Melinda French Gates has come to bury Invoice.
And actually, are you able to blame her?
Lest any doubt stay that our billionaire tech overlords regard morality as mere impediment, or that they really feel beholden to no legal guidelines however their very own, French Gates is right here to remind us that Invoice is even worse.
Bill befriended Jeffrey Epstein.
And, regardless of her vocal opposition, French Gates being one of many world’s main advocates for women and girls, Invoice continued to socialize with Epstein — for years.
Jeff Bezos? A mensch by comparability.
In her clever interview with Gayle King, French Gates elegantly tore off her ex-husband’s mask.
“I wanted to take a special path,” she started.
One would hope.
After dispatching along with her ex-husband’s a number of infidelities — obliquely saying their marriage “wasn’t wholesome and I couldn’t belief what we had” — French Gates swiftly moved on to the Invoice & Jeff present.
“I didn’t like that he had a gathering with Jeffrey Epstein,” French Gates mentioned. “No.”
She had met Epstein herself, she mentioned. As soon as.
“I regretted it from the second I walked within the door,” she mentioned, calling Epstein “abhorrent” and “evil personified.”
And people had been simply her first impressions.
“I had nightmares about it afterwards,” French Gates mentioned.
When King requested the apparent follow-up — why would her husband hang out with Epstein after his personal spouse voiced such dire issues? — French Gates took her manicured hand and slid within the knife.
Such questions, she mentioned, “are for Invoice to reply.”
Invoice launched a boilerplate mea culpa within the interview’s aftermath.
“A mistake I remorse deeply,” he mentioned. “A considerable error in judgement.”
Blah, blah, blah. Cold.
In contrast, his ex-wife spoke of her utter devastation at their divorce, days the place she couldn’t get off the ground.
“I gave each single piece of myself to this marriage,” she mentioned — the implication being her different half didn’t.
Have been there elements of this interview that seemed like her subsequent ladies’s empowerment e book? Positive.
“On the finish of the day although, I began on this journey of therapeutic,” French Gates mentioned. “And I do really feel like I’m turning a web page within the chapter now . . . I do my highest to point out up as my greatest self.”
Not terribly particular, however French Gates doesn’t owe us the gory particulars.
The truth is, she mentioned the whole lot and nothing on this interview, whereas making certain one factor: Invoice’s legacy will at all times be sullied by that asterisk.
