A top advisor to Democrat megadonor Reid Hoffman reached out to corporate media outlets and urged them to spread the false narrative that President Donald Trump’s failed assassination attempt was “staged.”
The call was made by Dmitri Mehlhorn, a senior advisor to Hoffman, the anti-Trump billionaire founder of LinkedIn who admitted to visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s “Pedophile Island.”
Mehlhorn has also visited the White House at least 10 times during Joe Biden’s presidency, according to The Washington Free Beacon.
Following Saturday’s failed attempt on Trump’s life, Mehlhorn sent emails to the Democrats’ corporate media allies to urge them to push claims that the assassination attempt had been faked.
Mehlhorn pressed media outlets to claim the shooting was “encouraged and maybe even staged so Trump could get the photos and benefit from the backlash.”
Semafor, which reported the email, noted that Mehlhorn revealed that he and Hoffman “have invested nine figures of our own money to prevent Trump from getting back into office.”
“Hoffman has given $7 million to a Biden-aligned super PAC and $6 million to the anti-Trump Republican Accountability PAC so far this election cycle,” The Free Beacon noted.
Semafor wrote that the emails “appeared to be addressed to sympathetic journalists, and which was also sent to Semafor.”
The outlet revealed that, in the email, Mehlhorn speculated that one “possibility — which feels horrific and alien and absurd in America but is quite common globally — is that this ‘shooting’ was encouraged and maybe even staged so Trump could get the photos and benefit from the backlash.
“This is a classic Russian tactic, such as when Putin killed 300 civilians in 1999 and blamed it on terrorists to ride the backlash to winning power.
“Others who have embraced this tactic of committing raw evil and then benefitting from the backlash include Hamas on October 7.
“If any Trump officials encouraged or knew of this attack, that is morally horrific, and Republicans of decency must demand that Trump step down as unfit.”
Although Mehlhorn acknowledged the possibility that “some crazy anti-Trumper in this chaotic moment decided to assassinate the former President,” he also wrote:
“I know I am prone to bias on this, but this is a classic Putin play and given the facts seems more plausible.
“Look at the actual shot. Look at the staging.
“Look at how ready Trump is to rally; this pampered baby s*** his pants when an eagle lunged at his food.
“Look at how quickly Trump protects himself at the expense of others, but showed few of those lifelong instincts in this moment.
“And consider how often Putin and his allies run this play.”
“I know it feels yucky to discuss such a possibility,” he continued.
“But in this case, the odds are so high, and the stakes so consequential, we must as[k] the question …
“Ask the question, people. If it proves wrong, we should respond appropriately to a non-staged act of political violence, as outlined above.
“But your credibility and our entire system of truth and justice depends on being certain of the answer”
Mehlhorn later apologized for the email and his effort was exposed.
In a statement on Sunday, he said:
“Last night, I sent an email I now regret.
“It was drafted and sent without consultation from team members or allies.
“I have apologized to them directly.
“I also want to apologize publicly, without reservation, for allowing my words to distract from last night’s central fact: political violence took yet another innocent American life last night.
“We must unite in condemnation of such violence in every instance, without reservation.
“Any other topic is a distraction.
“I am grateful that those injured last night appear to be on the path to full recovery.”
