Bill Gates sat before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday and delivered what might be the most insulting defense since "I did not have relations with that woman" — he claims he just didn't fully grasp what Jeffrey Epstein was all about. This from the man who built Microsoft, revolutionized personal computing, and wants us to believe he couldn't Google a convicted sex offender before dining with him repeatedly over three years.
Sure, Bill. You can mass-produce vaccines for the entire developing world, but reading a newspaper was just too hard.
According to LifeZette, Gates testified that he "never witnessed nor had any indication that Epstein was engaged in ongoing criminal conduct." Let's pause on that. Epstein was convicted in 2008 on prostitution and child exploitation charges. That wasn't exactly a state secret. It was public record. Gates first met Epstein in 2011 — three full years after the conviction — and proceeded to meet with him five times over a three-year period, exchanging emails from 2013 to 2015.
But don't worry, Gates assured Congress he "never went to his island, his ranch, or his Florida home." Oh, well that changes everything. He only went to Epstein's Manhattan home for dinner. Because apparently child exploitation is fine as long as you only visit the New York property.
Gates also told lawmakers, "I have never victimized anyone." Bold statement from a guy who met with a convicted predator multiple times while supposedly not understanding what the predator had done. He claims he cut off contact in late 2014 after Epstein "sought to use information about my infidelities to pressure me to reengage." So Epstein tried to blackmail him. That's what finally crossed the line — not the crimes against children, but the threat to Gates's own reputation.
Rep. Robert Garcia, a Democrat from California, pointed out what everyone in the room was thinking — there was "a theme of using his power of information against others." Even Democrats couldn't fully cover for this one.
And about those "infidelities" — Gates admitted under oath to roughly twenty liaisons during his marriage to Melinda, including two affairs with Russian women. One of them, Mila Antonova, a Russian bridge player, appeared in Epstein's investigative files. So Gates wasn't just casually acquainted with Epstein's world. He was tangled up in it.
A 2011 photo from a dinner at Epstein's Manhattan home shows Gates alongside banker Jes Staley and former Harvard president Larry Summers. Great company, Bill. Real philanthropic crowd.
Republican Chairman James Comer of Kentucky has now held fifteen major witness sessions as part of the Oversight Committee's investigation. Attorney Alan Dershowitz — himself an Epstein associate — actually volunteered to testify. Assistant Attorney General Todd Blanche has been circling the broader Epstein network for months.
Gates previously said, "In retrospect, I was foolish to spend any time with him." Foolish. That's the word he chose. Not "horrified." Not "ashamed." Foolish — like he accidentally wore white after Labor Day instead of repeatedly socializing with a convicted child predator.
Here's the thing we all know but the mainstream media refuses to say plainly: billionaires don't accidentally befriend convicted sex offenders. They don't "not fully understand" public criminal convictions. They make calculated decisions about who they associate with, and they only regret it when Congress comes knocking.
The walls are closing in on the Epstein network, and Bill Gates just gave us the world's least convincing performance of a man who had no idea what was going on. We weren't born yesterday, Bill. Even if you wish we were.