Elon Musk ripped Bill Gates over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after Gates criticized Musk over cuts to USAID funding.
Musk hit back at Gates on Tuesday during an interview at the Bloomberg Qatar Economic Forum. Gates had claimed that cuts to USAID, spearheaded by Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, had placed children all over the world in danger.
“Who does Bill Gates think he is to make comments about the welfare of children” given his close ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Musk responded when asked about Gates’ comments. The quip elicited cheers and applause from some in the audience.
“I wouldn’t trust that guy to babysit my kids, I can tell you that,” Musk added.
Musk said of Gates’ assertion that the cuts to USAID are endangering children: “Show us any evidence whatsoever that that is true. It’s false.”
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Gates met Epstein in 2013 and joined him for several dinners, Gates has said. Gates has since <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/business/bill-gates-regrets-jeffrey-epstein-relations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that meeting with Epstein, who pleaded guilty to procuring a minor for prostitution and soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008, was a “huge mistake.”
The relationship yielded none of the benefits Gates had hoped for, namely to raise money for philanthropic causes. According to Gates’ ex-wife, the relationship also <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/melinda-french-gates-says-she-was-upset-with-bill-gatess-meetings-with-jeffrey-epstein-11646319537" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caused</a> strains on his marriage. Gates and his wife divorced in 2021.
Musk’s comments were in response to remarks Gates made to the <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/bdd9bb89-ac3c-4043-9ca4-bc7efbd41fed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Financial Times</a> in an article published earlier this month. Gates said that saving U.S. taxpayer money through cuts to USAID is “killing” children and leading them to contract HIV.
“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” Gates said. “I’d love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money.”

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Former Microsoft CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-gates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Gates</a> joined the hosts of ABC News&#8217; &#8220;The View&#8221; on Tuesday in their collective panic over billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and other tech CEOs who appeared to be at least warming to President Donald Trump in his second term in the White House.
Whoopi Goldberg kicked off the conversation by complaining about the youth and lack of formal education represented among the team that Musk had put together, saying, &#8220;Are Americans going to be okay with Musk, a guy nobody voted for, having all this kind of power? You know the news outlet Wired found out six of the gentlemen on Elon Musk’s team are between the ages of 19 to 24 with little or no government experience and no one is in college.&#8221;
What Goldberg left out was the fact that all six of the young men mentioned in the <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wired article</a> — despite their lack of formal education — had experience in tech and had distinguished themselves as above average in their fields.
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Sara Haines says &quot;people should been enraged&quot; by Trump having Elon Musk try to find wasteful government spending. She also calls it &quot;illegal.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/w6BaByNzUF">pic.twitter.com/w6BaByNzUF</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1886810854458343496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Sara Haines then asserted that the actions being taken by the Trump administration to cut wasteful spending were &#8220;illegal&#8221; and violated the constitutional separation of powers.
Goldberg pivoted a short time later to introduce Gates, complaining about the apparent &#8220;rightward&#8221; shift among the most powerful voices in tech, saying, &#8220;It seems like today&#8217;s tech billionaires are shifting rightward and seem to have more power than even the VP, whose name I can&#8217;t remember.&#8221;
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Bill Gates mocks his fellow tech billionaires for attending Trump&#39;s inauguration: &quot;You know, they clearly wanted to fund the inauguration. They wanted it to be a great inauguration, just for the good of the country, no doubt. <a href="https://t.co/Asvolsine6">pic.twitter.com/Asvolsine6</a>
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Gates pointed out that tech CEOs were not a monolith, but then proceeded to poke fun at those like Meta&#8217;s Mark Zuckerberg, who had attended Trump&#8217;s second inauguration: &#8220;You know, they clearly wanted to fund the inauguration. They wanted it to be a great inauguration, just for the good of the country, no doubt.&#8221;
When asked about his own recent meeting with Trump, Gates said that he felt as though they&#8217;d had a good conversation on a number of topics, including &#8220;global health issues, particularly HIV and Polio.&#8221;

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Microsoft founder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-gates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Gates</a> recapped during an interview this week his recent dinner with President-elect Donald Trump ahead of the inauguration next week.
Gates is just the latest major tech figure to have dined with the president-elect, joining the ranks of others like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and more.
Gates told The Wall Street Journal that he dined with Trump two weeks ago and had a &#8220;long and actually quite intriguing dinner with him.&#8221;
Gates said that Trump&#8217;s incoming chief of staff, Susie Wiles, was the only other person from Trump&#8217;s side to join him during the dinner.
He said that they talked about a &#8220;wide-ranging&#8221; number of topics, including Gates&#8217; work with vaccines.
“He, in the Covid days, accelerated the vaccine innovation,” Gates said. “So I was asking him if maybe the same kind of thing could be done here, and we both got, I think, pretty excited about that.”
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“I felt like he was energized and looking forward to helping to drive innovation,” Gates said. “I was frankly impressed with how well he showed a lot of interest in the issues I brought up.”
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Bill Gates talks about the recent three-hour-long dinner he had with President-elect Trump.
Gates says the only other person to join from the Trump side was Susie Wiles.
Gates says he was impressed by Trump’s interest in the issues he discussed, which included polio… <a href="https://t.co/wCzDBK4U8Q">pic.twitter.com/wCzDBK4U8Q</a>
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1880327747689492872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Billionaire Bill Gates said during an interview over the weekend that he believes that support for nuclear power is high in both of America&#8217;s major political parties.
Gates made the remarks during a Sunday CBS News interview with Margaret Brennan on &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; when asked about a a new nuclear power plant that is now being built in Wyoming.
He said that he wants the U.S. to build dozens of new nuclear power plants and that it should try to get more than 100 built.
Addressing the possibility of nuclear power plant melting down, Gates said: &#8220;A problem when you shut a rector down it still has heat. That&#8217;s why Chernobyl was a problem and Fukushima. Our design, that goes away because since we use this sodium to cool everything, it can absorb all that heat. And so those accidents were both first in generation, second generation reactors. The third generation reactors dealt with that with a lot of complexity. So, those reactors are quite safe, but the cost overruns meant that the electricity will be very, very expensive. We solved the safety problem with a much simpler approach, but we have to start from scratch.&#8221;
He said that he was &#8220;quite confident&#8221; that there will be support for continuing to expand America&#8217;s arsenal of nuclear power plants regardless of who wins the election this fall.
&#8220;I meet with lots of Republicans. I meet with lots of Democrats,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;d say that the support for nuclear power is very impressive in both parties. The reasons they support nuclear power may not be identical. The Republicans may emphasize the security issues, you know, energy security, exporting these power things to the entire world. The Democrats value those things but they also value that it&#8217;s a clean source of energy.&#8221;
&#8220;You really don&#8217;t want the nuclear reactors around the world made by your adversaries because it&#8217;s economically a huge job creator and because the materials involved in these reactors possibly could be diverted,&#8221; he later added. &#8220;You want your eye on, you know, making sure that it&#8217;s not feeding into some military-related activity. And so the U.S. leadership in this space has a lot of strategic benefits.&#8221;
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Right now, there&#8217;s a very easy political win for President Joe Biden on the table that has two political facets. Number one would be rejecting these insane anti-American protesters on America&#8217;s college campuses. Facet number two would be supporting America&#8217;s democratic ally, Israel.
That would be a dual win for the Biden administration, but Joe Biden won’t take the win.
If these protesters were protesting for “white supremacy,” Biden would have no problem whatsoever condemning the message of the protest.
But he won&#8217;t condemn these. He&#8217;s even having trouble condemning the actual protesters themselves, even though they are incredibly well organized. The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/student-campus-protests-veteran-activist-groups-17ccd094" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on this last Friday: “The recent wave of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses came on suddenly and shocked people across the nation. But the political tactics underlying some of the demonstrations were the result of months of training, planning and encouragement by longtime activists and left-wing groups.&#8221; 
This is the typical way that the Left works. They&#8217;ve been inter-community organizing since the 1960s and Saul Alinsky. There&#8217;s a reason Barack Obama was a community organizer. There&#8217;s a reason that the 1960s large-scale college organizations were able to push the Democratic Party far to the Left. There&#8217;s a reason they had extremely well-organized protesters and well-funded protests during BLM.
The Left knows how to do this. Agitation is an actual business to them. 
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It is not like the Republicans when they get together for a tea party, or even conservatives or Republicans who believed the election was stolen in 2021 and randomly got together on January 6 in a disorganized, ridiculous way and attempted to move into the Capitol building.
But the Left is well-organized. These people are drilled. They&#8217;re on message. This is, in fact, an army of activists that has been generated by actual funding and staffing.
The issue is that Biden is not going to cut off his funders — and he is being supported by the same people who are paying for these protests.
The polling data does not support what he&#8217;s doing as a matter of politics. It is incredibly stupid to steer away from the center, where Biden needs votes. But he wants the cash. And he is being supported by the same exact people who are funding all of these protests. An article published yesterday by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/05/pro-palestinian-protests-columbia-university-funding-donors-00156135#:~:text=The%20donors%20include%20some%20of,Voice%20for%20Peace%20and%20IfNotNow." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a> explains this trail:
<blockquote>President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him “Genocide Joe” — but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his reelection.
The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis. 
Two of the organizers supporting the protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Both are supported by the Tides Foundation, which is seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros and was previously supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It in turn supports numerous small nonprofits that work for social change.
Soros declined to comment. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has previously funded the Tides Foundation and other groups, said it no longer has active grants to Tides. It also does not support Jewish Voice for Peace or IfNotNow.
Another notable Democratic donor whose philanthropy has helped fund the protest movement is David Rockefeller Jr., who sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 2022, the fund gave $300,000 to the Tides Foundation; according to nonprofit tax forms, Tides has given nearly $500,000 over the past five years to Jewish Voice for Peace, which explicitly describes itself as anti-Zionist.
Several other groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests are backed by a foundation funded by Susan and Nick Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire — and supporters of Biden and numerous Democratic campaigns, including $6,600 to the Biden Victory Fund a few months ago and more than $300,000 during the 2020 campaign.</blockquote>
So why exactly are all of these funds giving money to JVP? Why are they doing all of that? The answer is because the Left believes that these are the leaders of the future. Just as the old crazies took over the campuses in the 60s and then became the powerhouses, administrators, and faculty, now they are hoping to build a new Democratic Party on the back of the radicals.
And Joe Biden is too weak to actually do anything about it.
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A woman who alleged she had been sex-trafficked by the late Jeffrey Epstein chortled when news broke that the identities of 170 people connected with Epstein will be revealed.
Virginia Giuffre, who claimed she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17 at Epstein’s home, eventually settled a $12 million lawsuit with Prince Andrew. She reacted to Manhattan federal Judge Loretta Preska ordering the release of sealed documents from a defamation suit Giuffre filed in 2015 against Epstein’s madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.
 “Finally we are hearing members of the US government senators about the need for transparency and a call to arms for accountability!! There’s going to be a lot of nervous ppl over Christmas and New Years, 170 to be exact, who’s on the naughty list? This wouldn’t be possible without the Honourable Judge Preska,” Guiffre tweeted, adding, “Merry early Christmas. Dozens of Jeffrey Epstein associates, victims likely to publicly ID&#8217;d in court docs in coming weeks — thank you and many blessings for Judge Preska. A truth seeker &amp; justice maker.”
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Finally we are hearing members of the US government senators about the need for transparency and a call to arms for accountability!! There’s going to be a lot of nervous ppl over Christmas and New Years, 170 to be exact, who’s on the naughty list? This would t be possible without… <a href="https://t.co/xVfFfQ0UMH">https://t.co/xVfFfQ0UMH</a>
&mdash; Virginia Giuffre (@VRSVirginia) <a href="https://twitter.com/VRSVirginia/status/1737337186012541013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Merry early Christmas-Dozens of Jeffrey Epstein associates, victims likely to publicly ID&#39;d in court docs in coming weeks- thank you and many blessings for Judge Preska. A truth seeker &amp; justice maker 🎄♥️🫶🌟🦋 <a href="https://t.co/uncu0I8EHI">https://t.co/uncu0I8EHI</a>
&mdash; Virginia Giuffre (@VRSVirginia) <a href="https://twitter.com/VRSVirginia/status/1737329578534998215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Preska gave the individuals who will be named two weeks to appeal the decision, adding that most of the names had already been made public.
“Former President Bill Clinton and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates are just some of the prominent figures anticipated to be featured in the report — after both were photographed with alleged Epstein victims,” The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/20/news/jeffrey-epstein-victim-virginia-giuffre-taunts-those-to-be-named-in-unsealed-docs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. In 2019, Clinton&#8217;s spokesman <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/08/politics/bill-clinton-jeffrey-epstein/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York,” adding, “In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation. &#8230; He had one meeting with Epstein in his Harlem office in 2002, and around the same time made one brief visit to Epstein’s New York apartment with a staff member and his security detail.”
When she filed the lawsuit against Andrew, Guiffre <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/567063-epstein-victim-files-lawsuit-against-prince-andrew-alleging/">stated</a>, “I am holding Prince Andrew accountable for what he did to me. The powerful and rich are not exempt from being held responsible for their actions. I hope that other victims will see that it is possible not to live in silence and fear, but to reclaim one’s life by speaking out and demanding justice.”
“I did not come to this decision lightly,” she added. “As a mother and a wife, my family comes first — and I know that this action will subject me to further attacks by Prince Andrew and his surrogates — but I knew if I did not pursue this action, I would be letting them and victims everywhere down.”

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Unless you’re a climate warrior or an energy wonk, you probably weren’t aware of last week’s end of the 28th edition of the “Council of the Parties,” better known as COP28, held this year in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Don’t be surprised if you weren’t one of over 84,000 delegates – more than double the previous record – who got an invite. It’s probably because you are not a raging hypocrite. COP28 attendees spent the better part of two weeks in deep discussion over the “existential threat” of a so-called “climate crisis,” and how the world needs to respond before it is too late to save the planet from imminent doom.
When you add to the expansive delegate count the thousands more non-delegate support staff, media, climate-warrior groupies, and casual onlookers, the ultimate outcome is that <a href="https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/COP28.PLOP__0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over 100,000</a> people – who all claim to love Mother Earth more than anything – felt the need to inundate Dubai rather than jump on Zoom sessions or conference calls to discuss how to save the planet. Remember, Zoom is good enough for kids locked out of schools, but not good enough for climate junkets.
Delegates spent two weeks in Dubai staying in 5-star resorts, feasting on gourmet meals, drinking top-shelf alcohol, being driven around in stretch limousines, “laboring” in air-conditioned conference facilities, and engaging in unknown debauchery when not working to rid the earth of traditional energy solutions, like coal, oil, and natural gas.
When not engaged in extracurricular activities, COP28’s delegates created a bunch of work-product to justify their junket.
First on the menu, pun intended, was an <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/28/lifestyle/un-calling-on-americans-to-cut-down-on-meat-consumption/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">effort to cancel meat</a>. Keep in mind, they just want to cancel your holiday meal, not their own. Then, the delegations <a href="https://unfccc.int/event/adaptation-fund-high-level-contributor-dialogue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pledged</a> hundreds of millions of dollars toward helping developing nations impacted by the “crisis.” Forget that these dollars will never be used to help those nations grow their GDPs nor their energy independence; instead, the World Bank will administer the money to the ruling class in those countries. What could possibly go wrong giving more money and power to the elite?   
The most celebrated output from COP28 was a <a href="https://unfccc.int/news/cop28-agreement-signals-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-fossil-fuel-era" target="_blank" rel="noopener">final agreement</a> calling for the “beginning of the end” of all fossil fuel development. This “global stockade” – signed by delegations representing more than 200 countries is, according to the United Nations, the vehicle by which “[p]arties take actions towards…the phase-down of unabated coal power, phasing out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, and other measures that drive the transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner&#8230;”
Let’s take this in for a minute: 84,000 delegates spent two weeks living in luxury, and their takeaway was that fossil fuels – which, between coal, natural gas, and oil power over 80% of the world today – are the enemy of the planet?
News flash: none of the climate hypocrites, COP28 delegates, would be meeting in Dubai in the first place without fossil fuels. None of them – not a single one – made it there, stayed there, communicated to their home countries, families or each other while there, enjoyed their lavish lifestyle while there or made it home from there without direct or byproduct use of fossil fuels.
So, the next time you hear about the good work being done at the COP events – and make no mistake, we’ll see COP29, COP 39, COP49, and so on – remember that they are giant parties designed to bring powerful, wealthy ideologues together to rage against the very products that have made their powerful, wealthy lives possible.
COP should stand for the “Council of the Pointless.”
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Rick Whitbeck is the Alaska State Director for Power The Future, a national nonprofit organization that advocates for American energy jobs. Contact him at Rick@PowerTheFuture.com and follow him on X: @PTFAlaska.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Congressman Mike Waltz (R-FL), a former Green Beret, sent financial titan Bill Gates a letter warning him that he might be exposed to counterterrorism sanctions because he is a primary owner of the Four Seasons Hotel chain, which has reportedly housed Hamas terrorists.
Cascade Investments, an assets management firm Gates founded and owns, “reportedly acquired a 47.5 percent stake in Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts when that company went private. In 2021, that control was increased by the purchase of 23.75 percent of the company from Prince al-Waleed’s Kingdom Holding Company, which increased Cascade’s share to 71.25 percent, giving it majority control of the company,” Waltz noted.
In 2015, senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal <a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/hamas-chief-holds-press-conference-at-four-seasons-hotel/">reportedly</a> held a press conference in the Four Seasons in Doha, Qatar. In 2016, Meshaal <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/turkish-pm-hamas-chief-meet-in-qatar-as-ankara-inks-defense-deal/">reportedly</a> used the same hotel for a closed-door meeting with then-Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu.
Hamas has been designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. Any U.S. persons who give the group material support can be hit with legal penalties, including up to life in prison.
Waltz wrote to Gates:
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As you are the founder and owner of Cascade Investment, L.L.C, which has a controlling stake in Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, I write with dual purpose: to warn you of the counterterrorism sanctions to which you and your employees are potentially exposed and to ask you to take a personal stand against Hamas by publicly pledging to ban it from using the Four Seasons or any other properties you own.
According to news reports, Hamas personnel have used the Four Seasons in Doha for official Hamas-linked events in the past, such as a 2015 press conference by senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal. In 2016, Meshaal further reportedly met with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu at the Four Seasons in Doha. Others have allegedly stayed there since, including during and after Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack that has so far resulted in at least 1,400 people killed in Israel, 3,400 others wounded, and 199 kidnapped. At least 260 people alone were killed at a music festival near Kibbutz Re’im. The State Department has confirmed that so far 30 U.S. citizens have been killed with another 13 unaccounted for. There is credible reporting of beheaded infants, people burned alive, others raped, still others likely to be tortured, with their agony broadcast, during the weeks ahead.
 As you may know, Hamas has been designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) since 1997. This designation carries two distinctive penalties. First, it exposes any U.S. persons who gives the group material support to significant legal penalties, including up to life in prison.
Perhaps more immediately, it mandates a broad exclusion from the United States any non-U.S. persons that engages in terrorist activity, including through actions like providing material support, such as housing, for terrorists. Names involved in this activity can be added to the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE), the U.S. government’s central repository on international terrorist activity. Unlike a prosecution by the Justice Department, the bar for adding names to TIDE is usually much lower and is classified. Names from TIDE are then exported by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) to support watchlists like the Transportation Security Administration’s “Do Not Fly” list and the State Department’s visa database, among others. U.S. persons can also be added to TIDE. In 2017 – that is, before the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization and with its wide network of enablers became subject to the provisions of the designation – there were about 1.6 million people in TIDE. Though the Secretary of State and Secretary of Homeland Security can issue exemptions for certain limited material support, among other things, as a matter of policy these can be reversed by a future administration.
 In the case of the Hamas FTO, this directly concerns you and your employees. In 2007 Cascade Investment, an asset management firm which you own and which controls much of your foundation and your family’s money, reportedly acquired a 47.5 percent stake in Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts when that company went private. In 2021, that control was increased by the purchase of 23.75 percent of the company from Prince al-Waleed’s Kingdom Holding Company, which increased Cascade’s share to 71.25 percent, giving it majority control of the company.
I urge you to ensure that neither your companies, nor your employees, nor you yourself are providing such materiel support to Hamas or any other FTO. An affirmative finding by the government may not be communicated to you or them immediately, but rather revealed through either an indictment, through a future refusal of entry at a U.S. port, or some other action. I would advise you to socialize this knowledge with the staff of Cascade Investment, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, and your Four Seasons hotel in Doha.
I further note with concern your silence on the appalling massacre of Israelis that occurred last weekend. This seems particularly difficult to understand given your focus on humanitarian causes and potentially carries significant reputational damage. I urge you and your companies to make a statement on behalf of the people of Israel and pledge to prevent any future use of the Four Seasons by Hamas.
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Rep. Waltz Warns Bill Gates: You May Get Hit With Counterterrorism Sanctions

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Chinese Communist Party General Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/xi-jinping" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Xi Jinping</a> praised American billionaire and Microsoft co-founder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-gates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Gates</a>, calling the businessman a “friend.”
Gates met with Xi this week, alongside Chinese Foreign Secretary Qin Gang and chief Chinese diplomat Wang Yi. Xi and Gates discussed pandemic prevention and technological development, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-16/gates-foundation-city-of-beijing-team-up-to-battle-diseases?srnd=premium-asia&amp;sref=PFCuwcPr&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_content=business&amp;cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic#xj4y7vzkg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Bloomberg. 
“You are the first American friend I’ve met in Beijing this year,” Xi told Gates, in a discussion that was broadcast on China Central Television, a state-backed broadcaster. 
“I’ve always said that the foundation of China-U.S. ties lies among the people,” Xi said. “We always pin our hopes on [the] American people and hope the two peoples can continue to be friendly.” 
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Xi and Bill Gates meet in Beijing. 
Xi: &quot;You are the first American friend I’ve met in Beijing this year.&quot; 
Gates: &quot;I&#39;m very excited to be back.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/UQoV40XKbF">pic.twitter.com/UQoV40XKbF</a>
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The two also <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-xi-tells-bill-gates-he-welcomes-us-ai-tech-china-2023-06-16/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> discussed artificial intelligence, though what was exactly said has not yet been disclosed. 
Gates <a href="https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1668978644897923073" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Twitter that he was in China to meet with partners working on “global health and development challenges.” 
“I’ve just landed in Beijing for the first time since 2019, where I’m excited to visit with partners who have been working on global health and development challenges with [the Gates Foundation] for more than 15 years,” he said. 
Gates went on to say that much could be learned from China on issues of poverty and health. 
“Solving problems like climate change, health inequity and food insecurity requires innovation. From developing malaria drugs to investing in climate adaptation, China has a lot of experience in that. We need to unlock that kind of progress for more people around the world,” he said. 
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Gates, who has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-gates-praises-china-theyve-done-a-very-good-job" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised</a> China before, has come under fire after Microsoft was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-bill-gates-secretly-partnered-with-china-and-sold-out-the-american-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> of aiding in the censorship of Chinese dissidents. In 2005, Microsoft banned Chinese journalist Zhao Jing after a request from the CCP, according to Amnesty International. Gates has also downplayed the scope of Chinese censorship. 
The meeting between Xi and Gates comes before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to travel to China. A previous trip from Blinken to China was canceled after a Chinese spy balloon floated over the U.S. 
“While in Beijing, Secretary Blinken will meet with senior PRC officials where he will discuss the importance of maintaining open lines of communication to responsibly manage the U.S.-PRC relationship. He will also raise bilateral issues of concern, global and regional matters, and potential cooperation on shared transnational challenges,” the State Department <a href="https://www.state.gov/secretary-blinkens-trip-to-the-peoples-republic-of-china-and-the-united-kingdom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. 
Blinken’s visit follows the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cia-director-took-secret-visit-to-china-to-meet-with-intelligence-officials-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">secret trip</a> made by CIA Director William Burns in May.

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CCP Leader Praises Bill Gates At China Meeting: ‘First American Friend I’ve Met In Beijing This Year’

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A trespassing charge against a conservative activist investor who was arrested at <a href="https://nlpc.org/featured-news/nlpc-chairman-peter-flaherty-is-arrested-during-berkshire-shareholder-proposal-presentation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s recent shareholder meeting</a> after bringing up dead pedophile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jeffrey-epstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeffrey Epstein</a> has been dropped.
The Daily Wire has learned that a prosecutor in Omaha, Nebraska, informed Peter Flaherty, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), last week that he reviewed the case and declined prosecution.
While the prosecutor could not immediately be reached for comment, Flaherty said in a phone call on Tuesday that it was &#8220;the weakest case imaginable&#8221; and is &#8220;glad&#8221; the charge is no more.
At the annual meeting in Omaha earlier this month, Flaherty had been recognized to speak in support of a proposal to require the roles of CEO and chairman be held by two different people. Both of those titles are held by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/warren-buffett-talks-with-biden-officials-about-possible-bank-investment-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Warren Buffett</a>, and Flaherty argued the Omaha-based company would be less identified with Buffett&#8217;s political activities if the chair was independent.
After getting into how Buffett <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/warren-buffett-resigns-gates-foundation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">donated</a> billions of dollars to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates&#8217; foundation, as well as efforts supporting Critical Race Theory and gender ideology, Flaherty said a Berkshire official approached to tell him to stay on topic. Buffett gave him the go-ahead to continue, and that&#8217;s when Flaherty mentioned Gates&#8217; ties to Epstein.
&#8220;We know how much Bill Gates cares about children,&#8221; Flaherty said. &#8220;He met and traveled with Jeffrey Epstein many times after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes.&#8221; Video posted to social media shows the audience <a href="https://twitter.com/0xTykoo/status/1654989132416835584" target="_blank" rel="noopener">erupted in boos and some whistling</a> when Flaherty brought up Epstein.
Flaherty continued to speak about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation when he says two security officials removed him from the venue and Omaha police arrested him. Arrest documents show Flaherty had been charged with refusing to comply with a request to leave. He was released on a $250 bond and was expected back in court on May 22 until the case was dropped.
The Daily Wire left a voicemail with Berkshire Hathaway seeking comment, but never got a reply.
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Flaherty said on Tuesday he was subjected to a &#8220;false arrest&#8221; that sets a &#8220;terrible precedent&#8221; when it comes to shareholder rights. Flaherty, who believes he &#8220;touched the third rail of billionaire relations: Jeffrey Epstein,” said the issue is even more prevalent now following a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates-affair-russian-bridge-player-8b2022ff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report by The Wall Street Journal</a> over the weekend that said Epstein learned Gates <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-threatened-bill-gates-with-sexual-blackmail-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly had an affair</a> with a young Russian woman and later appeared to threaten to expose the tryst if the billionaire refused to do business with him.
Gates has acknowledged only having engagements with Epstein for what he says were philanthropic reasons. &#8220;Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr. Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates,&#8221; a spokesperson for Gates told the publication. Melinda French Gates cited her now-ex-husband&#8217;s meetings with Epstein, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/melinda-french-gates-says-jeffrey-epstein-helped-break-up-marriage-to-bill-gate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">whom she called &#8220;abhorrent,&#8221;</a> while telling CBS last year about the various factors that led to her divorce from Bill Gates.
In 2008, after Epstein was accused of sexually abusing female minors in Florida, he reached a deal with federal prosecutors. He pleaded guilty to state-level prostitution charges, registered as a sex offender, and served roughly 13 months in jail and in a work-release program. Epstein died at the age of 66 in his New York City jail cell in August 2019 after being arrested on sex trafficking charges involving young girls and pleading not guilty.
Although the proposal sponsored by NLPC was defeated, Flaherty says it garnered enough support to be raised again next year. Pressed on how he might now respond to Berkshire Hathaway following the arrest, Flaherty said his team is &#8220;evaluating legal options.&#8221;

Charge Dropped Against Shareholder Activist Detained After Invoking Epstein

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Jeffrey Epstein reportedly learned that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates had an affair with a young Russian woman and later appeared to threaten to expose the tryst if Gates refused to do business with him.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates-affair-russian-bridge-player-8b2022ff">reported</a> that Gates met Russian bridge player Mila Antonova in 2010 when she was in her 20s and he was in his mid-50s.
Epstein met Antonova in 2013 and paid for her to attend software coding school. After she graduated, and while Epstein was trying to get Gates to join a project he was working on, Epstein reportedly sent Gates an email asking to be reimbursed for her schooling.
The amount of money the schooling cost was trivial for people as wealthy as Epstein or Gates, the report said.
Sources told the publication that the email implied that Epstein could expose the affair if Gates cut off his ties to Epstein.
&#8220;Mr. Gates met with Epstein solely for philanthropic purposes,&#8221; a spokesperson for Gates said. &#8220;Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr. Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates.&#8221;
The spokesperson said that Gates did not make the payment.
Epstein reportedly sent the message after Gates declined to join a multibillion-dollar charitable fund that he was trying to create with JPMorgan Chase that would have paid Epstein millions of dollars in fees and would help to rehabilitate his image after he pled guilty to soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution in 2008.
Gates had over a half dozen meetings scheduled with Epstein beginning in 2011 that included trips to Epstein’s private residence in New York, according to the report.
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Jeffrey Epstein Threatened Bill Gates With Sexual Blackmail: Report

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The head of a conservative group was booted from <a href="https://nlpc.org/featured-news/nlpc-chairman-peter-flaherty-is-arrested-during-berkshire-shareholder-proposal-presentation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s annual shareholder meeting</a> and arrested Saturday after questioning founder Warren Buffett&#8217;s politics and bringing up dead pedophile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jeffrey-epstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeffrey Epstein</a>.
Peter Flaherty, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), had been recognized to speak in support of a proposal to require the roles of CEO and chairman be held by two different people. Both of those titles are currently held by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/warren-buffett-talks-with-biden-officials-about-possible-bank-investment-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buffett</a>, and Flaherty argued the Omaha-based company would be less identified with Buffett&#8217;s political activities if the chair was independent.
After getting into how Buffett <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/warren-buffett-resigns-gates-foundation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">donated</a> billions of dollars to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates&#8217; foundation, as well as efforts supporting Critical Race Theory and gender ideology, Flaherty said a Berkshire official approached to tell him to stay on topic. Buffett gave him the go-ahead to continue, and that&#8217;s when Flaherty mentioned Gates&#8217; ties to Epstein.
&#8220;We know how much Bill Gates cares about children,&#8221; Flaherty said. &#8220;He met and traveled with Jeffrey Epstein many times after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes.&#8221;
Video posted to social media shows the audience <a href="https://twitter.com/0xTykoo/status/1654989132416835584" target="_blank" rel="noopener">erupt in boos and some whistling</a> when Flaherty brought up Epstein. Flaherty told The Daily Wire that at some point he realized his microphone had been cut as he continued to speak about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation before two security officials removed him from the venue and Omaha police arrested him. Arrest documents show Flaherty was charged with refusing to comply with a request to leave. He was released on a $250 bond and is expected back in court on May 22.
&#8220;I believe I touched the third rail of billionaire relations: Jeffrey Epstein,&#8221; Flaherty told The Daily Wire on Monday. With more than a decade of shareholder activism under his belt, Flaherty decried what he said was an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; arrest and said Berkshire Hathaway had &#8220;no right to silence me.&#8221;
Video appears to show Buffett, who was on stage, responding to Flaherty, saying &#8220;you crossed the boundary&#8221; before explaining that his donations came from his money and not funds from Berkshire Hathaway. Bloomberg News <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-08/berkshire-hathaway-meeting-bid-to-strip-buffett-as-chair-rejected?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_content=business&amp;cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;leadSource=uverify%20wall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the proposal sponsored by NLPC was defeated by a wide margin, though Flaherty told The Daily Wire that he counts defeated proposals as victories when they garner a certain amount of support.
The Daily Wire left a voicemail with Berkshire Hathaway seeking comment.
In 2008, after Epstein was accused of sexually abusing female minors in Florida, he reached a deal with federal prosecutors. He pleaded guilty to state-level prostitution charges, registered as a sex offender, and served roughly 13 months in jail and in a work-release program. Epstein died at the age of 66 in his New York City jail cell in August 2019 after being arrested on sex trafficking charges involving young girls and pleading not guilty.
Gates has acknowledged having dinners with Epstein for what he says were philanthropic reasons, and has <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bill-gates-several-dinners-jeffrey-epstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called those meetings a &#8220;mistake.&#8221;</a> Melinda French Gates cited her now-ex-husband&#8217;s meetings with Epstein, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/melinda-french-gates-says-jeffrey-epstein-helped-break-up-marriage-to-bill-gate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">whom she called &#8220;abhorrent,&#8221;</a> while telling CBS last year about the various factors that led to her divorce from Bill Gates.

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Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Activist Arrested After Mentioning Bill Gates’ Ties To Jeffrey Epstein

Shareholder Activist Arrested After Mentioning Bill Gates' Ties To Jeffrey Epstein

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