{"id":614922,"date":"2021-08-06T06:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T10:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=614922"},"modified":"2021-08-06T06:21:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T10:21:30","slug":"bill-gates-says-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein-was-a-huge-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-says-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein-was-a-huge-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Says Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein Was A \u2018Huge Mistake\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-gates-says-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein-was-a-huge-mistake%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=614922&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GatesEpstein-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Bill Gates stated that he regrets his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Microsoft co-founder\u2019s association with Epstein \u2014 a former financier and convicted sex offender who allegedly committed suicide in his jail cell \u2014 was reportedly a prevalent factor in Gates\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-melinda-gates-was-furious-with-husband-bill-for-meeting-jeffrey-epstein\"><span>divorce<\/span><\/a><span> with his wife, Melinda. The couple <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/bill-gates-melinda-french-gates-finalize-divorce-79243557\"><span>finalized<\/span><\/a><span> the end of their twenty-seven-year marriage on Monday, although court documents did not reveal how they would allocate Gates\u2019 $150 billion fortune.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Another report <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-bill-gates-pushed-jeffrey-epstein-to-rehabilitate-image-wanted-epstein-involved-with-charity\"><span>revealed<\/span><\/a><span> that Gates pushed Epstein to remake his public image after his sex offenses began to circulate in the public eye. According to The Daily Beast, Gates \u201cencouraged Epstein to rehabilitate his image in the media following his 2008 guilty plea for soliciting a minor for prostitution, and discussed Epstein becoming involved with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.\u201d A source told the outlet that meetings at Epstein\u2019s mansion in New York was a \u201cway of getting away from Melinda.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nevertheless, Gates said in an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/business\/2021\/08\/05\/bill-gates-divorce-foundation-intv-sot-cooper-ac360-vpx.cnn\"><span>interview<\/span><\/a><span> with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper that he should not have associated with Epstein.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt was a huge mistake to spend time with him, to give him the credibility of, you know, being there,\u201d Gates said. \u201cYou know, there were lots of others in that same situation, but I made a mistake.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gates added that his \u201cseveral dinners\u201d with Epstein occurred in the hopes that \u201cwhat he said about getting billions of philanthropy to global health through contacts that he had might emerge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He also called the divorce a \u201csad milestone,\u201d as \u201cMelinda\u2019s a great person and that partnership that we had coming to an end is a source of great personal sadness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation \u2014 which holds nearly $50 billion in assets and is one of the most powerful nonprofits in the world \u2014 emphasizes public health, education, and other social causes. However, it also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gates-foundation-shells-out-1-4-billion-for-family-planning\"><span>supports<\/span><\/a><span> \u201cfamily planning\u201d initiatives and has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/ideas\/media-center\/press-releases\/1999\/10\/international-planned-parenthood-federation991013\"><span>donated<\/span><\/a><span> heavily to Planned Parenthood; in 2012, the Gates Foundation <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.familyplanning2020.org\/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation\"><span>pledged<\/span><\/a><span> $1 billion to \u201chelp reach the goal of providing 120 million additional women with contraceptives, information, and services by 2020.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The foundation recently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/melinda-gates-may-get-ousted-from-gates-foundation\"><span>revealed<\/span><\/a><span> that although Bill and Melinda Gates will attempt to work together as co-chairs, Melinda will resign from the organization within two years if the partnership is no longer productive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates stated that he regrets his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.The Microsoft co-founder\u2019s association with Epstein \u2014 a former financier and convicted sex offender who allegedly committed suicide in his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}