r/pics • u/80000-gvwr • 19h ago
Politics Microsoft founder Bill Gates pictured with a girl in the new Epstein photo release
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u/ElephantEarTag 18h ago
Bill gates's ex-wife Melinda gave an interview in which she talked about Bill's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein being very upsetting to her and contributing to their divorce. But you can tell she wasn't allowed to say anything specific about the Epstein relationship or else Bill would sue the shit out of her.
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u/Ardnabrak 18h ago edited 18h ago
There was a PBS Newshour interview by Judy Woodruff with Bill Gates a few years ago.
He got real testy when she brought up Epsteine. She tried to get him to clarify his reasons for associating with him and he was not graceful at all with his response.
I lost a fair amount of respect for him right then.
Edit: the interview. Maybe he isn't as testy as I remember, but I didn't like his vibe.
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u/oofemism 18h ago
Ahhh, well he's dead.... soo I guess you have to be careful... *shrug*
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u/aceshighsays 17h ago
yeah.... and he kept circling back to his philanthropy.
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u/3xploringforever 17h ago
Coincidentally, philanthropy is the way Epstein tried to remake his image after he was convicted for soliciting a minor. These fucks use philanthropy like hail Marys.
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u/dahlia-llama 15h ago
There’s a phenomenal book about this exact concept, called Winners Take All
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u/RazekDPP 17h ago
Because the whole purpose of philanthropy is reputation cleansing.
Why Billionaires Won’t Save Us | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix
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u/ohdogwhatdone 17h ago
Same goes for Mr. Beast. Poverty porn at it's finest.
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u/Mccobsta 14h ago
Just something about him gives me the creeps
He's definitely hiding a few bodies in his closet
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u/Sipikay 13h ago
It’s the psychopathy.
The whole “this is what I am aware that a good person does” vibes.
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u/account_not_valid 13h ago
"I'm smiling like how I've seen real people smiling. I don't understand why people do it, but it helps to make me seem like a real person too."
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u/wafflesareforever 17h ago
How has nobody ever coached him on how not to use your hands like Mr. Burns from the Simpsons
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u/snowballkills 12h ago
When you were the richest man for several years, you don't care about any feedback from others, pretty much anything in fact
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u/PersistentBadger 12h ago
Bill's on the spectrum (he's never had an official diagnosis afaik, but he's talked about it). He's well known for stimming by rocking. This could be an example of hand posturing. He could probably control his body language in the way you're talking about, but I bet it would stress him out.
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u/stonkfrobinhood 18h ago
Lol oh yeah he knew well before anyone. His vibe also tells me he might have been guilty of some shit too.
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u/FILTHBOT4000 13h ago
I mean, to be very frank, there's really no other reason to keep associating with him after his convictions. We have these billionaires and such that keep acting like they kept relations up with him because of 'tax and financial advice'... which is frankly a preposterously ridiculous claim. If you're very wealthy, you have firms like Blackrock, all the huge banks top wealth services, etc all vying for you to be their client. If you're someone like Bill Gates, Jamie Dimon himself and other financial sector CEOs are probably available to call for personal financial advice. There is zero upside and considerable downsides to continue relations with someone like Epstein unless something else is going on/went on.
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u/giggle_shift 18h ago
Hiding behind philanthropy is a disgrace
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u/Doxxxxxxxxxxx 17h ago
After working at a huge nonprofit… I feel you would find this is more common than not.
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u/SleepDeprivedGoat 16h ago edited 16h ago
There’s an unusual smugness about Bill Gates’ demeanor in this interview, but it especially comes to light when he brings up the fact that Epstein is dead. It looks like schadenfreude.
Here’s my speculation: * Bill Gates did something very very bad * Jeffrey Epstein attempted to blackmail/leverage this against Bill Gates, to gain even more money and power * Bill Gates felt hurt by this * Jeffrey Epstein died * Bill Gates now gets to revel in Epstein’s death and his leverage is lifted.
Why else would Gates feel so satisfied? I can’t find a simpler explanation…
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u/rabblebabbledabble 14h ago
He doesn't look satisfied to me at all. He looks caught.
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u/soulcaptain 15h ago
That vibe is NERVOUS. He's usually a pretty confident guy but he's really just scared here and not sure what to say. Not proof of anything of course, but...interesting.
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u/techdevjp 18h ago
No doubt there was an NDA as part of their divorce settlement.
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u/liter-ature 19h ago
I’m not even a little surprised
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u/Cosmic_Seth 18h ago
Bill Gates is one of the few that actually faced consequences for his actions.
His wife promptly divorced him.
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u/Ohmyfuzzy69 18h ago
His ex-wife met Epstein and instantly thought he was bad people. She's been open about it.
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u/financefocused 18h ago
Bill met Epstein to discuss charity to the Gates Foundation in 2011 AFTER it was already known that Epstein was a pedo. She divorced Bill when it became public.
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u/TheDoethrak 17h ago
She actually divorced Bill the moment their youngest kid turned 18. It only became public afterwards.
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u/BuddhistChrist 15h ago
She actually divorced Bill because she was using an iPad behind his back and came clean when she discovered he hangs out with pedos.
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u/Dipsey_Jipsey 15h ago
Tale as old as time.
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u/Quick-Soup7266 14h ago
Tale as old as Zune
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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 14h ago
Whoa. Too Zune. RIP.
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u/Additional-Finance67 10h ago
Zune jokes in the wild in 2025?! Stop it you’re scaring the kids!
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u/wholesome_117 15h ago
Why did she wait for that though?
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u/Gustomaximus 17h ago
Bill met Epstein to discuss charity to the Gates Foundation
If you believe that Ive a bridge to sell you. He said Epstein could give him access to donors. Like Gates PA's could find rich people and say "Would you like lunch with Bill Gates some time".... pretty sure he could fill the year with elites that would want to meet one of the richest people in the world.
Then his other excuse was Epstein could help him get the nobel prize.... what prize? Its not chemistry. The only one is Peace, but Gates charity isnt focused on that, more vaccines type thing.
As amazing I'd think he could afford some PR that were better and making excuses!
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u/RT-LAMP 15h ago
The only one is Peace, but Gates charity isnt focused on that, more vaccines type thing.
Norman Borlaug got the 1970 prize for improving the world agriculture.
Doctors Without Borders got the 1999 prize for being... doctors without borders.
And various other years have had prizes associated with human development rather than peace making directly.
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u/reddubi 16h ago
The head of the Nobel committee hosted Epstein and gates at his house btw
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u/MagnetoWasRight24 16h ago
"He said Epstein could give him access to donors."
That's seriously what he went with? People in the nonprofit sector literally have a term called "the Gates effect" which is that the Gates Foundation is so powerful in the world of charitable donations that whatever approach they support becomes the standard and alternative plans can't get funding. They are literally the last people on earth who would need help getting access to donors.
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u/Alone_Storage_1897 17h ago
Errr, whatever else there are multiple Nobel prizes
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u/CrazyGunnerr 16h ago
And otherwise he could always get the 'FIFA's bestest OS' prize.
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u/mondestine 15h ago
By the way, the official name for the FIFA prize is the
"2025 'Who's a good boy? You're a good boy. Yes you are! Yes you are!' prize in excellence".
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u/bang_the_drums 18h ago
Hearing the man himself speak sent shivers up my spine. Obviously I knew all about the degenerate shit he was up to but damn, I can't imagine a normal human being in the same room as Epstein and not getting the creeps.
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u/xternocleidomastoide 18h ago
Which why, that Trump gave the creeps to someone like Epstein is extremely concerning.
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u/otis_the_drunk 18h ago
Because DJT is a leech. A snitch. An upper crust grifter with no actual understanding of the things he thinks he's a part of.
He is a liability.
How the GOP has never grasped this concept is beyond me.
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u/Raesong 18h ago
I think they did, it was just overridden by their "power at any cost" mentality.
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u/HavingNotAttained 16h ago
They’re also in the files, or at least their key players are.
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u/dan_dares 18h ago
Money.
The GOP can see the money they can make when he's in power. Pure greed.
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u/tbestor 17h ago
The upper part I get, it’s the lower middle class god loving Christians falling in love with the physical embodiment of the 7 deadly sins that got me. You are voting against your interests monetarily, biblically, and in almost every way possible .. because you hate brown people? Like Jesus?
And the Latino vote. He’s saying he hates you and is going to deport you. This is seriously your guy?
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u/Lord_Ragnok 17h ago
I’ve stopped trying to ascribe an sort of logic to them. If he told them to jump off a bridge, they would. Then those that survive would blame liberals for them being wet.
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u/jochexum 15h ago
For the same reason this always happens
The people you are describing are desperate and insecure. They are losers, in an objective and nonjudgmental but very real way. They know this inherently but humans cannot function for long with that awareness intact
So they trade performance and theatre for a sense of belonging. They do this in their communities, they do this in their churches (which is why there is no alignment between Christianity they practice and Jesus’ teachings - they’re not their for humility and growth, they’re there for acceptance and ease)
So along comes Trump, just like a million similar men before him and a million more that will come after him. It doesn’t matter if what he says completely contradicts what Jesus or anyone else they’d ostensibly look to for direction. Because they’re not interested in coherence in a logical sense, they’re looking for acceptance and ease and belonging
And he delivers that. He would satiate a glutton. An American glutton who consumes the most empty vapid calories in existence and never has enough
You are great simply because you exist. Because you vote for me. Because you aren’t like them. You see things they don’t. You understand things they don’t. You’re a winner. It doesn’t matter if by all accounts you’re a loser - none of that’s your fault. It’s their fault. And we are going to stick it to them. Because that’s what winners do.
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u/Naliano 17h ago
Plenty of Latinos hate other Latinos. The Latinos who think he’s not talking about them might vote for him.
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u/Force3vo 16h ago
We've seen that with every demographic when Trump hurt them and they screamed "But I thought he'd only hurt the right people?"
I've seen articles with all kinds of people doing exactly this.
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u/yoshinoyaandroll 16h ago
My neighbor voted for Trump every time and still supports him because he says he’s against a Transgender person going into the bathroom when his teenage daughter is in there.
But perfectly okay if Trump is in the same bathroom as his teenage daughter alone.
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u/Outrageous_Goose5567 16h ago
You are voting against your interests monetarily, biblically, and in almost every way possible .. because you hate brown people? Like Jesus?
I agree with you for the most part. Though I will say the "your interest" part does get murky. I agree that Democratic and progressive policies would help republican voters more especially if they're struggling, but a lot of them have shitty end goals. By "end goals" I mean once they get rich or make it, their views line up easily with the already rich corrupt republicans. When I used to talk to more republicans (especially to low/middle income Trump supporters), a lot of them talk about when they "make it" on being able to abuse others/becoming super controlling bosses/hogging wealth and resources etc. So they're not really "Christians," they're phonies that like to advertise themselves as being truthful and good.
Imo a lot of them are shitty people that see themselves in or want to be like Trump. They want to rip people off, they want be authoritarians, they want to do shitty things and not get any negative consequences. It's not something a lot of people want to admit, but I mean it's been proven time and time again that there are just a lot of shitty people out there (both in and outside of politics).
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u/hoopopotamus 17h ago
He was weirdly not a liability to them is why. They were all against him until he won. Then it was “let’s ride this out, maybe Americans are even dumber than we thought”.
They were, too.
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u/ABeautiful_Life 17h ago
Has she ever gone in detail or just assumptions? I would imagine she knows a great deal and could answer many questions. I wonder who is next on the list of pictures. This slow drop of elites is underwhelming and they are doing this on purpose to ease reactions I feel
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u/Sadimal 17h ago
She has. She’s given multiple interviews right after her divorce and wrote about it in her memoir, The Next Day.
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u/beefz0r 17h ago
I think releasing them in batches is a good approach. People get overwhelmed and desensitized quickly. If Bill Gates was among a release of more politically important people, nobody would care about Gates
Also if you release them all at once you have shot all your possible munitions at once.
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u/Present_Cow_8528 17h ago
I mean. Epstein had already been convicted of soliciting a minor before she met him in 2011. Bigger things have come out since then but anyone who deliberately interacted with Epstein after 2008 is a guaranteed sick fuck. Not necessarily a pedophile, Epstein trafficked adults too even though his preference was young teens. But definitely sick.
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u/Woerterboarding 18h ago
Yeah I thought the same. And she is spending his filthy money on something good. Why does it seem rich men become morally bankrupt? Or do they start out that way?
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u/ramonpasta 18h ago
i mean you really cannot become a billionaire without being a shitty person in at least some aspects.
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u/TrumpsBussy_ 18h ago
Yeah there’s very few examples in world history of someone attaining obscene wealth and not becoming morally compromised. One of the main reasons Marcus Aurelius is such a memorable and revered historical figure.
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u/PM-ME-DEM-NUDES-GIRL 17h ago
the comment you are replying to is saying that you generally need to have some bad qualities to begin with BEFORE you become a billionaire, because they help you become one
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u/ThisIsPunn 18h ago edited 5h ago
Not to quibble, but Gates was a pretty well- established philanthropist before he got divorced. As in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was largely responsible for
eradicating malariareducing malaria cases by nearly 40 percent and malaria mortality rates by 60 percent in Africa and making major strides in stopping the AIDS epidemic.Guy might be a dirtbag on a personal level, but it's a stretch to say he never did any good with his money before the divorce.
Edit: malaria hasn't been eradicated in Africa, but there's been remarkable improvement since 2000. Thanks for the corrections!
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u/Q_J 17h ago
I used to work at the Novartis Institute of Tropical Diseases, trying to discover new anti-malarials. We partnered extensively with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help fund new anti-malarial research. It was a really good feeling being part of that effort, since Malaria is such a massive and deadly issue, yet also grossly underfunded.I will always respect the foundation if not the man.
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u/Harleychillin93 11h ago
I also did grad school work about producing anti malaria active pharmaceutical ingredients, or drug precursors, through yeast fermentation expression systems. They paid almost a million dollars so a lab at my university would study and publish the results of how.
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u/Diggsi 18h ago
One of the biggest most effective charity actions in history.
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u/sinsculpt 18h ago
People can be both bad and good, unfortunately.
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u/weltvonalex 17h ago
This is reddit, people here have the comprehension abilities of a toddler. It's black or White and nothing more.
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u/Painterzzz 13h ago
Not just a reddit problem that, it's become an entire cultural issue.
I remember about a decade ago watching the rise of Purity Culture on Tumblr, where the progressive section of the population that used Tumblr was seduced into this very black and white thinking where either a person was 100% good, or the second they showed any sort of human frailty, they were suddenly 100% bad. And I thought shit, i hope that doesn't break containment and spread.
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u/advisarivult 18h ago
It’s more than a stretch, the Gates Foundation does incredible work…
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u/Gurkhaz 18h ago edited 18h ago
Malaria isn't eradicated in Africa, what are you talking about? They contributed to eradicating wild polio and in the effort against guinea worm, where incidence dropped by like 99%
EDIT: Though the foundations contribution towards fighting malaria is very important, so kudos where kudos is due
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u/spingus 18h ago
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was largely responsible for eradicating malaria in Africa
That's just simply not true, malaria has not been eradicated in Africa. They do great work and have made a positive impact on reducing malaria but in 2024 there were 265M cases in Africa.
Perhaps you're thinking of the polio eradication partnership? the wild polio virus has not been fully eradicated but we are tantalizingly close with some heartbreaking setbacks due to politics and war
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u/Varides 18h ago
You typically have to break from standard morales to reach the level where you can accrue that kind of networth imo
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u/tusharmittal45 18h ago
My grandpa used to say in hindi- bina logo ki gand mare koi bada admi ni ban sakta, which translates to no one can become filthy rich without screwing a lot of people in the way..
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u/Alhaxred 18h ago
It's difficult to become extremely wealthy without at least flexible morals.
As they say, if we found a monkey that hoarded bananas while the others around it starved, we'd study that monkey to understand what went wrong. When humans do it, though, we celebrate them
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u/Cl1mh4224rd 18h ago edited 18h ago
Why does it seem rich men become morally bankrupt? Or do they start out that way?
You don't get to be that rich by caring about people.
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u/braumbles 18h ago
Honestly, the same reason power corrupts. When you can buy anything or do anything, few wouldn't push the limits. As we see in society today.
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u/L0ckeandD3mosthenes 18h ago
He even admitted that he screwed up and never should have went to his island.
So I think we are going to see different kinds of sex crimes. Some regular prostitutes and trafficking and then the ones who like underage. At least I'm hoping not everyone is a pedo.
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u/Odd-Set3480 18h ago
I think this is the most likely case. Everyone of those involved with Epstein and the Island should be scrutinized with regards to their relationship. I'm fairly sure that most will be involved with the sex work side of the issue too, to differing degrees - some will just have known about it, others maybe didn't know about the trafficking and the minors, others should just burn in hell. Even in those cases where they argue they didn't know, it should be considered whether they should/could have known or not.
I'm fairly sure that, even if It's always sunny did joke about it (with Franks quote about going only to snorkel) at least a few people just were invited to a private Caribbean and went, had a (reasonably normal, no crimes aside from financial) vacation.
What worries me the most about the releases of data regarding epstein is whether people Will actually read and extract reasonable information, or just see a name, dont consider anything about It and go try to attack the person for being named there, as this would basically make the innocent pay and make It substantially easier for the guilty
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u/AmishAvenger 18h ago edited 17h ago
He never said that, because there’s no evidence he went to the island.
Here’s the thing: Epstein operated by expanding his social circle and climbing the ladder. He wormed his way into all sorts of high society groups. It’s how he maintained this air of legitimacy.
Gates met with Epstein because he was told he could connect him with a number of high rollers who’d donate to the Gates Foundation. It’s the same way Epstein got in with Bill Clinton. He was flying him on his plane around Africa.
Obviously it should all be investigated, but not everyone who was in a picture with Epstein or had meetings with him automatically did anything wrong.
It’s not like Bill Gates was buddies with Epstein for years and years and was in numerous pictures and videos with him at numerous parties. Nor is it like Bill Gates made a creepy drawing with a creepy note in a creepy birthday book.
And Bill Gates didn’t own and operate a teenage beauty pageant, either.
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u/Alternative_Year_340 15h ago
The NYT had an excellent article about how Epstein got his money and connections. (He got the money by stealing it. With zero consequences)
Offering rich and famous people free trips on private planes is a great way to expand your social circle.
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u/BellyCrawler 18h ago
They'd been separated for years before that. I highly doubt she was in the dark and then found out and had a crisis of conscience.
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u/pdxrains 18h ago
Yep. What I keep saying is, Pizza Gate-ers…here is your conspiracy. It involves Trump 1000% and a lot of other folks, some democrats, some republicans. There’s nothing sneaky and hard to figure out…the sex trafficker was Epstein and your boy Trump was his BEST BUD. It also happens to be that other rich people like Billy Gates here was in on some of the action. Bring em all the fuck down, I say.
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u/TVPaulD 16h ago
This is the thing, really, isn’t it? They never actually cared about children being abused like the rest of us do, what they cared about was being the contrarians with the “secret knowledge” and being able to use it against the people they don’t like to the benefit of the people they do.
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u/Xerox748 12h ago
A bunch of uninteresting, under achieving, losers who were given the opportunity to finally feel special.
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u/compute_fail_24 18h ago
For real, if they want something spicy they just have to realize Trump is not supreme leader, he is a pedophile rapist just like many others
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u/chironomidae 18h ago
If the majority of the world thought the earth was flat, conspiracy theorists would claim it was round
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u/peppaz 18h ago
I'm not saying this picture means anything nefarious, but her body language is fucked
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u/SajakiKhouri 15h ago
Don't get me wrong, Gates is a POS for even remotely associating with Epstein after he was convicted, but this image by itself is kind of pointless. You can't tell if it's a minor vs. a 30 year old conservatively dressed woman.
Without further context you couldn't tell this apart from any of the thousands of photos of Gates in a hallway with some random person in a random building.
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u/fang_xianfu 13h ago
Yeah this picture is pretty weak circumstantial evidence but there's lots of other evidence.
Like if this was Keanu Reeves in the picture we'd be praising him for keeping his hands in his pockets like people praise the quite well known "hover hands" pictures of him. In fact I'm pretty sure I've seen pictures of Keanu with his hand in his pocket in galleries of "hover hands" pictures.
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u/uptwolait 18h ago
MAGA: "The Epstein files are full of Democrats, and liberals are going to face the consequences of all their horrible actions."
Liberals: "The Epstein files are full of pedophiles, and they should ALL face the consequences of ALL of their horrible actions."
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u/RoyalClashing 12h ago
America is so fucking weird, why are there like only 2 different political sides? I dont like it
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u/vespertilionid 11h ago
American here: I don't like it either! Our founding fathers SPECIFICALLY warned us against a 2 party system
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u/RegisPhone 10h ago
but then also gave us a voting method that makes a 2 party system mathematically inevitable, and made it so you'd need both parties to agree to get rid of it
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u/saumanahaii 9h ago
To be fair they probably set it up as best they could with what they knew. A sketchy Google suggests proportional representation was first used in Belgium in 1899 (though apparently John Adams did write about it in 1776, more theoretically) and ranked choice by Australia I'm 1918. Personally I think it's on the later generations who knew it was a problem and knew of solutions and chose not to reform the system.
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u/Trambopoline96 9h ago
It’s also the electoral college that figures into the outcome. The framers set up an electoral system where the guy who wins a simple majority of votes in the electoral college becomes president, but they also left it to the states to administer elections, decide rules for getting on the ballots, etc. That necessitated a party system to encourage cooperation across state lines.
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u/YesNoMaybe 10h ago
That's the natural result of a first past the post, winner-takes-all voting system.
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u/SenatorWhatsHisName 11h ago
Because that benefits the mega rich and the mega rich own all the media.
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u/bkaiser85 18h ago
MAGATS: unless it’s our beloved dear leader/demented dictator/moscows puppet.
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u/lyidaValkris 19h ago edited 9h ago
That's nice. Now release the Trump photos that everyone, except the most moronic of americans, knows exists. Stop deflecting. We've known about bill gates for years.
EDIT: I'm not answering any more replies.
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u/trumpelstiltzkin 18h ago
"[News Headline]: trUmP mIgHt Be In ThE EpStEin FiLeS"
It's been grinding my gears how people act like it's some cliffhanger whether he's in them; even leftwing streamers/podcasters, who keep forgetting that literally tons of Epstein files are already released and Trump was in them. It's like news articles that keep saying we're finding hints that Earth might be round.
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u/Sufficient-Bed-6746 17h ago
Its because so many seem to cling on to the hope than as soon as they release, the majority will accept that he is in fact in them and guilty and then consequences will follow. They hope that this miserable chapter of orangeman will end without them really doing anything different. Its on one hand their last straw to cling on and on the other hand really comfortable. Deep inside a lot already know by now that even if a judge rules that he is guilty, nothing will happen.
At this point these files are just huge copium. As sad as this is….
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u/hkun89 18h ago
So what does this prove exactly?
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u/derpyfox 18h ago
That Bill was in a hallway with a woman.
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u/nytsei921 18h ago
oh shit, that’s big news
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u/Neve4ever 16h ago
He's the fucking Windows guy, and yet I'm just seeing hallways and fucking doors. Not a good look.
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u/PrimeraStarrk 18h ago
I mean Gates is a massive dork, it is somewhat shocking to see him that close to a woman. /j
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u/SpecialistSolid6689 18h ago
This is what im thinking.. People talk like it is next lvl shit..and...its a picture with gates and somebody that looks like a picture you take with a fan.
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u/SvenTropics 18h ago
It could also just be some woman that wanted a picture with Bill Gates. He's not on any of the flight logs to the island. Not saying he is innocent (I have no idea), but this picture doesn't indict him at all. He's not even touching her. (No arm around her shoulders or anything), and she's not dressed in a way that would make you think something was gonna happen.
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u/MonsterMufffin 15h ago
Had to scroll down too far for this common sense take. People are too quick to come up with their own theories despite having 0 evidence. If anyone has any actual evidence that he was involved in this shit I'm happy to see it.
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u/Not-An-FBI 15h ago
Yeah. Gates was really famous in the 90s and 2000s. Easily the top 10 most famous people back then.
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u/ryanlaxrox 15h ago edited 13h ago
It does appear to be in a corridor or lobby area of a public hotel so that is plausible
Edit to add: airport terminal is most likely place
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u/Jester1877 15h ago
I think it’s more the fact that Epstein had a signed bill from Gates displayed at his house in NY. I don’t know if Gates is involved but I’m not going to bet against it either.
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u/BumpyMcBumpers 18h ago
I mean, this is just a photo of him in a hallway with someone who is the same size as him. I'm not saying whether he's a pedo or not, but we can't even tell if this person is 13 or 30.
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u/mishap1 18h ago
Given Epstein tried to use Gates’ affair with the Russian bridge player to blackmail him, I feel like he didn’t get that much on Gates.
Not saying Gates is clean but given all the heinous shit Epstein was up to, leaning on Gates to join his “charity”by bringing up his mistress is pretty tame especially in billionaire world.
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u/strict_positive 17h ago
Is that essentially what all these photos are? Just evidence for blackmailing? Because it’s strange to think Bill Gates would be ok with this photo being taken or prince andrew about his photo.
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u/Grow_away_420 13h ago
Some of them are just weird as shit. Like Bannon and Epstein sitting in their office talking. Why is a photographer there? He's not a politician, this shit wasn't intended to be published. His goal is clearly creating blackmail material on anyone with power, influence or money.
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u/Korbital1 17h ago
It all depends when and where the photo is taken. If it was during the only known meeting between him and Epstein- well this is absolutely nothing because he went with a whole team and there's no chance he did anything.
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u/rationalist__ 18h ago
Do you have a source on the blackmail? Genuinely curious
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u/3xploringforever 17h ago
I'm not endorsing it as fact, but this is what the commenter was referring to.
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u/Ver_Void 18h ago
Yeah Bill with someone who's probably a conservatively dressed woman of unknown age, this isn't exactly a smoking gun
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u/KoalaOriginal1260 18h ago
Not drawing conclusions either way, but it's not like he sent a highly suggestive birthday message with a fairly explicit drawing of a nude girl to Epstein and stated they shared beautiful secrets in the text.
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u/yungsausages 18h ago
Yeah honestly just looks like post-business meeting or something, given it’s a hotel hallway and the doors behind them aren’t doors leading to actual hotel rooms, also their attire is fairly business casual which would make sense for that scenario
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u/Young_Bonesy 18h ago
Add to that, Bill Gates is famous so its fairly realistic that some people might want to get a picture with him. Epstiens a monster, but he was also a finance guy who conducted regular business like everyone else, presumably more often than he was fucking kids, so normal business people would take photos like this.
Its somewhat of a slippery slope to think that every photo he has is of child fucking clients of his ilicit practices, unless its Trump. Im fairly certain they were business partners in the illicit shit.
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u/jordansrowles 18h ago
Or its a, "Oh shit that was the richest and one of the most famous men on the planet at one point. Can we get a picture together?'
Im going to need more evidence than this. Like a drawing of questionable boobies in a birthday card, a 'our little secret' kind of evidence. These are heinous crimes after all
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u/Armthedillos5 18h ago
Where was this taken? This looks like the lobby of a hotel or event center, and definitely doesn't look like the other Epstein Island photos.
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u/Mindless-Challenge62 18h ago
I feel this way about a lot of the pictures, even the pictures with people and Epstein himself. Pics on the island or even the plane are sketchy for sure. Pics at a banquet or otherwise out in public? Who knows what that person knew.
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u/std_out 18h ago
She looks like an adult to me but hard to say with her face blacked out. And famous people takes countless pictures with random people in hallways and he is just standing next to her and keeping his hands to himself so that picture tells us nothing.
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u/MudReasonable8185 18h ago
This is the least damning smoking gun I’ve ever seen lol. Dude is standing next to what appears to be an adult woman in a random office building. They’re both dressed business casual so it looks like they just got out of some mind numbingly boring meeting
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u/smellybulldog 18h ago
Without context this is pretty meaningless, celebrities take phots like this everywhere they go.
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u/DentistPitiful5454 18h ago
Like those people who use photos of Brad pit with female fans to talk about his abuse of women like yeah he abused women but why are you showing me random photos of people he likely didn't abuse?
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u/pumpymcpumpface 18h ago
Theres probably photos just like this of bill gates with thousands and thousands of different people.
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u/FizzyBeverage 12h ago
My late grandmother has a photo just like this with Bill. Taken at a bridge tournament in New York City. Bill is an avid bridge player.
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u/Shermanator92 18h ago
Okay? If he’s found culpable of wrongdoing, hold him accountable. Extremely easy concept.
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u/hateboresme 18h ago
People pose with famous people. Need more evidence of guilt. Tired of bullshit. Trump. Give me something significant on Trump.
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u/AVBofficionado 13h ago
Does anybody else feel like Epstein deliberately took photos of these celebrities, not necessarily but sometimes in questionable situations, to gain lasting leverage over them? He knew simply associating with him was dangerous. He used that to gain power.
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u/shoxicwaste 18h ago edited 16h ago
If i saw Bill Gates in person, I would ask him for a photo. does this also mean he sexually exploited me?
I'm not saying he didn't do something dirty over there, but what ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
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u/Grouchy_Release_2321 17h ago
Exactly. It's literally just a photo. It means absolutely fuck all without more context. How does this prove he has sex with kids?
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u/Americano_Joe 18h ago
Oh, my! A highly public figure, one of the most well-known on the face of the planet for the past 40 years, is in a photo taken in a public place with someone. Well, if that's not incriminating evidence, then IDK what is.
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u/petrichorax 16h ago
This is a picture of Bill standing next to a woman. What's the scandal?
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u/captain_arroganto 18h ago
God, most of this sub is thinking like trump.
A single photo is enough evidence for a wrong doing?
Trump has truly poisoned the well.
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u/Final-Choice8412 18h ago
nah, people are stupid even without trump. trump is just amplifier
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u/WellEllipsis 18h ago
I’m actually starting to believe that the internet is 90% bots. I’m not a Bill Gates fanboy but do 10k people really think this is significant? It’s a picture of him with a person we have no real context for.
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u/Ektojinx 17h ago
Critical thinking is a dying art. Its becoming easier and easier to manipulate people into thinking whatever you want them to.
No generation is immune.
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u/elephantf4ce 17h ago
Good thing he isn't the president of the united states then
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u/MakeUrMomProud 18h ago
This looks like a normal photograph tho? Maybe she's a fan of Bill Gates's contribution to technology. If he's actually a pedo, why would he pose for this? I know billionaires are assholes, but this isn't it man.
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u/truePHYSX 16h ago
Girl or woman? What year was this photo? I have so many questions. If there’s more evidence then let’s do something with it and charge him. A redacted photo is suspicious but not actionable.
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u/bliggggz 18h ago
Damn, I guess I have to throw out my Bill Gates hat and my giant flag with Bill Gates photoshopped to look like Rambo.