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Did Jeffrey Epstein Blackmail Bill Gates?
Powerlineblog ^ | May 21, 2023 | Steven Hayward

Posted on 05/21/2023 4:27:33 PM PDT by lasereye

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One thing about this story doesn't make sense to me. The Russian bridge player wasn't underage. How could Epstein have been so confident that Gates could be blackmailed over that? Why wouldn't Gates have called the police about the blackmail? Generally, people are blackmailed over things they wouldn't report to the police, i.e., something illegal.

It could be that Epstein thought Gates would be crushed by his marriage breaking up, but his marriage has since ended. He sure doesn't seem crushed to me. Of course he had to pay part of his fortune in the divorce settlement, but I don't think that has affected him either.

If Epstein was blackmailing Gates, it was over something else imo.

1 posted on 05/21/2023 4:27:33 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: lasereye

Did he have something on Melinda and he used that against Bill?


2 posted on 05/21/2023 4:32:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: lasereye

As to that photo, we need eyewash and possibly deep hypnosis to unsee that.


3 posted on 05/21/2023 4:33:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: lasereye

This is spin giving Gates an excuse to why he was dealing with Epstein. The real reason being he is a pedo will be hidden.


4 posted on 05/21/2023 4:34:39 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: lasereye

Bill Gates would have been concerned about losing half his fortune. An affair could cost him $60 billion. That’s where his point of vulnerability was.


5 posted on 05/21/2023 4:35:24 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: lasereye

TBH, I don’t feel sorry in the least for Bill Gates.


6 posted on 05/21/2023 4:36:50 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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I'm guessing that she was NOT in her 20's in 2010.....Epstein met her in 2013 and paid for her to go to school to learn coding?? WHY?? And then asking Gates to re-imburse him for that??? WHY??

I'M NOT BUYING THAT AT ALL...NONE OF IT!! Makes NO SENSE AT ALL!

Give us her NAME, then we can figure it out!

7 posted on 05/21/2023 4:37:42 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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I don’t think he lost half his fortune. The details haven’t been made public. California law gives 50% to each spouse, but Gates doesn’t live in California.


8 posted on 05/21/2023 4:40:57 PM PDT by lasereye ( )
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Some people don’t society to know they cheated on a spouse, whether or not they are still married, especially when asking for donations to their foundation.


9 posted on 05/21/2023 4:48:03 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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Whatever it was that he gave to his ex, it’s still a point of vulnerability. Whether it be $5 billion or $10 billion, or whatever, it was still too much money to let go in his mind.


10 posted on 05/21/2023 4:51:01 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: Ann Archy

According to the Daily Mail, it was Mila Antonova.


11 posted on 05/21/2023 5:00:31 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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Your theory is groundless. Gates has donated $45 billion to charity over the years.


12 posted on 05/21/2023 5:01:51 PM PDT by lasereye ( )
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To: frank ballenger

It just goes to show what a pervert Slick Willy is.


13 posted on 05/21/2023 5:04:56 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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I thought billy boy gates said he barely knew epstein


14 posted on 05/21/2023 5:05:46 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Prince of Space

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12108407/amp/Jeffrey-Epstein-threatened-expose-Bill-Gates-2010-affair-Russian-bridge-player.html


15 posted on 05/21/2023 5:05:46 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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No he hasn’t. Foundations serve a purpose to keep wealth from being taxed. Bill Gates started up a foundation and gave 5% of the earnings to other foundations and took a tax deduction from that. Those other Foundations, in turn, gave to Bill Gates and took a tax deduction on that. It’s a circle.

It’s a tax-free way to grow wealth, with the only real time that they will pay tax is when they close the Foundation, which likely will never happen.


16 posted on 05/21/2023 5:06:50 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: for-q-clinton

DING! DING! DING!


17 posted on 05/21/2023 5:09:24 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: lasereye

You actually BELIEVE he has given up $45 BILLION to charity?? I have a BRIDGE to sell you.


18 posted on 05/21/2023 5:11:22 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: lasereye

Do you realize:

The madam recruiting the girls went to prison for her involvement.

You have flight manifests. Flight crew that were witnesses. Some of those that went on these trips will surely turn if squeezed and offered leniency. You have the girls themselves.

But not one single guy that stuck his weener in an under age girl has even so much as been indicted.

Where are the feminists?

Where are the social justice warriors?

Where is the watchdog and free speech media?

Where are the get tough on crime politicians?

Where is our glorious FBI which loves to talk about human trafficking bla bla bla?

Some people are to important to fail.


19 posted on 05/21/2023 5:12:07 PM PDT by Red6
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Those other Foundations, in turn, gave to Bill Gates and took a tax deduction on that.

You have a link?

20 posted on 05/21/2023 5:15:16 PM PDT by lasereye ( )
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