Jeffrey Epstein claimed to be an intermediary between Donald Trump's White House and Bill Gates through a text message exchange, according to documents released by the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The messages were sent in 2017, several years after Epstein pleaded guilty to sex-related charges.
In one conversation with physician Melanie Walker, who later worked as an adviser to Gates, Epstein expressed intimate knowledge of Trump's views on various issues. He wrote that Kushner wouldn't care about surgeon general proposals and advised Walker to ask Gates to talk to Barrack, a chairman of Trump's inaugural committee in 2016 and the current US ambassador to Turkey.
Epstein also claimed to be passing on messages from Trump to Gates through Melanie, telling her that "it is childish to count lives at risk in Africa" when discussing global health initiatives. He also seemed to imply that Gates should focus on American problems first, using phrases like "America First."
Walker responded by saying she understood but noted that Gates' team was pushing a different direction. Epstein and Walker went back and forth about the best way to proceed, with Epstein suggesting Trump enforce tax laws as a way to police the Gates foundation's expenditures.
Throughout their conversation, Epstein portrayed himself as someone in close communication with Trump and seemingly positioned himself as a middleman between the president's administration and Gates. However, it is unclear how much of this conversation was genuinely facilitated by Epstein or if he was simply passing on his own views to Walker.
In one conversation with physician Melanie Walker, who later worked as an adviser to Gates, Epstein expressed intimate knowledge of Trump's views on various issues. He wrote that Kushner wouldn't care about surgeon general proposals and advised Walker to ask Gates to talk to Barrack, a chairman of Trump's inaugural committee in 2016 and the current US ambassador to Turkey.
Epstein also claimed to be passing on messages from Trump to Gates through Melanie, telling her that "it is childish to count lives at risk in Africa" when discussing global health initiatives. He also seemed to imply that Gates should focus on American problems first, using phrases like "America First."
Walker responded by saying she understood but noted that Gates' team was pushing a different direction. Epstein and Walker went back and forth about the best way to proceed, with Epstein suggesting Trump enforce tax laws as a way to police the Gates foundation's expenditures.
Throughout their conversation, Epstein portrayed himself as someone in close communication with Trump and seemingly positioned himself as a middleman between the president's administration and Gates. However, it is unclear how much of this conversation was genuinely facilitated by Epstein or if he was simply passing on his own views to Walker.
i mean i get why ppl are skeptical about this tho - epstein's got a history of being super shady. so yeah, it's weird that he thought he was some kinda intermediary between the 2 of them. like, who does he even think he is? 
and btw, if trump really said something like "it is childish to count lives at risk in Africa"... 
that's just straight-up gross.
. Like, can't they just have a normal conversation without involving multiple intermediaries? 
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That sounds like something out of a bad joke. 
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The guy was basically claiming to be the go-to intermediary between Trump and Gates, and now we're left wondering how much of it was just him spewing his own two cents 
. I mean, can you imagine walking into a room with someone like Epstein and being like "hey, what's up" 
? It's kinda wild to think he was supposed to be the one connecting these two power players 
. And the part about the tax laws thing? Like, is that even something Trump would propose? 
I guess we'll just have to keep digging to figure out what's really going on 
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