Bill Gates is in damage-control mode thanks to his documented Jeffrey Epstein ties.
“I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit.” This is what the software tycoon and amateur climate and vaccine expert said to Gates Foundation staff on Tuesday during a town hall, according to an exclusive by The Wall Street Journal. The Journal obtained a recording of the meeting.
Nevertheless, the article notes, Gates admitted that “it was a huge mistake to spend time with Epstein.”
Gates confessed to having extramarital affairs with Russian women — but not with Russian prostitutes, as some recent reports have alleged. “I did have affairs, one with a Russian bridge player who met me at bridge events, and one with a Russian nuclear physicist who I met through business activities,” he said.
The January 30 Epstein file dump, although incomplete thanks to the Justice Department refusing to release everything required by law, included fresh documents that bolster a slew of allegations independent investigative reporters have been making for years. That includes Gates’ relationship with Epstein.
Email Drafts
Gates came up numerous times in the new files. Among the most discussed are two email drafts that suggest he caught a sexually transmitted disease from “Russian girls” and that he asked Epstein to provide him with antibiotics to subversively give his wife. The emails do not specifically say the “Russian girls” Epstein referred to were prostitutes.
The emails also indicate Epstein was not happy with Gates’ decision to break off their business relationship. Gates’ then-wife, Melinda French Gates, appears to have pressured her husband to sever ties with Epstein. The emails are dated 2013, five years after Epstein’s Florida conviction.
Gates has denied the allegations in the emails. “Apparently, Jeffrey wrote an email to himself. That email was never sent,” Gates told 9 News Australia. “The email is false. I don’t know what his thinking was there. Was he trying to attack me in some way? Every minute I spent with him, I regret, and I apologize that I did that.”
Gates also denies ever visiting Epstein’s island. “I never went to the island, I never met any women,” he said. “And so, the more that comes out, the more clear it’ll be that, although the time was a mistake, it had nothing to do with that kind of behavior.”
Gates’ ties to Epstein have “cast a cloud over the philanthropic group,” the Journal noted. (Anything that discredits and exposes Gates for who he really is provides a service to the world. He has been at the center of several globalist projects including Covid-19-era human rights restrictions, forced vaccines, contact tracing, weather manipulation, and artificial intelligence surveillance.)
Worldwide Fallout
The Epstein files have triggered a torrent of fallout among the rich and powerful. But the most severe effects have been constrained to power players outside of the U.S. In Britain, police arrested former Prince Andrew, the brother of King Charles, on the suspicion that he passed state secrets to Epstein. The former prince was later released.
Also in Britain, police arrested and questioned former British Ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson, “a towering figure in British politics for more than four decades,” as The New York Times put it, over suspicion that he passed secrets to Epstein. Mandelson has also been released.
Mandelson’s Epstein ties are ginning up demands for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign, as he appointed Mandelson.
In Norway, former Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland was charged with aggravated corruption thanks to information in the Epstein files. On Wednesday, news broke that Jagland has been hospitalized “due to the strain arising in the wake of this case.”
Then there’s Joanna Rubinstein, who resigned as president of the Swedish United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) after the files revealed that she visited Epstein’s island in 2012.
Further east in Europe, Miroslav Lajčák, an advisor to Slovakia’s prime minister, resigned after the files showed he exchanged messages about girls and diplomacy with Epstein. The files suggest Lajčák was very much open to partaking in deviant activities.
In Dubai, the leader of port operator DP World, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, resigned thanks to suggestions in the files that he sent Epstein a video that included torture.
Americans Implicated
But over in America, the impact has been more muted. There have been no arrests and no indictments. As far as we know, one person has been questioned — Les Wexner, Epstein’s former “benefactor,” whom the FBI listed in a 2019 internal memo as a “co-conspirator.”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who co-sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act, has called for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to resign his position over revelations that he lied about cutting ties with Epstein before his 2008 conviction. The files suggest otherwise, and Lutnick has owned up to it.
A former White House attorney for President Barack Obama, Kathryn Ruemmler, resigned from Goldman Sachs over revelations in the files that she not only regularly met and communicated with Epstein for many years after his conviction, but advised him on how to deal with criticism over the “sweetheart” plea deal he got in 2008.
And news broke Wednesday that President Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary, Larry Summers, will resign his teaching position at Harvard over revelations in the files that he had a close relationship with Epstein long after the pedophile’s conviction.
Is Justice Coming?
The lack of accountability has not gone unnoticed by the man who almost single-handedly made the release of the Epstein files a reality. “When will we see justice?” Massie recently asked during a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives. “Over two dozen people have resigned — CEOs, members of government worldwide. But I haven’t seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States from this Department of Justice.”
Massie pointed out the absurdity of a Justice Department (DOJ) that won’t look into the allegations suggested in the files while the director of the FBI celebrates in the locker room with the USA hockey team. “It’s fine to be proud of this country,“ Massie said, “but we should be proud of this country because we have a system of justice that works.” He then went on to drop the names of three men who should be investigated:
Leon Black — you don’t even have to see past the redactions to see that this man needs to be investigated. Jes Staley — accused of terrible things. It’s right there in the files. Why is he not being investigated? And Leslie Wexner. Why did the FBI list him as a co-conspirator in their own documents in a child sex-trafficking case and then tell him, according to him, that they had no questions for him? Why is that?
All three names have come up in numerous reports over the years, so the most recent files only reinforce suspicion toward these figures.
Massie reminded lawmakers that the Epstein Files Transparency Act requires the DOJ to provide the public with internal communications that explain why it chose not to prosecute suspects. “Yet they have not delivered those memos,” he pointed out:
And we still don’t have the memos and documents and emails from 2008 to explain why Jeffrey Epstein was given such a light sentence in what would’ve been an open-and-shut case of child sex-trafficking, which allowed him to go back and recommit these terrible crimes, create hundreds of more victims, and ensnare so many other people in his conspiracy. Where are those documents that describe those decisions? We need justice. We want the Department of Justice to get to work and that’s what they need to do — now!”
Will the DOJ carry out its duties? As of now, it doesn’t appear so. The agency’s refusal to act on the trove of incriminating evidence in the files bolsters the credible suspicion that the Western world is ruled by shadowy forces, forces that have our institutions of justice and accountability on a leash. That leash ends before it reaches the international cabal of Insiders, the people behind Epstein.
