, not even your fave billy boy Clinton, should
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have a different standard to which he is held. Davies,
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then a twenty two year old massage therapist who claims
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she was recruited into Epstein's circle by Glenn Maxwell before
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being raped and abused, insisted that Clinton was charming and
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sweet on the humanitarian trip to Africa that also included
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Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker. Although the image looks bizarre,
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President Clinton was a perfect gentleman during the trip and
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I saw absolutely no foul play involving him. She recalled,
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and this is what I based my comments on. Bill
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Clinton was never accused of any sort of foul play
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when it comes to hurting these girls or abusing these
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girls that were under Epstein's influence. Instead, for Bill Clinton,
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it's a different level the enabling and the doors that
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he was opening up while he was hanging around with
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this dude, and Bill Clinton has to answer for it.
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Clinton's camp insists he took a total of four trips
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from two thousand and two to two thousand and three
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on Epstein's aircraft, which last flew in twenty sixteen and
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is slowly corroding at an airfield in Brunswick, Georgia. West
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Wing regular Bill Clinton owned up to six meetings with
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Epstein dating back to two These include the four flights
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on Epstein's plane, a visit to his Harlem office, and
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a brief appearance at the pedophile's New York home. So
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this is what he owned up to, and we know
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it's a lot more so, if you owned up to
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only a few of the trips, what are you trying
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to hide? And really that's the whole entire crux of
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my argument. What the hell is Bill Clinton trying to hide?
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And why is he trying to hide it? However, as
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Deli Mel previously revealed, Epstein enjoyed extraordinary access to the
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White House throughout the Clinton administration nearly a decade earlier.
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The deep pocketed predator stopped by the West Wing just
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a month after Clinton's inauguration in January nineteen ninety three,
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the first of seventeen visits in three years. During his visits,
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he took eight different women with them. The logs identify
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them as Maxwell, who at the time was thirty two,
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and three other girlfriends, Selinda Middlefart then twenty one, Eva
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Anderson Dubin thirty three, and Francis Jardine, who was believed
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to be in her twenties. The four other women who
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also appear in the logs are named Jennifer Garrison, Shelley Gaffney,
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Jennifer Driver, and Lubiyov or LoVa. Visitor logs confirmed he
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was signed in by a person named Rubin, a possible
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reference to Robert Rubin, who became Director of the National
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Economic Council when Clinton took office and Treasury Secretary in
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nineteen ninety five. Ah, no big deal here, no ties
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at all. This was just a chance meeting nothing more
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than strangers passing in the night. Just ask Bill Clinton,
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That's what I'll tell you. Epstein returned on September twenty
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ninth to attend a reception organized by the White House
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Historical Association after he donated ten thousand dollars to help
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renovate the building. It was one of the earliest instances
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of Epstein using philanthropy to gain access to powerful men,
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a tactic he would deploy extensively to negate his two
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thousand and eight conviction in Florida for having sex with
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underage girls. Photos from the Bancho Epstein and Clinton shaking hands,
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with both men smiling broadly. The bulk of Epstein's visits
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came in nineteen ninety four, when he visited on a
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dozen occasions, meeting a variety of aids, including Mark Middleton,
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who was a special assistant to the President and also
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flew on the Lolita Express. According to flight logs, Epstein
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visited Clinton just once in nineteen ninety five, on January
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twenty eighth, and he was again signed in by Middleton
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aids Gruesome suicide. Middleton's curious cameo dozen end there, Copsey
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took his own life in twenty twenty two, but the
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gory suicide raised more questions than answers. The married father
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of two, who worked for his family's HVAC business after
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leaving politics, was found hanging from a tree on farmland
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in Perryville, Arkansas. I could see that he had a
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gunshot wound to the chest, and that he had a
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knot tied to an extension cord that was around his neck,
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and it was attached to the limb directly above him,
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noted a deputy. A search of Middleton's BMW turned up
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three boxes of buckshot and a gun case, but no weapon.
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The fifty nine year old's death was nonetheless recorded as
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the suicide. In nineteen ninety six, one year after leaving
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the White House, Middleton was accused of abusing his access
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to impress business clients and was barred from the Executive
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Mansion without senior approval. More like, he took the fall.
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While we need a fall guy, who's it going to be?
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All right, It's going to be Doug Middleton, because we
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all know that the Clintons had fall guys and fall
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gals all around them. According to the Arkansas Times, Middleton's
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family said he was suffering from depression when he died.
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A number of Clinton's former associates have perished over the
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years in unexpected circumstances, including Deputy White House Counsel Vince
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Foster in nineteen ninety three. His death from a self
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inflicted gunshot was ruled a suicide, but sparked a slew
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of conspiracy theories about the involvement of the Clintons. And
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to be clear, from all the evidence that I've seen,
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Doug Middleton killed himself. Now, is there something else amiss?
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Are they hiding information? I don't know, but from the
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official reports and what we've seen, I would say that
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Doug Middleton was suffering from a bit of anxiety, depression, whatever,
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and decided that enough was enough. But how many people
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connected to the Clintons have ended up going this route?
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Warren to stay away. Doug Band, Clinton's one time chief advisor,
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poured fuel on the Epstein bubba fire when he came
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forward in twenty twenty to say that the ex president
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did indeed visit Little Saint James. Band said he repeatedly
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warned his boss to steer clear of Epstein and his
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warp Madam Glenn Maxwell, who was particularly close with Chelsea
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Clinton and attended her twenty ten wedding. I mean, you're
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not getting invited to the wedding if you're not somebody
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who's close to the family. We're not talking about a
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shotgun wedding here at the Little White Chapel. We're talking
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about Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and their daughter Chelsea getting mad.
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So you know it's going to be a whole ass affair,
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a whole ass ordeal, and someone like Lane Maxwell getting
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invited to that wedding. Yikes. Really nobody wants to explain
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that either. Huh, I know, I know, let's talk about
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alex Acosta. Glen had access to yachts and nice homes,
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he told a Vanity Fair Chelsea needed that. Band insisted
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that Clinton had visited Epstein's Caribbean retreat in two thousand
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and three, despite Clinton's camps repeated claims to the contrary,
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and remember, Doug Band was the keyholder. Doug Band was
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Bill Clinton's number one guy. He told the magazine that
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he was so wary about the invite that he excused
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himself from the trip. A Clinton spokesman dismissed the allegation
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and characterized Band as a bitter X staffer seeking to
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profit on his former connections. Oh yeah, sure. Look, the
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truth is the truth, and there's no doubt that the
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Clinton's and Jeffrey Epstein had a lot tighter of a
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relationship than they're letting us know. Ban was just twenty
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two and doing a law degree at Georgetown University when
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he landed an unpaid internship in the White House midway
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through Clinton's first term. When Clinton left office in two
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thousand and one, Band went with them and helped to
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resurrect the Clinton brand that was tarnished by the controversial
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pardons and the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal. Band became semi
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famous in the process, enjoying a brief romance with Naomi
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Campbell before falling out with Chelsea in twenty eleven. A
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newly unsealed deposition suggests he may be especially close to Maxwell,
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who is serving twenty years for grooming young girls. To
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Epstein asked if they were ever in a romantic relationship,
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the disgrace socialite, you mean newman trafficker, told Epstein's survivor,
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Virginia Roberts lawyers, we are talking about adult consensual relationships.
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It's off the record. And I've talked about the possibility
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that Bill Clinton and Glenne Maxwell were involved romantically before
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and where did I get that information? Well, it's out there.
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It's a Daily Beast article if you were wondering, And
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I wouldn't think that the Daily Beast would be called,
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you know, a right wing outlet. So the Daily Beast
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has been all over the Bill Clinton stuff, and you
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have to give them a tip of the cap. They're
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going against the grain and they're trying to provide some
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information about Bill Clinton and the role that he played
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with Jeffrey Epstein and Glain Maxwell. And there has been
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some rumor, some innuendo that Bill Clinton and Glen Maxwell
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might have been involved romantically. I can't prove that, but
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the receipts are there, and you can find those receipts
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in that Daily Beast article. And while I can't prove
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it one way or the other, it certainly seems like
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attracks to me. We all know that Glean Maxwell's a skafuzza,
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and we all know that Bill Clinton, well, that dude
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will fuck anything, including a catcher's mitt. So does it
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not track with you? Certainly tracks with me. One thing
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that I don't think can be disputed is the fact
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that Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein were super tight, at
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least for a period of time. And now that that's
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all being revealed for the masses to see, will somebody
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start asking Bill Clinton the hard questions for some reason?
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I have my doubts. All right, folks, that's gonna do
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it for this one. All of the information that goes
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with this episode can be found in the description box.
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What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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As the lawsuit between the US Virgin Islands and JP
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Morgan continues to make its way through court, we're finding
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out a lot more about the emails and the scheduling
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that was going on within Jeffrey Epstein's universe. Well, one
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of the people that was a bit chummier with Epstein
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than he has let on is Michael wolf And Michael
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wolf is an author who thought it would be a
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good idea to continue to palle around with Epstein after
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Epstein's conviction. So who is Michael wolf Well, let's talk
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about him real quick. Michael Wolfe is an American journalist
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as well as a columnist and contributor at USA Today,
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The Hollywood Reporter and the UK edition of GQ. He
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has received two National Magazine Awards, a Mira Award, and
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has authored seven books, including burn Rate, about his own
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dot com company, and The Man who Owns the News,
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a biography of Rupert Murdoch. He co founded the news
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aggregation website newser and is a former editor of Adweek.
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On January fifth, twenty eighteen, Wolfe's book Fire and Fury
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Inside the Trump White House was published, containing unflattering descriptions
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of behavior by US President Donald Trump, chaotic interactions among
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the White House senior staff, and derogatory comments about the
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Trump family by former White House chief strategist Steve Pannin.
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The book quickly became a New York Times Number one
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bestseller and became the first of a trilogy about Trump
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and power, the other two books being Siege and Landslide.
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There was like a whole ass industry that popped up
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around Trump, all of these jerkofs who wrote all of
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these stupid books, and all they're doing is rehashing the
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same stuff that the other knuckleheads said before them. Here's
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an idea. If you're going to have some kind of
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investigative piece, it's a good idea to give us some
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new news and not just rehash the bs that you've
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been talking about or other people have been talking about
24:26
ad nauseum that goes nowhere. And that's what all of
24:29
these books pretty much were. Did any of them offer
24:33
up anything worthwhile? Of course they didn't. It was the
24:36
shiny object in the room, though, and people knew, grifters
24:40
knew that there was a whole ass cottage industry popping
24:43
up around this. So all of these people were like,
24:45
you know what, I'm gonna write a book. I have
24:47
an inside source. Meanwhile, they're all just telling the same
24:50
ass story, just repackaged. So today we have an article
24:53
from The Daily Beast talking a little bit more about
24:56
Michael wolf and how he conveniently omitted his his own
25:00
relationship with Jeffrey Epstein from that part of his book headline,
25:05
Michael Wolfe is all over Jeffrey Epstein's date book. This
25:10
article was authored by Lachlan Cartwright. Gossipy provocateur and author
25:15
Michael Wolfe has long been accused of being too chummy
25:18
with his highest profile subjects, which at one point included
25:23
Jeffrey Epstein. New documents obtained and reviewed by Confider reveal
25:27
the extent to which the pair spent time together even
25:31
after Epstein was found guilty of sexually abusing a fourteen
25:35
year old girl. Now, how can you ever justify hanging
25:39
out with somebody who is a convicted sex offender? Like
25:42
maybe if it's your family member and you guys are
25:45
out like a barbecue or something. All right, look, Uncle
25:48
Jed's coming over, the fucking diddler. But all of these people,
25:51
they willingly were hanging out with Epstein because let's be
25:54
very clear, they were all looking to benefit in some
25:57
sort of way writing on this dude's and if that
26:01
meant closing their eyes and ignoring that girls were being
26:04
harmed all around them, then that's what they were going
26:07
to do. According to newly on earthed, scheduling records and
26:10
emails from the US Virgin Islands Attorney General Wolf and Epstein,
26:15
who were close in late nineties and early two thousands,
26:18
at one point partnering up to try and buy New
26:21
York Magazine, had at least nine planned meetings between twenty
26:24
twelve and twenty and fifteen. Harvey Weinstein was also involved
26:29
in that plan purchase of New York Magazine and the
26:33
idea behind that was obviously for Epstein to continue to
26:37
refurbish his image and to make it look like, with
26:40
his own narratives coming out of his own paper, that
26:43
he's just a guy that has been much maligned and
26:46
that all of these girls are liars. Thankfully, it never happened. Unfortunately,
26:50
there's a bunch of jerkofs in the media like this clown,
26:54
who have done nothing but run cover for Jeffrey Epstein
26:57
for all of these years. These previously unreported meetups, which
27:02
were not disclosed in Wolfe's most recent book, Too Famous,
27:05
and its chapter title The Last Days of Jeffrey Epstein,
27:08
provide a unique window into just how much the two
27:11
socialized even after Epstein served jail in two thousand and
27:15
eight and became a registered sex offender. Pretty convenient that
27:20
he left his own palin around with Epstein out of
27:22
the book. Huh, Yeah, you know what, we'll just we'll
27:25
admit this and we'll make everybody else look bad. Meanwhile,
27:29
it's not a big secret that these two were friends,
27:32
So just be honest in your book and explain your
27:35
friendship with this guy instead of just talking about how
27:38
he's friends with everyone else. The first schedule hang was
27:43
dated February sixteenth, twenty twelve, a breakfast in New York
27:48
that listed both Wolf's cell and email. Confider cannot verify
27:52
whether the meeting took place, but confirmed the listed cell
27:55
number and email belonged to Wolf. And while we can't
27:58
confirm some of these meetings, my guess is that they
28:02
took place. Do you really think that Epstein would just
28:04
have them penned into his calendar if they weren't going
28:07
to happen. Whatever else this guy was, he was somebody
28:11
that was about his shit, somebody that wanted this whole
28:14
enterprise to keep moving, and to do that, he needed
28:17
to have people in his pocket. He needed to have
28:20
people writing all kinds of BS stories about him, all
28:23
kinds of puff pieces. So all of these people would
28:27
come and hang out with them, break bread with them,
28:30
and they'd catch something on the back end, whether it's money,
28:33
a trip down to the island, or something else entirely.
28:38
On July thirtieth, twenty thirteen, Wolf was listed as having
28:42
a scheduled lunch with Epstein at twelve thirty pm in
28:46
New York City. In early twenty fourteen, Wolf was slated
28:50
for a January breakfast in the city with Epstein, as
28:53
well as dinner where Woody Allen, his wife sun Ye Previn,
28:57
and former JP Morgan executive just among several others were
29:02
listed as attending, followed by two meetings in September and
29:06
another lunch in October that year. By twenty fifteen, they
29:11
had plans to meet in January for breakfast and on
29:14
April eighth for a late afternoon appointment. Oh, a late
29:17
afternoon appointment? Is it? And it's so funny how all
29:20
these people who were close to Epstein back in the
29:23
day have tried to profit on the back of that
29:26
relationship while not exposing just how close they were. While
29:30
such engagements could ostensibly be characterized as source meetings for
29:35
a reporter like Wolf, they are certainly curious considering the
29:39
long running questions about their connections. New York Magazine notably
29:44
killed Wolf's rehabby profile of Epstein in twenty nineteen over
29:48
fact checking concerns, which were later alleged to include the
29:52
author allowing Epstein to dictate the peace and field all
29:56
fact related questions. According to Alex Yablin, the fact checker
30:01
on the piece, and that is far too common these days.
30:04
You have these journalists who trade their morality for access,
30:09
and you see it time and time again. Look at
30:11
what ABC did with the Amy Robots story when she
30:15
had all of the details from Virginia Roberts, but instead
30:19
of running that story, they killed it. That way they
30:22
could keep their access to the royal family. And there's
30:25
a lot of journalists that'll do that as well. They'll
30:27
suspend their integrity to get the story as long as
30:30
it's going to get them clicks or it's going to
30:32
get them views. To hell with having any sort of
30:35
integrity or any sort of morality. I'm just gonna say
30:38
whatever to try and get clicks and try and secure
30:41
that bag. And there's just way too much of that
30:43
going on, way too many people that'll say whatever because
30:47
they know it's going to tickle people's confirmation bias. And
30:50
the goal is to play on people's emotions. The more
30:53
emotional people are, the more invested they are, and the
30:55
more willing they are to come out of their pocketbook
30:58
to continue funding the grift. Wolf did not respond to
31:01
Confider's multiple requests for comment about the purpose of their
31:05
scheduled meetings or what was discussed, and while Wolfe's book
31:09
includes the forty page chapter about Epstein, largely centered on
31:13
the convicted sex offenders relationship with Steve Bannon. He curiously
31:18
made no mention of his own extensive association with Epstein,
31:22
and Epstein was trying to get some tips from Steve
31:25
Bannon as well. Don't forget that Steve Bannon was coaching
31:29
him as far as the interview process, and things escalated
31:33
to a point where allegedly there was a whole interview conducted.
31:37
But I guess it's never going to see the light
31:39
of day. However, wolf has never been shy about sharing
31:44
his thoughts on Epstein. He has never been secretive about
31:47
the girls. Wolfe told New York in two thousand and seven.
31:51
At one point when his troubles began, he was talking
31:53
to me and said, what can I say? I like
31:56
young girls? I said, maybe you should say I like
31:59
young women. Imagine that's your advice. Instead of saying, here's
32:02
an idea, stop being a sick, disgusting diddler and go
32:06
find a woman in your own age, he says, just
32:09
change the language. And that's the real problem, folks, that's
32:12
the problem with all of these so called elite and
32:15
the gatekeepers in the media that protect them. You would
32:18
think that somebody like Michael Wolf would find what Epstein
32:21
did abhorrent and not want to associate with him and
32:24
tell them something a little bit different. Besides, oh, just
32:27
change the way you word that, repackage it a little
32:30
bit better. I mean, that's your advice as opposed to
32:33
writing an absolute hit piece on the guy. That's the
32:36
advice you give him. Huh. And then you go and
32:38
write a book with a forty page chapter about Epstein
32:42
where your tight relationship with the guy is conveniently left out. Huh. Well,
32:47
I'm not surprised, because guess what, folks, it's just par
32:50
for the course, all right, everybody that's gonna do it
32:54
for this one. All of the information that goes with
32:56
the episode can be found in the description box. What's
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up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. So
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Bill Gates gave an interview to the Times of UK
33:09
and he's once again talking about how he had no
33:13
idea about who Jeffrey Epstein was when they became friends.
33:18
The only problem is Jeffrey Epstein was convicted in two
33:21
thousand and eight and him and Epstein, him and Bill
33:24
Gates didn't start paling around until twenty and eleven. So
33:29
Bill Gates has a bit of a problem here. Now
33:33
he can go around and talk about how, oh, I
33:36
had no idea that Jeffrey Epstein was a sick child
33:39
molester and expect people to believe it. But the reality
33:45
is most people are hit to these excuses by now,
33:51
and specifically when we're dealing with Epstein. Most of these
33:55
people have tried to distance themselves and act like they
33:58
never even knew who was Well, Bill Gates can't do that.
34:03
His own wife came out and said that one of
34:06
the concerning issues she had with Bill Gates before their
34:09
divorce was his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. So all of
34:15
the bs that Bill Gates tries to pump about how
34:18
they weren't friends, he had no idea. I don't buy
34:22
any of it. Just another one of these dudes, one
34:25
of these so called elites, who is trying to cover
34:29
their own ass so that they don't have to deal
34:32
with this fallout. Well, here's an idea. If you didn't
34:35
want to deal with the fallout, why'd you hang out
34:37
with the guy in the first place? Same thing I
34:39
say about Andrew. All of these people that have the
34:42
whole entire world at their feet, and they choose to
34:45
engage in this sort of shit. I'll never understand it.
34:49
Imagine having Bill Gates money and going to try and
34:52
weasel some more money out of a guy like Epstein
34:54
for your charities, like he says he was doing. You
34:58
mean to tell me you don't know any other rich people.
35:00
You have to go to a child molester's house and
35:02
try and get money from the Huh, even after your
35:04
wife tells you it's a bad idea. Look. I don't
35:07
know about you guys out there who were married or
35:10
in long term relationships, but when my girlfriend tells me
35:13
something's a bad idea, I listen. Nobody knows me better
35:18
than my girlfriend, So when she gives me advice, especially
35:22
about important, serious things, you better believe I listened to
35:25
what she has to say. And if Bill Gates would
35:28
have listened to his wife, he wouldn't have found himself
35:31
in this position. But he knows better, right, he's smarter
35:34
than the rest of us. Well, not that smart, are
35:37
you there, Billy boy? This article is from the Daily
35:42
Mail headline. Bill Gates says he made a huge mistake
35:46
meeting with Jeffrey Epstein for fundraising dinners and didn't realize
35:50
those meetings would be seen as giving him credibility. Oh,
35:54
I know, you're just so naive. You're just such a
35:57
naive man, Bill Gates. You want everyone to believe that
35:59
you had no idea, But at the same time, you're
36:02
gonna get up here and tell everybody how you're gonna
36:05
fix the next pandemic. And then you wonder why nobody
36:08
listens to you or why conspiracy theories pop up around you.
36:11
It's because you're not a reliable person. Okay. This article
36:17
was authored by James Gordon. Bill Gates has admitted he's
36:22
made a huge mistake by attending fundraising meetings with convicted
36:26
sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. You mean pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and
36:30
attending fundraising meetings. Come on, stop it. You think that's
36:34
all that was going on when he was over there,
36:36
just fundraising meetings. There wasn't any scantily claud underage girls
36:39
running around. Look, I don't know, I wasn't there. I'm
36:42
asking you the question. The Microsoft founder sixty five first
36:47
met Epstein in twenty and eleven, after the financier pedophile
36:51
had been convicted of soliciting sex from a minor in
36:54
two thousand and eight. That makes you a pedophile, okay,
36:57
convicted of soliciting sex from a mic or kind of
37:01
dumbass laws that in the first place. Epstein was also
37:05
invited to fundraising dinners that promoted the Gates Foundation. Nah,
37:09
they didn't know each other though. Come on, I had
37:11
no idea what Epstein was. I'm just the you know,
37:13
third richest man in the world, second richest man in
37:16
the world. I don't have anyone that can do research
37:18
on the people I'm getting into business with. What are
37:21
you crazy? At the time, I didn't realize that by
37:25
having those meetings it would be seen as giving him credibility,
37:28
Gates told The Times in an interview on Sunday. Oh,
37:31
you didn't realize. Huh, Well, that's funny. I certainly don't
37:34
have billions of dollars and houses all over the place,
37:39
and you know, bank accounts and multiple countries. But I
37:43
could have told you that hanging out with a convicted
37:45
sex offender, as Bill Gates, well, what you're doing is
37:49
refurbishing the other person's image. It doesn't take a genius
37:53
to figure that out. Most of us out there wouldn't
37:58
associate with somebody with offense of sexual predator as, especially
38:05
when it involves children. But Bill Gates, what does he care?
38:11
You're almost saying I forgive that type of behavior or something,
38:14
so clearly the way it's seen, I made a huge
38:16
mistake not understanding that. Oh, let's just play ignorance. Huh. Oh,
38:21
I didn't understand it. That's why I made the mistake.
38:24
It's not what you think it is. The dinners were
38:29
a point of contention between the Microsoft billionaire and his
38:32
now ex wife and business partner, Melinda French Gates, who
38:36
described Epstein as evil personified she's not wrong about that.
38:41
The couple announced their separation last year after twenty seven
38:44
years of marriage. In earlier interviews, Gates stated how he
38:49
ultimately stopped meetings with the convicted sex offender after he
38:53
realized the meetings would not be productive for his philanthropic foundation. Again,
39:00
the richest men in the world, Jeffrey Epstein is not
39:03
one of the richest men in the world. He wasn't
39:05
even worth a billion dollars. So what are you doing
39:08
going over here and letting him play kingmaker? You don't
39:13
have any other friends that could pony up some dough.
39:16
Why don't you call your boy Ben Tallal over there
39:18
in Saudi Arabia. Oh what you think we don't know
39:21
about your business dealings with him. I had dinners with him.
39:28
I regret doing that. He had relationships with, he said,
39:32
with people he said would give to public health. Not
39:35
nearly enough philanthropy goes in that direction, Gates said in
39:38
a September twenty twenty one interview, still trying to make
39:42
it okay, Well, not enough money goes into that avenue.
39:46
So I was gonna get a little bit from old
39:47
Jeffy boy as if that explains everything away and will
39:52
make people just shrug their shoulders and be like, oh, well,
39:54
that's what it was. Those meetings were a mistake. They
40:00
didn't result in what he purported, and I cut them off.
40:04
You know, that goes back a long time ago. Now,
40:06
he said to PBS. Oh yeah, so let's just forget it.
40:09
It was in the past. Nobody should pay attention to
40:11
what I was doing. Meanwhile, you have people digging up
40:15
tweets from twenty and eleven when an athlete gets drafted
40:20
and getting called all kinds of crazy names. But Bill
40:23
Gates and the rest of these scumbags so called elite
40:26
can hang out, break bread with Epstein, you name it,
40:29
and still do the circuit on national television. It tells
40:32
you everything you need to know. Folks, The question is
40:35
are you paying attention The billionaire is previously claimed he
40:40
had concerns about Epstein, who had pleaded guilty and was
40:43
convicted in two thousand and eight of procuring a child
40:46
for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute years before the
40:50
tech mogul met the financier pedophile. And again, children can't
40:55
be prostitutes. So if you're soliciting a child, you're not
40:58
soliciting a institute. You're engaging in child abuse and you
41:03
should be arrested. I had several dinner dinners with him,
41:07
hoping that what he said about getting billions of philanthropy
41:11
for global health through contacts he might he might have
41:14
he might had e merge. When it looked like that
41:17
wasn't a real thing, that relationship ended, Gates said. So basically,
41:21
what Gates is saying here is ah, he couldn't provide
41:25
anything for me, so I just stopped talking to him.
41:27
But again, I don't even believe that the original premise
41:32
put on the table here by Gates. Oh, I'm there
41:34
for philanthropic purposes. I'm there to get money. He's come on,
41:38
why aren't you going to Leon Black to get money
41:40
or Les Wexner or Jamie Diamond or insert other scumbag
41:45
rich guy here. Why are you dealing with a man
41:49
who is just locked in all kinds of controversy from
41:53
day one, never mind being a sexual predator to top
41:57
it off, there is no excuse you can give you're
42:00
put forward that I would say, you know what, this
42:03
is a legitimate reason that he was over at Epstein's house.
42:08
It was a huge mistake to spend time with him
42:10
and give him the credibility of being there. There were
42:13
lots of others in that same situation, but I made
42:16
a mistake. So he has to throw that in there, right,
42:19
And it's interesting there was a lot of other people there,
42:22
but I made a mistake. So what he's doing here
42:25
is saying, well, look at the other people. They were
42:28
there too, so how can you blame me? But out
42:31
of the other side of his mouth, he says, but
42:33
I made a mistake. So he's trying to shovel blame
42:37
while take a little bit of that blame at the
42:39
same time. But the reality is, I don't care what
42:42
anybody else was doing. We're talking about you right now,
42:45
Bill Gates. We'll get to the rest of those scumbags
42:47
later on. You're up on the carpet right now. Don't
42:51
try and pass the buck, pass the blame. Oh well,
42:54
this one was doing that, that one was doing this.
42:56
Nobody cares what were you doing. Gates has been reported
43:00
to have visited Epstein's home numerous times and even talked
43:04
with him about his toxic marriage, while the pedophile allegedly
43:08
gave him advice on ending his marriage. According to The
43:11
Daily Beast, gates visits to Epstein's lair weren't escaped from
43:15
his unhappy marriage, and the pair were very close. The
43:19
source said, imagine this guy's out here talking about Oh,
43:22
it's just pursonners, and he won't get hammered in the
43:24
media over it. He's one of those media darlings, so
43:27
he really won't catch a beating in the media over this.
43:30
But he should. He really should. You're going over there
43:34
and getting marriage advice from Jeffrey Epstein, Really, that sounds
43:38
like a profitable path to trapes down. Seemed to work
43:45
out well for you too, considering your wife divorced, your
43:47
bitch ass. Flight records also reveal that Gates flew with
43:52
Epstein on the so called Lolita Express from Teterborough Airport
43:56
in New Jersey to Palm Beach on March first, twenty thirteen,
44:00
one of the few flights that year where a pilot,
44:03
Larry Vassoski, recorded the name of a passenger. So what
44:07
are you doing on the plane? You don't got your
44:08
own jet. You don't got a Microsoft jet. That's all
44:11
you know, tricked out that you can fly around in
44:14
in the lapse of luxury. You have to get up
44:16
there in Epstein's flying house of horrors and catch a flight. Why.
44:23
I'll tell you why, Because you guys are a lot
44:25
closer than you're letting on here, Billy Boy. In her
44:30
first interview since her divorce from the billionaire last year,
44:33
Melinda told CBS Mornings in March that she insisted on
44:37
meeting Epstein back in twenty eleven because she wanted to
44:40
see who this man was. I did not like that
44:43
he had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein. I made that clear
44:46
to him. I also met Jeffrey Epstein exactly one time.
44:50
I wanted to see who this man was, and I
44:52
regretted it from the second I stepped in the door.
44:55
He was abhorrent, evil personified. I had nightmares about it afterwards.
45:00
That's why my heart breaks for these young women. That's
45:03
how I felt, and I am an older woman. He
45:06
was awful. Imagine this is Bill Gates' wife saying this.
45:09
She met the dude once and that's how she feels
45:11
about him. But yet, good old billy boy Gates thinks
45:14
it's a good idea to break bread with them, fly
45:17
on his plane, and then get on TV and yap
45:19
about how he's gonna help everybody. Come on, man, I'm
45:22
not buying it. Some people out there might be buying it,
45:25
but I'm certainly not. She told out Bill had to
45:29
answer for the many times he met Epstein, and even
45:32
suggested that it may have contributed to the divorce. It
45:36
was not one thing. It was many things that led
45:38
to the divorce. Any of the questions remaining about what
45:41
Bill's relationship with him was those are for Bill to answer.
45:46
I made it very clear how I felt about him,
45:49
and I don't blame her. I'd be divorcing this dude too.
45:51
Look if my wife came to me and said, hey, look,
45:54
I'm hanging out with insert human trafficker abuser here, Oh yeah,
46:00
there'd be a big problem. A spokesperson for Gates told
46:07
Insider last June that Gates had absolutely no business partnership
46:11
or personal friendship with Epstein, and any meetings between the
46:14
two were about philanthropy. Yeah, what were you guys doing
46:17
on the plane? You have to have a meeting on
46:19
the plane about philanthropy. Can't do that over the phone
46:22
via email zoom. Melinda, who shocked the world when she
46:31
and Bill announced in May twenty twenty one that they
46:33
were ending their twenty seven year marriage, previously told how
46:37
she endured emotionally challenging times whilst working with the billionaire.
46:42
The pair's divorce was finalized privately in Washington, where their
46:46
Gates Foundation is based, in August. The terms of it
46:49
were never made public, but Bill was worth a round oh,
46:53
you know, one hundred and fifty two billion at the time,
46:57
giving Melinda a fifty percent settlement of seventy six billion dollars.
47:02
Good for her, and as far as Bill Gates goes, bro,
47:06
you're worth one hundred and fifty million dollars. Okay, one
47:10
hundred and fifty two billion dollars. Why are you meeting
47:13
with Jeffrey Epstein to try and pony up some dough
47:18
You don't have any friends of your own. See, it
47:19
doesn't make sense. If Bill Gates wasn't the richest man
47:22
in the world or close to I'd be like, all right, look,
47:25
he's trying to get some money from the foundation. Maybe
47:27
this is something we can listen to. But it's not
47:30
the case. It's not like you or I showed up
47:32
their hat in hand. This is Bill Gates. He doesn't
47:35
need anybody. He chooses to be there. That does not
47:39
include the couple's vast property portfolio, which comprised of homes
47:44
in New York, Washington, and California. And I'm guessing that
47:48
they probably have money stashed elsewhere. Melinda said in March
47:52
that she and Bill are not friends, but are friendly
47:56
and work together, and suggested he had more than one
47:59
affair throughout their marriage. I believe in forgiveness. I thought
48:03
we had work through some of that, Melinda said of
48:05
his two thousand affair with a Microsoft employee. I gave
48:09
every single piece of myself to this marriage. I was
48:12
committed from the day we got engaged to the day
48:14
I got out of it, and of course he wasn't
48:17
How many of these rich dudes like Bill Gates end
48:21
up doing this, And I'm convinced it's because when they
48:25
were growing up, they never had any girls or dates,
48:28
or you know, nobody wanted to hang out with them
48:30
on the weekends. So they get a little bit of money,
48:32
a little bit of power, and all of a sudden,
48:35
they feel like they're seventeen years old out there, you know,
48:39
trying to hook up with anything that moves the whole thing.
48:42
And Bill Gates was no different. He definitely had that
48:45
frat boy mentality. Gates spokeswoman confirmed he had a sexual
48:51
relationship with a female staff member in two thousand and
48:55
that he resigned as an investigation into the relationship was
49:00
being conducted by an external law firm on behalf of
49:04
the company board. The New York Times also reported that
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Gates asked out a Microsoft employee in two thousand and
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six after watching her make a presentation, and a couple
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of years later asked out an employee with the Bill
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and Melinda Gates Foundation, both while he was married and
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not only that if you're the boss, why are you
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asking out your employees? Even if they don't want to
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go out with you, They're gonna feel pressured or compelled
49:31
or whatever, and they're gonna, you know, maybe make a
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decision they don't want to make. Here's an idea. If
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you're a man in a position of power, you don't
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have to date your employees. Okay, go and find a
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girl at the bar, get on tender, whatever it is
49:45
the kids are doing these days. Do that, because dating
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your subordinates not a good idea. Gates reportedly told the
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Microsoft employee in an email, if this makes you uncomfortable,
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pretend it never happened. She said, she took his advice.
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I mean, as if if this makes you uncomfortable, yeah
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it does. Gates allegedly later asked an employee with the
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to dinner while the pair
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were in New York for a trip. Last year, four
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Microsoft employees accused Gates of being an office bully whose
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catchphrase was that's the stupidest fucking idea I've ever heard. Well,
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I can't get too mad at them for that. I mean,
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I've said that to myself. My inner monologue runs on repeat,
50:33
saying that, especially when I'm working in a corporate environment,
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So I'm not going to hold that against him too much. Look,
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you're in a high pressure environment when you're working in
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a place like Microsoft, and you have to come mentally
50:45
prepared for the heavy workload, and you're gonna have people
50:49
like Bill Gates who expect a lot from you. So
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when you accept a job like that, you have to
50:54
understand that you're working under timelines and you know all
50:57
of the rest of it. So I'm not so worried
51:00
about bosses who are, you know, kind of dicky. I've
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had plenty of those in my life. But as long
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as they're good at their job and you know, they're
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not bullying you or whatever for the most part, then
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I really don't have too much of an issue with it.
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But just about every boss or sports coach I've ever
51:20
had has been, let us say, are rough around the edges.
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Gate's reputation as a hot tempered boss began not long
51:32
after he launched the tech giant Microsoft with childhood friend
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Paul Allen in nineteen seventy five. Insider reported a spokesperson
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for the billionaire has denied he mistreated employees. See, there's
51:45
a lot of gray area there as far as quote
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unquote mistreated employees. Everybody feels differently about what mistreatment might
51:52
be in the workplace. Right, some people are, you know,
51:55
more willing to accept a rigid boss who might have
51:59
a foul as long as things are productive, whereas other
52:03
people they might not dig that right and they might
52:05
find it abusive. So I get it. Anytime that I'm
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managing a department, anytime that I'm in charge of other people,
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I have a simple rule, and that's just to treat
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everybody the same way I'd want to be treated. And
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every management job I have ever had, I have worked
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my way up from the bottom rung, so I understand
52:24
how all of the other jobs go. So I am
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you know, I understand the issues people on the frontline
52:31
are having as well as what's going on in the office.
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A former Microsoft executive who spoke on the condition of anonymity,
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told the outlet that having a meeting with Bill was
52:46
just an opportunity to get yelled at. So I tried
52:48
to avoid that. See that's lame. You can't do that.
52:51
You can't just yell at people all the time for
52:53
no reason, you gotta treat people with respect right. Gates
52:58
would even allegedly track is in employees by memorizing their
53:01
license plates. According to the outlet, Now that's batshit looney behavior.
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Maria Claw, a former Microsoft board member, said a person
53:09
like Bill Gates thinks the usual rules of behavior don't
53:12
apply to him, and accused him of being unreceptive to
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suggestions about improving diversity. Claw said that Gates behaved as
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if he was the smartest person in the room, and
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that diversity was not something Gates was interested in hearing about.
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Oh he'll tell you differently, though, Right, all of these
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guys will get up there and they'll tell you about
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how they're the greatest man in the world and how
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they're doing this to save the world. They're doing that
53:37
to save the world. But the reality is, behind closed doors,
53:41
these people are just scum. She said that when female
53:46
executives would suggest diversity initiatives, Gates would allegedly respond with
53:51
are you trying to effen destroy the company? As spokesperson
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for Gates told Insider that Claw's allegations are a gross mischaracterization.
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Melinda herself was an employee at Microsoft, having been hired
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at as a product manager in nineteen eighty seven, when
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the billionaire first asked her out months after flirting with
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her at a conference dinner. Again, this guy only gets
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girls at work. It seems like one of those dudes.
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And you could say what you want, but my opinion
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of it is this he does that because he knows
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he can flex his power and they can't say no.
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In the nineteen ninety two biography Hard Drive Bill Gates
54:31
in the Making of the Microsoft Empire, author James Wallace
54:34
revealed Gates had an alleged affair with a married woman
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thirteen years older than him when he was twenty seven
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years old. So what really, who cares honestly about the
54:44
age difference. I mean, the affair makes you a scumbag,
54:47
But if you're twenty seven and you're having an affair
54:50
with someone who's forty, I don't really see the big deal. Honestly,
54:54
once you start getting to a certain age, I mean,
54:56
it is what it is. His alleged affair was with
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the wife of an Osborne computer executive who lived abroad.
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According to the biography, See that's what makes you a
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scumback that kind of shit. The age difference twenty seven
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forty whatever. If you're happy, you're happy. Gates himself admitted
55:15
to frequenting the area centered on Washington Street between Boylston
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Street and Kneeland Street in a nineteen ninety four interview
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he did with Playboy magazine. Just because I went there,
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it doesn't mean I engaged in everything that was going on,
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Gates said. I ate pizza, red books, watch what was
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going on. I went to the dinners. Wallace claimed to
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Insider that gates pensiant for socializing with women remained even
55:41
after he started dating Melinda Gates in nineteen eighty seven.
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Gates was allegedly known to invite friends to swim naked
55:48
at his bachelor pad in Laurelhurst, where he rounded up
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dancers from local all night nude nightclubs. Wallace said, So,
55:57
this dude has everyone come over having a little pool.
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He's swimming around in the nude like Caligula over here.
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I mean, what's next, He's gonna hire people to nibble
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on his feet and his legs while he's swimming around.
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Go get the girls from the all night nude clubs.
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I don't know if he was physically transported, if he
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physically transported them or if he just told them where
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to show up. While this told the outlet, Robert X. Kringley,
56:23
who wrote a popular computer gossip column for info World,
56:26
told Insider that Gates was allegedly often inebriated at tech
56:30
events and after parties, and that he got drunk pretty easily.
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So not only are you with douche, you're a lightweight.
56:38
Stop drinking, Quit acting like an idiot, Quit cheating on
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your girlfriends, your wives, And here's an idea, try to
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be a decent human. For once, all of us will
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have been at some affair where Bill was clearly impaired.
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He was happier drunk, Kringley said. Gates, than thirty three,
56:54
took a helicopter to the less Arcs ski resort in
56:58
the French Alps for an international sales meeting for Microsoft
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in the summer of nineteen eighty eight, where he was
57:04
allegedly caught lying on top of a woman on the lawn.
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The pair were just snuggling after Gates joined his employees
57:11
for drinks in a Swiss chalet and partied until the
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early morning. Dan Graves, a former Micro Microsoft export manager,
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told Inside her Oh yeah, they were just cuddling, folks.
57:21
Nothing to see here. Imagine that's your husband out there, ladies,
57:25
cuddling with some woman on the lawn, and when he's
57:27
supposed to be out of tech conference working. Sure that
57:30
would go over well. After he started dating Melinda, Gates
57:37
allegedly struggled to commit to her, and she was allegedly
57:40
aware of his womanizing. The outlet reported the couple even
57:43
broke up for at least a year early in their relationship.
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Bill wanted to be married, but he didn't know whether
57:50
he could actually commit to it and have Microsoft, Melinda
57:53
said in an interview for the Netflix docuseries Inside Bill's Brain,
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The Coding Bill Gates. Even after marrying Melinda Gates told
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Time magazine in nineteen ninety seven that he still went
58:05
on annual vacations to the outer banks of North Carolina
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with his ex girlfriend and Winblad, the software entrepreneur whom
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he dated from nineteen eighty four to nineteen eighty seven.
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Bill and Melinda Gates' personal affairs have been managed by
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Watermark Estate Management since at least two thousand and one,
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which would allegedly arrange Gates' annual beach trips with wind Blad,
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so he was obviously out here creeping all the time,
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acting the full hanging out with Epstein, and I'm sure
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he was up to other shit as well. That's why
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I find it laughable when this guy gets on TV
58:40
and talks about, Oh, I'm going to save the world.
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See I'm not talking about any weird conspiracy nonsense, right,
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I'm talking about the man in General's a dangerous dude
58:50
if he has this kind of decision making and these
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are the kind of frenzy decides to hang out with.
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Are we really going to listen to this guy when
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he's talking about the trajectory of the world. I mean,
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I'm not going to that's for sure, But I don't know.
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I guess people are going to still listen, and you know,
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give what he has to say some credit. Me personally,
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just another one of the scumbags that was hanging out
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with Epstein, or, like I always say, just another fellow traveler.
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we discussed can be found in the description box. All right, folks,
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that's it for this one. I'll be back later on
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and we'll pick up where we left off.