Epstein Files Are Destroying Bill Gates’ Carefully Crafted Image

Bill Gates’ façade as a benevolent billionaire do-gooder is collapsing. He appears to be among the few casualties, especially from the United States, of the Jeffrey Epstein files — which still haven’t been fully released.

While the Justice Department continues to illegally hold on to more than two million files, congressional Republicans are doing their best to appear as if they’re seeking accountability for the ones we’ve been allowed to see. Back in February, the committee deposed Bill and Hillary Clinton. That came to naught, despite a pile of evidence suggesting the Clintons spent extensive time with Epstein.

On Wednesday, Gates sat down for a closed-door deposition before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The committee wanted him to answer questions about his relationship with Epstein. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), who is on the committee, said Gates seemed “very worn down and stressed.”

Remarks to the Oversight Committee

According to a transcript of his opening statement that he posted on his personal website, Gates told the committee he knew nothing about Epstein’s criminal behavior, nor was he involved in any of it:

I never witnessed nor had any indication that Epstein was engaged in ongoing criminal conduct. I never went to his island, his ranch, or his Florida home. I have never victimized anyone.

Gates said he met Epstein in 2011 “through people I trusted in my professional and philanthropic work.” But despite having a team of people dedicated to preserving his fictional reputation, Gates never got a memo about how depraved Epstein was. “I recall being aware that Epstein had faced prior legal issues, but I did not fully understand the extent of the crimes he committed,” he said.

All he wanted to accomplish, Gates explained to the committee, was to make the world a better place. Despite how rich he is, his “wealth alone cannot fill the enormous funding gap that remains,” he explained. So he figured he’d accept help from Epstein, who told him he’d deliver donors for his philanthropic projects, he said.

Gates painted a picture of having sparse interaction with the pedophile. He said he had “a limited number of preliminary meetings” with Epstein, followed by more “extensive conversations in 2013 and 2014.” But in 2014, it became apparent to him that “Epstein would never deliver on his promises.” So he cut off contact, he said. “I told him we would go no further and stopped communicating or meeting with him.”

In the Epstein Files

Gates appears in the files numerous times. Depending how one counts the mentions, the tally fluctuates from hundreds to thousands of times. Among the most notable are two draft emails in which Epstein suggests that Gates asked him for antibiotics to slip to his then-wife for treating possible STDs he may have given her after having affairs with Russian hookers. In his statement to the committee, Gates appears to reference and deny, in part, these emails. Back in February, he admitted to having affairs with Russian women, but one was a bridge player and another a scientist. According to a Wall Street Journal reporter citing divorce proceedings, Gates had more than 20 affairs.

Gates’ “Error in Judgement”

To the committee, Gates framed his affairs as a scheme by Epstein to manipulate Gates back into his orbit:

I learned Epstein had become aware of sensitive information about my personal life, including the fact that I had been unfaithful in my marriage. These affairs had nothing to do with my interactions with Epstein, but they were painful for my family. As the public can now see, based on what has been released in the files, Epstein was working to use information about my infidelities — in addition to many lies that he layered on top — to pressure me to re-engage with him. 

Gates expressed regret on Wednesday for associating with Epstein. But he blamed his bad character judgment on his high morals. “I was so focused on the possibility of raising funds for global health that I allowed that goal to override my better judgment,” he said.

Gates most assuredly does regret his association with Epstein, but that’s likely for other reasons. His ties to Epstein are ruining the massive influence he’s had on policy all over the globe, influence that has pushed global vaccine campaigns, destructive energy policies fueled by climate hysteria, campaigns to dim the sun, and his latest pet project, hyper AI development at all costs.

Gates has been involved in all of that, and has funneled massive chunks of his wealth toward the globalist agenda on those fronts. And his influence, his ability to do that, has rested on a public image as a wealthy Mr. Rogers. “In the work I do, reputation is the basis for developing partnerships that save lives,” he said. “Meeting with Epstein was a grave error in judgement and put this work at risk.”

Mainstream Media Taking Note

A telling sign of Gates’ deteriorating do-gooder façade is that the mainstream media is noticing. On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal published a podcast report titled “Bill Gates’s Carefully Crafted Image Is Cracking.” Journal reporter Emily Glazer noted that his reputation has been “crumbling,” but “we just hadn’t realized it yet because [his stylists] were really trying to keep it under wraps.”

Glazer detailed how Gates’ “grandfatherly” image has been meticulously crafted over time to make him appear as harmless and trusting as a beloved character on public television:

The look that [the stylists] go for today is someone very calm and approachable, akin to Mr. Rogers. It is very neutral colored sweaters, crew neck or V-neck. There’s often a neutral button-down underneath, neutral slacks. And of course, Bill wears his signature silver lining opticians, carbon glasses, thick framed glasses.

In 2019, a YouGov survey ranked Gates as one of the most admired men. “He ranked higher than the Dalai Lama, then the Pope, then Barack Obama,” said Glazer. The PR team took credit for that. But the Epstein files are threatening to unravel all that hard work. “All of a sudden, his influence is diminishing.”

Gates appears to have lied about the extent of his ties to Epstein. Journal reporter Jessica Mendoza observed:

The Epstein files revealed a relationship between Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein that was far more complex than what Gates and his team had been presenting.

Glazer added, “There were a lot of new questions that showed this seemed to go much further than philanthropy.” She provided some examples of how Gates’ version of his relationship with Epstein differs from the information in the files:

Turns out Epstein traveled with and introduced Gates to the head of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. Epstein was involved in negotiations between Gates’ employees and Gates himself and Gates posed for photos that were released with Epstein and women around Epstein and their faces were redacted.

International Elite Responding

Gates’ ties to Epstein have made him persona non grata among the international elite. In February, he was removed from the list of keynote speakers at an AI summit in India. The organizers of an energy event called CERAWeek, which Gates had previously participated in, snubbed him as a speaker. He was also pushed aside by Warren Buffett’s big Berkshire Hathaway event in Omaha, Nebraska. But the biggest snub, Glazer reported, “came from the company that Gates co-founded, Microsoft”:

Microsoft has a CEO summit every year and Bill usually hosts this dinner with CEO’s at his house. And I’ve talked to CEO’s that have told me it’s one of their favorite events of the year. It’s amazing and they get there by boat and it’s like both really great conversation and also a spectacular setting. … Ahead of the dinner, Gates’ team received word that it would be better not to do it this year. 

Speaking on the effectiveness of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, co-sponsor Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said that we will know the bill has been successful when there are “rich men in handcuffs being perp-walked to the jail.” There have been some arrests, but they haven’t taken. Perhaps another measure of success that Massie should consider is when malevolent actors lose their ability to poison the world with their toxic influence. Because the more globalists are discredited in the world, the better off the world becomes.