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Bill Gates Becomes the Latest Billionaire to Bow Down to Trump (newrepublic.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Another billionaire chooses Trump. This time, it’s the historically liberal Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Gates told The Wall Street Journal that he was “impressed” by the president-elect.

“I had a chance to go have a long, and actually quite intriguing dinner with him,” Gates said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. He noted that he talked to Trump for three hours, along with Trump aide Susie Wiles and Gates’s aide Larry Cohen.

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It’s a stunning remark from Gates, one of the richest people in the world, who previously said he donated more than $50 million to Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. The news of the meeting comes after Trump claimed last month that the billionaire was begging to have a meeting with him.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

he hasn't 'bowed down'. he had lunch. he fished for support for his own charitable interests. then he got lost in diaperking's phony 'charm' and didn't say anything 'bad' afterwords.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

There is a very long worldwide stereotype of ultra-wealthy persons. Specifically, that all of them are evil and/or ungenerous. Obviously, this is grossly inaccurate. Bill Gates is one of the most generous persons among the ultra-wealthy.

The other claims about Bill Gates being made in this thread are exactly that -> claims.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Ah yes the super duper wholesome chungus billionaire just had to meet many times with Epstein (after he was a convicted child rapist) to do such amazing "philanthropy" that his wife had to divorce him for it 😍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not interested in seeing more claims regardless of the source.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So you just bury your head in the sand until the unpleasant facts that don't agree with your personal world view go away?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A translation for @remington's comment can be "I'm sick of hearing about this sick motherfucker."

I could be wrong, but a lot of people similarly feel that way about Trump, so it's a good guess on my part. Shrug

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would be willing to believe that if he hadn't said:

The other claims about Bill Gates being made in this thread are exactly that -> claims.