If you haven’t caught up to why Elon Musk, tech billionaire and the man behind the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), accused a fellow tech founder of all kinds of nefarious business and personal practices, come a little closer and we’ll explain.
Recently on an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Musk alleged that Reed Hoffman, creator of LinkedIn, was behind bankrolling pre-election lawsuits against Donald Trump, bankrolled astro-turfed protests against Tesla through his big donations to ActBlue, and was involved with Jeffrey Epstein.
This is how that part of the interview went.
During the interview, Rogan and Musk commiserated over the lawfare run against Trump before the election.
Rogan It’s terrifying that they could do to a guy so brazenly to a guy who was the president for four years.
Musk: That lawsuit was funded by Reid Hoffman, a Dem donor, and also an Epstein client. The plot thickens.
Rogan: It’s so blatant. It’s so obvious. The SpaceX lawsuit, the Trump stuff, it’s so obvious.
Musk: Known Epstein clients who are obviously extremely powerful—they’re powerful politically and very wealthy—are Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and Reed Hoffman. And some others, too. But those three—so, why was Reed Hoffman so intent on destroying Trump?
Rogan: Do you think it’s because they’re worried about the list coming out?
Musk: Yeah. One of the reasons, yeah.
Rogan: It’s so frustrating to be a situation where the list isn’t coming out…
Musk: Maybe it’ll come out tomorrow.
Rogan: Well, then why did they release bullsh*t today?
Musk: I don’t know.
Rogan: Well, what’s the point of handing these people a happy folder to wave around in front of the camera when nothing in it is new? It doesn’t make any sense. It’s not encouraging.
Musk: Like I said, the tough thing they’ve got is they’ve been made captain of a ship with a hostile crew. So, it’s not like you’ve got magical powers. You’re made captain of a hostile crew, but you still have a hostile crew. They’ve got to bring in people who are helpful rather than obstructionist.
One case against Trump was obviously a patchwork, some would say fraudulently constructed, judge-shopped effort. Indeed, in the E. Jean Carroll case, the New York state legislative Democrats passed a bespoke, temporary law they called the New York Adult Survivors Act, which momentarily lifted the statute of limitations on sexual assault cases (though decades old), long enough for Hoffman’s bought and paid for defamation Carroll v Trump to be slid into the court process (P. Diddy victims used this opening as well).
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