The Epstein Shadow Over Bill Gates’ Philanthropic Empire Sparks Billionaire Revolt (3/18/26)

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What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of The Epstein Chronicles.

When it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, we've heard every excuse in the book from people who

are around them, who want to now deny that they were friends with them.

But one of the most ridiculous parts of all of it are these billionaires that want to

try and tell us that they were around Epstein because he was going to donate to their

charity.

You really mean to tell me you needed Jeffrey Epstein's money, Bill Gates, bro has more

money than God.

He could fund these projects on his own.

But he's reaching out to Jeffrey Epstein because he needs some money for his charity.

It was never something that was based in reality.

We all knew that there was something else going on there.

And of course, we've come to find out that the things that Bill Gates has been denying

about Jeffrey Epstein have turned out to be true, at least some of them.

We know the bridge players true and we know that there was at least one other affair that

Bill Gates was engaged in.

That was related to Epstein as well.

And that doesn't even begin to touch all the other lies that Bill Gates has told over

the years about the relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the nexus of that relationship.

And now that the speculation has been proven to be real, a lot of these billionaires that

have pledged to do what Bill Gates is doing by giving away all of his money and shit.

Well, they're running for the hills.

Nobody wants to be associated with Jeffrey Epstein's buddy Bill Gates, not anymore.

And in my opinion, it's a long time coming.

That is the guy that creates a computer program, sit on an ivory tower and tell me about

health issues like for real.

Here's an idea.

Make sure that Windows stops crashing.

Don't worry about my health.

The last thing any of us want or need is some billionaire making pretend he cares about

the future of humanity.

We all know he doesn't care about humanity and that Bill Gates, like all these other people,

cares about Bill Gates.

So today we have an article from the New York Post and the headline, Billionaires Bolt

from Bill Gates scandal scarred giving pledge as critics branded Epstein adjacent.

This article was authored by Ariel Zilber.

The Bill Gates back campaign urging billionaires to donate, most of their fortunes to good

causes is reportedly facing backlash as tech moguls mock the philanthropy club and Gates

recently revealed ties to late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continue to

shadow the initiative.

Well, it was probably Epstein's idea.

Alright, maybe that's a little too far, but you get the drift, right?

Nobody wants the scent of Jeffrey Epstein on them.

Nobody.

And that should tell you everything you need to know.

And it's also disgusting how the legacy media has largely forgot about the story.

All they want to talk about is Iran and look, I've been trying to tell you for a long

time that the legacy media, they only care about this story when it's driving clicks, right?

When it's running engagement.

But when that goes away, so does their interest.

It's all about profiting for a lot of people.

So when the next disaster pops up, everybody just becomes an expert about that topic.

But when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, even though this story is not the number one story

right now due to the war in Iran, it's not going away.

And roughly 50% of people in America, according to a new poll, think that the war in Iran was

started to cover up for these files.

And I think that that is pretty reflective from what I'm hearing from people out there.

Who think that all of this is nothing more than Donald Trump wagging the dog?

And look, very possible.

I'm not going to sit here and tell you it's not.

But I'm also not going to sit here and tell you that that's for sure what's going on.

Because I don't have that kind of information.

And I respect all of you too much to bullshit you.

I'm not here to drive engagement.

I'm not here to get a fat ass paycheck from insert sponsor here.

I'm here to drive the story home.

And hopefully open up a few doors for people who might otherwise not have had access to

the story.

And in my opinion, I don't think that anything else can be dealt with until we

deal with this.

This is the rot that is infecting the actual heart of America.

And it needs to be dealt with one way or the other.

And I don't care what kind of distractions they throw up, whether it's a war, an alien

ship, approach, an earth, whatever, I don't care.

This is what we're going to talk about on this podcast.

Because when I tell you that those boats have been burned on the beach, I mean it.

There is no going back for me.

Critics like Peter Thiel, who is not a signatory, have derided the Giving Pledge initiative

as an Epstein adjacent fake boomers club and privately urged fellow billionaires, including

Elon Musk, to abandon the pledge.

According to the New York Times, well, that's pretty funny.

Peter Thiel is calling somebody else Epstein adjacent, breaking news.

You're all Epstein adjacent stupid and it all plays into their nonsense.

Whatever they think they can weaponize Epstein against an enemy, they most certainly will.

But when they think that the weaponization is harmful to them or their narrative, oh,

it's just a big hoax.

And I'm getting tired of that shit too.

The old told Musk he should pull out of the initiative because his money would go to left

wing nonprofits that will be chosen by Bill Gates, the time to report it, citing a recent

speech that Thiel gave.

Now look, I'm certainly not given my money.

To Bill Gates.

And if I was some kind of billionaire, I'd be the shepherd of that money.

I'd be deciding where it was going to go.

And frankly, if I wanted to give it away, I'd go to the neighborhoods I grew up in and

I'd go door to door and I'd give that money away to the people, not to some big ass

corporation or some big ass 5013C or whatever, they're just going to waste the money.

I'd go right back to my neighborhoods and South Yonkers, the South Bronx, and he's

Las Vegas.

And I'd give that money to the people directly.

The difference between me and Bill Gates, though, is that Bill Gates didn't grow up poor,

but the point still stands, give it to the people directly.

Why do you want to give it to these corporations or these charities where only pennies on the

dollar end up in the hands of the people that need it the most?

So I've always said that if I ever get a bag, if I ever become rich, that's what

I'm going to do.

I'll go to my local Walmart and pay layaway for people and just boogie out without anybody

knowing it was me or like hospital bills, right?

Go to the hospital, find out who's in dereliction and just pay those bills.

If you want to help people and you want to help the most vulnerable amongst us, that's

how you do it.

Given it the charities so they can do whatever they want with it, zero chance.

Gates has come under fire in recent weeks.

Every admitted to cheating on his then wife, Melinda French Gates with two Russian women

that he met through the late Jeffrey Epstein and he lied about it.

So if you lied about that, what else is he lying about?

I keep saying this all the time and I'll continue to say it.

When you show me and tell me who you are, I'm going to believe you.

Because when I meet somebody, I go into that introduction thinking that the person's

a decent person, right?

I always give everybody enough rope to hang themselves.

But when you're out here lying and bullshit and telling me you have no idea who Jeffrey

Epstein is and that you guys only had a cup of coffee together and talked about philanthropy

and then we find out it's something different.

Well my friend, you are now on the clock and what was speculation previously has now been

confirmed.

The pledge has also drawn criticism from some tech investors who argue that modern philanthropy

has intertwined with progressive politics.

Well there's no doubt about that.

A lot of these organizations are nothing more than money laundering foundations and people

like Jeffrey Epstein and people like Bill Gates, they wrap themselves in philanthropy and

use it as armor so that later on down the road, when they get nailed, they can be like

oh look what I did for humanity, I'm such a great person, I donated so much money, I would

never do this.

Unfortunately for them, we're onto their bullshit.

And that shield of armor that they've had previously when it comes to philanthropy, that's

been pierced.

So I don't care how much money you give or how many righteous causes you champion because

it's all fougaisy, you don't really believe in that, you don't really feel that way,

you're just trying to buy a credibility, you're just trying to shift the narrative, you're

just trying to make yourself out to be the good guy, one in reality, all these people

are the true villains.

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Critics say that many of the nonprofits and foundations favored by major donors, particularly

those tied to global health, climate initiatives and diversity programs reflect left-leaning

priorities, fueling claims that giving pledge has become associated with what causes rather

than political neutral charity.

And this is what I'm talking about, why would you want your money to be managed by somebody

else?

Shouldn't you just take that money and put it to a cause that's close to your heart,

something that you want to help out with, something you think you can make a difference with?

That seems like the way to go.

Fisher capitalist Mark Andreessen has argued that philanthropy once functioned as kind

of a reputational bargain for billionaires, allowing them to wash away all your sins and

be recast as virtuous donors.

Since then however, the social contract has broken down as criticism of the tech sector

has intensified, well here's an idea, stop dittling kids and supporting people that do.

Oh, whoa, it was me, nobody's buying our bullshit anymore, wah, go spend your billions

and shut up.

But you're not gonna blackmail the American people anymore with your financial giveings

and you're certainly not going to change the narrative, we know what you people are

and the rest of the world, well, they're waking up to it as well.

Brian Armstrong, the billionaire founder of Coinbase, quietly exited the initiative in

2024, removing his name from the pledges website five years after signing on the times reported.

Even some of the early supporters are said to be rethinking their commitments.

Larry Ellison, the oracle co-founder and one of the original signatories, said last year

that he was amending his pledge to focus more heavily on for-profit research ventures

the times reported.

Now he'll tell you because this is a financial decision, but the truth is he knows that

doing this charity shit isn't gonna provide him the cover that it used to, so he's out.

That's it, moving on to something different.

Everything's a hustle to these people, you have to understand, everything's a transaction

and you and I, well, we're the currency.

Critics have argued the undertaking lacks teeth, noting it carries no enforcement mechanism

and does not track how much money signatories actually donate, allowing billionaires to fulfill

the promise decades later through their estates.

Yeah, after everybody got their dough.

Folks, it's all a hustle and this is what I'm trying to tell you all the time.

All these really rich people, they don't care about you, none of them do.

Once you get to that level, it's all about profit, that's it.

And everything is a means that justifies the end.

Skeptics also note that much of the pledge wealth is routed into private foundations

or donor-advised funds, vehicles that can allow billions to sit for years before reaching

operating charities the time to report it, just like I was saying earlier.

Take the money to the people, give it to them directly.

The kind to shit that crime bosses do, right?

Oh, it's Thanksgiving, let's give out turkeys in the neighborhood.

But no, these people aren't even that smart.

They really think that everybody's so stupid that we're just going to go along with their

nonsense and their narrative and think they're these great guys and gals because they're

donating money.

And that's because for years and years, that's how the game was played.

Do whatever you want as a degenerate, then donate some money, and it wipes all the sins

away.

Taryn Jensen, the interim head of the Giving Pledge, defended the initiative telling

the post in a statement that debate over philanthropy is inevitable and welcome, and noting the

campaign now includes more than 250 donors across 30 countries, many of whom have already

met their commitments or are steadily working toward them.

Jensen added, the goal is to keep building a culture where giving is the norm, while

helping signatories turn their pledges into actions.

Such a hustle.

We're giving is the norm to other organizations whose board members, by the way, are friends

with these billionaires.

Talk about a circular system.

Launched in 2010 by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett, the pledge asked

the world's wealthiest people to commit to giving away the majority of their fortunes

to charity, either during their lifetimes or after death.

You should be in the kid of one of these dudes, and you hear that your fortune is being

given away.

Thanks, Dad.

Appreciate you, bud.

Bill Gates is said Epstein, who died by suicide in jail in 2019, while awaiting trial on

federal sex trafficking charges, was one of the factors behind the split from his wife

of 27 years.

Gates has acknowledged meeting Epstein several times after the latter's 2008 conviction

for soliciting sex from a minor, saying he regretted the encounters.

Oh, yeah.

He regretted it so much that he continued to do it.

He regretted it so much that he had Epstein hook him up with women.

Does anyone really believe Bill Gates?

Bro, your wife divorced you, because you were hanging out with Captain Dittle Supreme.

But the rest of us should just forgive you?

French Gates stepped away from the foundation that administers the Giving Pledge in 2024

three years after the divorce.

I firmly believe in the Giving Pledge and consider it quite a success, though my physical

limitations have eliminated my participation in the annual get-together, the 95-year-old

Buffett, who recently stepped down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway told the Times.

I've continued to contact possible members, but only on a minor scale in recent years,

Bill Gates has continued major efforts.

French Gates has acknowledged that the results of the pledge have been uneven.

She recently told Wired that some participants have donated at a massive scale, while others

have moved more slowly.

Wait a minute, were shocked that billionaire is her bullshit and they're going back

on their pledges?

Well, who would have thought that the Smarmy-ass bankers and the Smarmy-ass rich people

are going to be Smarmy?

Smarm are doing it and some are trying, or aren't ready to, she said.

French Gates added that the initiative has not progressed as far as she once hoped.

I wish we had been even more successful with the pledge than we have been to date, she

said.

It's a problem to continue working on.

The post is all comment from Gates, French Gates, Thiel, Ellison, Armstrong, and Buffett.

You know, Bill Gates is his own worst enemy here.

He should have just been honest from the very beginning about Jeffery Epstein.

Yeah, I asked him for some money, and yes, he did introduce me to a couple of women,

but everything was consensual, you know, something along those lines, but no.

Bill Gates had to continue to lie, had to deny, had to off the skate, instead of just

being a man, and owning up.

And of course, that's now leading to these people, bouncing from the initiative.

But at the end of the day, does it really matter to Bill Gates?

Is it going to affect him financially?

Is it going to affect him at all?

It's not.

And that's because consequences are only for people like you and me, never for people like

Bill Gates.

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