This article originally appeared onZeroHedgeand was republished with permission.
A week after Bill Gates abruptlypulled outas a keynote speaker at a high-profile global AI summit in India, the left-wing billionaire finally mustered enough nerve to “take responsibility for his actions“ over his ties to late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a town hall meeting with Gates Foundation employees.
The Wall Street Journalreports that Gates told employees at a town hall event for the foundation on Tuesday that he never spent time with Epstein’s victims, and never visited Epstein’s island.
He revealed that Epstein later learned about two affairs he had with Russian women, but said those relationships did not involve Epstein’s victims. Gates said photos in the Epstein files show him with redacted women were taken by Epstein’s assistants after meetings.
Did Gates fall into a Russian honeypot?
“I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit,” Gates emphasized, according to a recording reviewed by WSJ journalists.
Gates continued, “To be clear, I never spent any time with victims, the women around him.”
“It was ahuge mistaketo spend time with Epstein” and bring Gates Foundation executives into meetings with the sex offender, Gates said, adding, “I apologize to other people who are drawn into this because of the mistake that I made.”
Last week, the $86 billion philanthropic body’s last-minute decision to yank Gates was a major embarrassment and came as the Epstein fallout worsened, with many high-profile people under fire.
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