Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Yesterday,
when we were talking about how Jeffrey Epstein tried to
get his tentacles into Donald Trump's campaign in twenty sixteen,
we were also talking about a man named Reid Hoffman. Well,
today that's who we're going to talk about a little
bit more at length. Considering this dude visited Epstein's island
and then poured thousands of dollars into the Democratic Senate race.
I mean, how many more examples do we need that
both sides are absolutely corrupt and the fact that a
guy like Reid Hoffman, who was obviously close to Epstein,
is still able to just slide around without any real
questions is bananas. And then you wonder why I say
the whole entire political class is bought and paid for, Well,
here it is. A guy like Reid Hoffman has no
business donating seven hundred thousand dollars to Biden's reelection effort
or to end any of these Senate campaign races, you know,
like Epstein himself did with Stacy Plaskett. This article is
authored by Jessica Chasmar, the Democrat tech billionaire who helped
rehab Jeffrey Epstein's image and visited his island. Has poured
thousands in donations into several vulnerable senate races across the country.
You know, you talk about demons, people talk about the
wef or all this other nonsense that really doesn't affect
our lives. You know what really affects our lives people
like Greed Hoffman, people in the financial sector who are
literally guiding the course of our future with their donations
to these politicians. Do you think they just give this
money up and then they're like, oh, you know what,
I don't expect any favors for it. Or do you
think that this money buys them entry into the senator's office.
LinkedIn co founder Reid Hoffman recently gave the maximum donations
of sixty six hundred each to the campaigns of Senator
John Tester Montana, Jackie Rosen Nevada, and Bob Casey in Pennsylvania,
according to Federal Election Commission records. And I'll be reaching
out to Jackie Rosen later on today to see if
she's going to return Jeffrey Epstein's buddy's money. We'll see
what she has to say. All three races are considered
battlegrounds going into election day twenty twenty four And now, look,
if he wants to donate money, fine, But the fact
is people need to be aware that Reid Hoffman was
somebody that was certainly in Epstein's circle, somebody who had
been to the island, somebody who broke bread with Epstein,
and somebody who was playing a part in Epstein's gigantic wheel.
News of the donations came after The Wall Street Journal
reported in May that Hoffman visited Epstein's private Caribbean island
called Little Saint James, part of the US Virgin Islands
on at least one occasion in twenty fourteen. Hoffman and
the now deceased convicted pedophile were planning to return to
the island in November of twenty fourteen and then travel
to Boston. The report said, So not just showing up
for dinner. They're gonna travel together. Yeah, let's go to
the island, then we'll go to Boston. Well, what were
you guys doing? How many massages did you get? Read Hoffman.
It's unclear what the intent was for those planned trips,
but the report also revealed Hoffman was planning to stay
at Epstein's luxury Manhattan townhouse in December of twenty fourteen,
after a late arrival in New York City. Oh, isn't
that nice? After Epstein was already a sexual offender. Mister
big shot money bags, who's dumping a bunch of dough
into the Democratic Party. Ah, he thought it would be
a good idea to go have a sleepover. And I'm
sure that they were just discussing, you know, the local news.
I'm sure nothing was going on that was untowards. I'm
sure there were no massages being given. Hoffman also sent
the maximum sixty six hundred dollars donation on June fourteenth
to the campaign of California Democrat Will Rollins, who is
again trying to grab a congressional seat after a narrow
loss during the twenty twenty two elections, Fox News Digital
reported on Tuesday. Fox News Digital also reported this week
that the Biden Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee authorized
by the Biden campaign, received a whopping six hundred and
ninety nine thousand, six hundred dollars donation from Hoffman on
April twenty sixth, and a maximum donation of sixty six
hundred went directly to Biden's campaign. Yesterday we were talking
about Glenn Dubin giving money to Vivid Ramaswami, and now
on the flip side, we see the same people giving
money to the Democrats. And you wonder why I say
they're all in on it, And you wonder why I
say you shouldn't be cheering for any of these politicians
or certainly arguing with your love ones about it, because
they don't care about you. They're both getting money from Epstein.
None of them did anything about it, and anybody who
says any different is a liar. Show me the proof
that you did something about it while you were in power.
None of them did. Oh, they all found a way
to take money from him, though right. Hoffman recently made
headlines after Biden attended a fundraiser the billionaire hosted on
behalf of the Biden Victory Fund at the private residence
of Shannon Hunt Scott and Kevin Scott in Los Gatos, California.
Hoffman told the journal in May it gnaws Adam that
his association with Epstein helped his reputation and thus delayed
justice for his survivors. My last interaction with Epstein was
in twenty fifteen. Still, by agreeing to participate in any
fundraising activity where Epstein was present, I helped to repair
his reputation and perpetuate in justice. Hoffman said in twenty
nineteen for this, I am deeply regretful. And you know
the truth. The truth is this, guys like Reid Hoffman,
Leon Black and the rest of them, they're the reason
we didn't see Rico here. All your favorite politicians that
you love so much. They could have forced the issue.
They could have made the DOJ play ball. Did anybody
do it? And if they did, they would have found
that all of these people that were paling around with
egg Dick himself, they all had financial dealings with him
as well. So if Epstein was making his money from
ill gotten games and there was a Rico charge, everybody
who was involved with him financially would be hit with
the same charges. Now we can't have that, can we
Who would pay the bills for the politicians if their
banker buddy's got in trouble. The twenty fifteen interaction was
when he invited Epstein to a Silicon Valley dinner with
tech industry leaders after he was already convicted of sexual
crimes in September that same year, Hoffman attended a state
dinner hosted by then Vice President Biden at the White
House in honor of Chinese President Jijinping. Fox News Digital
has previously reported that Hoffman's money also goes into non
traditional groups that aren't mandated to reporting their funding and
often operate in the shadows. He was forced to issue
an apology in twenty eighteen for funding a group that
falsely tried to give the impression that the Russian government
was supporting Alabama Republican Roy Moore in a twenty seventeen
special Senate election. So just your usual typical scumbag, has
no idea about what's going on really, but knows that
he has a lot of money, and hell, why not
try and get things shaded in the direction I want
them shaded in. Meanwhile, while he's interfering in our elections,
he's also breaking bread with Jeffrey Epstein. Why the hell
would President Biden take money from this guy? Does anybody
plan on asking junior Soprano Biden if he's going to
give this money back or are we just going to
shrug our shoulders and be like, ah, you know what,
it's not alex Acostas, So let's move on. Biden has
benefited from Hoffmann's lavish spending on campaign contributions, donating one
and a half million dollars to a superpack that supported
Biden's candidacy in the twenty twenty elections, as well as
the maximum individual dollar amount allowed to Biden's campaign according
to FEC records. Dudes out here throwing money at all
kinds of politicians, And again I ask you, do you
think he's doing that because he's a kind man and
just wants to give him some money, or do you
think he's doing that because he wants something on the
back end from them. He expects something on the flip side,
whether that's regulations that help his companies or whatever it is.
Please don't be a naive and think that these people
are just so politically motivated that they want to donate
millions in millions of dollars. Once they start donating that money,
the people they are donating that money too, understand exactly
where the money's coming from. And now they understand that
that person, whether it's Reid Hoffman or whoever else, well
they need access to you now or that money's gonna
dry up and if you don't have that kind of money,
you don't have that kind of backing, you are not
gonna win office in America because it's all a fucking
scam these days, folks, It's all a scam. It's not
about your neighbor going to DC to argue what's best
for the community. It's about some lawyer, some doctor going
to DC so they can increase their wealth and get richer.
So please pass me by when you're gaslighting and talking
about how any of these politicians are or de care
about us, because I do not believe it. And you
know the proof of that is my forty three years
on this earth watching them move. Such spending can come
with certain perks, such as access. According to White House visitors,
Hoffman visited the White House five times last year. Remember
Epstein visited Bill Clinton over seventeen times while he was
in the White House. I'm sure that was just because
Clinton loved Epstein's company, right, had nothing to do with
what Jeffy boy was bringing to the table. One visit
appears to have been for the state dinner with French
President Emmanuel Macron. The other four trips were for meetings
with Madeline Strasser, who at the time was an advisor
to the White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Kimberly Lang,
who at the time was the executive assistant to Biden's
National security advisor, and Jordan Finkelstein, a special assistant to
Biden and chief of staff to the President's senior advisor.
Hoffman and the campaigns for Tester, Rosen and Casey did
not respond to Fox News Digital requests for comment. Oh,
of course they didn't. But if it was alex Acosta,
the legacy media would be a buzz. The bad news
for them, meaning the legacy media and these people who
are trying to craft narratives, is we're not gonna play ball.
We're gonna follow the evidence and we're gonna follow the truth.
And the truth is none of these scumbags on either
side of the aisle give one single damn about you.
How much more evidence do you need? All right, folks,
that's gonna do it for this one. All of the
information that goes with this episode can be found in
the description box. What's up everyone, and welcome back to
the Epstein Chronicles. One thing that we know is that
all of the so called elite, basically we're in bed
with Jeffrey Epstein at the very least, they were breaking
bread with them. And that goes for Reid Hoffman as well. Now,
Reid Hoffman is one of these big shots in Silicon Valley,
another one of these gigantic bundlers too politicians, but at
the same time was somebody that was very close to
Jeffrey Epps and who even went to the island in
twenty fifteen. Now, there are no allegations that have been
made public of reid Hoffman taking part in the abuse himself,
but the fact that he was hanging out with Epstein,
the fact that he was on the island with Epstein,
and the fact that he was doing all these other
activities with Epstein should really raise some eyebrows. And thankfully
for the shareholders at Microsoft, it started to raise those
eyebrows a bit. And now you have people who are
demanding that Reid Hoffman get booted off the board of directors.
So let's dive into this article and let's see what
news direct has for us. Headlined shareholder urges Microsoft to
boot Jeffrey Epstein Palell from board of directors. The author
of this article is news direct staff. In a letter
to the lead independent director for Microsoft Corporation National Legal
and Policy Center, has asked for the removal of billionaire
Reid Hoffman from the company's board of directors due to
his hyperpartisan political activities and his connections to the late
convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, whose private island Hoffman visited in
twenty fourteen. This should be a problem for people that
take money from Reid Hoffman, but it won't be, you
know why, because the legacy media refuses to dig in
and really a report on it. This guy was bundling
all sorts of money to all sorts of politicians. How
much money did this guy give to Joe Biden? How
much money did he give to insert politician here? But
Jeffrey Epstein's funk isn't going to be on this dude.
Why not because his politics might align with yours. And
what's so disgusting about all of that, honestly, is that
during the last administration, you had a whole bunch of
people that were demanding accountability from a whole lot of
other people. Now that the roles are reversed and their
team is in office, that accountability is right out the window. Oh,
there's no more accountability. It's all about holding on to power.
It's all about making sure our guy gets elected. Meanwhile,
Jeffrey Epstein's survivors continue to get stepped on. How do
you think it feels to wake up, look at the
news and see a guy like Reid Hoffman who was
paling around with Epstein, who the survivors saw on the island,
and now they hear that he's a gigantic bundler for
insert politician here, that he's donating a bunch of money
to insert cause here. I'm sure that makes them feel great,
and maybe as a nightcap they can watch Prince Andrew
being welcomed back to the Royal family. NLPC owns stock
and Microsoft, and is also sponsoring a shareholder proposal at
this year's annual meeting, which will be held on December seventh,
twenty twenty three. LinkedIn, which was co founded by Hoffman,
was acquired by Microsoft in December of twenty sixteen. He
joined Microsoft's board in March of twenty seventeen. So yeah,
this guy should go. There's no doubt that Ried Hoffman
should be forced off the board. They're not going to
do it though. They don't have that kind of courage,
and there's not that kind of cry from the media.
Imagine the outcry if alex Acosta joined one of these boards.
It would be insane, right. But nah, Reid Hoffman, no
big deal. Who cares that he was in bed with Epstein?
Who cares that he gave Epstein a bunch of money?
Not like he's ever going to be held accountable. I mean,
look at Bill Clinton, look at Hillary Clinton. Have either
of them been held accountable for their time with Jeffrey Epstein.
The answer is no, And the answer is they're never
going to be held accountable. As nlpc's Paul Chesser wrote
in his letter to the company's top independent director, Sandra Peterson,
Hoffman has shown poor discernment in his associations, poor judgment
in his political and social actions, and utter disregard for
Microsoft's reputation and shareholder value. And if you recall, we
saw a similar thing happen over at Barclay's Edward Brampson
went on an absolute warpath to get rid of Jess.
He eventually was successful as well. So if I was
Reid Hoffman, I wouldn't be too confident that this is
a nothing burger and it's all just gonna blow over,
because when somebody who holds a lot of shares of
a company starts wild and out, it causes some issues,
and you better believe the people in the boardroom start
paying attention. Reid Hoffman's wealth and arrogance have clearly gone
to his head, and he appears to think he doesn't
have to be accountable to anyone, said Chesser, who is
director of nlpc's Corporate Integrity Project CIP. Whether it's visiting
Pedophile Island with Jeffrey Epstein, or calling the likely twenty
twenty four Republican presidential nominee the disease President, or simply
advising aspiring entrepreneurs to ignore your customers. Hoffman obviously would
rather satiate his sensual impulses than properly oversee the fiduciary
responsibilities of a major technolology company, said Luke Purlott, Associate
director and chief researcher for the CIP. Some pretty heavily
charged stuff. And look, if you have a bunch of
money invested somewhere, do you want somebody out here playing games,
running around like an activist. If I wanted to join
a group of activist investors, that's what I would do
when you're joining Microsoft. That's not what you're looking for.
You're looking for a solid company that's going to handle
their business and you're going to get a ton of
return on your investment. Save all the other stuff for
somebody else. In the heavily footnoted letter to Microsoft, NLPC
pointed out three major reasons that make Hoffman unsuitable for
the board. His close association with Epstein, his unrestrained hyperpartisan
political urges, and his hypocritical views regarding civic participation and
his own companies censorship practices. And I'm sure that there's
some political animis here with NLPC, but the fact rem
that Jeffrey Epstein's buddy, Reid Hoffman shouldn't be on the
Microsoft board. And I don't care what his political affiliations are.
Save that for all the other people that want to
tear this country apart at its very seams, I won't
take part in it. And that's because I know the
whole entire thing is a big ass hustle. The whole
entire thing is meant to divert your attention from the
bullshit that they're up to. And it's sad to see
how many people have fallen for it hook line and sinker.
And you know now that we're going into the election
year that the bullshit is gonna be piled on thick.
They're going to be promising you the whole entire world.
But keep in mind, how many of them ever fulfill
those promises. The answer is, according to Axios, mister Hoffman
and mister Epstein both aggressively fundraised for the MIT Media Lab,
and mister Hoffman also inviting mister Epstein to join them
at in August twenty fifteen dinner in Silicon Valley that
included tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Peter Thiel.
You know, the thing with Elon Musk that cracks me
up is, all of a sudden, he's some kind of
hero for people, some kind of guy that should be,
you know, looked at as some sort of role model.
Bro's out here hanging out with Glenn Maxwell, paling around
with Jeffrey Epstein and god knows how many other undesirables.
So yeah, if you want to worship them, that's fine,
but me no thanks. In an email to mister Thiel,
according to The Wall Street Journal, Hoffman wrote that Epstein
was a mostly fun, very interesting guy. You may find
him perverse, but very smart on biology, computation, and macroeconomics.
And because of that, it's okay that he's perverse. It's
okay that he's a molester, that he's a human trafficker,
because you know, he likes to have some decent conversations.
Mister Hoffman's extremely poor judgment leaves many unanswered questions. Recognizing
mister Epstein as perverse, how did mister Hoffman justify ongoing
collaboration with the convicted pedophile who maintained his own luxury
island to traffic underage girls to fulfill the sexual desires
of himself and his associates. How could a highly educated, savvy,
and instinctive tech billionaire agree to visit such a place
with such a person with such a detestable reputation unless
it was intentional showing utter disregard for his own image
and that of the business and organizations with which he
is identified. That is pretty much the long and short
of it. This man knew what he was doing, just
like the rest of them. All of the nonsense of
I had no idea who Epstein was. I had no
idea what he was doing. I don't buy any of that,
and all the people that are pitching that to us,
they really think we're stupid. But the jokes on them,
because we're not going away. We're going to continue to
beat the drum of justice from every damn mountaintop that
I can get my feet on. Motiv Ai, another firm
credited with backing from billionaire LinkedIn chairman Reed Hoffman, ran
at through associated limited liability companies that featured offensive content
and disinformation. Facebook pages with motive Ai associations made sexist
comments about former Congresswoman Tulcy Gabbard and Republican mega donor
Rebecca Mercer. One such page called Gabbard a CWILF, which
stands for Congresswoman. I'd like to f well, that's NICEA
Mister Hoffman could easily advocate for LinkedIn to remain open
for all reasoned political debate, but there is no evidence
that he does. In fact, his own history indicates that
he encourages such snubs. As a self styled expert on
venture capital funded startups, mister Hoffman recommends one counterintuitive business
practice for an alleged path to success, ignore your customers.
Is this an image that Microsoft wishes to project. NLPC
called for Peterson to ask for Hoffman's resign and if
he refuses to do so, then to seek his removal.
Hoffman is listed as a nominee for reelection to the
board on the company's proxy statement. Reid Hoffman has been
very successful in business. Buddy has shown very poor judgment,
said Peter Flaherty, chairman of NLPC. Wealth should not be
an exemption from decent behavior. Microsoft will be a better
company when Hoffman leaves the board. Well, there's that they
didn't mince any words about how they feel and guess what,
I'm on board. Reid Hoffman should step down and he
shouldn't have anything to do with Microsoft. The sad truth is, though,
that will never happen, and people like Reid Hoffman, people
who help Jeffrey Epstein along the way by enabling him
and by helping him to refurbish his image, are never
going to be held accountable. And that's because you have
a legacy media that's complicit. All of the information that
goes with this episode, including my contact information, can be
found in the description box QUI Lucky Lan. What's up everyone,
and welcome to another episode of the Epstein chronicles. In
this episode, we have a quick article from Business Insider
talking about Reid Hoffman, and as soon as we finished
the article up right after it, I'll have a few
closing statements about what I think about this article and
read Hoffman himself. So let's get right to it. Like
I said, this article was published by a Business Insider
and the headline LinkedIn co founder Reid Hoffman says he
learned a lesson from a visit to Epstein's island. Note
to self, Google before going Yeah, we all believe that, buddy.
This article was authored by Alice Takotski, LinkedIn co founder
read Hoffman said he wishes he'd known a little more
before agreeing to spend the night on Jeffrey Epstein's island.
A little bit different than just showing up to the island, right,
spending the night and you've nothing creepy about what was
going on? Huh okay. On the December first episode of
Eric Newcomers podcast, Hoffman said that he visited the island
as part of his fundraising work for the MIT Foundation
and was told the visit would make Epstein more likely
to donate to MIT. Bro, you have so much money.
Why do you need Epstein to donate? And this is
the excuse they use. And I said I'd talk about
it afterwards, but this is ridiculous, So we have to
talk about it now and then I'll give you my
closing monologue as well, because this is ridiculous. I mean,
does this guy really think we're stupid? He was just
on this island. He didn't explore, he didn't go and
check anything out. He didn't hear anything, he didn't see anything.
He knows nothing. Okay, note to self google before going.
Hoffman said on the podcast, he said he stayed on
the island for one night and that there was a pool,
a bunch of guest rooms and a courtyard and no women. Huh.
No Nadia Marsenkova, no Sarah Kellen, no Virginia, no unnamed
girl from Eastern Europe. I call bullshit. I don't believe
that for a second. Hoffman has maintained that he only
interacted with Epstein, who's twenty nineteen death while awaiting trial
on sex trafficking charges was ruled to suicide, through his
work fundraising for the MIT Media Lab. On the Newcomer podcast,
he called Epstein a masterful networker and were called to
twenty fifteen dinnery hosted for an MIT researcher in Palo Alto, California. Well,
they were all hanging out together, and Silicon Valley might
be the worst of the worst. These people, Peter Teeluh,
the other guy, what's his name, Lucky Palmer. There's a
whole lot of these people that really give me the willies.
And these are the new masters of the universe. And
we're all over here worrying about nineteen eighty four becoming
a reality. But while we were worrying about that, these
rotten bastards flipped the script and now it's like a
brave new world. Hoffman said that joy Eto, formed director
of the MIT Media Lab, asked him if Epstein could
attend the dinner, which was also attended by Meta CEO
Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, similar to his
visit to the island. Hoffman said he was later told
that the financier had said he was more likely to
donate if he attended the dinner, So again, it's all
about the money. We're talking about somebody who was already
a registered sex offender in twenty fifteen so reied Hoffman
can save the bullshit. Everybody knew what Jeffrey Epstein was
and what he was up to, and I know it
sounds like a broken record at this point, but it
has to be said again. I guess he's kind of
going through the network trying to meet people and so forth,
Hoffman said on the podcast. Hoffman also reiterated previous apologies
for his involvement with Epstein. In twenty nineteen, a spokesperson
for Zuckerberg confirmed the dinner to Business Insider and said
it was the only time the Facebook co founder met Epstein.
A spokesperson from Musk also confirmed the Tesla CEO's attendance.
And there's a lot of other meetings and events that
Elon Musk was at with Jeffrey Epstein, and he still
hasn't answered for any of that. In a twenty nineteen
email to Axios, Hoffman acknowledged multiple interactions with Epstein, which
he said worse strictly for fundraising purposes, and said he
had been told MIT had vetted and approved the convicted
sex offenders participation. He said in the email he was
deeply regretful of the involvement. I mean that really strange credulity.
You're one of the rich men in the world, and
you don't google who you're dealing with. Nobody says to you, Hey, reed,
this guy's a little bit odd. Bro. He was busted
for so and so. I don't believe that for a second,
because I know that when I've been invited onto podcasts,
people have reached out to me and said, hey, do
you know about so and so or blah blah blah,
or I've looked at, you know, their content or whatever
and said to myself, Yeah, that's not for me. Not
that difficult. Right. You don't have to put yourself in
a situation where you're associating with somebody you don't want
to be associating with, especially when you have the kind
of money that Read Hoffman has. Do they really need
Jeffrey Epstein's donations? I went and kind of made a
you know, very public apology because it was like, Okay,
I realized this, and I'd already at that point had
ramped down connection with them, right, so, like no meetings
and all the rest of the stuff under any context,
Hoffman said on the podcast. And I think he still
would drop me an email every so often, and say hey,
can we get on the phone. I say, oh, maybe sometime,
which is you know, code for never, right, No, I
don't know that never means never. Maybe means sometime, and
it means maybe. Don't try and parts words and tell
me what I know and what I don't know, read Hoffman.
Hoffman said the justice for the late pedophiles survivors is
important and urged the government to release, unreadacted, every single
piece of intel that they have about Epstein. In November,
President Donald Trump signed a bill that will release the
Department of Justice files on Epstein after months of pressure
from Congress, including some fellow Republicans. The Department has until Saturday,
December nineteenth to comply with the order. I have my doubts.
I have my doubts about that. But we'll wait and see.
I don't want to be one of those black pill people,
so we'll wait and see what happens on the nineteenth.
But I will tell you this, I have my doubts.
Trump has also ordered the DOJ to investigate Hoffman, along
with other individuals he views as political enemies, including former
President Bill Clinton and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, over
their ties to Epstein. Well, he has the right idea
as far as the people, but the motivations all bad,
and that's how you end up getting a prosecution to
be doa. And maybe that's Trump's whole entire purpose, right,
talk all this shit and make these cases impossible to prosecute. Hoffman,
a billionaire and major Democratic donor, has previously said that
he had the higher security after Musk fuel conspiracy theories
about his relationship with Epstein. All right, so that's the article.
Here's my opinion about all of it. Imagine being a
billionaire like read Hoffman and expecting people to take I
didn't know it faced value. That might work for a
guy who lives off coupons, not someone embedded in the
most information rich social class on Earth. Hoffman didn't clause
his way to the top of Silicon Valley by being oblivious.
He made his fortune by understanding people, incentives, and networks.
He built an empire on mapping relationships and leveraging proximity.
So when he suddenly becomes incurious, the performance rings hollow.
The richest men in the world don't lack information. They
outsourced discomfort, and Epstein was discomfort incarnate. Read Hoffman. Is
the textbook. Not me, a billionaire, the kind who always
has a prefabricated excuse ready. It's never denial outright, just
soft deflection wrapped in reasonableness. He speaks in calibrated and ambiguity,
the language of people who fear specifics. Every statement feels
engineered to be technically true while practically useless. The goal
is in clarity, its survivability. That's how power communicates when
it doesn't want to confess or confront. Epstein thrived exactly
in this kind of fog. Let's be explicit and responsible,
because the distinction matters. There's no evidence read Hoffman participated
in abuse. The public record does not accuse him of crimes.
Saying that clearly is not charity. It's accuracy. But accuracy
doesn't mean absolution. No one ends their responsibility at not
criminally charged. The Epstein story is not just about perpetrators.
It's about enablers, shields and silencers. It's about who tolerated
what and when. That's the conversation Hoffman can't dodge. Hoffman
has acknowledged knowing Jeffrey Epstein. He acknowledged traveling to Epstein's island.
Those aren't rumors or hostile interpretations. Those are admissions. Once
those facts are on the table, the conversation changes permanently.
This is no longer about whether they cross paths. It's
about how deliberate those paths were. Little Saint James was
not a neutral venue or a casual hangout. It was
already infamous long before the world pretended to notice. You
don't visit that island without hearing things unless you actively
choose not to listen. And inevitably, the defense always circles
back to timing, because timing is the last refuge of
the cornered elite. I didn't know then is treated like
an escape patch, as if Epstein's crimes manifested suddenly in
a single news cycle. Survivors were speaking years before journalists
were brave enough to amplify them. Law enforcement knew far
more than it acted on wealthy circles, whisper earlier, not later.
Claiming ignorance requires believing that the wealthiest social tier was
the least informed. That is the opposite of how power
works read. Hoffmann's entire professional identity is built on understanding
net works LinkedIn itself is a monument to relational awareness.
Context proximity and information flow are the currency he monetized
that makes selective blindness incredibly difficult to believe. You can't
be hyper literate and human connection while socially illiterate in
elite circles. Epstein didn't move invisibly through high society. He
was discussed, warned about, joked about, and quietly avoided by some.
Choosing not to hear is not the same as not knowing.
Billionaires left to cite busyness as an alibi. Too busy
to pay attention, too busy to notice red flags, too
busy to ask follow up questions, yet never too busy
to accept invitations that benefit them, never too busy to
board private jets or attend exclusive gatherings. There are time scarcity,
somehow only applies to moral curiosity. It's not by accident.
Epstein counted on that exact hierarchy of concern, and it
served them well for decades. The island detailed does not
go away, no matter how carefully it's contextualized. You don't
accidentally end up on Little Saint James. It's not a
layover destination or a happy coincidence. It requires invitation, transportation,
and consent. Each step involves awareness. Each step carries implicit endorsement.
Pretending it was just another stop stretches credibility beyond repair.
Geography matters when crimes cluster around the location. And we
all know that Epstein curated a social circle with precision.
Everyone who visited was a signal to everyone else. Smart
people conferred legitimacy. Cautious people provided insulation. Well known names
discouraged scrutiny. That wasn't random socializing, it was strategic placement.
Epstein's access depended on the presence of the powerful. He
built a moat out of reputation. People like Reid Hoffman
were bricks in that wall, whether they intended to be
or not. Intent does an erase effect, and the question
has matured past childish framing. No longer did Read Hoffmann
know Jeffrey Epstein. That question has been answered. The meaningful
question is depth and duration, How often, how close, and
under what circumstances. Relationships or patterns not snapshots. Every continued
association after new information emerges is a decision. Silence after
suspicion is also a choice. Choices accumulate consequences, whether acknowledged
or not. Hoffman's public statements rely heavily on narrow constructions.
They're carefully worded, legally cautious, and emotionally neutral. This is
the tone of someone answering the safest possible question. It
avoids grappling with uncomfortable implications. What did you hear? What
did you dismiss? What did you rationalize a way? These
are not legal questions, but they are historical ones, and
history is less forgiving than the courts. Elite culture specializes
implausible deniability. Everyone knows just enough to maintain distance and
just little enough to deny a responsibility. Epstein exploited that
culture mercilessly. He didn't need universal ignorance, he needed selective disbelief.
He needed powerful people who would not ask inconvenient questions,
not because they were evil, but because they were comfortable.
Comfort is a real accomplice in most large scale abuses.
And look, let's be real. The tech elite love disruption
until disruption threatens them. Then all of a sudden, stability
become sacred. Questions are reframed as hysterias, scrutiny becomes persecution.
Patterns are dismissed as coincidence. Epstein operated comfortably in that
protective field. He depended on it. He was insulated by
the reputations of others, and those reputations did real work
on his behalf. Look, no one's demanding a confession or
a scarlet letter. What's being demanded is honesty without choreography.
Stop hiding behind steril phrasing. Stop pretending the air was clean.
Acknowledged discomforting existed and was ignored. That admission costs nothing now. Refusal,
on the other hand, deepens sustain Silence always compounds over time.
Survivors understand this dynamic. Intimately, they were disbelieved, not because
evidence didn't exist, but because disbelief was easier. Powerful acquaintances
may doubt respectable. Respectability is a powerful shield, and Epstein
wore like armor. He didn't manufacture it alone. It was
lent to him repeatedly, often by people who told themselves
they were staying neutral. When billionaires plead ignorance, what they're
really asking for is exemption, exemption from judgment, exemption from
moral memory, exemption from follow up questions. Wealth does not
grant that privilege. Access does not erase responsibility. Silence is
not neutral when it protects predators. History records silence carefully
now reed, Hoffmann may regret proximity today, for regret is
not reckoning. Reckoning requires detail and vulnerability. It requires timelines,
not platitudes. It requires answers that do not flatter the speaker.
Carefully sanded statements are not courage. Look, this is not
about inventing crimes where evidence does not exist. It's about
refusing fantasies where facts clearly do read Hoffman knew Jeffrey
Epstein read Hoffman visited his island. Those realities are not
up for debate. What remains is a depth of that relationship,
and the choice is made within it. History is going
to keep asking that question, and if they continue with
their silence, they'll keep answering it poorly. All of the
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