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Gate claimed "visiting" Epstein was a big mistake. If he only visited, then he couldn't be blackmailed. Blackmail means he was shagging underage girls and there's evidence in the Epstein files.
I mean, it's not fully guaranteed, Fact is shagging adult women is still a compromising event for a married billionaire, and Epstein didn't EXCLUSIVELY traffic underage women.
That isn't a proof that gates didn't shag underaged women, but currently the only thing we have evidence to point to is Epstein planning to blackmail him over spiking STD medications to his wife from a disease caught from "russian girls".
Elstein was a paedophile and he enabled paedophiles, but that’s not all he was. What he was was a fixer. He wasn’t a “I can get you a 12 year-old by noon”, he was a “I can get you whatever you want (including 12 year-olds) by noon”
I think he was also a "I can get you an 18 year old escort" then afterwards use the fact they were actually 16 or 17 for blackmail.
Exactly. If what Gates wanted was a couple of 30 year old women who were dtf and a couple lines of coke with some mdma over a nice ocean view then Epstien could have that tomorrow and be asking yacht or island. But it comes with both all the privacy he could use to threaten with and an expectation that he can call in favors and connections too. And suddenly in exchange for being set up a man who pimps children has dirt on you, connections to you, and you owe him a bit.
Maybe I misread the article, but it seems they assisted gates with getting in touch with women to have an affair with. It has been said before he had affairs with Russian prostitutes so I imagine that's what this is vs with children. Even Epstein would prefer to blackmail him with being a pedo, I bet he was happy enough to get such a powerful person blackmailed with anything.
Another reason I believe it wasn't pedophilia that gates was involved in is because he'd be lying to Congress about this, a felony. If they have evidence of gates lying, he'd still be known as a pedo, and ending up a criminal as well.
I mean not necesserally, I do agree, we have no evidence, and Epstein certainly had his hands in enough crime, an affair alone would have been enough of a problem for a billionaire with a wife. That being said I'd also say... for Epstein to do blackmail using the underaged women seems... more complicated. IE how do you blackmail someone for a crime that you were also a part of. How do you follow through on that blackmail without also collapsing the rest of the operation.