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Jeffrey Epstein And The Alleged Plot To Blackmail Bill Gates (Part 2)
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The story that Jeffrey Epstein tried to blackmail Bill Gates over an alleged affair with a Russian bridge player is now being touted as the extent of their connection—but that narrative reeks of damage control. It's suspiciously convenient that this...
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What's up everyone? And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to pick up where we left off in the Wall Street Journal article talking about Bill Gates and how Jeffrey Epstein was allegedly blackmailing him. This article was published by the Wall Street Journal, and the author of this article is Khadijah Safdar and and Emily Glazer. Bill Gates, who has a net worth in excess of $100 billion, one of the world's biggest philanthropists, was among the most well known names in Epstein's calendar. And the calendar was a who's who's list of people in the tech sector, people in entertainment, people from politics, you name it. Every walk of life, wherever power could be found, that's where you can find the tentacle of Jeffrey Epstein. The man infiltrated every single walk of life, pretty much from the financial sector all the way down to modeling. Starting in 2011, Gates had more than half a dozen meetings scheduled with Epstein, including dinners at Epstein's New York townhouse, document show. Gates flew on Epstein's private plane from New Jersey to Florida in March 2013, according to according to flight records, long after Jeffrey Epstein was already a sex offender. And what are you doing flying from Teterboro down to Florida? Did you guys go to the mansion? Where'd you guys go? What'd you do? And who did you two degenerates do it with? That same month, the two men then met in France with an official on the Nobel Peace Prize committee. They spent much of the day together in New York in September 2014, meeting other billionaires, the Journal reported. Gates has said he learned to play bridge from his parents, and the card game became one of his favorite hobbies. Gates played with Anatonova, another devotee of the game. She attended university in Russia between 2000 and 2005, according to her LinkedIn profile. She later founded a bridge club in the US before taking on several roles as a software engineer in the bay area, her LinkedIn profile shows must be nice to have all kinds of hookups Must be nice to be the ex paramore of Bill Gates. I would guess that you'd get some opportunities that other people might not get. In a video posted online in 2010, Antonova talked about meeting Gates at a bridge tournament and playing against the Microsoft co founder. I didn't beat him, but I tried to kick him with my leg, she said in the video. You got Bill Gates over here playing bridge, and as much as we all hate Zuckerberg, at least the dudes out there doing some jiu jitsu and doing some kind of, you know, physical activity. Meanwhile, goofy ass Bill Gates is hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein and playing bridge. Antonova had an idea to start an online business to teach people how to play bridge, and she sought funds for it. According to documents viewed by the Wall Street Journal, Boris Nikolic, a Gates confidant and top science advisor at the time who also knew Epstein, introduced Anantova to Epstein to help her raise the funds, the documents show. Nikolic said when he first met Epstein, it was in his capacity as Gates scientific advisor and they discussed philanthropic proposals. I deeply regret that I ever met Epstein, nikolaj said. His crimes were despicable. I never saw anything like his illegal behavior. My heart goes out to the victims and their families. And the relationship between Boris Nikolic and Jeffrey Epstein still hasn't been vetted correctly. Why would Jeffrey Epstein name this dude as one of the executors of his estate if they don't even really know each other? Especially considering the other two executors of the estate are longtime confidants and trusted associates of Jeffrey Epstein. So why would Boris Nikolic be added to that group? That's a question to ponder, huh? Antonova and Nikolic met at Epstein's townhouse in November 2013, where she presented her proposal to Epstein, who provided feedback. Documents show she was looking to raise $500,000 for the venture, which she called Bridge Planet. Its mission was to promote bridge by creating quality tutorials for beginners and advanced players. So how would that project make money? On advertisements or selling the tutorials? Because $500,000 as startup money, you would think you'd want to see a return on that investment, right? On November 9, Antonova wrote an email to thank Epstein for the meeting and reviewing the proposal. Epstein ultimately didn't invest in the project, according to Antonova. The next year, in November 2014, Antonova stayed briefly at an apartment in New York City provided by Epstein. I didn't interact with him or with anyone else while there, she said. That apartment wouldn't be located on 66th street, would it? After she failed to secure funding for Bridge Planet, Antonova said she decided to become a software programmer and asked several people to lend her money for a programming boot camp. Epstein agreed to pay and he paid directly to the school. Nothing was exchanged. I don't know why he did that, she said. When I asked, he said something like he was wealthy and wanted to help people when he could. Oh yeah, Jeffrey Epstein, Mr. Helpful. Mr. Helpful himself. Jeffrey Epstein never did anything unless he was getting something on the back end. The question is here, what was he getting from Antonova while he was meeting with Gates? Epstein also had multiple meetings scheduled with other people close to Gates, including Nikolic, former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold, and Gates foundation staffer Melanie Walker, the documents show. And remember, Melanie Walker was the neurosurgeon that was palling around with Prince Andrew down at Zorro Ranch. Remember she came and asked the staff about a special tea that she could possibly make to get Prince Andrew a bit worked up, if you will. Oh yeah, we covered that as well. So all of these people are connected, this nexus runs deep and all of these webs are interconnected. At the time, Epstein was trying to set up a multi billion dollar charitable fund with JP Morgan that would potentially pull money from some of the world's wealthiest people. Epstein proposed that JP Morgan set up the fund with a minimum of $100 million contribution to per individual and pay him millions of dollars in fees, the documents show. In addition to the fees, the disgraced financier pedophile saw the fund as a way to rehabilitate his reputation, according to people he told of his thinking it hinged on securing support from Gates, the documents show. So basically what they're hinting at here is that Bill Gates is not culpable for his time with Epstein because, you know, he, he just got caught up. And Bill Gates is so stupid that he got dog walked by dumbass Jeffrey Epstein who never even graduated from college. That's what you want us to believe? Well, I'm sorry, I don't believe that Bill Gates knew exactly who Epstein was, knew exactly what Epstein was up to and he was still hanging out with him anyway. Now I'm not going to sit here and tell you Bill Gates was abusing girls with Jeffrey Epstein, but what I will say is this. He certainly enabled Jeffrey Epstein and helped Jeffrey Epstein refurbish his reputation. So to act like Billy Boy Gates is some kind of victim is straight up a joke. There's zero chance that I'd ever fall for that narrative, and I highly doubt any of you out there will either. This guy knew exactly what he was doing. All of them did. I'm so tired of that excuse. That's even the excuse we got from the CIA director who was palling around with Epstein as well. Oh, Oh, I had no idea who he was, bro. You're in charge of the CIA. You mean to tell me you had no idea you were having meetings with one of the most prolific molesters we've ever seen? Is that what the head of the CIA really wants us to believe? Because if so, it's not a good look. There's no way you can frame Mr. Burns hanging out with Epstein in a good manner. It's all a bad look, and it should be called out a whole lot more. But of course, remember, they have to make sure that they protect their faves. Epstein's messages, which were peppered with typos and spelling errors, tried to give the impression that he was a close Gaetz advisor. Gaetz wasn't included on emails reviewed by the Journal. The Gates spokeswoman said Epstein never worked for Gaetz and misrepresented their ties and communications with JP Morgan and others. Yo, the whitewash is happening in full effect right here. Don't be mad at Bill Gates, folks. He had no idea what was happening. He had no idea who Jeffrey Epstein was. Just look at his emails. It's obvious that Bill Gates had no clue. Give me a break already. Bill Gates knew exactly what was going on, just like every other scumbag that rolled through those doors. And anybody who gives us that excuse is somebody that needs further examination at this point. I mean, imagine being caught up in something like this and not getting ahead of it and talking to the media, talking to the FBI, whoever wanted to talk to you, especially if you did nothing wrong, I'd be the first one standing up saying, hey, what's up? Let's talk. Where's the FBI at? Can we have a conversation, please? I didn't do. I have no idea what this guy was up to. But we never hear that, Dewey. It's always, oh, I had no idea who Jeffrey Epstein was. I had no idea what he was up to. But. But the fact is, you did. And not only were people like Bill Gates aware of what Jeffrey Epstein was, they went into these business relationships not caring about what he had done in the past. And again, like usual, it's profits over people. In essence, this fund will allow Bill to have access to higher quality people, investment allocation, governance, without upsetting either his marriage or the sensitivities of the current foundation employees. Epstein wrote on August 16, 2011 to two top JP Morgan executives, Jess Staley and Mary Erdos, his two BFFs over at JPMorgan. And not enough conversation is centered around Mary Erdos either. How many times is she going to be mentioned in these emails as somebody facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's financial malfeasance? I mean, every time you turn around, Mary Erdos is named in one of these emails. The next day, Epstein wrote, bill is terribly frustrated. He would like to boost some of the things that we are working on without taking away from those that are not. On October 2, he sent another email to Staley and Erdos criticizing a presentation that JP Morgan had prepared on on the project. The presentation is not tailored to Bill. He is the only person, the only one that counts. And there's one certainty about Jeffrey Epstein, and that was he liked to go big game hunting and get people like Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, people like that under his thumb. And once he had them under his thumb, he was able to use that relationship to help refurbish his own reputation. After he was arrested for molesting a child, the charitable fund never got off the ground. The firm didn't need him as a client. A JP Morgan's spokesman said of Epstein. The firm didn't need him for introductions. Knowing what we know today, we wish we had never done business with him, a spokesman for the bank said. Erdos declined to comment. A lawyer for Stahle didn't respond to a request for comment. Staley has previously said he he regrets his friendship with Epstein. Oh, I'm sure he does. And once again, he doesn't regret the friendship. He regrets that you know about it. That's all he really regrets is that we know about that friendship, not that he actually was palling around with Egg Dick. It's the fact that you and I know about it and it's making his life miserable, the poor guy. Oh, I can't roll around in my money like Scrooge McDuck anymore. Waaaaah. I can't even explain to you how. How much contempt I harbor for people like this. While he was working on the charitable fund, Epstein met in 2013 with Gates and Norwegian officials who were visitors to Epstein's townhouse. Epstein told one former Gates foundation employee that he knew the Norwegians and could help Gates win a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to eradicate polio. Can someone please explain to me how Bill Gates became some kind of aficionado in. In the world of medicine. Isn't this guy like a software developer? All of a sudden I should be taking medical advice from Bill Gates. Okay, sure. So what am I going to do next? Dr. Phil's going to write code for me? I'm going to have Dr. Phil write me up a video game later on. It's also ridiculous. Breaking news. Bill Gates. I don't need you to give me health advice, okay? I don't need any advice from anyone who is palling around with Jeffrey Epstein. And I don't care how many zeros you you have in your bank account. You're a condemnable, disgusting individual. And the fact that you're trying to whitewash your relationship with Epstein is utterly ridiculous. So here's an idea, Billy boy Gates. Stay in your lane, worry about making sure that my Microsoft Windows platform isn't garbage, and leave the doctoring to, you know, the doctors. Gates and Epstein met together in March in Strasbourg, France, at the home of Thorburn Jagland, then chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. That September, Epstein scheduled a meeting with Gates, Jaglund and others at his townhouse. The document show. Our document show Mr. Gates met with Norwegian officials to discuss the security situation in Afghanistan as part of Mr. Gates work on polio eradication. What does that even mean? Is Bill Gates in an Afghanistan refugee camp giving people polio vaccines? Or is he somebody who's behind the scenes using this charitable organization for whatever the he's using it for? And again, I hate to be cynical, but when we're talking about these billionaires and all the people that were palling around with Epstein, I can't help myself. I have such a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to all of these people at this point, the whole so called elite class that I look at all of them as degenerates. Mr. Gates has never been focused on or campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize or any other prize. Jaglin didn't respond to requests for comment. He has previously said the prize wasn't a topic for discussion during the Stroudsburg meeting. Several years of discussions with JP Morgan, Gates and others failed to yield for Epstein or or Gates commitment to it. In 2017, Epstein contacted Gates about the Russian bridge player years after the relationship had ended. According to people familiar with the matter, he sent an email to Gates asking to be reimbursed for the costs of Anatonova's coding school. The people said the sum was immaterial for the two men and the tone of the message was that Epstein knew about the affair and could expose it, the people said. The spokeswoman for Gates said he didn't make any payment. Mr. Gates made no financial dealings with Epstein, she said. Days before he died in 2017, Epstein changed his will and named Nikolic as a backup executor. Nikolic said Epstein didn't discuss the idea with him beforehand and that he subsequently declined to serve. He couldn't have listed Bill because that would have been too obvious. So he chose me, he said. I have come to believe it was likely a retaliatory move against Bill Gates. Oh, yeah, of course. That's what this piece reads as a whitewash of Bill Gates relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And I don't buy the explanation that's being given here. Oh, Bill Gates was just a shrinking flower, and he was being manipulated by mean old Jeffrey Epstein. Give me a break, okay? Powerful people like Bill Gates, they're very shrewd, and they walk into a room and they're used to being the biggest swinging dick in that room. So if you think he was cowing down to Jeffrey Epstein, you would be mistaken, because he was not. Guys that have that kind of dough are in charge of whatever the hell they're doing. And if Bill Gates wanted to go down this route and use it as his defense, why didn't he come out and say this in the very beginning? I was being manipulated. I was being blackmailed, and that's why I was meeting with Jeffrey Epstein. He never said any of that. All of a sudden, this is the new strategy. All of a sudden, these emails come to light. They. They surface all of a sudden. And now Bill Gates has an excuse that he can rely upon or at the very least, point to and say, look, I was being manipulated, too. The question is, is anybody buying what he's selling? All right, folks, that's gonna do it for this one. All of the information that goes with the episode can be found in the description box.