In 2014, Ro Khanna, a former Obama official, was on the campaign trail in his congressional race while touting his support from LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman.
Around the same time, Hoffman was visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s island.
A decade later, Hoffman and Khanna have become some of the most vocal crusaders against the long dead Epstein. Hoffman dropped an estimated six figures on a Monday Night Football ad by supposed Epstein ‘survivors’ demanding the release of the ‘Epstein files’. None of the ‘survivors’ in the ad mentioned the names of any of the men who abused them or revealed that the ad was being paid for by an associate of Jeffrey Epstein and a visitor to his ‘island’.
The ad, in support of Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie’s performative Epstein bill, highlighted the longstanding connections between Khanna, Hoffman and Epstein.
When Rep. Khanna appeared on CNN to demand that “the Epstein class needs to go”, Reid Hoffman chimed in to agree, “we need the full truth.” The ‘truth’, according to Rep. Khanna’s Silicon Valley ‘sugar daddy’, is that “my few interactions with Jeffrey Epstein came at the request” of MIT and he only did it because “Epstein had cleared the MIT vetting process.”
The actual truth, as we have learned so far, is that Reid Hoffman visited Epstein’s island once, was planning to make a second trip to the island, and then stay at Epstein’s Manhattan place.
Hoffman stayed in touch with Epstein, made further plans to see the sex predator, and continued communicating with him for the next few years. The billionaire Democrat donor blamed ‘MIT vetting’ for his decision to pal around with a man whose sex abuses were a matter of public record. Now he’s blaming President Trump, condemning the president’s “calls for baseless investigations” into him and “Donald Trump and his slanderous lies”.
Republican ‘Never Trumpers’ like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rep. Massie have lined up to work on Hoffman’s Epstein agenda with his Democrat representative: Rep. Ro Khanna.
Even as Rep. Khanna demagogued about the Epstein files, claiming that “justice is long overdue” and claimed that his work will “shock the conscience of the country”, he has refused to ask congressional Democrats to return Hoffman’s money. Understandable since the congressman had received $7,000 from Reid Hoffman just this year. And he’s not doing refunds.
Rep. Ro Khanna had shown no past interest in the Epstein issue and he represents many of the Silicon Valley donors, like Hoffman, tied up with Epstein, but dived into Epstein demagoguery with the opportunist’s genius for holding completely incompatible positions required for a man who simultaneously represented Big Tech and co-chaired the Bernie Sanders campaign.
And that’s nothing new for Khanna.
Rep. Khanna, who through his wife is one of the most active stock traders in Congress, has loudly advocated for a ban on stock trading. He called for banning SuperPACs even while his chief strategist ran the biggest Biden SuperPAC. And after attending a conference where Hamas was cheered, claimed afterward that he was really a supporter of Zionism. Khanna launched a nationwide ‘Benefits over Billionaires’ tour while being backed by billionaires.
Now Khanna, backed by an Epstein associate, became the loudest anti-Epstein voice.
But it’s hard to detach Hoffman’s interest from Khanna’s interest in the Epstein files. Hoffman isn’t just Khanna’s Silicon Valley ‘sugar daddy’, but a power broker whom Khanna worships.
Rep. Ro Khanna ran for office by telling CNN that he was going to apply Hoffman’s lessons to politics. When Rep. Khanna visited ‘coal country’ in Kentucky, his takeaway for helping “working class Americans” was to quote Reid Hoffman. When Khanna wrote a book, Reid Hoffman reviewed it on LinkedIn, and then Khanna shared the review and praised Hoffman for his “deep” insights. And when President Trump tried to reform mass migration, Rep. Khanna turned to Hoffman to defend the destructive practice.
Reid Hoffman, a board member of Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates, another Epstein alum, isn’t just anyone, he’s a major Democrat donor who has dispensed millions of dollars to the party. Hoffman was named one of the biggest donors of the 2024 election, pumping $17 million into the Kamala campaign. (Gates, who donated $50M to Harris, outspent him.) Hoffman also donated millions to Congressional Democrat PACs.
And the connections between Hoffman and Khanna go even deeper than that.
While Rep. Khanna claims that he hates PACs and wants to get rid of them, Cooper Teboe, Khanna’s campaign manager, finance director and currently ‘chief strategist, created his own consulting firm, CDT Strategies, supposedly to help progressives running against party incumbents, but actually went on to fundraise for Biden’s SuperPAC Unite the Country. Hoffman donated $1.5 million to the PAC. And there’s a history of aligned giving involving Hoffman and Teboe with other candidates.
There was talk from the Bernie camp of backing a Ro Khanna presidential run in 2024 and Khanna appears to be trying to stir some interest ahead of 2028. His ‘Benefits over Billionaires’ tour was viewed by some in the media as a trial balloon for a presidential primary race. But running will require a lot of money from billionaires. Billionaires like Hoffman who have shown that they’re willing to spend big on Democratic Party presidential campaigns.
Even while Rep. Ro Khanna is trying to exploit Epstein’s abuses to build a national profile, he’s also covering for an Epstein island visitor who funded Khanna’s Epstein pressure campaign.
The pathological insincerity of the Epstein files op could have no better front man than Khanna.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.
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