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Melinda Gates, co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, harshly graded President Donald Trump’s response to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, giving his administration a  “D-minus.” 

Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates’ energetic defense of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) handled the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic might have been an eye-opening moment for many Americans.

During an interview that aired on Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,”  Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates argued against a focus on China for allegations it mishandled the early stages of the coronavirus breakout and could have act early to have prevented the global pandemic.

If you judge Gates by his meaningless words, he is not a climate denier. But where it matters… In his actions, his behavior, his multi-million dollar investments, Gates is one of the biggest climate deniers in the history of climate denying.

An official Chinese Communist Party spokesman on Monday said China was a victim not a perpetrator of the global coronavirus epidemic, adding the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “is a partner” as it battles the deadly outbreak.

The mainstream media are out in force defending Microsoft founder Bill Gates, alleging that he has become a “right-wing target” due to his involvement in Chinese virus vaccine development.

Melinda Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation told ABC News’s World News Tonight on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s decision to halt U.S. funds for the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) “makes no sense” and announced an additional $150 million in funding for Chinese coronavirus relief efforts.

Microsoft released and then deleted an ad for its VR technology featuring Marina Abramović, the performance artist infamous for hosting a “spirit cooking” dinner at her house in 2015, to which Clinton campaign manager Tony Podesta and his brother were invited.

Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates stated in a recent interview that he thinks schools in the United States will be able to reopen in the fall but that the U.S. economy won’t magically return to how it was before the coronavirus pandemic.

During an interview that aired on Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates was asked to react to other efforts around the globe to take on coronavirus, particularly China, a country that proclaimed to have moved past the height of the pandemic.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has called for a nationwide shutdown in an effort to combat the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.

The philanthropic arm of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s empire, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, has reportedly committed to $25 million to a research fund that aims to identify and develop treatments for the Wuhan coronavirus.

The House coronavirus spending bill allows roughly 500,000 foreign college graduate visa-workers from China, India, and elsewhere to stay in their jobs, regardless of Americans’ job losses, according to a lobby group for H-1B workers.

Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and philanthropist, said in 2015 that not war but a highly infectious virus was the biggest threat to mankind.

Government officials should start releasing prisoners from jails to protect them from China’s coronavirus, says an activist for the tech industry’s FWD.us lobbying group. 

U.S. tech companies want to hire more skilled professionals, so the government should give green cards to foreigners who graduate from U.S. universities, says a report released Tuesday by FWD.us, an advocacy group for Mark Zuckerberg and other wealthy West Coast investors.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates wrote that the Covid-19 coronavirus is beginning to behave a lot like “the once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about.” His comments came in a February 28 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Florida Gov. Ron Desantis has scored a big — but partial — victory in Florida when a GOP-controlled committee approved a loopholed version of his mandatory E-Verify bill. 

A cheap foreign labor lobbying group for Big Tech billionaires like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates is now claiming that mandatory E-Verify in the state of Florida will spur a “self-inflicted recession” if passed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation released its annual letter Monday, announcing that “the climate crisis and gender equality” have emerged as priorities for their future philanthropic giving.

Billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates wants rich people, including himself and his wife, to pay more taxes as part of his New Year’s resolutions.

The presidents of more than 400 state and private universities have formed a quiet partnership with a top-level group of wealthy investors to help foreign graduates, even though the same alumni will take prestigious jobs from the American graduates of those institutions.

Wednesday at the New York Times’ DealBook conference in New York, Bill Gates, the second-richest person in the world, talked taxation and weighed in 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) proposal that billionaires pay more in taxes to help cover the cost of her Medicare-for-All plan.

Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates on Wednesday criticized 2020 White House hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) wealth tax proposal, stating that it left him doing “a little math about what I have leftover”.

Jeff Bezos is close to losing the title of richest person in the world to Bill Gates as Amazon shares continue to fall Friday after the company reported disappointing third-quarter results this week.

Hollywood celebrities and business leaders have carbon footprints up to 300 times bigger than the rest of us, a study reveals, pointing out the hypocrisy of those who promote climate change activism while refusing to set foot on a commercial flight.

While Bill Gates remains the most admired man, the former First Lady has usurped Angelina Jolie’s place as the world’s favorite woman.

A college-level writing teacher urges Common Core financier Bill Gates to “please, please” stay away from the world of higher education.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates celebrated proposed legislation which would advance the development of nuclear energy technology, Thursday.

Appearing at the SXSW conference Saturday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said people should be excited by the prospect of robots taking their jobs because it will afford them more time to pursue their creative passions.

Bill and Melinda Gates issued their annual letter on Tuesday, revealing global philanthropic accomplishments in the past year and outlining what they hoped to accomplish this year, including helping people understand “what it will take to stop climate change.”

The GOP establishment’s champion in the 2016 primaries, Jeb Bush, is praising President Donald Trump’s upgrade to the H-1B outsourcing program.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) called out Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for opposing a wall along the United States-Mexico border while she enjoys security and a fence around her home.

Mark Zuckerberg’s lobbyist in D.C. is declaring that Steve Jobs’ wife is publishing “veritably false garbage” about the political impact of cheap-labor immigration.

Contents: Bill and Melinda Gates take Pollyannaish view of Rwanda and rest of world; Bill and Melinda Gates’ programs for contraception availability; Concerns grow about an approaching global financial crisis; Today’s major news from Europe: Meghan Markle closes a car door

A ski resort frequented by billionaires like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates is being sued by a group of Jamaican nationals who were brought to the United States to take blue-collar seasonal jobs.