Warren Buffett said Tuesday he hasn’t spoken yet. microsoft Founder Bill Gates said “since everything has been revealed” including Jeffrey Epstein’s files.
“I haven’t talked to him at all since the whole story came out,” Buffett said on CNBC’s Becky Quick’s “Squawk Box.”
“I don’t want to be in a position where I’m called as a witness and know things,” he added.
Asked whether he and Gates were still good friends, Buffett spoke fondly of their personal relationship, including that he and Gates’ ex-wife, Melinda Gates, founded the Giving Pledge, an initiative that collects pledges from the world’s richest people to donate much of their wealth to philanthropic causes.
But Buffett added, referring to the Epstein-Gates scandal, “I don’t think there’s any point in talking about a lot of things until they’re resolved.”
“I don’t want to take an oath,” Buffett said in his first public comments about Gates since the release of the Epstein files.
Buffett spoke at length about notorious sex offender Epstein. His friendships with Gates and other celebrities have suffered in recent months after the release of the so-called Epstein files, which revealed details of their relationships.
“It’s amazing to me that someone can be so successful as a fraudster,” Buffett said.
“Men would prefer sex…and some of them would prefer not to pay taxes. And he understood their weakness,” Buffett said.
“That man was probably the greatest con artist of all time,” Buffett said. “He had a way of fooling everyone.”
He said Gates could have invited Epstein to New York to meet him, but luckily he didn’t.
“I asked him to thank me for not doing that,” Buffett said.
“But you can’t run away from what happened either.”
