Reid Hoffman, a Democrat mega-donor, has bankrolled Donald Trump’s rape accuser and is considering backing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) in the GOP primaries.
E. Jean Carroll, former magazine advice columnist who alleges Trump raped her 30 years ago, previously denied she received outside funding for her legal action.
Carroll’s attorney Robert Kaplan admitted to Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba that Carroll “remembered just recently that she had been told at some point about outside funding by a nonprofit and that it was irrelevant to her claim anyway.”
Puck writer Teddy Schliefer also reported that “Hoffman’s team is currently studying early voting states — party registration requirements, demographic groups, state GOP nominating rules, media ecosystems, et cetera — to see where they can move the needle.”
“And if they do inadvertently elect a President DeSantis? I’m told that Hoffman and [adviser Dmitri] Mehlhorn, at a high level, don’t view the Florida governor as an existential threat to democracy, unlike Trump, and believe he may even have the ability to successfully govern,” Schliefer continued.
Reporting from The National Pulse:
While Hoffman has demurred on specifically endorsing a Republican candidate, claiming “I’m almost certainly in the Biden camp,” those in his employ are said to be eyeing up Trump’s primary opponents, with a view to supporting them as the first way of stopping him retaking the White House.
