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The Gates Foundation Investigates Its Epstein Connections · 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. But 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 30 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 yet?
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  Speaker 1: Realizing that these people are all lying? That they're all
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  Speaker 1: trying to hustle you? And rewrite history? Because that's what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing. Every last one of these people. And in
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  Speaker 1: today's article from The Guardian, that's what we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. Headline, Bill Gates Foundation met with Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: about 30 times. External review, fines. This article was authored
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  Speaker 1: by Anna Betts. A new external review commissioned by the
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  Speaker 1: Gates Foundation has found that there were roughly 30 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 2011 and 2014. Even as Foundation staff raised multiple
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  Speaker 1: occasions the risks of associating with Epstein, because of his
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  Speaker 1: prior conviction, Bill Gates didn't care. He thought that he
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  Speaker 1: was protected. And my guess is most of these people
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  Speaker 1: knew that Epstein had protection from somewhere on high. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they'll never admit it, but why else would they get
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  Speaker 1: into business with him when they already knew what he was?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the only thing that these dudes guard more
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  Speaker 1: preciously than their reputation is their wealth. So I have
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  Speaker 1: a hard time believing that Bill Gates ever thought that
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  Speaker 1: any of us were going to be hip to the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he was doing all of this. And that
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  Speaker 1: was all part of it. And that's why they fought
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  Speaker 1: tooth and nail to make sure you never saw those files.
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  Speaker 1: The Gates Foundation commissioned the review in March following the
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  Speaker 1: Justice Department's release earlier this year of millions of documents
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  Speaker 1: related to Epstein. The files included numerous references to Gates,
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  Speaker 1: several photographs of him, and records showing that he met
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  Speaker 1: with Epstein on multiple occasions, which prompted renewed scrutiny of
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  Speaker 1: Gates' past ties to the disgraced financier. Well, renewed scrutiny?
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  Speaker 1: Here's an idea. Why was that scrutiny ever turned off?
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  Speaker 1: Why weren't people more interested in what Bill Gates was
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  Speaker 1: up to with Jeffrey Epstein? Why was the media so
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  Speaker 1: gung-ho on safeguarding that information? And the truth is, the media,
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  Speaker 1: they knew. They chose not to tell you. So always
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  Speaker 1: keep that in the back of your mind. Whenever they're
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  Speaker 1: talking about Jeffrey Epstein, whenever they're talking about topics surrounding
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein or powerful people, ask yourself why they didn't
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  Speaker 1: report this sooner. Because it's not for a lack of evidence.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously, it was a lack of will. The foundation
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  Speaker 1: also said earlier this year that it was aware of
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  Speaker 1: emails in the Epstein files between Jeffrey Epstein and Gates
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  Speaker 1: Foundation staff. The foundation said at the time that it
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  Speaker 1: regrets having any employees interact with Epstein in any way
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  Speaker 1: and retained the law firm WilmerHale to conduct a review
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  Speaker 1: of the foundation's past engagement with Epstein. Well, well, that
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  Speaker 1: always works out. It's like the Deckert Report. oh, let
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  Speaker 1: me go get a law firm that's friendly to my
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  Speaker 1: company to do this quote-unquote external review. The only external
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  Speaker 1: review I'm interested in is one done by the FBI, okay?
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  Speaker 1: I have no desire to see you try and whitewash
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  Speaker 1: your bullshit, I'm tired of internal reports, and I'm tired
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  Speaker 1: of people sugarcoating what really went on. At some point,
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  Speaker 1: the jig has to be up. The report, of which
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  Speaker 1: a summary was released on Tuesday... took about five months.
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  Speaker 1: It was based on more than 50 interviews with current
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  Speaker 1: and former foundation personnel, including Gates, and reviewed extensive written
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  Speaker 1: materials relevant to the review, the law firm said. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe anything they put in that review. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't. Maybe I'm just cynical, but I think
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  Speaker 1: the past has proven to us that these kinds of
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  Speaker 1: reports just can't be trusted. The report, of which a
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  Speaker 1: summary was released on Tuesday, took about five months. It
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  Speaker 1: was based on more than 50 interviews with current and
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  Speaker 1: former Foundation personnel, including Gates, and reviewed extensive written material
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  Speaker 1: relevant to the review, the law firm said. Wilmer Hell
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  Speaker 1: found no evidence of participation in or knowledge of Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: ongoing sex trafficking operation or criminal activities, the summary of
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  Speaker 1: the report states. Wilmer Hell found no evidence that the
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  Speaker 1: Foundation was was contemporaneously aware of Epstein's use of the
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  Speaker 1: foundation's name to help advance his conduct. Wilmer Hell also
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  Speaker 1: found no evidence that Epstein was paid by the foundation.
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  Speaker 1: They might as well just go on to say, and
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  Speaker 1: we exonerate Bill Gates completely, because that's the goal. The
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  Speaker 1: question is, are you buying it? Because you're the audience.
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  Speaker 1: You're who they're pitching this to. The people. They're trying
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  Speaker 1: to win the battle of public relations. and they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to do whatever they can to make this go away.
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  Speaker 1: And the best way to do that is to try
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  Speaker 1: and tie it up in a little bow and say
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  Speaker 1: it's all been investigated and there's nothing left to see.
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  Speaker 1: But I assure you, there is plenty left to see.
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  Speaker 1: An old lame-ass external report from Wilmer Hill is stopping
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  Speaker 1: this train. Gates, who has not been accused of any
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  Speaker 1: wrongdoing in connection with Epstein and has repeatedly denied having
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  Speaker 1: any knowledge of Epstein's crimes... has publicly expressed regret over
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  Speaker 1: his past association with Epstein. He apologized to Foundation employees
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  Speaker 1: during a February town hall meeting for his past ties
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein, the Wall Street Journal reported. In June, he
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  Speaker 1: testified in front of the House Committee on Oversight and
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  Speaker 1: Reform and told lawmakers that he never witnessed nor had
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  Speaker 1: any indication that Epstein was engaged in ongoing criminal conduct. Nah,
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  Speaker 1: one of the smartest men in the world, according to him,
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  Speaker 1: had no idea. Meanwhile, everybody knew. I'm talking about regular
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  Speaker 1: people in Santa Fe knew, okay? And how do I
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  Speaker 1: know that? Well, I went to Santa Fe and I
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  Speaker 1: talked to them. The lady that was managing my hotel
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  Speaker 1: knew all about Jeffrey Epstein, knew all about the little
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  Speaker 1: secret over at Zorro Ranch. So if you think she
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  Speaker 1: knew about it and Bill Gates didn't, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what to say. Honestly, I don't know what to tell you. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that's an excuse that Bill Gates can use, right? Because
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  Speaker 1: how do you prove differently? You can't prove that he
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  Speaker 1: knew something that he says he doesn't know unless you
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  Speaker 1: have contemporaneous evidence of it. You know, him saying, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I know Jeffrey Epstein was doing X, Y, or Z.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, we don't have that. But what we
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  Speaker 1: do have is a whole lot of circumstantial evidence. And
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  Speaker 1: when you have enough circumstantial evidence, it starts to add up, right?
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  Speaker 1: And that's how all investigations are built. And when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to Bill Gates, I think the foundation... of the
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  Speaker 1: claims made about him and his relationship with Epstein are strong.
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  Speaker 1: Now again, just to emphasize, I'm not saying Bill Gates
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  Speaker 1: was engaging in the abuse. I've never seen evidence of that.
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  Speaker 1: But he was enabling it. And he helped rehabilitate Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's image. And there's no question about that. The Microsoft
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  Speaker 1: co-founder said that he was introduced to Epstein in 2011
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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 laundered 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 Epstein, 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 2008 to state charges in Florida of solicitation
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  Speaker 1: of prostitution and of solicitation of prostitution with a minor.
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  Speaker 1: I accepted the introduction without applying the scrutiny I should have. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's what happens when you're a greedy, disgusting son of
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  Speaker 1: a bitch. Let me get a couple more bucks. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if it's a guy that has already
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  Speaker 1: been charged with prostitution with a minor, which shouldn't even
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  Speaker 1: be a law, by the way. How can a minor consent?
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  Speaker 1: So how can a minor be a prostitute? Somebody make
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  Speaker 1: that shit make sense. And don't even get me started
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  Speaker 1: on the NPA again. We'll end up being here all day.
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  Speaker 1: Gates said that their interactions ended in December of 2014.
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  Speaker 1: According to the new report, Epstein was introduced to Gates
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  Speaker 1: and other Foundation personnel in 2011 by an advisor who
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  Speaker 1: held a dual role, at the Foundation and in Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Gates' personal office. The review found that the Foundation's interactions
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  Speaker 1: with Epstein involved two matters, discussions about the potential creation
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  Speaker 1: of a donor-advised fund entity and Gates' engagement with a nonprofit.
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  Speaker 1: organization that later became a foundation grantee. Wilmer Hill said
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  Speaker 1: it identified roughly 30 meetings between Epstein and 10 foundation
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  Speaker 1: leaders and staff, including Mr. Gates from 2011 to 2014,
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  Speaker 1: including one meeting on the Foundation's campus and several meetings
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  Speaker 1: at Epstein's Manhattan residence. But we never saw anything. We
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  Speaker 1: never heard anything. We don't know anything. Guess what? Nobody
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  Speaker 1: buys it. The Foundation's meetings with Epstein appear to have
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  Speaker 1: focused on the DAF concept, donor engagement, the Foundation's polio strategy,
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  Speaker 1: and introductions to the IPI. The summary of the report states,
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  Speaker 1: Based on interviews and a review of available Foundation records,
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  Speaker 1: WilmerHale found no evidence that these meetings were unrelated to
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  Speaker 1: philanthropy or involved illegal conduct. Well, that's it folks, pack
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  Speaker 1: it in. The law firm that they paid and hired
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  Speaker 1: tells us there's nothing to see here. The report also
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  Speaker 1: concluded that Gates was aware of reputational concerns related to
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's prior conviction and sentencing for a sex-related offense when
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  Speaker 1: he began conversations with them in 2011. 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: Epstein because of his prior conviction, and those concerns were
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  Speaker 1: raised to senior leadership, including Mr. 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, and
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  Speaker 1: who are connected to the foundation, as well as creating
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  Speaker 1: 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 has sailed. 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 10 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.