Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAIDFT’s

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates ratcheted up his feud with Elon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of “killing the world’s poorest children” through what he said were misguided cuts to US development assistance.

Gates, who is announcing a plan to accelerate his philanthropic giving over the next 20 years and close down the Gates Foundation altogether in 2045, said in an interview that the Tesla chief had acted through ignorance.

In February, Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) in effect shut down the US Agency for International Development, the main conduit for US aid, saying it was “time for it to die”.

The co-founder of Microsoft, and once the world’s richest man himself, said the abruptness of the cuts had left life-saving food and medicines expiring in warehouses and could cause the resurgence of diseases such as measles, HIV and polio.

“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” he told the Financial Times.

Gates said Musk had cancelled grants to a hospital in Gaza Province, Mozambique, that prevents women transmitting HIV to their babies, in the mistaken belief that the US was supplying condoms to Hamas in Gaza in the Middle East. “I’d love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money,” he said.

Gates, 69, on Thursday announced plans to spend virtually his entire fortune over the next 20 years, during which time he estimates his foundation will spend more than $200bn on global health, development and education against $100bn over the previous 25 years. The Gates Foundation will close its doors in 2045, decades earlier than previously envisaged.

Gates said the rationale for accelerated spending was to have maximum impact, with the potential for finding once-and-for all solutions such as eradicating polio and curing HIV.

“It gives us clarity,” he said. “We’ll have a lot more money because we’re spending down over the 20 years, as opposed to making an effort to be a perpetual foundation.”

The foundation will continue to spend the bulk of its budget, which will rise to about $10bn a year, on global health, with vaccines, maternal and child health continuing to be a focus. But Gates said that private philanthropy could not make up the shortfall from the cuts to USAID, whose budget was $44bn last year.

Gates intends to pass on less than 1 per cent of his wealth to his children. He said he was a supporter of a strong estate tax to prevent “dynastic wealth” and of “much more progressive taxation”.

Critics have accused Gates of using his foundation’s charitable status as a tax shield and of parlaying his billions into undue influence on global health priorities.

In a letter outlining his decision, Gates said: “People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that ‘he died rich’ will not be one of them. There are too many urgent problems to solve.”

Gates and Musk have clashed before over philanthropy. In 2012, Musk signed the Giving Pledge, launched by Bill and Melinda Gates and investor Warren Buffett, through which dozens of billionaires promised to give away at least half their wealth. But Musk later told Gates that philanthropy was mostly “bullshit” and that commercial solutions to problems like climate change, including Tesla’s electric vehicles, were more effective, according to Musk’s biographer Walter Isaacson.

Isaacson described Musk’s fury in 2022 on learning that Gates had shorted Tesla stock, calling him a hypocrite for trying to make money by undermining a company that was seeking to do good. In a comment at the time on Twitter, now X, Musk posted an unflattering photograph of Gates accompanied by the caption: “In case u need to lose a boner fast.”

Gates told the FT that Musk, who called USAID “a criminal organisation”, had no understanding of what the US agency did or how it operated. Musk in February acknowledged mistaking the Mozambican province of Gaza for the Palestinian territory, saying that “some of the things that I say will be incorrect”.

Gates has been more restrained in his criticism of Donald Trump, saying he may not have fully understood the impact of cuts and holding out the prospect that some could be reversed. The Gates Foundation is one of many that fear the US president might try to remove their tax-free status through an executive order.

Gates criticised Trump’s appointment of Robert F Kennedy Jr as secretary of health, saying that Kennedy had “attacked vaccines, and specifically my role . . . with a lot of falsehoods”.

But he reserved his sternest criticism for Musk, whose cuts he saidthreatened to undermine 25 years of Gates Foundation work.

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>>23008422

Fuck Bill Gates, take his hideous foundation down, raid it U.S. Gov

Kash, he’s a pedoplhile investigate and arrest him!

• Gates Foundation will shut down in 20 years.

• Bill Gates announces plan to give away remaining 99% of fortune to his own personal charity.

•Bill Gates — Elon Musk is killing children.

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BREAKING: White smoke signals new pope has been elected

27 minutes ago

(I don’t care as a person that grew up Catholic if the Vatican is not raided, nothing will change)

Outnumbered' panelists react to the breaking news that a new pope was chosen on the fourth vote. Senior correspondent Benjamin Hall provides detail on the upcoming reveal and next steps.

5:31

https://youtu.be/c_1ckv6RF9I

Liberal 'scaremongers’ are being proven wrong, says top Trump advisor

National Economic CouncilDirector Kevin Hassettresponds to claims that President Donald Trump's tariffs are for the rich

5:24

https://youtu.be/q_-VsBp2DZ0

For the Left, Power Isn’t a Tool, It’s the Goal 1/2

When I was about nine years old, my Irish Setter loved to chase the UPS delivery truck. We could never figure out why he wanted to chase it. And we joked about what he would do if he caught it. Then it happened. He caught the truck. Or maybe the truck caught him. Either way, the result wasn’t pretty, and we were left with a major mess to clean up.

For years, that old question had me baffled as I watched the Democrat party lurch farther and farther left. “What are they trying to achieve?” “What do they want to do with this power?” Then I stumbled across a meme that swept all the mystery away. “=Power isn’t the means to an end. Power IS the end.”

Say again? While there are legal arguments that various of Trump’s actions may be contrary to the law, those haven’t yet been adjudicated. So far, through all of his first term and his first 100 days, there is no legal determination that he has acted contrary to the rulings of any court, including that of James Boasberg, who continues to issue orders after the Supreme Court stripped him of any claim to jurisdiction.

“Violated separation of powers?” The massive number of nationwide injunctions from left-leaning courts has attempted to micromanage the Executive, an area over which the courts have no proper authority.

“Placed personal power and self-interest above public service?” This is a place where we must suggest that the Congressman submit to an EEG to prove he’s not brain-dead. Trump serves without pay, and in his first term, he lost billions in personal wealth. He willingly suffered a host of bogus prosecutions to return to the Oval Office and works tirelessly (not fights, works) to pare the Swamp down to unleash freedom in America.

By way of contrast, numerous CongressCritters entered office as relative paupers and are now multimillionaires. How you do that in a high-rent district like DC,where your salary is only upper middle class, is beyond the understanding of mere mortals educated in mathematics. AOC has somehow used her position to accumulate a net worth in the neighborhood of $2 million. Longer tenured residents of the Capitol have become far wealthier.

Let’s say that again. The Left worships power, and it never considers what it would do with the power it covets. Before you get all worked up in a lather over my lack of mental faculties, please consider what mental faculties the core Left demonstrates. Congressman Shri Thanedar announced articles of impeachment against President Trump, claiming that, “His unlawful actions have subverted the justice system, violated the separation of powers, and placed personal power and self-interest above public service.”

One of the somewhat obvious methods that these people use is insider trading. Yes, they write the statutes so they don’t run afoul of the law, but in fact, the favors that lead to much of their profit certainly cross the line of what the law is supposedly intended to prohibit. Others fund travel through various government programs to NGOs that are run by family members.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/for_the_left_power_isn_t_a_tool_it_s_the_goal.html

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2/2

But this enrichment doesn’t seem to be the ultimate goal. Many, perhaps best exemplified by Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, are well off and approaching the moment when they will assume room temperature. While the Turtle has announced he will not run again, Chucky is hell-bent-for-leather that he will remain in his position of power until we pry his cold, dead fingers off the Democrat caucus gavel.

Consider Airhead-Cortez. She sees weakness at the top of the DemonRats in the Senate and is almost certainly planning a primary challenge to steal control of Schumer’s seat. Broadening our view, we see that a large volume of the political class exists for the sole purpose of advancing up the ladder without regard for the “general welfare” of America.

The repetitive query of “What has XXXX done for you in Congress?” with particular emphasis on the Democrat party, shows this in spades. Very few CongressCritters seem to actually work for us. MTG, Jim Jordan, and Ron Johnson are conspicuous exceptions. The Democrats march in lockstep, and I can’t name a single one who actually works to improve America.

The obvious question must be, “Now that they’ve caught the delivery truck, what do they want to do with it?” And that takes us to the manifold actions of the deep state, empowered by the Creature from the Dark Lagoon that is Congress. There are three salient actions they have taken.

First, they have created numerous ways to enrich themselves and their friends with money stolen from hard-working Americans.

Second, some of this money “walks around” to various Democrat election officials to create phony voters (see here and here) that can be “voted” to keep Democrats in power. In 2020, New York City had 254,713 “voters” participate who didn’t show up in state-level records.

I suppose this shouldn’t be a surprise in a state that has over 2 million phony names on the voting rolls. Is it any surprise that a Republican elected official in New York is an anomaly? What about Illinois, Arizona, and California? Alexander Pacquette has identified this same sort of fraud in every state. Since it universally favors Democrats (they’re the ones who “vote” the fraudulent ballots), if the rolls were truly cleaned up, we’d have Republican supermajorities everywhere.

Third, we must look at the border. I used to cringe when I heard conservative radio hosts talk about Democrats importing voters. Now that we see locales flaunting non-citizen voting, one aspect becomes clear: Dems wereimporting Dem voters.

But the bigger fraud is the census. Dems were able to prevent Trump from excluding non-citizens from the census. This clearly added Dem seats in the House from California, New York, and the like, stealing them from Texas and Florida.

Virtually every action I see from the Left is aimed at preserving power. But they seem to be utterly oblivious to the secondary effects of their actions. The flood of illegal aliens that arrived under Biden created massive costs for sanctuary polities. But that’s OK. Just print more money and shovel it out from the Treasury to pay for them.

When illegals commit new crimes while out of jail awaiting trial, it’s no big deal. “They aren’t doing it in my gated community.”

If we ban guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens, defenseless citizens will die. But those bitter clingers wouldn’t vote Democrat anyway. And with the government the only armed party, control is ours.

As I considered the examples for this missive, I found them too numerous to count.It’s more than clear that the Left worships power but is utterly unconcerned with the effects of that power on us. As long as they are somewhere near the center of power, they will be protected, and we will pay the price. But, of course, we don’t accept their worldview, so we are evil and must be destroyed.

It’s time for us to clean up the mess.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/for_the_left_power_isn_t_a_tool_it_s_the_goal.html

Trump Just Pulled His Controversial Prosecutor Pick

Jeff Charles

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he is pulling Ed Martin’s nomination for the top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia.

Martin’s nomination was fraught with controversy over his support for J6 defendants and a myriad of other matters. Several senators, most notably Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), signaled they would not vote to confirm him, citing his support for those the government railroaded over the riot at the US Capitol building.

“He’s a terrific person, and he wasn’t getting the support,” Trump said, according to CNBC.

“I have to be straight. I was disappointed,” the president added.

The president further stated that “A lot of people were disappointed, but that’s the way it works.”

“I can only lift that little phone so many times in a day, but we have somebody else that will be great,” Trump stated.

Martin will still have a role in the Trump administration. Trump suggested he would land somehwere in the Justice Department.

Martin’s past includes several controversial elements that opponents used to tank his nomination, according to The Washington Post. He reportedly has a history of attacking judges and unlawfully firing employees. Roy Temple, a former Missouri Democratic official, said, “What makes Ed Martin dangerous is he is a reckless ideologue.”

Of course, this is precisely what a Democrat would say about a Republican nominee. However, some, such as Sen. Tillis suggested that Martin might cause headaches for the Trump administration. “People don't believe me when I say I think I have a good relationship with President Trump but I still think I have a good relationship with President Trump,” Tillis said during an interview. “I'm trying to watch his back.”

This development could signal some turbulent political times ahead for folks like Tillis. They have certainly earned the MAGA movement’s ire. However, Trump has not indicated whether he will take action against the senator and other Republicans who opposed Martin’s nomination. Indeed, when asked by a reporter about his feelings on Tillis’ remarks, Trump simply said they were “disappointing,” which is far more tame than the president’s typical responses to those who cross him.

Trump will appoint Ed Martin as US Asst Atty to carry out the plan

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/05/08/trump-will-pull-ed-martins-nomination-n2656769