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The Gates Foundation Investigates Its Epstein Connections (7/23/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Now, I know when I tell you this,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be absolutely shocked what Bill Gates and
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  Speaker 1: his foundation, Well, they weren't exactly truthful when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And now we're finding
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  Speaker 1: out that the foundation met with Epstein about thirty times.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't Bill Gates just get done telling us that he
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  Speaker 1: only met with Epstein a handful of times. Oh he
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  Speaker 1: meant himself, not people on his behalf right paying attention,
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  Speaker 1: yet realizing that these people are all lying, that they're
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  Speaker 1: all trying to hustle you and rewrite history, because that's
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing, every last one of these people. And
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  Speaker 1: in today's article from The Guardian, that's what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about, headlined bill Gates Foundation met with Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein about thirty times. External review fines. This article was
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  Speaker 1: authored by Anna Beets. Now. External review, commissioned by the
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  Speaker 1: Gates Foundation has found that there were roughly thirty meetings
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  Speaker 1: between Jeffrey Epstein and foundation leaders and staff, including Bill Gates,
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  Speaker 1: between twenty eleven and twenty fourteen, even as foundation staff
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  Speaker 1: raised multiple occasions, the risks of associating with Epstein because
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  Speaker 1: of his prior conviction, Bill Gates didn't care. He thought
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  Speaker 1: that he was protected. And my guess is most of
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  Speaker 1: these people knew that Epstein had protection from somewhere on high.
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  Speaker 1: Now they'll never admit it, but why else would they
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  Speaker 1: get into business with them when they already knew what
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  Speaker 1: he was. I mean, the only thing that these dudes
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  Speaker 1: guard more preciously than their reputation is their wealth. So
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  Speaker 1: I have a hard time believing that Bill Gates ever
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  Speaker 1: thought that any of us were going to be hip
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  Speaker 1: to the fact that he was doing all of this,
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  Speaker 1: and that was all part of it. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: they fought Tooth Andell to make sure you never saw
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  Speaker 1: those files. The Gates Foundation can mission the review in March,
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  Speaker 1: following the Justice Department's release earlier this year of millions
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  Speaker 1: of documents related to Epstein. The files included numerous references
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  Speaker 1: to Gates, several photographs of them, and a record showing
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  Speaker 1: that he met with Epstein on multiple occasions, which prompted
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  Speaker 1: renewed scrutiny of gates pass ties to the disgraced financier.
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  Speaker 1: Well renewed scrutiny. Here's an idea. Why was that scrutiny
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  Speaker 1: ever turned off? Why weren't people more interested in what
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  Speaker 1: Bill Gates was up to with Jeffrey Epstein. Why was
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  Speaker 1: the media so gung ho on safeguarding that information? And
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  Speaker 1: the truth is the media they knew, they chose not
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  Speaker 1: to tell you. So always keep that in the back
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  Speaker 1: of your mind whenever they're talking about Jeffrey Epstein, whenever
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about topics surrounding Jeffrey Epstein or powerful people,
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  Speaker 1: ask yourself why they didn't report this sooner? Because it's
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  Speaker 1: not for a lack of evidence, so obviously it was
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  Speaker 1: a lack of will. The Foundation also said earlier this
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  Speaker 1: year that it was aware of emails in the Epstein
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  Speaker 1: files between Jeffrey Epstein and Gates Foundation staff. The foundation
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  Speaker 1: said at the time that it regrets having any employees
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  Speaker 1: interact with Epstein in any way, and retain the law
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  Speaker 1: firm Wilmer Hill to conduct a review of the foundation's
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  Speaker 1: past engagement with Epstein. Well, well, that always works out.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the decor report. Let me go get a
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  Speaker 1: law firm that's friendly to my company to do this
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote external review the only external review I'm interested
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  Speaker 1: in is one done by the FBI. Okay, I have
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  Speaker 1: no desire to see you try and whitewasher bullshit. I'm
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  Speaker 1: tired of internal reports, and I'm tired of people sugarcoating
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  Speaker 1: what really went on. At some point, the jig has
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  Speaker 1: to be up. The report, of which a summary was
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  Speaker 1: released on Tuesday, took about five months. It was based
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  Speaker 1: on more than fifty interviews with current and former Foundation personnel,
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  Speaker 1: including Gates, and reviewed extensive written materials relevant to the review.
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  Speaker 1: The law firm said, Look, I don't believe anything they
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  Speaker 1: put in that review. I'm sorry, but I don't. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'm just cynical, but I think the past has proven
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  Speaker 1: to us that these kinds of reports just can't be trusted.
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  Speaker 1: The report, of which a summary was released on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: took about five months. It was based on more than
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  Speaker 1: fifty interviews with current and former Foundation personnel, including Gates,
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  Speaker 1: and reviewed extensive written material relevant to the review. The
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  Speaker 1: law firm said wilmer Hell found no evidence of participation
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  Speaker 1: in or knowledge of Epstein's ongoing sex trafficking operation or
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  Speaker 1: criminal activities. The summary of the report states Wilmer Hell
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  Speaker 1: found no evidence that the Foundation was contemporaneously aware of
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's use of the foundation's name to help advance his conduct.
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  Speaker 1: Wilmer Hell also found no evidence that Epstein was paid
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  Speaker 1: by the Foundation. They might as well just go on
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  Speaker 1: to say, and we exonerate Bill Gates completely, because that's
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  Speaker 1: the goal. The question is are you buying it? Because
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  Speaker 1: you're the audience, You're who they're pitching this to the people.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to win the battle of public relations, and
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to do whatever they can to make this
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  Speaker 1: go away. And the best way to do that is
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  Speaker 1: to try and tie it up in a little bow
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  Speaker 1: and say it's all been investigated and there's nothing left
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  Speaker 1: to see. But I assure you there is plenty left
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  Speaker 1: to see. An old lay mass external report from Wilmer
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  Speaker 1: Hill is stop in this train. Gates, who has not
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  Speaker 1: been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein and
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  Speaker 1: has repeatedly denied having any knowledge of Epstein's crimes, has
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  Speaker 1: publicly expressed regret over his past association with Epstein. He
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  Speaker 1: apologized to Foundation employees sharing a February hall meeting for
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  Speaker 1: his past ties to Epstein. The Wall Street Journal reported
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  Speaker 1: in June, he testified in front of the House Committee
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  Speaker 1: on Oversight and Reform and told lawmakers that he never
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  Speaker 1: witnessed nor had any indication that Epstein was engaged in
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  Speaker 1: ongoing criminal conduct. Nah one of the smartest men in
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  Speaker 1: the world, according to him, had no idea. Meanwhile, everybody knew.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about regular people in Santa Fe knew, okay,
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  Speaker 1: And how do I know that? Well, I went to
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  Speaker 1: Santa Fe and I talked to them. The lady that
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  Speaker 1: was managing my hotel knew all about Jeffrey Epstein knew
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  Speaker 1: all about the little secret over at Zoro Ranch. So
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  Speaker 1: if you think she knew about it and Bill Gates didn't,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to say. Honestly, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what to tell you. Now. That's an excuse that Bill
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  Speaker 1: Gates can use, right, because how do you prove differently?
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  Speaker 1: You can't prove that he knew something that he says
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't know unless you have contemporaneous evidence of it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, him saying, oh, I know Jeffrey Epstein was
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  Speaker 1: doing X, Y or Z, And of course we don't
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  Speaker 1: have that. But what we do have is a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of circumstantial evidence and when you have enough circumstantial evidence,
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  Speaker 1: it starts to add up, right, And that's how all
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  Speaker 1: investigations are built. And when it comes to Bill Gates,
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  Speaker 1: I think the foundation of the claims made about him
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  Speaker 1: and his relationship with Epstein are strong. Now. Again, just
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  Speaker 1: to emphasize, I'm not saying Bill Gates was engaging in
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  Speaker 1: the abuse. I've never seen evidence of that, but he
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  Speaker 1: was enabling it and he helped rehabilitate Jeffrey Epstein's image,
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  Speaker 1: and there's no question about that. The Microsoft co founder
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  Speaker 1: said that he was introduced to Epstein in twenty eleven
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  Speaker 1: through people I trusted in my professional and philanthropic work,
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  Speaker 1: and that Epstein had claimed he could raise billions of
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  Speaker 1: dollars for global health from people for whom he provided
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  Speaker 1: tax and estate services for people he wandered money for.
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  Speaker 1: That's what that should read as, because that's what he
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  Speaker 1: was doing. And one thing I want you always to
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind when it comes to Ebstein, it's what
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  Speaker 1: they're not talking about in the story that's usually the
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  Speaker 1: most damning, And when it comes to this portion of it,
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  Speaker 1: they're not talking about the money and the vast amount
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  Speaker 1: of financial malfeasance that was occurring. And that's because all
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  Speaker 1: of that can be tracked. All of that can be traced,
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  Speaker 1: and that would kill their whole, entire hoax narrative. Right.
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  Speaker 1: If there's a money trail, we can find the crimes,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why they're so reticent to go down that road.
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  Speaker 1: I recall being aware that Epstein had faced prior legal issues,
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  Speaker 1: but I did not fully understand the extent of the
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  Speaker 1: crimes he committed, Gates said, referring to Epstein having pleaded
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  Speaker 1: guilty in two thousand and eight to stay charges in
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  Speaker 1: Florida of solicitation of prostitution and of solicitation of prostitution
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  Speaker 1: with a minor. I accepted the introduction without applying the
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  Speaker 1: scrutiny I should have. Well, that's what happens when you're
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  Speaker 1: a greedy, discusting son of a bitch. Let me get
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  Speaker 1: a couple more bucks. Oh, I don't care if it's
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  Speaker 1: a guy that has already been charged with prostitution with
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  Speaker 1: a minor, which sho shouldn't even be a law. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, how can a minor consent? So how can
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  Speaker 1: a miner be a prostitute? Somebody make that shit make sense?
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  Speaker 1: And don't even get me started on the NPA again.
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  Speaker 1: We'll end up being here all day. Gates said that
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  Speaker 1: their interactions ended in December of twenty fourteen. According to
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  Speaker 1: the new report, Epstein was introduced to Gates and other
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  Speaker 1: Foundation personnel in twenty eleven by an advisor who held
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  Speaker 1: a dual role at the foundation and in mister Gates's
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  Speaker 1: personal office. The review found that the Foundation's interactions with
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  Speaker 1: Epstein involved two matters, discussions about the potential creation of
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  Speaker 1: a donor advised fund entity and gates engagement with a
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  Speaker 1: non prim organization that later became a Foundation grantee. Wilmerhill
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  Speaker 1: said it identified roughly thirty meetings between Epstein and ten
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  Speaker 1: Foundation leaders in staff, including mister Gates, from twenty eleven
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  Speaker 1: to twenty fourteen, including one meeting on the foundation's campus
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  Speaker 1: and several meetings at Epstein's Manhattan residence. But we never
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  Speaker 1: saw anything, We never heard anything. We don't know anything.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what nobody buys it. The Foundation's meetings with Epstein
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  Speaker 1: appear to have focused on the DAF concept, donor engagement,
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  Speaker 1: the foundation's polio strategy, and introductions to the IPI. The
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  Speaker 1: summary of the report states, based on interviews. In a
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  Speaker 1: review of available foundation records, Wilmer Hill found no evidence
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  Speaker 1: that these meetings were unrelated to philanthropy or involved the
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  Speaker 1: legal conduct. Well, that's it, folks, pack it in the
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  Speaker 1: law firm that they paid and hired. Tells us that
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing to see here. The report also concluded that
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  Speaker 1: Gates was aware of reputational concerns related to ebstein prior
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  Speaker 1: conviction and sentencing for a sex related offense when he
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  Speaker 1: began conversations with them in twenty eleven, and that foundation
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  Speaker 1: staff had raised multiple occasions the risk of associating with
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  Speaker 1: Ebstein because of his prior conviction, and those concerns were
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  Speaker 1: raised to senior leadership, including mister Gates. In a news
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  Speaker 1: release on Tuesday, the Gates Foundation said that its governing
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  Speaker 1: board had approved a series of recommendations based on findings
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  Speaker 1: in the report, including creating a centralized vetting process for brokers,
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  Speaker 1: donor advisors, co founders, and others who facilitate funding partnerships
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  Speaker 1: and who are connected to the foundation, as well as
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  Speaker 1: creating an escalation process for organizational risks on projects and more. Well, look,
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  Speaker 1: that's all great, but a little too late, Gates said
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  Speaker 1: in a statement on Tuesday that completing this review is
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  Speaker 1: an important step in providing the clarity that partners, employees,
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  Speaker 1: and grantees deserve, as well as strengthening our oversight with
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  Speaker 1: additional policies going forward, the work the Foundation does to
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  Speaker 1: save lives and unlock opportunities so people everywhere can lead healthier,
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  Speaker 1: more productive lives is more important than ever. He said,
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  Speaker 1: we are committed to ensuring trust and transparency are never compromised. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that ship is seld, that bit of toothpaste is out
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  Speaker 1: of the tube, and nobody trusts Bill Gates, right, who
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  Speaker 1: trusts him at this point? And if you do, I
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  Speaker 1: really don't know what to say, because Bill Gates has
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  Speaker 1: proven himself time and time again to be a liar.
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  Speaker 1: And they can release an external report every single week
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  Speaker 1: for the next ten years and it's not going to
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  Speaker 1: change the fact that Bill Gates wasn't truthful about his
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  Speaker 1: relationship with Epstein. So the question is why not. All
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  Speaker 1: the information that goes with this episode can be found
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  Speaker 1: in the description box.