Posted on 07/14/2024 11:54:07 AM PDT by thegagline
The top political adviser to Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman suggested that the attack on Donald Trump could have been “staged,” even as Hoffman was criticized for joking before Saturday’s attack about Trump becoming a “martyr.”
Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, whose net worth is reportedly $2.5 billion, joked at last week’s billionaire confab in Sun Valley that he wished he had made Trump “an actual martyr.” Sunday, he said on X that he was referring to “accountability to the rule of law” and that he’s “horrified and saddened” by the attack.
The scale of Hoffman’s political donations isn’t public but the political adviser, Dmitri Mehlhorn, said on a recent private conference call that “Reed and I have invested nine figures of our own money to prevent Trump from getting back into office.” (The money appears to be largely Hoffman’s.)
In an email Saturday at 7:34 pm that appeared to be addressed to sympathetic journalists, and which was also sent to Semafor, Mehlhorn wrote that one “possibility -- which feels horrific and alien and absurd in America, but is quite common globally -- is that this ‘shooting’ was encouraged and maybe even staged so Trump could get the photos and benefit from the backlash. 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 October 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.”
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Get off LinkedIn
I’m gonna guess it’s some vacation island they all love.
I never liked LINKEDIN. Now I know why.
Good one!
Apostate members of the tribe.
Right. I would pose for a 20 year old kid to graze my ear at 135 yards with a 5.56mm rifle. These people have seen too many Clint Eastwood movies with no input of reality. When I was in law enforcement, a friend of mine killed a man who came at him with a knife. A newspaper reporter, with a straight face, asked why the officer didn’t shoot it out of his hand. Morons.
Another statement by Biden coming——his third in a row.
Jill is paranoid Joe is being upstaged by the Trump assassination attempt. She wants him out there.
And she’s right—the buzz is getting louder that desperate
Dems———failing at lawfare—— are getting the blame for the shooting.
They wouldn’t do it if it didn’t work.
People need to remember how gullible and stupid people are en masse in America.
I don’t make the rules. It’s just a fact.
They are trying to hold on to their bottom feeders.
The top political adviser to Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman suggested that the attack on Donald Trump could have been “staged,”
not their analysis.
Canceled mine. Gave Hoffman as the reason.
Liberals want to believe the lies.
I realized when LinkedIn first came out, that the people who were most enthusiastic about it were all people I considered to be arseholes.
Reid Hoffman was Nikki Haley’s major donor.
He also bank rolled crazy E. Jean Carroll and her lies.
Isn’t this the same thing they sued Alex Jones for and the courts sided with the victims families?
I hope names are being taken and lawyers will be contacted.
Reid Hoffman is from a prominent old Presbyterian family.
The usual paranoids mistake his Germman surname for Jewish.
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