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Weaponizing defamation lawsuits has become a political strategy. And one billionaire seems to have cornered the market.
When E. Jean Carroll first accused Trump of rape, the media quickly backed away. It didn’t help that she told media outlets that “most people think of rape as being sexy” and “it’s the responsibility of the woman, too. It’s equal. Men can’t control themselves.” But after a fitful attempt at using the story to sell books, Carroll vanished and then returned with a lawsuit.
In a deposition last year, Carroll claimed that no one else was paying her legal fees. That was not true. The money was allegedly coming from American Future Republic: an anti-Trump group funded by Reid Hoffman. A filing by Trump’s attorneys alleges that, “previously, Hoffman contributed more than $600,000 to the legal defense fund of Bean LLC6—otherwise known as Fusion GPS, the company responsible for the creation of the Steele Dossier.”
Dirty tricks have been linked to Hoffman’s money for a while now.
MotiveAI, another setup backed by Hoffman, had its own fake news operation targeting Republicans: one of which, titled, ‘Drain The Swamp’, aimed to sabotage the Kavanaugh nomination by trying to convince Republicans that the Supreme Court nominee had “helped Bill and Hillary Clinton cover up the murder of a White House aide.”
MotiveAI then took credit for “28 districts flipped and the highest Democratic margin since 1972”.
Such digital dirty tricks have become a signature of groups funded by Hoffman.
During the 2017 Alabama Senate special election, New Knowledge, a lefty tech project, came after Republican candidate Roy Moore to, in its own words, orchestrate “an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet”. The funding for the ‘Alabama Project’ came from Reid Hoffman.
Hoffman apologized for the “disinformation” campaign. “I find the tactics that have been recently reported highly disturbing,” an official statement from the Big Tech billionaire claimed. “I am embarrassed by my failure to track AET—the organization I did support—more diligently as it made its own decisions to perhaps fund projects that I would reject.”
And now here’s the next phase in Hoffman’s campaign.
Smartmatic, the voting technology company enmeshed in complex defamation lawsuits against Fox News and Newsmax, has a powerful new financial ally: billionaire tech entrepreneur Reid Hoffman.
Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn, has made a multimillion-dollar investment intended in part to help the company sustain its costly litigation. Smartmatic has said the two news outlets smeared it by airing bogus claims of rigged vote counting in the 2020 election.
So this is no longer a defamation lawsuit, it’s a political opposition suppression lawsuit funded by a guy with a history of dirty tricks.
Dmitri Mehlhorn, an adviser to Hoffman, said the investment is in line with Hoffman’s desire to support the role of the legal system in arbitrating fact from fiction.
“When Reid deploys financial capital, that always has a philosophical element of protecting the rule of law,” Mehlhorn said. “We’ve always thought the court system was an important part of the battle to protect America from MAGA.”
Just reverse that rhetoric and you’ll get to the truth. The abuse of the law is being used to silence political opponents and render elections meaningless with kangaroo courts and endless litigation.
I don’t understand why Newsmax and Fox don’t “Judge shop” and counter sue. They could easily win that way because Smartmatic and Hoffman are demostrably guilty as Hell. And Fox has plenty of money to afford it.
Dishonesty and deceit are so thoroughly ingrained in the tactics and culture of the left that they no can no longer tell the truth from a lie or fact from fiction. Now that I think about it, the truth is probably completely irrelevant to them, and it is only political power that matters.
We have passed the stage of being able to keep up with the machinations of the socialist party. An ordinary citizen cannot be aware of the plots and plans behind the curtain. A republic or government of the people cannot be expected to survive without trusting those elected to SERVE his interests. There was too much money available to steal for us to expect fidelity to an oath of office. The music is almost over. Turn out the lights.
Not until the likes of Hoffman are made to feel uneasy, fearful, afraid will this ever change. Only when they start to scheme something evil but then stop at the likelihood that something very bad will befall them, will it end. The Hoffmans of the world (and they are currently legion) must be made to jump when a nearby car backfires.
btw: Anyone here who agrees can immediately cancel your Linkedin account. You’re contributing to Hoffman when you pay for that garbage account each month.
I cancelled ages and ages ago long before I knew his name. Another silly annoying lefty site pushing lefty BS and OMG annoying! No, I do not want to connect with people I don’t know or want to know.
Just to be needlessly tacky, with a few more boxes of Crispy Cremes Reid Hoffman could turn into Michael Moore.
That’s what I was thinking. His fat head reminds me of a crap filled pastry.
“In a deposition last year, Carroll claimed that no one else was paying her legal fees. That was not true. ”
Actually, maybe she DID earn it and the corporation “expensed” it.
Another lowlife little Weasel trying to silence Conservatives needs a good comeuppance himself
Connect a box of donuts to a string and yank it away from him every time he tries to grab it until he has a heart attack.
Historically, in Ancient Rome, or Spain under Napoleon, when things got this bad, afterwards the public took revenge on the traitors, like Sulla’s Proscriptions, or Spanish patriots taking revenge on collaborators with the French.
I wonder if there is a complete book of dirty political tricks. I keep running across them when reading history.
“Rule for Radicals” by the despicable Saul Alinsky is the closest thing I can think of. It’s by no means comprehensive but it is dedicated to dirty tricks and scumbaggery.