{"id":64436,"date":"2021-05-09T15:53:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T19:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=64436"},"modified":"2021-05-09T17:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T21:07:39","slug":"the-gates-family-foundation-blows-up-bills-rep-explodes-in-a-very-bad-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=64436","title":{"rendered":"The Gates Family &#038; Foundation Blow Up, Bill&#8217;s Rep Torched After Melinda&#8217;s Epstein Revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Melinda Gates &#8216;cautioned Bill about Jeffrey Epstein after she met the pedophile at his Manhattan mansion in 2013&#8217; and told him she &#8216;wanted nothing more to do with him&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Melinda Gates reportedly joined Bill at Epstein&#8217;s home in September 2013<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Gates and Epstein became acquaintances in 2011 when Epstein pitched a fund to the Gates Foundation and JP Morgan\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>At the time, Epstein had already been convicted of soliciting child prostitution\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Gates sent an email to colleagues after their first meeting where he said &#8216;his lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>In 2013, he took Melinda to Epstein&#8217;s infamous Upper East Side townhouse\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>It&#8217;s unclear what the context of the meeting was or if anyone else was there\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>She was so uncomfortable she warned Bill against further contact with him\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Gates cut off contact with Epstein and later said he &#8216;wishes they never met&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>In emails in 2014, Epstein complained that Gates was no longer speaking to him\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Bill and Melinda Gates announced on Monday that they will be divorced<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By KEITH GRIFFITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Melinda Gates warned her husband Bill against any further contact with\u00a0<a id=\"mol-f2cffb40-aef1-11eb-914b-771ac1096370\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/jeffrey_epstein\/index.html\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>\u00a0after the couple had an uncomfortable meeting with the\u00a0convicted sex offender in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Melinda was &#8216;furious&#8217; at Bill&#8217;s relationship with Epstein after the couple visited the predator&#8217;s Upper East Side townhouse in September 2013, people familiar with the matter told the\u00a0<a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/melinda-gates-warned-bill-gates-about-jeffrey-epstein?ref=home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Daily Beast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The meeting proved a turning point in Bill&#8217;s relationship with Epstein, after Melinda expressed how uncomfortable she was with the sex offender and said she wanted nothing to do with him, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Gates and Epstein became friendly in 2011 when Epstein pitched a fund to the Gates Foundation and JP Morgan. Gates is not thought to have invested with it and he has said in the past that he never had a business relationship with Epstein, but the pair met several more times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">When they met,\u00a0Epstein had already spent a year in prison for soliciting child prostitution, but he was welcomed back into the upper echelons of New York society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After their first meeting, Gates sent an email to colleagues saying of Epstein:\u00a0&#8216;His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The meeting with Melinda was two years after the pair first became friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It comes after Bill and Melinda announced their intention to divorce this week, offering no other explanation for the split aside from saying &#8216;we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9552613\/Melinda-Gates-warned-Bill-association-Jeffrey-Epstein.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9552613\/Melinda-Gates-warned-Bill-association-Jeffrey-Epstein.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9552613\/Melinda-Gates-warned-Bill-association-Jeffrey-Epstein.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9552613\/Melinda-Gates-warned-Bill-association-Jeffrey-Epstein.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melinda Gates &#8216;cautioned Bill about Jeffrey Epstein after she met the pedophile at his Manhattan mansion in 2013&#8217; and told him she &#8216;wanted nothing more to do with him&#8217; Melinda Gates reportedly joined Bill at Epstein&#8217;s home in September 2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=64436\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}