Donald Trump lashed out late Thursday at a prominent Democratic donor who reportedly provided funding to GOP political candidate Nikki Haley and helped fund E. Jean Carroll’s allegation implicating the former president of rape.
On his Truth Social platform, Trump shared screenshots of a New York Times article reporting that Reid Hoffman, the billionaire LinkedIn co-founder, had given $250,000 to a pro-Haley super PAC, SFA Fund. “This disgusting Slob, a Democrat Political Operative, is the same man who funded a woman who I knew absolutely nothing about, sued me for Rape, for which I was found NOT GUILTY,” Trump fumed.
A Manhattan jury in May did not find that Trump had raped Carroll but did find him liable for sexually assaulting and defaming her. Continuing his tirade late Thursday, Trump called the civil trial “disgraceful” and “very unfair.”
The 2024 GOP frontrunner also oddly went on to criticize his own lawyer in the case. “I was advised by my lawyer not to participate–‘It was beneath me, and they have no case,'” Trump wrote in the post. “That was bad advice.”
According to the TimesHoffman has funded several anti-Trump political candidates and causes. Referring to his financial support for Carroll and others in a LinkedIn post earlier this year, Hoffman wrote that a “theme” to many of his contributions was “protecting the rule of law from the threat posed by Donald Trump’s scorched-earth legal tactics.”
