(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) LinkedIn’s leftist co-founder Reid Hoffman apparently thinks that Joe Biden deserves a second term in office.
According to recently published U.S. Federal Election Commission records, Hoffman donated $699,600 to the Biden Victory Fund on April 26, 2023.
The check apparently cleared a few days before the Wall Street Journal revealed that Hoffman, who has a history of backing Democrats, visited Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious Caribbean private island in 2014.
Like many movers and shakers who generally maintain that it was strictly business, Hoffman reportedly said he now regrets his association with the late convicted sex offender and financier, which he says was in connection a Massachusetts Institute of Technology fundraising effort.
Hoffman told the WSJ that he “relied on MIT’s endorsement” for the Epstein collaboration, but also that he was “sorry for my personal misjudgment.”
Later in 2014, Hoffman reportedly planned a return trip to the island, and from there, he and Epstein were set to fly to Boston. A visit to Epstein’s NYC townhouse may have also been on the itinerary.
“It’s unclear what the intent was for those planned trips,” Fox News reported on Monday.
Back in 2019, Hoffman asserted that his “last interaction with Epstein was in 2015. Still, by agreeing to participate in any fundraising activity where Epstein was present, I helped to repair his reputation and perpetuate injustice. For this, I am deeply regretful.”
The above-referenced meet-up was at a Silicon Valley dinner with tech moguls.
Hoffman visited the Biden White House five times in 2022 and reportedly donated $1.5 million to a 2020 pro-Biden political action committee as well as contributing directly to Biden’s campaign with a max donation.
Hoffman’s checkbook activism also reportedly included bankrolling E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and allegedly funding an online disinformation scheme against Judge Roy Moore, the GOP candidate who was running in the 2017 special election for U.S. Senate in Alabama.
Democrat Doug Jones narrowly won that election.
Hoffman, 55, who has an estimated net worth of about $2 billion, apologized after the fact for his involvement in the effort to tarnish Moore with make-believe Russian collusion.
Jeffrey Epstein supposedly committed suicide on Aug. 10, 2019, in a Manhattan lockup while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
In 2008, Epstein pled guilty in Florida to a state charge of procuring a minor for prostitution.
