Nicholas Kristof (Facebook), R: Bill Gates (Tom Brenner/Getty Images) New York Times opinion writer Nicholas Kristof wrote columns promoting the embattled tech mogul Bill Gates at the same time he was denouncing Jeffrey Epstein for sexually exploiting women. Curiously, those columns never dinged Gates—who happens to be a donor to Kristof’s failed Oregon gubernatorial bid—for his ties to the disgraced sex pest, a Free Beacon review found. Kristof “appears to have played a key role in an elaborate effort by Gates’s advisers to burnish his reputation as a gentle, Mr. Rogers-like benefactor, rather than a philanderer socializing with a convicted sex offender,” our Adam Kredo writes. “In at least seven separate columns since 2019—after Gates’s relationship with Epstein was revealed in the Times’s own news pages—Kristof has touted Gates as a prescient and prudent humanitarian whose philanthropic work is protecting the globe from pandemics and poverty.” At the same time, he condemned “powerful associates of Epstein’s for their indifference to young girls being sexually assaulted” but did not mention Gates, whose personal relationship with Epstein was close enough that Epstein tried to leverage information on Gates’s “infidelities” to “pressure me to re-engage with him,” as Gates recently testified to Congress. Kristof in two separate columns even lavished praise on Gates’s marriage, which went down in flames in 2021, partly over Bill Gates’s relationship to Epstein, marveling at how Bill and Melinda’s “pillow talk” (ew) consisted of chit-chat about how to save lives. “Bill and Melinda Gates gave a combined $100,000 to Kristof’s abortive 2022 Oregon gubernatorial campaign, gifts Kristof did not acknowledge in his columns praising the former couple,” writes Kredo. “The Times has now pledged to investigate the issue in the wake of a report from Semafor. “In the years since his short-lived gubernatorial campaign—he was disqualified for failing to meet Oregon residency requirements—Kristof has repeatedly featured Gates in his columns, often approvingly citing statistics published by his nonprofit group, the Gates Foundation (formerly named the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation prior to the couple’s divorce).” Kristof also heralded the Gates Foundation’s work in his 2015 book, A Path Appears, claiming that the foundation’s “investments save lives at a cost of $2,000 each” and that “Gates’s most important legacy may well be not software, but the conquest of disease and hunger around the world.” READ MORE: Nicholas Kristof Used Times Column, Books To Promote Bill Gates and Denounce Sex Trafficking—But Never Mentioned Gates’s Close Ties to Jeffrey Epstein Additional reading: Match made in hell: An “ultra-luxury” drug and alcohol rehab center nestled in the Hollywood Hills, Peak Path Health, hired former first son and recovering crackhead Hunter Biden as an adviser and executive director of its charitable foundation, it announced in a little-noticed press release. Peak Path Health touted Biden’s “lived experience and professional insight.” The gig may help the convicted felon pay off millions of dollars’ worth of legal bills and other debt. Left-wing Texas Senate candidate James Talarico—who has decried big money in politics but is benefiting from millions of dollars in ad spending by a super PAC run by his personal friend—“attended at least four Bay Area fundraisers with prominent Democratic Party donors with ties to the tech industry in mid-April,” Politico reported. The fundraisers came a month after Talarico said in a primary night victory speech, “We already know who we’re running against: the billionaire megadonors and their corrupt political system.” A liberal New York political club declined to endorse the Zohran Mamdani-backed candidate for New York’s 13th Congressional District, socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier, following a “spirited meeting” in which Chevalier refused to condemn Hamas. “We usually support the younger, more progressive candidate,” Broadway Democrats wrote in its Thursday newsletter. “But we cannot do this in the 13th District Congressional race, and it is not a close call. That is because … at our own endorsement meeting, when asked to condemn Hamas and its October 7th attacks, [Chevalier] point-blank refused, turning the question into yet another attack on Israel.” The Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission is suing the nation’s leading “scientific” advocate for transgender surgeries for minors, WPATH, for deceptively claiming that sex-change procedures are “medically necessary” in an attempt to get insurance providers to pay for them. “For decades, the FTC has taken action against entities that make deceptive and unsubstantiated health-related claims,” said FTC chair Andrew Ferguson. “The complaint filed today reflects that same long-standing mandate: when an entity makes a claim about a medical treatment, the claim must be truthful, evidence-based and not misleading.” Check out our full Thursday lineup below. Did Iran Just Get the Better of Us? Notorious, China-Based American Mogul Is Running Shadowy Influence Campaign to Undermine U.S. AI Efforts, Give Communist China an Edge in Technology Arms Race Nicholas Kristof Used Times Column, Books To Promote Bill Gates and Denounce Sex Trafficking—But Never Mentioned Gates’s Close Ties to Jeffrey Epstein The Audacity: Obama Slams America’s Fixation on Wealth and Fame Ahead of Star-Studded Launch Party for $850M Shrine to Himself Hunter Biden, $17 Million in Debt, Is Hired by ‘Ultra-Luxury’ Drug Rehab Clinic for ‘High-Achieving’ Professionals ‘Not a Close Call’: Left-Wing Group Declines To Endorse Socialist in Tight House Race Over ‘Point-Blank’ Refusal To Condemn Hamas Slumlord Fined for Roach-Infested Apartments Is Major Donor to Socialist House Candidate Claire Valdez: Donor Also Pleaded Guilty To Bilking Immigrant Laborers Thanks for reading the Washington Free Beacon! Subscribe for free to receive new posts.