Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Intimate Knowledge of Donald Trump's Views in Texts With Bill Gates Adviser

In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary. In text messages sent in 2017, disgraced financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appears to position himself as a middleman between president Donald Trump's administration and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, even seemingly representing himself as passing on information directly from Trump to Gates through an intermediary. The messages, which the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released on Wednesday and originated with the Epstein estate, begin on January 27, 2017, years after Epstein had already pleaded guilty to state prostitution solicitation charges. In them, Epstein purports to show intimate awareness of Trump's plans for domestic and global public health policy, and to be directly familiar with the president's thinking. Trump has continued to claim, as recently as this summer, that he stopped speaking with Epstein around 2004.