'I want this': Democratic donor targeted by Trump calls his bluff over Epstein files
President Donald Trump's initial response to the latest batch of emails from deceased child predator Jeffrey Epstein has been to call for the investigations of Democrats who have been linked to Epstein. But one of the people Trump explicitly mentioned is now firing back.
In a series of posts to his official X account, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman — a prominent Democratic donor with a net worth of roughly $2.5 billion — responded to Trump's call to investigate him with a demand to "release all of the Epstein files," saying "every person and every document" should be known to the public.
"I want this complete release because it will bring justice to the victims," Hoffman wrote. In a subsequent post, he wrote that releasing the full files would also prove his innocence.
"I want this complete release because it will show that the calls for baseless investigations of me are nothing more than political persecution and slander," Hoffman tweeted. "I was never a client of Epstein’s and never had any engagement with him other than fundraising for MIT."
The Democratic donor went on to argue that Trump's push to investigate him was "an obvious ploy to avoid releasing the files." He pushed for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to "simply release all the files, and expose the people who had both deep and ongoing relationships with Epstein."
"I will do everything in my power going forward to advocate for the release of the files, to get justice for Epstein’s victims and to promote the values of truth our great country was founded on," he added. Hoffman concluded the thread by writing: "I refuse to bend the knee to Donald Trump and his slanderous lies."
In addition to Hoffman, Trump demanded the DOJ investigate former President Bill Clinton, former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University President Larry Summers and J.P. Morgan Chase bank.
"This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. "Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his “Island.” Stay tuned!!!"
