This country needs to come together and dial down the heat. But some on the Left want nothing more than to make it as partisan as possible.
And this top Democrat donor made this disgusting comment about the Trump assassination attempt.
An adviser to prominent Democrat donor Reid Hoffman reportedly emailed journalists on Saturday night suggesting that former President Donald Trump might have staged his own assassination attempt.
According to emails obtained by Semafor, Dmitri Mehlhorn, a close adviser to Hoffman, suggested that Saturday’s events were “encouraged and maybe even staged” for publicity, adding, “This is a classic Putin play and given the facts seems more plausible.”
Mehlhorn, who advises Hoffman — the leftist LinkedIn founder known for bankrolling Democrat campaigns and funding anti-Trump law-fare — sent the email to what appeared to be sympathetic journalists. He suggested Trump might have orchestrated the shooting that left the former president wounded and one attendee dead.
Mehlhorn briefly acknowledged the possibility that “some crazy anti-Trumper” committed the violence before alleging Trump had staged it himself, likening the former president’s actions to tactics used by Russians and Hamas.
“The other 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 photos and benefit from the backlash,” Mehlhorn suggested. “This is a classic Russian tactic, such as when Putin k*lled 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 benefiting from the backlash include Hamas on October 7.”
Hoffman, Mehlhorn’s advisee, seemingly promoted violence against Trump during an exchange last Wednesday with PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel at the Allen & Company Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, as reported by Puck.
Thiel sarcastically thanked Hoffman for backing anti-Trump law-fare, noting it helped his campaign by “turning a clown into a martyr.”
“Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr,” Hoffman replied.
Hoffman later attempted to clarify his comments on X, stating his remarks expressed hope that Trump would “let himself be held accountable” for his “assaults on and lies about women,” referring to the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit, which Hoffman helped fund.
“Of course, I meant nothing about any sort of physical harm or violence, which I categorically deplore. I meant and mean accountability to the rule of law,” Hoffman wrote.
Nonetheless, Hoffman criticized Trump for not denouncing “political violence” enough.
“He should clearly indicate, which he never has, that political violence is evil and unacceptable – even if the perpetrators are trying to do it to benefit him,” Hoffman posted on X. “Instead of calling the January 6 insurrectionists ‘heroes’ whom he intends to pardon and even hire into government, he should speak out against political violence. When he warns against consequences of him losing the election, he should not predict a ‘bloodbath’ in a way that might incite future protesters to violence against his political opponents.”
Hoffman concluded with the obligatory remarks that he is “horrified and saddened by what happened” to Trump, and he’d like to “wish him a speedy recovery.”
Hoffman has a history of funding disinformation campaigns. According to The New York Times, he backed a false information campaign that used “Russian tactics” against Republican Roy Moore, an Alabama candidate for U.S. Senate.
After the 2016 election, Hoffman and Mehlhorn created the investment fund “Investing in US” to bankroll Left-wing groups, including American Engagement Technologies (AET), which received a total of $750,000 starting in 2017.
AET ran a $100,000 scheme that used Russian-style tactics to reduce Moore’s support, according to The New York Times. Operatives created a Facebook page, seemingly run by Alabamians, to split the Republican vote. Moore narrowly lost to Democrat Doug Jones, and Hoffman later apologized for his role in the scheme.
Hoffman also funded E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump, as noted in court documents cited by The New York Times. Carroll accused Trump of r*pe and sued him for defamation when he denied the allegations. Carroll declined to press criminal charges against Trump, claiming she “would find it disrespectful to the women who are down on the border who are being r*ped around the clock.”
The Hoffman-backed nonprofit American Future Republic provided funding for the lawsuit, according to Forbes. Carroll won $2 million for the alleged assault and $3 million for the alleged defamation in a civil trial.
Recently, Hoffman announced he is investing millions of dollars in the tabulator company Smartmatic to support the company’s lawsuit against Fox News and Newsmax for their coverage of 2020 election integrity concerns. In a statement to The Federalist, Fox said the suit attempts to “chill” the company’s free speech.
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