It is not because of Gates' association with Epstein, the pedophile. It is about

. . . . . . . . . . WHY

Gates had such an association. Let's say Epstein had a car dealership and also was a known pedophile. Well, in that case, maybe there could be an argument that Gates was associated because he wanted to buy a car, and wasn't really aware of the sex operations.

Or let's say that Epstein was funding some charitable operations around the planet. Then Gates might reasonably have had some contact with regard to philanthropy without necessarily understanding the depravity of the sex operation.

But Gates has had years to come up with such an excuse. The fact is that there is not a single thing in Epstein's adult life (or Trump's for that matter,) that is even slightly honorable, and might justify a decent person having some relationship.

So we are left to draw the obvious conclusion about Bill Gates. And not coincidentally, Melinda has said nothing that would lead us to any other conclusion.

Normally, this is the point in the story when we would say, "It is time for Gates (or any other of the other 1000 perps) to 'lawyer up'." But this isn't that kind of scandal. Unfortunately, very few of these people will go to prison because we just don't do that to the rich and well-connected. But people are seeing their life's body of work going up in flames, and no $1000/hour lawyer can do anything about that.

I am not picking on Gates. The same thing applies to all the presently-redacted perps -- the Davos crowd and the Davos wannabes, if you will. This is picking up momentum all over the world because it involves so many entitled assholes everywhere. And now it is probably too late for any of them to "get out in front of the story". The level of arrogance and entitlement exhibited by these people is off the scale, and the whole world is looking for heads on a pike. It is ironic that we and the MAGA people might actually have a lot of common ground here. Governments all over the world have been thoroughly corrupted by the ascent of the super-rich and a reckoning is way overdue.