Bill Gates, one of the founders of Microsoft and the sixth richest man in the world, with a fortune of $162 billion, has supported the vice president and Democratic candidate for the presidential elections on November 5, Kamala Harris, with a donation secret of 50 million dollars, as published this Tuesday The New York Times.
According to the New York media, Gates privately told three different sources that he recently made this donation to a nonprofit organization that supports Harris’ presidential candidacy. That contribution has not been made public.
“I support candidates who demonstrate a clear commitment to improving health care, reducing poverty, and combating climate change in the United States and around the world,” Gates said in a statement to The New York Times. “I have a long history of working with leaders across the political spectrum, but this election is different, with unprecedented importance for Americans and the most vulnerable people around the world,” he added.
Gates made his donation to Future Forward, the main outside fundraising group supporting Kamala Harris, according to the people briefed on the matter cited by the media. The billionaire has discussed his donation for Harris with colleagues, including Mike Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York and a leading supporter of Future Forward, who has considered making a similarly sized donation, according to two of the informed people. Gates’ donation went specifically to Future Forward’s nonprofit arm, Future Forward USA Action, whose legal status does not require it to disclose its donors, so any contributions from Gates will not have to appear in any public record. It is what is called “dirty money” in American electoral terminology.
Bill Gates’ donation is the latest known in a campaign in which billionaires have preferably taken sides with former President Donald Trump. Among the donations received by this are the 100 million given by Miriam Adelson, owner of the Las Vegas Sands empire and reference shareholder of the Dallas Mavericks, the NBA team, and the 75 million (until September) that Elon Musk had contributed , the richest man in the world, to his organization America PAC.