UPDATE JULY 15, 2024 8:50 A.M. ET: Reid Hoffman’s top strategy advisor Dmitri Mehlhorn has apologized for suggesting the assassination attempt of President Trump was “staged,” according to a statement he provided to Fox Business. He wrote:
Last night, I sent an email I now regret. It was drafted and sent without consultation from team members or allies. I have apologized to them directly. I also want to apologize publicly, without reservation, for allowing my words to distract from last night’s central fact: political violence took yet another innocent American life last night. We must unite in condemnation of such violence in every instance, without reservation. Any other topic is a distraction. I am grateful that those injured last night appear to be on the path to full recovery. Again, I apologize, and wish I had reacted as thoughtfully as Reid Hoffman this morning.
Clearly Mehlhorn can’t bring himself to apologize to President Trump by name.
As for Hoffman, he often “apologizes” for various political activities in which he engages and/or funds — only to initiate more underhanded shenanigans again and again.
ORIGINAL POST: On the heels of a report last week that billionaire Reid Hoffman wished that President Trump had become an “actual martyr,” comes even more disturbing information from Semafor.
Just over an hour after Trump was shot on Saturday, Hoffman’s top political advisor, Dmitri Mehlhorn, urged reporters to consider whether the incident was “encouraged or even staged” by Trump. Mehlhorn wrote:
This is a classic Russian tactic, such as when Putin killed 300 civilians in 1999 and blamed it on terrorists to ride the backlash to winning power. Others who have embraced this tactic of committing raw evil and then benefitting from the backlash include Hamas on Oct. 7. If any Trump officials encouraged or knew of this attack, that is morally horrific, and Republicans of decency must demand that Trump step down as unfit.
From the Daily Signal:
…after the attempt Saturday evening to kill Trump, the National Legal and Policy Center on Sunday called on Hoffman to resign his seat on the board of directors of Microsoft Corp. or be removed by the board.
NLPC also called for Hoffman to be removed from the Defense Innovation Board, a body organized under federal law to recommend technological modernization for the military. That panel is chaired by businessman Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor and presidential candidate.
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