article in the Wall Street Journal<\/a> details Mr. Gates\u2019s speech, based on a recording of it. He describes his various contacts with Jeffrey Epstein over a period of years, but draws lines regarding some behavior: although he traveled with Epstein, \u201cI never stayed overnight,\u201d or visited Epstein\u2019s island. \u201cI never spent any time with victims, the women around him.\u201d<\/p>\nIt seems like a fairly honest apology. He even discloses that he had two extra-marital affairs, that Epstein knew about and tried to use against him. It takes some humility to admit publicly to two extra-marital affairs.<\/p>\n
One aspect of a good apology is acknowledging the impact that the offender\u2019s behavior had on the victim. In this case, that would be the Foundation, and Mr. Gates acknowledged that his behavior had a negative impact on the Foundation, which relies on its good reputation to partner with other organizations.<\/p>\n
So this seems like a pretty good apology.<\/p>\n
This apology was to the Gates Foundation, so he was right to limit his comments to that audience. But it is a little upsetting to read his efforts in the apology to distance himself from the women who were always around Jeffrey Epstein. \u201cTo be clear I never spent any time with victims, the women around him,\u201d Gates said. Why not? Does he regret now that he didn\u2019t ask more questions to find out who these women were, what their stories were? He was willing to be photographed with them, but apparently didn\u2019t inquire further, even though it must have seemed strange to have these young beautiful women sitting in quietly on meetings among middle-aged male billionaires. Does Bill Gates also owe an apology to the women who were Epstein\u2019s victims, for his inaction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bill Gates apologized this week for his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. \u201cIt was a huge mistake to spend time with Epstein,\u201d he said. \u201cI apologize to other people who are drawn into this because of the mistake that I made.\u201d Mr. Gates directed his apology to the staff of the Gates Foundation; part of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}