Reid Hoffman Faces Call to Resign from Microsoft Board after Trump ‘Martyr’ Remark

It’s not just the occupant in the White House who appears to be non compos mentis now quarantined with an alleged case of Covid – this week has been a rollercoaster of emotions because of bizarre events.

Former President Donald Trump – now the Republican Party Presidential nominee – was shot during an assasasination attempt Saturday while speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The shooting culminated months/years of histrionic rhetoric, with the left claiming that Trump is Hitler, a fascist, a would-be dictator, that he will personally take away women’s bodily autonomy and outlaw abortions, among other rabid claims.

Now, the New York Post reported that tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, said he wished Donald Trump was an “actual martyr” days before Saturday’s assassination attempt. Hoffman is now facing calls to resign his seat on Microsoft’s board of directors. “His place on the board was given as part of his $26 billion sale of LinkedIn to Microsoft in 2016,” the Post said.

This isn’t Hoffman’s first brush with controversy. Hoffman bankrolled E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Donald Trump over her claim that 30-years ago he sexually assaulted her in a dressing room in Bergdorf Goodman.

Hoffman has also funded civil lawsuits filed by the victims of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, according to a post on LinkedIn,” Forbes reported.

In March, the Globe reported an anti-Trump group backed by billionaires Reid Hoffman, Seth Klarman and John Pritzker launched a $50 million ad campaign to attack Trump. Featuring discontented Trump voters, “Republican Voters Against Trump” deliriously claimed, Trump “has praised our enemies like Vladimir Putin and intends to abandon our NATO allies and the Ukrainian people. He wants to install loyalists in his next administration who will ensure that he gets what he wants, no matter how unlawful. He now faces 91 felonies in four separate indictments for falsifying business records, mishandling classified documents, trying to overturn the 2020 election, and pressuring the Republican Georgia Secretary of State to ‘find him’ votes.”

The billionaires also spent more than $1.7 million to oppose JD Vance’s run for U.S. Senate. We know how that worked out.

But the question is why? It’s one thing to fund candidates that reflect one’s point of view. But quite another to spend millions on lawsuits unrelated to one’s own interests.

Some have speculated that the reason the billionaire is so interested in helping advance the goals of Democrats has to do with a much darker explanation: Hoffman’s connection to notorious serial sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein.

It’s widely known that the connection between Hoffman and Epstein was deep and longstanding. According to The Daily Mail, “Reid Hoffman visited Epstein’s ‘pedophile island’ AFTER Epstein’s conviction.” According to its 2023 reporting, “Billionaire Reid Hoffman visited disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean Island after he was convicted of sex crimes – asking the pedophile billionaire to help raise funds for MIT.”

According to published reports, Hoffman visited the island with MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito and had been asked by Ito to join Epstein in raising funds for the Media Lab. With Epstein eventually convicted for a second time and Ito forced to resign from the lab in disgrace, it’s even more notable that the third leg of that stool, Reid Hoffman, seems to have faced no consequences

Hoffman traveled to the island with Joi Ito, the then-MIT Media Lab director, who had asked Hoffman and Epstein to help raise funds for MIT.

“Last year, NLPC criticized Microsoft for allowing Hoffman to continue serving after the Wall Street Journal revealed he had visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island, Little Saint James, in 2014 and made plans to stay at the convicted billionaire pedophile’s Upper East Side townhouse,” the NY Post reported. “National Legal and Policy Center, a Virginia-based good government non-profit, sent a letter to the corporation demanding ‘a special meeting’ of the board to vote on his removal.”