{"id":18642,"date":"2026-02-04T18:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bill-gates-embroiled-in-epstein-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:22:13","slug":"bill-gates-embroiled-in-epstein-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bill-gates-embroiled-in-epstein-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates embroiled in Epstein backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Blue Light News&#8217;s Business &amp; Economy newsletter {beacon} Business &amp; Economy Business &amp; Economy &#8202; The Big Story  Bill Gates needs to answer Epstein claims, ex-wife says Melinda French Gates, the ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, said Tuesday that he needs to answer for the allegations made against him in a newly released&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/newsletters\/business-economy\/5721770-bill-gates-embroiled-in-epstein-backlash\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Blue Light News&#8217;s Business &amp; Economy newsletter {beacon} Business &amp; Economy Business &amp; Economy &#8202; The Big Story Bill Gates needs to answer Epstein claims, ex-wife says Melinda French Gates, the ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, said Tuesday that he needs to answer for the allegations made against him in a newly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}