1/🚨 Peter Thiel just called the Giving Pledge an "Epstein-adjacent, fake Boomer club."
Federal documents show he wasn't being provocative.
Epstein literally designed a business plan to help Bll Gates capture tens of billions of dollars of Giving Pledge money — in his own words, with Bates numbers.
Here's what the files show 🧵👇
2/💰 Feb 17, 2011. Epstein to JPMorgan — three months after the Giving Pledge launched:
"They all have a tax advisor, but have no real clue on how to give it away."
$60+ billion pledged. No mechanism to deliver it.
Epstein saw the gap. He intended to fill it. [EFTA00904740] justice.gov/epstein/files/…
3 / He told Gates directly what the vehicle was for:
"You can save taxes. A DAF with you is the pinnacle of their giving lives. The leverage is as great as increasing govt spending."
Not philanthropy. A theory of power — charity-sized impact with zero democratic accountability. [EFTA01003196] justice.gov/epstein/files/…
4/ By July 2011 he had market research.
Billionaires who publicly declined the Giving Pledge told Epstein privately:
"Most people who declined the Giving Pledge still wanted to give — but prefer to stay anonymous."
The DAF was the Giving Pledge for people who didn't want a paper trail. [EFTA01855436] justice.gov/epstein/files/…
5/ Meanwhile Epstein was circulating what Pledge signatories said about it behind closed doors:
"Many feel that they somewhat are used as PR examples of Bill's success in convincing them re philanthropy."
Thiel in 2026 = what the donors were saying to Epstein in 2013. [EFTA00652752] justice.gov/epstein/files/…
6/🔑 Then he calculated what the Pledge was worth as leverage.
July 2013 — same week he compiled the Gates affairs dossier:
"The damage done to the pledge program alone would result in billions of dollars of money no longer being used for social good."
He wasn't worried. He was itemizing what he held. [EFTA_R1_00448728] justice.gov/epstein/files/…
7/📋 The timeline:
2011 — Epstein designs the DAF to harvest Pledge capital
2013 — privately calls the Pledge "robes, chanting, secrecy oaths"
2013 — calculates Pledge damage as leverage [EFTA_R1_00448728]
2017 — still pitching the DAF to Reid Hoffman through Joi Ito
Every document is at justice.gov/epstein
Full investigation of Epstein/Gates role in the Giving Pledge 👇
sayerji.substack.com/p/billionaires…
All 16 parts of the investigation 👇
sayerji.substack.com/t/epstein-files
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