Ahhh guys, he apologized. I mean, it's only a bit of foreign blackmail targeting a man with unbearable weight on global tech. He said he was sorry!

No sympathy here. If he is admitting to that, no reason to believe him on the kid stuff, better do a very deep look.

He can keep the cell warm for Trump as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah, this comes across as admitting to a small thing to try and avoid consequences for the big thing. If we're already in a place where we're talking about a man with a life of elicit affairs while spending time around a child sex trafficker, it is absurdly unbelievable that at no point did those wires get crossed or that he was unaware of what he was getting himself into.

In one email, dated July 2013 and written by Epstein about Gates, the late pedophile alleges the billionaire sought to conceal from his wife Melinda French Gates a sexually transmitted disease he contracted after having sex with “Russian girls.”

The email claims Gates sought antibiotics to secretly give her. It is not clear whether the email was sent to Gates, but he denied the allegation as “completely false” via a spokesperson in late January.

In his call on Tuesday, however, Gates confirmed he had extramarital relationships during his 27-year marriage with two Russian women.

“I did have affairs, one with a Russian bridge player who met me at bridge events, and one with a Russian nuclear physicist who I met through business activities,” he said.

During the call, Gates acknowledged flying on a private plane with Epstein and spending time with him in the U.S. and abroad — but insisted that he had not witnessed or participated in illegal activity.

“I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit,” Gates reportedly told staff. “To be clear, I never spent any time with the victims, the women around him.”

Gates said he first met Epstein in 2011, after the financier’s Florida conviction for procuring a child for prostitution, and continued to socialize with him despite concerns raised by his then-wife.

A physicist and a Bridge player...

Sure, we believe that Bill, we just need you to answer a few more questions. Maybe some pointed questions about this and a few other subjects. Maybe even edged questions if you will.

“I apologize to other people who are drawn into this because of the mistake I made,” he said. “It definitely is the opposite of the values of the Foundation and the goals of the Foundation.”

It's not though. The foundation is a way to spread his influence, bolster his ego, and pay less in taxes. Wasn't that why he was pals with the pedo kingpin?

It’s weird how everyone has his number, even if their reasoning was off. The Slashdot penguinheads thought he a literal Sith lord, the Q-nuts thought he, Soros and Fauci were running 5G vaccine chip biolabs, and now it turns out he was an Epstein Island frequent flyer.

The term for this is "trickle truthing", and it's a common tactic when someone gets caught doing something terrible.

The slashdotters likely remember when Gates literally tried to make the web proprietary with IE6 and ActiveX, among other sleazy BS.

He can get wrecked.

Don't believe him. It was probably MORE.

He's sorry he got an STI from an underage Russian prostitute and he gave it to Melinda, then asked Epstein how to slip her antibiotics without her knowing.

"affair". fuck right off Bill.

Admitting to the lesser deed to deflect from the greater crime.

We all see you Bill. We know what you did.

"Sowwy I got caught being a pervert." -Bill Gates

Of course there's a name for it

It infuriates me that these things are simultaneously common, yet effective on the majority of civilization.

"despite concerns raised by his then-wife" so he knew and still hung out with him.

It's not the same severity, but it reminds me of when Kevin Spacey was having rape allegations or something. So he came out and said he was finally coming out of the closet.

It was like, "yeah ... okay ... what about the other stuff ... ?"

If he gives his fortune away to a good charity and commits seppuku then I will think about some sympathy

How about bad charities that he uses to enrich himself while millions die, like he did with Covid?

Sympathy going to happen.

Edit; I just noticed that I didn't write "isn't"...

I mean really there's no way I could have sympathy for him. Death to all the abusers

We do.

Source: I have a 5 digit slashdot user ID.

Yeah, reflecting back on the hell he made my life with all that antitrust shit recently really got me ashamed I'd ever slipped and given him any generous thoughts at all. The dude is a piece of shit, through and through.

during his 27-year marriage with two Russian women.

What?

Yes those nobel-prize-winning russian underage physicists. Suuuuure. Totally believable.

He's a bigamist as well!

Would this not be called a trigamist? The two russian pros and Melinda?

Russian women or Russian girls? Even now, he's trying to soft-pedal his abuses.

Fuck that fucking fucking guy.

young girl, not woman.

With Russian Women

Russian underage women aka, children.

He was an asshole in business, got fabulously wealthy, cheated on his wife, all very normal rich things from what we knew at the time. We gave him generous thoughts because he had mostly gotten out of the business and started plilanthropy.

Giving him some credit at that point was warranted, given what we thought we knew. Who were we to guess?

Now, the real question, from my perspective: Did all the rich/elite 100% know he was trafficking? Were everyone in all those pictures complicit? I'm inclined to say yes. I don't think they 'close friends' just stayed till the end of the party for the "eyes wide shut" shit.

“I did have affairs, one with a Russian bridge player who met me at bridge events, and one with a Russian nuclear physicist who I met through business activities,” he said.

Sounds like actual adults.

And almost 300k acres of farmland?

Women

Or very accomplished children.

There are no underage prostitutes. They're children being exploited and abused. He's sorry he got caught raping children.

"I am sorry (that I got caught) having relations with numerous russian women. Numerous delicious 11 year old russian 'women'.
I truly wish I had not been caught and I am sorry.
I want everyone to know that it will never happen again...mainly because I'm now far more cautious about the children I rape!"

If what he says is true, why lie and try to hide it? Sure, having your affairs brought out into the open is uncomfortable, but with it being a part of the Trump- Epstein files, the best thing to do would be to be up front and honest about why his name is coming up. Trying to hide it at first and then coming out with this sounds like a PR move. There is probably something he is trying to hide by sharing a partial truth.

Cool. Give your billions to the bottom 90%, and we'll decide whether to believe that's all you did with Epstein.

(We'll definitely decide to not believe you)

tried to make the web proprietary

/me eyes EME

OH MY GOD RUSSIAN WOMEN ARE THEY EVEN HUMAN WAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGH

So he met both these accomplished adult Russian women just going about his billionaire day, nothing to do with his good buddy Jeff whatsoever. When he caught the nasty clap from one of these only two accomplished adult Russian women, he ran straight to his good buddy Jeff for help spiking his wife, even though his good buddy Jeff had nothing to do with trafficking procuring introducing him to these exactly two, definitely adult, women.

I have no further questions, just glad we can finally put these "BILL GATES IS DEFINITELY A PEDOPHILE" rumours to bed. Phew.

Did he try to dose them with anti STD pills?

Announcing "affairs" seems carefully chosen. "Affair" implies an ongoing extramarital relationship. Sampling each of Epstein's new child sex slaves would be pedophilia and cheating, but not affairs. He wants to imply his only extramarital sex was with consenting adults.

I’m conflicted in these situations.

Obviously apologizing is better than nothing but at the same time, it’s an empty gesture at this point given how there is no consequence.

The only benefit is that it’s another domino that hopefully leads to actual justice.

He's trying to satisfy people by admitting to a smaller thing rather than the worse things he did. Classic PR.

And he at minimum thought Epstein was a good person to ask about illicit sex-related problems. So it wasn't just "Melinda thinks this guy has a bad vibe", it means he would absolutely have known about the conviction for pedophilia. And he was close enough to Epstein that he felt comfortable revealing a potentially damaging secret and reveal he intended to commit a crime against his wife.

Soon enough the two Russian women will in fact be two Russian girls.

Slightly better than Spacey suddenly deciding to come out as a proud gay man, but not by much

The shit about trying to secretly dose his wife without telling her, what the fuck dude.

The phrase "underage women" is the biggest lie mainstream media has pushed as part of all of this. These scumbags didn't have sex with "underage women". The raped children.

The bridge that was played :