Just hours after the attempt on former president Trump’s life, a top advisor to Democrat super-donor Reid Hoffman emailed journalists to encourage them to claim it was staged using a “classic Russian tactic.”
The advisor, Dmitri Mehlhorn, apologized after an unhinged email he sent to journalists was published by Semafor. In an attempt to limit the damage caused, he said the email was “drafted without consultation from team members or allies.”
The email was sent to a number of journalists not long after the attack on former president Trump. Mehlhorn wrote 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 also stated that it was possible some “crazy anti-Trumper” could be responsible, he made clear his preference for the false-flag theory.
“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 shit 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.”
Mehlhorn continued: “I know it feels yucky to discuss such a possibility. But in this case, the odds are so high, and the stakes so consequential, we must as[k] the question.”
He then expressed his disappointment that journalists had not already raised the possibility of a false flag.
“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 and his master Hoffman are prominent figures in Democrat fundraising and political organization. During Trump’s presidency, they founded Investing In US, a for-profit investment fund that has invested tens of millions of dollars in advocacy organizations, voter-outreach groups, media outlets and strategy groups that focus on opposing Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
Hoffman, who founded LinkedIn, is reportedly worth $2.5 billion.
He was also forced to apologize for remarks he made days before the attempted assassination, when he said that he wished he had made Trump “an actual martyr.” On Sunday, he said on Twitter than he had been referring to “accountability to the rule of law” and that he was “horrified and saddened” by Saturday’s events.
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