Project Veritas said that an FBI whistleblower leaked a document showing that the bureau now classifies “misinformation” as an “election crime” ahead of the midterms. Project Veritas posted the document, titled “2022 Midterm Elections Social Media Analysis Cheat Sheet,” on social Thursday. It includes eight election crimes, including “misinformation.”The document also lists “disinformation” as an election crime, which points to “false or inaccurate information intended to mislead others.”
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“Like I have been saying . . . . Keep the faith, people. The worm has turned,” Jack Maxey posted on GETTR. Maxey is the source of hand delivering the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop to US Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
Fox News covered the worm-turning news:
This is from the Daily Mail report from Thursday:
The records were sent by the senators to a Delaware prosecutor investigating Hunter’s potentially criminal business dealings with foreign nations.
Grassley and Johnson accompanied the ream of records with an excoriating letter slamming the federal prosecutor, David Weiss, for ‘failure to respond to our legitimate congressional oversight requests’.
The lawmakers say the documents uncovered in their long investigation lay out ‘the Biden family’s connections to the Chinese regime and persons connected to its military and intelligence elements.’
DailyMail.com’s analysis of hundreds of bank statements included in the Hunter Biden investigation details how the president’s son, his Uncle Jim Biden, and his Chinese business partners extracted cash from an $11million payout to a bank account for Hudson West III, LLC – a company jointly owned by Hunter’s firm Owasco PC and a CEFC subsidiary. Records show Hunter and Jim’s companies received a total of $4,968,220.01 from Hudson West. Hunter, Jim, and his wife Sara also got access to Bank of Omaha credit cards funded by CEFC to the tune of $101,098.61.
CEFC manager Gongwen Dong was paid a total $123,319.68 over the 14-month period in the bank statements, and another CEFC executive firm (ColdHarbour Capital) got $318,286.37. There were also eight payments totaling $29,795.84 to JiaQi Bao, a glamorous young staffer for the joint venture who was close to Hudson.
The bank records and documents track the money flow from Hunter Biden’s Chinese business partners to members of the Biden family between September 2017 and November 2018
They say the evidence amounts to ‘potential criminal financial activity with respect to Hunter and James Biden,’ – President Joe Biden’s brother who goes by ‘Jim’, who took part in the Chinese joint venture.
The senators are concerned Weiss is dragging his feet and not conducting a thorough investigation of the president’s son, or that the probe has been hamstrung by the Department of Justice.
Their data dump comes less than two weeks before the congressional midterm elections.
If Republicans win back control of the House, they are poised to launch their investigation into the Bidens, backed by subpoena powers that control would afford them.
An analysis of the hundreds of pages of bank statements by DailyMail.com shows Hunter’s Chinese business partners transferred a total $10,736,413.50 to a Cathay Bank account for Hudson West III LLC, a company jointly owned by Hunter’s firm Owasco PC and a CEFC subsidiary, between September 2017 and November 2018.
As CEFC poured millions into the joint venture, Hunter and Jim extracted the cash, paying themselves $100,000 and $65,000 monthly salaries respectively.
The operating agreement for the Delaware-incorporated company released by the senators says Hunter would receive a $500,000 ‘one-time retainer fee’ too.
Hunter, his uncle and Jim’s wife Sara got access to credit cards funded by CEFC to the tune of $101,098.61, which they used for a spending spree of Apple products, hotels and restaurants.
And CEFC executive Patrick Ho paid Hunter $1million from the company’s funds as a retainer after he hired the First Son as his lawyer, following his arrest by US law enforcement in November 2017 on bribery and money laundering charges.
The report by the senators said Hunter and Jim’s companies received a total of $4,968,220.01 from Hudson West.
America knows that Democrats refuse to accept election results when they don’t like the results, and media reports are showing that the RNC is preparing for a ‘Red Tusanmi’ blowout – and they are allegedly saving their money the consequences of such a thing- planning on the Democrats denying the results.
America First’s, Stephen Miller, a good friend to President Donald J. Trump, is involved in what the RNC is doing, so perhaps it will be something more than just promoting RINOS. Time will tell.
Election Day is 12 days away. But in courtrooms across the country, efforts to sow doubt over the outcome have already begun.
More than 100 lawsuits have been filed this year around the Nov. 8 elections. The legal challenges, largely by Republicans, target rules for mail-in voting, early voting, voter access, voting machines, voting registration, the counting of mismarked absentee ballots and access for partisan poll watchers.
The cases likely preview a potentially contentious post-election period and the strategy stems partly from the failure of Donald Trump and his allies to prevail in overturning the free and fair results of the 2020 presidential election that he lost to Joe Biden.
That was an ad hoc response fronted by a collection of increasingly ill-prepared lawyers that included Rudy Giuliani. The current effort, however, is more formalized, well-funded and well-organized and is run by the Republican National Committee and other legal allies with strong credentials. Party officials say they are preparing for recounts, contested elections and more litigation. Thousands of volunteers are ready to challenge ballots and search for evidence of malfeasance.
“We’re now at the point where charges of fraud and suppression are baked into the turnout models for each party,” said Benjamin Ginsberg, co-chair of the Election Official Legal Defense Network and former counsel to the George W. Bush campaign and other Republican candidates. “Republicans charge fraud. Democrats charge suppression. Each side amplifies its position with massive and costly amounts of litigation and messaging.”
The RNC said it has a multimillion-dollar “election integrity” team. It has hired 37 lawyers in key states, held more than 5,000 training sessions to teach volunteers to look for voter fraud — which is rare and isolated — and filed 73 suits in 20 states. Other Trump-allied legal teams, including America First Legal, run by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, are involved.
“We built an unprecedented election integrity ground game to ensure that November’s midterm elections are free, fair and transparent,” the RNC chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel, said last month.
Elections 2022: The Battle for Congress
The November midterm elections will determine which parties take control over the House and the Senate, ultimately defining the fate of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda.
The Democrats’ legal effort focuses on making voting easier and helping those denied a chance to vote. A team led by lawyer Marc Elias and his firm is litigating roughly 40 cases in 19 states, though many are interventions in Republican-led suits.
Elias said he is bracing for a deluge of challenges to election results. Some Republican candidates have already said they will not accept a loss or have planted doubt on the election process despite no evidence of fraud.
“The problem with the Republican Party right now is that conceding you lost an election is the only thing that will hurt you,” Elias said. “Contesting an election that is clearly lost is now where all the incentive structure is, and that is incredibly corrosive for democracy.”
Almost every election begets legal challenges. But much of that generally comes after Election Day.
In 2020, pro-Trump lawyers filed roughly 60 suits and asked judges to set aside votes. Those suits were roundly rejected. Trump’s own leadership found the election was fair, and state election officials saw no widespread evidence of fraud. Biden earned 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232, the same margin as Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, when he called it a “landslide.”
October 27, 2022 at 03:56PM Meta Suffers Staggering Overnight Plummet as Zuckerberg Doubles Down on ‘Terrifying’ Strategy
Meta stock plunged Thursday in pre-market trading as investors seeking profits are losing patience with the underperforming company.As of 9:30 a.m Eastern Time, Meta’s stock was at $98.45 per share, down over 31 percent from Wednesday’s close, according to Yahoo Finance.
Investors are grumpy over the ever-increasing costs of Meta’s virtual reality projects that are not paying out a significant return on a mammoth investment.
Reuters quoted analysts it did not name as saying Meta’s investments were “confusing and confounding” and its inability to cut costs “extremely disturbing.”
“The roll out and take up of the group’s virtual reality products leaves a lot to be desired, despite the seemingly never-ending upwards spiral of the research and development budget,” Sophie Lund-Yates, Hargreaves Lansdown’s lead equity analyst, said, according to Business Insider
Meta shareholder Altimeter Capital Management, a technology-focused hedge fund, wants Meta to cut its metaverse investments in half from the current annual level of $10 billion.
Altimeter said such huge investments “in an unknown future is super-sized and terrifying, even by Silicon Valley standards,” according to Reuters.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said costs could rise 16 percent next year and that losses at Reality Labs, where metaverse research and development is taking place, “will grow significantly” next year.
Will Americans change their technology habits if the economy tanks?
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Reality Labs lost $5.8 billion in the first six months of the year. Its third-quarter losses amounted to $3.67 billion, according to Reuters.
During a conference call, Jefferies analyst Brent Thill told Meta executives, “I think kind of summing up how investors are feeling right now is that there are just too many experimental bets versus proven bets on the core … I think everyone would love to hear why you think this pays off.”
“It would be a mistake for us to not focus on any of these areas that will be fundamentally important to our future,” he said.
“I know that sometimes when we ship a product … people say: ‘Hey, you’re spending all this money, and you’ve produced this thing,’ and I think that’s not really the right way to think about it.”
“We’re doing leading work that will become … eventually mature products at different cadences in different periods of time over the next five to 10 years,” he said.
Zuckerberg touted a $1,500 virtual and mixed reality headset called Quest Pro and a social metaverse platform where people use avatars to express themselves.
Paolo Pescatore, an analyst at PP Foresight, was not sold.
“The metaverse … feels like … one big gamble given the economic crisis,” he said.
“People are not rushing out of their seats to buy a VR headset or even watch 360-degree videos … The new device still feels like an expensive toy,” he said.
As noted by Business Insider, Meta’s shares were down just over 61 percent for the year, even before Thursday’s erosion.
A slowdown in digital advertising linked to the economic slowdown is impacting all tech platforms. Alphabet, the parent of Google, suffered a fall in its stock price after a Wednesday report indicating a revenue decline from YouTube and Google Network.
On April 14, 2022, business magnate Elon Musk offered to purchase American social media company Twitter, Inc., for $43 billion, after previously acquiring 9.1 percent of the company’s stock for $2.64 billion and becoming its largest shareholder, that was the beginning of a crazy rollercoaster ride, as the nation watched the on again- off again deal and maneuvering.
And what he posted today will make you wonder what direction he is headed in…
After Elon Musk signaled his intention to continue the deal, to buy the social media platform earlier in October, reports are emerging that the acquisition is almost over as Musk has told investors he will be ready to take ownership of the social media platform on Friday.
Coin Telegraph.com reported on Wednesday:
“Crypto-friendly billionaire Elon Musk is set to finalize the acquisition of social media platform Twitter by Oct. 28, which brings to a close the protracted Musk-Twitter saga.
On Oct. 24, Musk vowed to the banks assisting with the roughly $13 billion of financing for the deal that it would be closed by the end of the week and the banks have completed the final credit agreement, one of the last steps before sending the money to Musk, according to Bloomberg sources.
Musk has also reportedly notified his co-investors who are helping him fund the acquisition by sending over paperwork for the financing commitment, according to Reuters sources, which include venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, crypto exchange Binance and Qatar’s Investment Authority.
During a conference in Saudi Arabia on Oct. 25, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao reaffirmed his commitment to backing Musk’s takeover, according to Bloomberg.
The latest developments in the deal point to Musk seemingly adhering to a court-issued deadline set by a Delaware judge in early October where Musk filed his intention to proceed with closing the deal at the original $44 billion price after previously wanting to back out in July.
Musk intends to close the transaction at a price of $54.20 per share. Twitter stock prices jumped on the news, closing at $52.78 a share and up 2.45% for the day, according to Yahoo Finance.
In the past, Musk has highlighted many areas of the platform he wishes to change with his stated “top priority” being to cut down on crypto scam tweets and at one time planned to charge users 0.1 Dogecoin — much less than half a cent — to post on Twitter but later admitted it wouldn’t be feasible.”
And Musk is also ready to smash the lapdog media- or at least the New York Times, according to a recent twitter post:
“According to unnamed sources close to the matter who wish to remain anonymous” 🤣🤣
The timing couldn’t be more perfect to partner with Pete Santilli’s coverage of how the CIA has used the media to abuse the American people.
Why Is Elon Musk Carrying A Sink Into Twitter HQ? [VIDEO]
Why Is Elon Musk Carrying A Sink Into Twitter HQ? [VIDEO]
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Tesla and SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk just changed his Twitter profile location to “Twitter HQ” and his biography to say “Chief Twit.” This change comes as the deadline for his Twitter acquisition deal grows closer.
The billionaire also posted a video to Twitter showing him walking into Twitter’s San Fransisco headquarters while carrying a porcelain sink. Musk seemed to be taunting those who oppose his takeover, with the caption, “Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!”
Musk currently faces a deadline of Friday for his $44 billion takeover of the social media company, as set by a court in Delaware.
Meanwhile, Twitter employees are protesting Musk’s reported plan to fire up to 75% of the company’s staff. This would decrease employment numbers from 7,500 to just 2,000. Musk has explained his position on this drastic shift, saying that Twitter is bloated and its current workforce possesses a “strong left-wing bias.”
An open letter from panicking employees demands Musk commit to maintaining the current number of employees following his takeover. It also demands that Musk not be allowed to discriminate against staff members based on their political orientation.
“We demand to be treated with dignity, and to not be treated as mere pawns in a game played by billionaires,” the letter reads.
It also insists that by laying off 75% of workers, “Twitter’s ability to serve the public conversation” will be damaged.
Read the full open letter below:
Staff, Elon Musk, and Board of Directors:
We, the undersigned Twitter workers, believe the public conversation is in jeopardy.
Elon Musk’s plan to lay off 75% of Twitter workers will hurt Twitter’s ability to serve the public conversation. A threat of this magnitude is reckless, undermines our users’ and customers’ trust in our platform, and is a transparent act of worker intimidation.
Twitter has significant effects on societies and communities across the globe. As we speak, Twitter is helping to uplift independent journalism in Ukraine and Iran, as well as powering social movements around the world.
A threat to workers at Twitter is a threat to Twitter’s future. These threats have an impact on us as workers and demonstrate a fundamental disconnect with the realities of operating Twitter. They threaten our livelihoods, access to essential healthcare, and the ability for visa holders to stay in the country they work in. We cannot do our work in an environment of constant harassment and threats. Without our work, there is no Twitter.
We, the workers at Twitter, will not be intimidated. We recommit to supporting the communities, organizations, and businesses who rely on Twitter. We will not stop serving the public conversation.
We call on Twitter management and Elon Musk to cease these negligent layoff threats. As workers, we deserve concrete commitments so we can continue to preserve the integrity of our platform.
We demand of current and future leadership:
Respect: We demand leadership to respect the platform and the workers who maintain it by committing to preserving the current headcount.
Safety: We demand that leadership does not discriminate against workers on the basis of their race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or political beliefs. We also demand safety for workers on visas, who will be forced to leave the country they work in if they are laid off.
Protection: We demand Elon Musk explicitly commit to preserve our benefits, those both listed in the merger agreement and not (e.g. remote work). We demand leadership to establish and ensure fair severance policies for all workers before and after any change in ownership.
Dignity: We demand transparent, prompt and thoughtful communication around our working conditions. We demand to be treated with dignity, and to not be treated as mere pawns in a game played by billionaires.
Sincerely,
Twitter workers
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October 27, 2022 at 06:16AM
GOING DOWN A RABBIT HOLE OF INFORMATION:
The New York Times would be at the top of our list for FakeNews:
Clay Clark from Time To Free America talked with Pete Santilli this week, and what he said about creating wealth for yourself should get listeners ready to protect their wealth. This is a great interview.
Clark told Santilli:
“I have a friend who used to work for the Federal Reserve, and they were telling me some of the disturbing things that happen to the United States. First of all, I can tell you, the Federal Reserve isn’t Federal, and there is no Reserve. So once you wrap your mind around that idea, that the Federal Reserve is not federal and there is no Reserve, that will open your mind to a whole Oasis of information.
The book, I would encourage everyone to read is called the creature from Jekyll. I asked him teacher. Yeah, Jekyll Island. It’s an Incredible Book.
I want to repeat this, the BRICS Nations, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and they are all teamed up and ready to unseat the US dollar as the world’s Reserve currency and they needed to get Saudi Arabia. The linchpin of the petrol dollar. They need it to get to Saudi Arabia. What do they need to get the Petrodollar to go away? They needed to get Saudi Arabia, to team up with BRICS, and guess what just happened over the weekend, Saudi Arabia is teaming up with bricks.
So we right now are headed off to a currency clip,” Clark told Santilli.
October 26, 2022 at 07:00AM John Fetterman Opens only Senate Debate with “Hi, Goodnight Everybody” (Video)
John Fetterman opened his only debate tonight with, “Hi Goodnight everybody.”
Moderator: Lt. Governor you’re running for a seat that could decide the balance of power in Washington. What qualifies you to be a US Senator? You have 30 seconds.
The intolerant left has exploded in Florida as the midterms draw near, and the results are expected to be painful for the leftists in power. An out-of-control regime has stoked hatred for Republicans in DC, and tensions are escalating for Americans who pinned their hopes on Democrat Joe Biden as domestic disasters are unfolding nationwide.
Monday, a campaign activist suffered serious injuries after being attacked while knocking on doors for Republican Marco Rubio.
Biden has attempted to shift the blame for all of his lack of leadership and submission to foreign powers at the feet of Republicans, openly targeting his political opponents for public humiliation and shame- and violence.
In September, Biden gave a speech full of hateful rhetoric, where he encouraged the nation to attack Republicans as a sort of grand finale to 6 years of messaging about Republicans being violent extremists.
Newsweek covered the bizarre September Nazi-style speech:
“During his speech, made at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Biden attacked former President Donald Trump and his Make American Great Again (MAGA) supporters.
Biden said that both posed an ongoing threat to America and the future of the country.”
“Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic, “Biden said at the time, encouraging more intense hate on Republicans than ever before.
Joe Biden has faced criticism and has been compared to Adolf Hitler following a speech he made on Thursday.
During his speech, made at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Biden attacked former President Donald Trump and his Make American Great Again (MAGA) supporters.
Biden said that both posed an ongoing threat to America and the future of the country.
Despite the attack on the former president, Biden clarified that he did not feel Republicans in general or the majority of Republicans posed a threat.“Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” he said.
“I want to be very clear, very clear upfront. Not every Republican, not even a majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology.
“I know because I’ve been able to work with these mainstream Republicans. But there’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country.”
And now another physical attack has happened because the victim is a Republican.
“Last night one of our canvassers wearing my T-shirt and a Desantis hat was brutally attacked by 4 animals who told him Republicans weren’t allowed in their neighborhood in #Hialeah #Florida. He suffered internal bleeding, a broken jaw & will need facial reconstructive surgery,” Rubio reported on Twitter.
Last night one of our canvassers wearing my T-shirt and a Desantis hat was brutally attacked by 4 animals who told him Republicans weren’t allowed in their neighborhood in Florida.
Republic Brief reported on the story and pointed out that “one of the top tweets in response to Rubio’s post came from a self-described Democrat: “I am so sorry this happened! I’m a Democrat, but we should never voice our opposition with violence.”
New video has surfaced of a North Carolina transmale student Volleyball player on a high school girl’s Volleyball team, who has such a powerful spike maneuver that he is highlighted in a team video numerous times- as heroic for his skills. But what made his video go viral was not heroic.
“A [trans person] on a high school volleyball team injured a girl on the other team with a 70mph spike and gave her a concussion. Still think this a good idea?” one posted reported on Twitter.
According to the Daily Mail, which reported on the details of the situation:
“Neither player has been identified.
And the incident has since had far-reaching implications for how the game is played in the state after news spread how the offending shot had been played by a biological male.
The Hiwassee Dam female player is still suffering from long-term concussion symptoms, including problems with her vision and has not been cleared to play.
The Cherokee County school board has subsequently voted 5-1 to forfeit all matches for its schools’ women’s volleyball teams against Highlands School, who the unnamed transgender player plays for. “
The update is the coach and the school knew that the player’s moves were intense, and we found the video.
Even though Feminists have insisted that there is no difference between men and women and their skills- that is simply not true, and now there is national discussion about matching skill levels of players with the new transgender movement.
The video of the recent high school match, where the girl was injured by the transboy, was originally posted by a Facebook group called Binary and it went viral after being picked up by Jessie Waters on Fox News, and independent media last week:
A male volleyball player who identified as a woman spiked the volleyball so hard into a girl’s face that she required medical treatment for a concussion and still hasn’t been cleared to return to play. Another proud moment in “women’s” athletics: https://t.co/esvbVmlF4z
And now the new video that has emerged shows that as of three weeks ago the school was fully aware of the powerful spike move:
OneYoutube poster responded to the video and made some great points:
“What is important to note are the stats. This person of interest is 5’9 130 lbs not extraordinary for a HS female volleyball player. Rather average for a male this age. However, note the 31” vertical jump and the 10 foot “jump” (or launch). Also note how high above the net he/she is. Also in the same game there is footage showing a similar shot to the one that injured the girl. It is cross court and the defending girl is in a similar position as the injured girl. She is barely able to deflect the kill shot with her chest and arms.
With the height the trans kid attains launching him herself there is no way for a defender to stand at the net and jump high enough to block or return the shot as often seen in the men’s game. (college, there are no men’s HS teams).
My guess is the trans kid would not be able to “get away” with these kill shots which would likely be defended by an opponent jumping and blocking the shot. In the girls game few women posses that ability. So, the defenders back off hoping for a chance to “dig” the shot before it hits the floor. Here’s where I have an added issue.
These kill shots are usually “aimed” down to hit the floor. However this kid fires them at opponents. Few women have the reflexes to react to a ball coming at them at this speed.I believe the injured girl, is backing off the net knowing what could be coming from this trans kid. Remember the identical play is seen in the video. This trans kid could easily hit down at the floor in front of that poor kid trying to defend.
The whole issue is the trans kid is clearly athletically adept. However, with the girls game net six inches lower and opponents less strong, fast, quick etc, he/she excels where playing against other males and a net six inches higher…..
Bill and Melinda Gates were married for 27 years and used their fortune to connect with many philanthropic causes. Bill, as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, continued to be high-profile in financial and philanthropic matters. The couple divorced last year and the legal action was final in August. Now, Melinda Gates has opened up about some of the aspects of her marriage to Gates and what she went through. One factor was Gates’ relationship with Jeffery Epstein.
Epstein died by suicide in August 2019 after being arrested on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking.
When he was arrested, the world was appalled at the revelations that surrounded Epstein’s dealings. The owner of a secluded island near the Virgin Islands that was used for sex trafficking purposes, Epstein ran with an international crowd, including such big names as Britain’s Prince Andrew and many U.S. politicians.
Epstein had a list of clients that crossed international boundaries in a “little black book” and was aided by British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell who, according to court documents, dated Epstein and then recruited underage girls for him to have relations with. Maxwell was arrested by the FBI and in December 2021 was convicted of five sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. Prosecutors alleged Maxwell worked with Epstein to “recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse” children.
One of the relationships supported by information found and existing photographs was that between Epstein and Melinda Gates’ now ex-husband Bill Gates.
In opening up about her divorce from the Microsoft founder, Melinda Gates is saying the pandemic played a role and gave her the opportunity to get out of the marriage.
“I had some reasons I just couldn’t stay in that marriage anymore,” she said in an interview. “But the odd thing about COVID is that it gave me the privacy to do what I needed to do. It’s unbelievably painful, in innumerable ways, but I had the privacy to get through it.”
“I kept working with the person I was moving away from, and I needed to show up and be my best self every single day,” she said. “So even though I might be crying at 9 a.m. and then have to be on a video conference at 10 a.m. with the person I’m leaving, I have to show up and be my best. I learned as a leader that I could do it. It reminded me that the foundation calls me to be my best.”
“We work with unbelievable partners around the world who were also struggling during COVID,” she said. “I was on a video call with a woman who had lost her father, and a week later she’s on a call with me, right?”
In the interview this year, King asked about her ex-husband’s affair with a staffer 20 years ago, which a spokesperson for the Microsoft co-founder confirmed in May 2021. “I certainly believe in forgiveness, so thought we had worked through some of that,” Melinda said. “It wasn’t one moment or one specific thing that happened. There just came a point in time where there was enough there that I realized it just wasn’t healthy. And I couldn’t trust what we had.”
Melinda mentioned that her husband’s relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein played a role. In the interview with CBS host Gayle King, the 57-year-old spoke about infidelity and more, The Daily Beast reported. But one thing that stuck out more than the others is the role that the late convicted sex offender Epstein played in her wanting a divorce.
Melinda said, “I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffery Epstein, no. I made that clear to him.” She met Epstein one time, curious to see who he was, but says, “I regretted it the second I walked in the door. He was abhorrent. He was evil personified. My heart breaks for these women.”
When King asked if she shared her immense hatred for Epstein with Bill, Melinda is nodding, but says, distancing herself from the relationship her former husband had with Epstein, “Any of the questions remaining about what Bill’s relationship there was, those are for Bill to answer. but I made it very clear how I felt about him.”
When Epstein died, Bill Gates made a statement to CBS Mornings saying, “Meeting with Epstein was a mistake that I regret deeply. It was a substantial error in judgement.” In August 2021, Gates also told CNN the he regrets the time he spent with Epstein.
“I had a lot of tears for many days. I mean, days where I’m literally laying on the floor … thinking, ‘How can this be? How can I get up? How am I going to move forward?’” she added in a clip of the interview, Conservative Brief reported.
Melinda indicated that she and her ex-husband remain friendly, but not friends.
