Reid Hoffman, the billionaire behind LinkedIn who’s now a megadonor to Democrats, has been quietly bankrolling E. Jean Carroll’s rape case against former President Donald Trump, according to court records filed Thursday.
The surprising last-minute disclosures came out in contentious correspondence between lawyers for the aggrieved journalist and the pissed off former president, who were battling over whether to delay the trial scheduled to start in two weeks.
While it’s unclear if that payment arrangement has had any material impact on the case itself, the fact that it remains secret until now will surely support Trump’s unrelenting, conspiratorial complaints that
