Serial Trump maligner Reid Hoffman, who visited Jeffrey Epstein‘s Pedophile Island, has whined in recent months that SpaceX/Tesla/X/Boring Company/Neuralink/DOGE CEO Elon Musk has besmirched his name.
The first noteworthy time was in Tucker Carlson’s interview with the tech billionaire last year, a month before the November election, in which Musk explained the reason why mega-rich supporters of Kamala Harris so eagerly and generously supported her campaign was because “if Trump wins, that Epstein client list is gonna become public … And some of those billionaires behind Kamala are terrified of that outcome.”
Musk also told Carlson that Hoffman was “terrified of a Trump victory” and “he’s certainly ideologically unaligned with Trump anyway, but I think he’s actually concerned about the Epstein situation… that the DOJ might actually move forward.”
E. Jean Carroll (NLPC video)
Other indicators that Hoffman has been desperate to stop President Trump include the fact that he donated heavily to a nonprofit organization that contributed $620,000 to a legal defense fund for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that created the debunked Steele dossier behind the Russian investigation hoax of the Trump administration. Through yet another nonprofit (or possibly the same one), Hoffman also paid the legal bills for Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll, who sued him for defamation over her allegations of rape against him going back to the 1990s. To set the stage for the lawsuit to be able to move forward – through yet another secretive nonprofit group backed by Hoffman – Carroll told CNN that she helped New York Democrats to pass a new law in 2022 to extend the statute of limitations for sexual assault civil lawsuits beyond 20 years, which enabled her to sue President Trump during a one-year window. And Hoffman also said last year, just days before the assassination attempt in Butler, Pa., that he wished he could have made Trump a real “martyr.”
Now Hoffman is back to whining again. In a podcast with the Wall Street Journal late last month, he answered a few questions from interviewer Tim Higgins about his relationship with former Paypal colleague Musk and what he has said about him:
Reid Hoffman: He’s spreading a lot of lies and disinformation about me. That makes it a little harder to have civil conversations….
Tim Higgins: I guess I ask, you were friends with him, I wonder if you consider yourself a friend of his anymore given how critical he has been on X in the past few months during this very political season, taking a lot of shots at you.
Reid Hoffman: Yeah. Look, I think he is spreading a lot of lies and disinformation about me. That makes it a little harder to have civil conversations.
Tim Higgins: I’ve read, and tell me if this is not correct, but you felt your safety was at jeopardy, that you had to personal security because of the attention you were getting on social media because of the comments he was making against you. I think he was suggesting you were at Jeffrey Epstein parties, which are things you’ve denied and he had no proof of.
Reid Hoffman: Yeah, exactly. So when people make slanderous accusations, other people start organizing and start sending me threats and leaving voicemail threats and everything else. So yeah, it’s a serious thing when you make these completely unfounded accusations of other people.
Hoffman, the Microsoft director whose resignation or removal we’ve called for the last couple of years, needs only look in the mirror to find an irresponsible, malicious actor spreading disinformation and stirring up threats against a political foe.
Meanwhile Hoffman’s grievances about Musk’s alleged lies, disinformation and slander about him did not deter the free-speech advocate owner of X. On Joe Rogan’s podcast over the weekend, Musk said, according to The Independent:
Midway through their three-hour-long chat, Rogan cited the criminal cases against Trump as part of a Democratic-led “lawfare” campaign to prevent him from running for office again. Musk, meanwhile, noted that Hoffman helped back columnist E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump, which found the president liable for sexual abuse and defamation.
“That lawsuit was funded by Reid Hoffman, who is a major Dem donor and also an Epstein client,” the DOGE chief alleged.
“The plot thickens!” Rogan responded. “J—- C—–, it’s just so blatant. It’s like so obvious. The SpaceX lawsuit, the Trump stuff, it’s just so obvious.”
With the conspiracy-peddling podcaster setting the stage, Musk then accused Hoffman of trying to keep Trump from returning to the White House in order to prevent FBI evidence against Epstein and possibly others from being made public.
“Known Epstein clients who are obviously extremely powerful – powerful politically and very wealthy – are Bill Gates, Bill Clinton and Reid Hoffman,” Musk alleged. “And some others, too. But those three.”
While a stunned-looking Rogan let out an exasperated sigh, Musk added: “Why was Reid Hoffman so intent on destroying Trump?”
After Rogan asked if “they were worried about the list coming out,” the X (formerly Twitter) owner flatly replied: “Yeah.”
As NLPC has stated before, Hoffman is a net liability as a board member for Microsoft. He’s tone-deaf, is incapable of recognizing his hypocrisy, and brings disgrace to one of the top three or four capitalized corporations in the world — one that is frequently engaged with the federal government in search of multi-billion-dollar contracts. Upon President Trump’s entry into the White House, for example, Hoffman was no longer able to serve on the advisory Defense Innovation Board and departed — not a positive development for Microsoft.
In contrast look at the approach other major tech executives have taken with the new administration. Last week Apple‘s Tim Cook — a former Trump political adversary — announced the company would spend $500 billion and create 20,000 new jobs in the U.S., “highlighting a plan to open a server-manufacturing site in Houston and to double its Advanced Manufacturing Fund, which was formed in 2017 to invest in U.S. manufacturing projects, to $10 billion,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
If Hoffman genuinely thinks he’s been slandered by Musk, he should be as aggressive suing him as he has in his Trump derangement obsession. Clearly Musk is unafraid of such a possibility. That should speak volumes.
Meanwhile other tech elites like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos have ingratiated themselves with the Trump administration and can expect at least four years of peace and cooperation, compared to the previous eight at least.
Hoffman doesn’t get it and would rather stew in his petulance. Maybe there is indeed something else behind his irrational conduct.
