Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, allegedly went to Epstein’s island in 2014 and planned to return.
President Biden went to a Monday dinner held by a tech billionaire who was recently found to have visited the private island of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2014.
Reid Hoffman, who helped start LinkedIn, held a fundraiser on Monday for Biden’s re-election campaign and the Biden Victory Fund at Shannon Hunt-Scott and Kevin Scott’s home in Los Gatos, California.
The Wall Street Journal said in May that Hoffman went to the Caribbean island of Little St. James, which is part of the U.S. Virgin Islands, at least once.
Epstein and another convicted sex criminal, Ghislaine Maxwell, are said to have abused young girls on the island.
Also mentioned as a speaker for the event was Kevin Scott, the chief technology officer for Microsoft.
When Hoffman went to Epstein’s island, the then-director of the MIT Media Lab, Joi Ito, was also there. He confirmed Hoffman’s trip to The Journal and said Reid went at his request to raise money for MIT.
Ito apologised in the Journal article for going to the island, but Hoffman has not done the same. Hoffman did tell The Journal that it bothers him that his friendship with Epstein “helped his reputation and delayed justice for his survivors.”
According to the story, the two planned to return to the island in November 2014 and then go to Boston with Epstein. It’s unclear what those trips were supposed to be about, but the story said that Hoffman planned to stay at Epstein’s fancy Manhattan apartment in December 2014 after getting into the city late.
Hoffman told The Journal that he had last talked to Epstein in 2015 when he asked Epstein to dinner in Silicon Valley with other stars in the tech industry.
In September that same year, Hoffman attended a state dinner at the White House for Chinese President Xi Jinping. It was put on by Vice President Biden, who was in office then.
After Epstein was arrested in 2019, Ito gave up his job at MIT.
Fox News Digital tried to get the White House to say something but did not hear back immediately.
Biden is doing a barnstorming tour of California, and the Silicon Valley fundraiser is one of four events he is doing in the San Francisco area.
Monday, at the first of two events, Biden said that the 2024 race would be a test of democracy itself.
He also said that his government had given people “a sense of confidence in the Constitution.”
