Trump Enemy Spends a Fortune on Epstein Ad

A billionaire critic of Trump helped Jeffrey Epstein’s former employer lobby Congress by funding a prime-time ad campaign calling for the full release of the deceased sex offender’s files.

Reed Hoffman, 58, co-founder of LinkedIn, said he helped fund the ad, which aired for the anti-human trafficking organization World Without Exploitation during Monday night’s NFL game.

The ad campaign encourages viewers to pressure lawmakers to release all of Epstein’s files.

In a post on X, Hoffman, a Democratic donor, wrote: “Epstein’s files must be released in their entirety. Tonight, I supported World Without Exploitation in airing this ad during Monday night’s NFL game, specifically calling for that release.”

The campaign may have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Commercial data shows that the average price of a 30-second commercial during a Monday Night Football game exceeds $500,000 per segment, depending on the format and placement. It’s one of the most expensive slots in the television market, excluding the Super Bowl, according to eMarketer.com.

This powerful public service announcement, produced by the organization “World Without Exploitation,” features victims holding up photos of themselves as teenagers and explaining to viewers their age when they met Epstein—some were only 14—before the message: “Five administrations and we’re still in the dark.”

The video concludes with a call to “reveal the secrets” and a demand that Congress compel Epstein to release all the files.

The advertisement aired on the eve of a crucial House vote on the Epstein Transparency Bill, a bipartisan bill introduced by Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna that aims to compel the Justice Department to release all unclassified documents related to Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted of human trafficking, while protecting the victims’ personal information.

Hoffmann has long been one of Donald Trump’s wealthiest opponents. The Silicon Valley investor helped fund E. Jean Carroll’s rape and defamation lawsuit against Trump through a nonprofit organization he largely funds.

He has also invested millions of dollars in anti-Trump organizations and Democratic causes, becoming such a prolific donor that Fox News once described him as a key player in the party’s “fundraising machine.”

Trump, 79, and his allies seized upon the case to portray Hoffman as a partisan operative, criticizing his role in the Carroll affair and later attacking him for a multimillion-dollar investment in the election technology company Smartmatic, which is suing Fox News for defamation.

The Monday Night Football broadcast aired as Trump became increasingly embroiled in the Epstein scandal. For months, the president vehemently attacked the case, calling it a “Democratic hoax,” and lashed out at reporters who asked if his friends’ names appeared on the documents, accusing his enemies of fabricating evidence to discredit him.

But as House Republicans and Epstein’s associates gained public support, the president was forced into a series of concessions.

On Sunday, he urged Republicans to vote in favor of releasing the dossier so they could “move on,” after it became clear they would defy him anyway. He even accused Hoffman of being among the Democrats named in the dossier.

In a post on TruthSocial, he stated: “The Justice Department has already released tens of thousands of pages about Epstein, investigating the connections between various Democratic officials (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, and others) and Epstein. The House Oversight Committee can get what it is legally entitled to. I don’t care!”

The next day, he went even further, telling reporters that he “fully supported” the initiative and would sign a bill authorizing the release of the documents if it would put an end to the controversy.

The organization World Without Exploitation has spent weeks intensifying pressure through protests, billboards, and now through one of America’s most-watched television networks.