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Did Epstein Try to Blackmail Bill Gates? What His Congressional Testimony Actually Says Something remarkable happened on Capitol Hill this month, and it almost got lost in the daily avalanche of headlines. Bill Gates — yes, that Bill Gates, the cardigan-wearing polio-eradicating technologist — sat before the House Oversight Committee and testified that Jeffrey Epstein had, in all likelihood, been rehearsing how to blackmail him. That's worth thinking about for a moment. Gates told lawmakers on June 10 that he believed Epstein had, "contemplated blackmailing," him over extramarital affairs. [ NBC News ] The transcript of that closed-door session was released publicly on June 24th, and the details are genuinely strange. Epstein allegedly used an adviser to send veiled threats , appeared to coach that adviser on how to potentially blackmail Gates, and mixed fact and fiction to leverage compromising information against the Microsoft co-founder. [ ABC News ] T...