A tech billionaire and dark-money Democratic donor who said he wished Donald Trump was an “actual martyr” days before the assassination attempt against him is now poised to bankroll Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, a source told The Post.
Reid Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn, clarified his claims the day after Trump was shot, saying he does not condone political violence of any kind.
He has known Harris for years and is set to pump millions of dollars into her White House campaign, according to sources.
“He wants to be the new George Soros who is pulling the strings” in the Democratic Party, said a political adviser who knows Hoffman, referring to the nonagenarian philanthropist and Democratic mega-donor.
“I wholeheartedly support Kamala Harris and her candidacy for President of the United States in our fight for democracy in November,” said Reid in a post on X Sunday, shortly after President Biden announced he would drop out of the race.
“Harris’s background and leadership growing the economy, fighting for bodily autonomy, and protecting our democracy uniquely position her to push back against Trump’s extremism,” he added.
Hoffman, 56, has donated to Democratic dark-money groups, including the Hopewell Fund, a nonprofit which is managed by Arabella Advisors, described as “a secretive dark money juggernaut” which spent more than $1 billion to propel Biden to the White House in 2020 by Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust.
Hoffman also traveled to Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean compound and made plans to stay at his Upper East Side mansion, six years after the billionaire pedophile was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution in Florida in 2008.
