‘Why was Reid Hoffman so intent on destroying Trump?’ Elon Musk asked Joe Rogan before agreeing with Rogan’s claims that it was to prevent the ‘list from coming out.’. Elon Musk made wild accusations about “known clients” of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein during an appearance on Joe Rogan’s right-wing podcast, claiming former President Bill Clinton, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman were all worried about being named in the so-called “Epstein List.”.
Additionally, the world’s richest man and Donald Trump’s “first buddy” claimed Hoffman was “so intent on destroying Trump” during the 2024 presidential election, specifically to keep the “list from coming out.”. Instead, the roughly 200 pages of documents mainly consisted of flight logs on Epstein’s planes and some contact information of his hundreds of associates, including Donald Trump, as well as an inventory of some of the items found in the homes that the FBI raided.
What wasn’t included, though, was any fresh allegations about Epstein or any other associates, prompting the MAGA faithful to rage about the lack of new evidence while alleging a ”Deep State” conspiracy. Sensing the anger from the right, who have long used the Epstein case to fuel other conspiracy theories, Bondi instructed New York’s FBI field office to turn over “all records, documents, audio and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained” by Friday morning.
“That lawsuit was funded by Reid Hoffman, who is a major Dem donor and also an Epstein client,” the DOGE chief alleged. “The plot thickens!” Rogan responded. “Jesus Christ, it’s just so blatant. It’s like so obvious. The SpaceX lawsuit, the Trump stuff, it’s just so obvious.”.
With the conspiracy-peddling podcaster setting the stage, Musk then accused Hoffman of trying to keep Trump from returning to the White House in order to prevent FBI evidence against Epstein and possibly others from being made public. “Known Epstein clients who are obviously extremely powerful – powerful politically and very wealthy – are Bill Gates, Bill Clinton and Reid Hoffman,” Musk alleged. “And some others, too. But those three.”.
While a stunned-looking Rogan let out an exasperated sigh, Musk added: “Why was Reid Hoffman so intent on destroying Trump?”. After Rogan asked if “they were worried about the list coming out,” the X (formerly Twitter) owner flatly replied: “Yeah.”.
The two would go on to express their frustration about “sitting in the situation where the list isn’t coming out,” with Rogan complaining that Thursday’s document dump had “nothing in it that’s new.”. During an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in October, the SpaceX CEO said Hoffman was one of the “billionaires behind Kamala” Harris who were “terrified” over the prospect of Epstein’s client list becoming public. Additionally, Musk approvingly retweeted a post that claimed the billionaire was “TERRIFIED about Trump releasing the Epstein client list after all his visits to Epstein Island.”.
Hoffman added that he also had received threats of violence and had to hire security due to Musk’s conspiracy theories about him. Hoffman said in 2019 that he regretted helping to “repair” Epstein’s reputation by introducing him to tech moguls in prior years while he sought donations to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He claimed that Epstein had passed MIT’s “vetting process” at the time, adding: “My lesson is I should go do my own research.”.
At the same time, Hoffman claimed that he “went to no Epstein parties” and wasn’t really familiar with the financier’s sullied reputation at the time. Adding that he didn’t associate with Epstein after 2015, he speculated that Musk’s sordid claims about him were “seeded when he invited his old friend to an MIT fundraising dinner that was also attended by Epstein in 2015.”.
