On Wednesday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told CNN that spending time with Jeffrey Epstein was a huge mistake, the multimillionaire financier accused of child sex trafficking.
“It was a huge mistake to spend time with him, to give him the credibility of being there,” Gates said to CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
“You know, I had several dinners with him, you know, hoping that what he said about getting billions of philanthropy for global health through contacts that he had might emerge. And when it looked like that wasn’t a real thing, that relationship ended. But it was a huge mistake to spend time with him, to give him the credibility of, you know, being — there were lots of others in that same situation, but I made a mistake.”
