Bill Gates pulls out of India's AI summit over Epstein files controversy

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Bill Gates will not deliver his keynote address at the India AI Impact Summit in Delhi, his philanthropic organisation said hours before the Microsoft co-founder was due to speak.

The Gates Foundation said the decision was made after "careful consideration" and "to ensure the focus remains on the [summit's] key priorities", but did not elaborate.

Gates's withdrawal comes amid a controversy over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after he was named in new files released by the US Department of Justice in January.

Gates's spokesperson has called the claims in the files "absolutely absurd and completely false", and the billionaire has said he regretted spending time with Epstein.

Gates has not been accused of wrongdoing by any of Epstein's victims and the appearance of his name in the files does not imply criminal activity of any kind.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c309qv9zglno

And he hasn't even been accused of anything.....

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1. Wait until someone who owns/runs a DOW or NASDAQ component gets mentioned even peripherally

Or an insurance company or financial institution. Those that want to see it all burn may well get their wishes.

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4. Nothing will be done to them

At least not as long as Shitler is president. Now get rid of him and Shady and it will be a different story....

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5. Nature Will Sort It Out

Trump can only do so much once it's out there.

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2. Couldn't borrow a plane?

Even if I want to believe they did nothing wrong, I seriously don’t get why these billionaires used Epstein’s plane so much. If they can’t afford it, how did he?

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3. His ex wife isn't too pleased with the revelations...

..."Whatever questions remain there of what — I can't even begin to know all of it — those questions are for those people and for even my ex-husband," she said. "They need to answer to those things, not me."

Bill Gates is one of many influential people mentioned by name in the 3 million newly released pages of Epstein's personal communications.

A spokesperson for Bill Gates has told NPR, "These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false. The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein's frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame."

In emails, Epstein wrote that Bill Gates had come to him to facilitate trysts with married women and to get medication to treat an STI from "sex with Russian girls."

Epstein also claimed that Bill Gates wanted to try to give that STI medication to Melinda French Gates in secret....

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/03/nx-s1-5697080/melinda-french-gates-reacts-to-ex-husband-bill-gates-being-mentioned-in-epstein-files