Warren Buffett on Bill Gates and Jeffery Epstein

Warren Buffett called Bill Gates’ association with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as “distasteful” after the Berkshire Hathaway chairman excluded the Gates Foundation from his sizable annual charitable donations.

“I read a great deal since January 1 in terms of what happened, with Bill and Epstein,” Buffett said in an interview with CNBC’s Becky Quick. “While it’s distasteful, while he made mistakes, I made mistakes, hiring all kinds of people, or choosing friends, and then finding out later that, one way or other, they weren’t what I thought they were. I found nothing in there that was beyond what I could picture myself doing.”