Early last year, Bill Gates embarked on a book tour to promote his memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings. It was an awkward moment for the billionaire philanthropist. Months earlier, Gates had made a poorly timed political bet, donating $50 million to a group supporting Kamala Harris. He was now watching Donald Trump elevate some of the fiercest Gates critics to positions of power.
To lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Trump picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who’d spuriously claimed that Gates was implanting harmful microchips under the guise of vaccine campaigns. Elon Musk, ...
