Mary Rooke Commentary and Analysis Writer
Vice President Kamala Harris has some pretty interesting bedfellows — all reportedly connected to Jeffrey Epstein — backing her presidential campaign.
Billionaire Elon Musk sat down Oct. 7 with Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson to discuss his views on the 2024 election. During the interview, Carlson asked Musk whether he thought former President Donald Trump would release the infamous Epstein List, which reportedly contains the names of famous politicians, celebrities and wealthy elites who visited Epstein’s island and participated in the illicit activities available there.
“I think part of why Kamala’s getting so much support is that if Trump wins, that Epstein client list is going to become public,” Musk said. “And some of those billionaires behind Kamala are terrified of that outcome.”
JUST IN: Elon Musk tells Tucker Carlson the reason Kamala Harris is getting so much support from some billionaires is because Trump will release the Epstein Client list.
Elon: Some of those billionaires behind Kamala are terrified of a Trump win.
Tucker: Do you think Reid… pic.twitter.com/IIiC6q7dtG
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 7, 2024
Musk said he thinks the possibility of this list being made public makes billionaires like Bill Gates and Reid Hoffman very nervous.
“[Hoffman] is terrified of a Trump victory,” Musk added. “I think he’s certainly ideologically not aligned with Trump anyway, but I think he is concerned about the Epstein situation.”
Elon Musk is all in.
(0:00) Elon Musk Is All in on Donald Trump
(6:35) Providing Starlink to Victims of Hurricane Helene
(9:22) If Trump Loses, This Is the Last Election
(21:49) The Epstein and Diddy Client List
(33:38) Vaccines
(35:49) The Movement to Decriminalize Crime… pic.twitter.com/jNqB1ThqQz— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 7, 2024
Trump’s lawyers exposed that Hoffman helped pay for the lawsuit by E. Jean Carroll, the New York magazine writer who sued Trump for rape and defamation. Hoffman’s spokesman admitted that the billionaire donated through a nonprofit to support a different public interest lawsuit being handled by Kaplan Hecker & Fink. Still, the spokesman added that it was unrelated to the firm taking up Carroll’s case against Trump. Trump’s lawyers, however, said the revelation of the grant raises “significant questions” about the allegations and their credibility.
Reid Hoffman, a Dem donor with ties to Jeffrey Epstein who’s funded various Dem disinfo operations, is funding E. Jean Carroll’s rape defamation lawsuit against Trump.
Some new details on the network of nonprofits involved in this. https://t.co/CN8KBS74Q1
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) April 14, 2023
The Wall Street Journal reported in May 2023 that LinkedIn co-founder Hoffman stayed on Epstein’s infamous private Caribbean island, Little St. James, and was scheduled to stay at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse in 2014. “Mr. Hoffman said he met with Epstein to raise funds for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and that he regrets interacting with Epstein after his conviction,” the outlet reported. (ROOKE: Trump’s McDonald’s Visit Tears Down Thin Veil Covering Harris Campaign’s Greatest Weakness)
Coincidence? The Democrat Billionaire Donor Reid Hoffman who is bankrolling BOTH Nikki Haley and E. Jean Carroll was friends with Jeffrey Epstein and spent the night on his pedo island and in his mansion. pic.twitter.com/XN5lbhNfwH
— @amuse (@amuse) January 19, 2024
Hoffman and his wife, Michelle Yee, have donated millions to support Harris. They gave $10 million this election to the Future Forward PAC, which supports Harris’ campaign, and $6 million to the Republican Accountability PAC, an anti-Trump PAC.
Calendar dates showed Gates met with Epstein and Hyatt hotel heir Thomas Pritzker (Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s cousin) in 2014 at the Park Hyatt Hotel near Central Park in New York. Gates claims he regrets meeting Epstein and that he was there to talk to him about potential philanthropy projects. However, his ex-wife, Melinda Gates, told Gayle King on CBS This Morning that his work with Epstein was “abhorrent” and was part of what led to their divorce. She said her now ex-husband had several meetings with Epstein.
“I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no. I made that clear to him,” Melinda Gates said, adding that she met with Epstein “exactly one time” to see what kind of man Epstein was.
“I regretted it the second I walked in the door. He was abhorrent. He was evil personified. My heart breaks for these women,” Melinda Gates told CBS.
Melinda Gates on Bill’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
“Yeah, as I said it’s not one thing, it was many things, but I did not like that he’d had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein…I made that clear to him.” pic.twitter.com/ohPRbpKJke
— Vision4theBlind (@Vision4theBlind) March 9, 2023
While Bill Gates has not publicly endorsed Harris for president, he has praised her and said privately that he was giving $50 million to a nonprofit organization supporting the Harris campaign.
Lauren Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs, is a close confidant of Harris and even sat at times in Harris’ exclusive friends and family box during the Democratic National Convention (DNC). (ROOKE: Media Hit On Trump Accidentally Confirms Harris Has Major Election Problem Brewing)
Jobs owns The Atlantic through her Emerson Collective organization, which acquired a majority stake in the outlet in 2017. The Atlantic infamously published a hit piece on Trump on Tuesday. Multiple people in the room and Guillén’s family denied the entire contents of the so-called report.
FLASHBACK: Kamala’s bestie (pictured here) is the owner of “The Atlantic” which just published an October Surprise hit piece on Trump. Right on cue, Kamala just did a presser–from VPOTUS residence, no less–regurgitating The Atlantic’s hit piece on Trumphttps://t.co/ExM7CospPJ
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) October 24, 2024
Besides being friends with Harris, Jobs also appeared to know Epstein’s right-hand woman, Ghislaine Maxwell. While Maxwell was on trial, The Atlantic ran a piece claiming allegations of child trafficking were a hoax, though they did admit that Epstein’s trafficking did happen. After the publication, a photo emerged online, apparently showing Jobs and Maxwell relaxing together on a day bed in bikinis.
Laurene Powell Jobs owns the Atlantic don’t forget.
This is her with Maxwell.
They are all Epstein people….They are all purchased.
They ran the story because they are told to.Nobody cares about there stories, and Trump is going to take them out.
Americans are tired. pic.twitter.com/kR0VJDqzUV
— Petey B (@realpeteyb123) October 23, 2024
Jobs made three donations to Harris’ campaign worth nearly $1 million in 2023, and Fortune Magazine dubbed her one of Harris’ “biggest bankrollers.”
Deceased billionaire James Simons, a hedge fund manager Epstein once praised as his “sole role model” in philanthropy, donated over $9 million to committees supporting Harris, with $6.6 million going to Future Forward before his death.
Harris has enough issues on her plate as it is. She’s struggling with black men and Hispanics and is trailing Trump in all swing states, according to the RCP average. Republicans are also breaking early voting records, and Democrats are panicking over Harris’ campaign strategy, as they should.
The spoiled cherry on top is that a handful of her prominent donors apparently had ties to the most notorious child-diddler in America.