Reid Hoffman, Epstein Ties Scrutinized, Among Top Donors to Group Running Epstein-Themed Attack Ads

Federal Election Commission filings released last week show that Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn, was among the largest donors to House Majority PAC. HMP is a leading Democratic fundraising group, and it is now running advertisements built around Jeffrey Epstein and aimed at Republican candidates. Hoffman himself has faced scrutiny over his past ties to Epstein.

HMP has been spending heavily as Election Day approaches. Its message is that Republicans have not delivered on promises to bring transparency to Epstein's child sex trafficking operation, or to answer whether he arranged illegal sexual encounters for others. The filings do not say which donors' money paid for which ads. Hoffman's contribution did arrive as HMP stepped up its Epstein-focused spending, about two weeks before election night.

One campaign targets Rep. Nick Begich, an Alaska Republican, over his vote against a procedural motion that would have moved the Epstein Files Transparency Act forward. Begich later voted for the bill itself, which passed with near-unanimous support. The ad says Epstein was protected by elites, "elites like Nick Begich," and tells Alaskans they need someone who cares more about lowering costs than about protecting a rapist. FEC records show HMP has spent $543,300 on that campaign.

The law, which took effect in November 2025, requires the Justice Department to release records related to Epstein, with some protections to conceal the identities of his victims.

Alaska is not the only target. According to the ad-tracking service ADMO, all of these ads launched within the past week. HMP has put $480,000 into Iowa's Second Congressional District, $2.06 million into Pennsylvania's 1st District, $550,150 into Arizona's 2nd District and $628,000 into Pennsylvania's 8th District.

At least one Republican has called the arrangement hypocritical. Natalie Baldassarre, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, told Fox News Digital that Democrats have no problem with money in politics as long as it helps their own campaigns, even when it comes from people she called "certified perverts" like Hoffman, who she said kept up a relationship with Epstein after his conviction. She added that Democrats will take money and power from anyone willing to write a check.

The record of the Hoffman-Epstein relationship is documented. For years the two exchanged correspondence and gifts, and they helped raise money for MIT's Media Lab. Records released through the Justice Department's Epstein Files library indicate Hoffman joined Epstein at his private island and visited him at his New York residence. In a Christmas Eve email in 2014, Hoffman told Epstein he had sent two gifts to his New York address: ice cream, and something to amuse him on the island, a reference to a surfer statue.

Hoffman has consistently denied wrongdoing. In 2019 he told The Wall Street Journal that he regretted continuing the relationship after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor. His last interaction with Epstein, he said, was in 2015, and by joining fundraising events where Epstein was present he helped repair Epstein's reputation and perpetuate injustice. "For this, I am deeply regretful," he said. The records Fox News Digital cited contain no allegation that Hoffman took part in Epstein's sex-trafficking crimes.

Fox News Digital asked HMP whether it knew of Hoffman's relationship with Epstein when it accepted his money, and whether it considers the donation consistent with its Epstein messaging. Representatives for Hoffman were also contacted. The report notes no response from Hoffman's side, and none from HMP is reported. Watch for any answer from HMP, and for how the RNC's hypocrisy charge plays out in the final stretch before the election.