Reid Hoffman — LinkedIn billionaire, Democratic mega-donor, and frequent flyer to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island — once sent Epstein a Christmas Eve email in 2014 referencing a gift of “ice cream… for the girls.” He also mentioned something to “strike your funny bone for the island.”
Ice cream. For the girls. On the island. Merry Christmas, everyone.
That same Reid Hoffman has donated $27,800 to Roy Cooper’s Senate campaign, according to FEC filings. And Hoffman isn’t alone. Cooper — the former North Carolina governor now running for the U.S. Senate — has collected nearly $200,000 from donors with documented ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Not distant, six-degrees-of-separation ties. Direct, on-the-island, in-the-files, named-in-the-documents ties.
George Soros leads the pack at $83,600 to Cooper’s various campaigns. Soros, of course, appears in the newly released Epstein files — specifically in connection with a yacht where a victim alleges she was sodomized and raped “in a heavily drug-induced state.” Alex Soros kicked in another $24,500. The apple doesn’t fall far from the yacht.
Laurene Powell Jobs — Steve Jobs’ widow, owner of The Atlantic, and the kind of billionaire who lectures the rest of us about compassion — donated $21,000 to Cooper’s gubernatorial campaign. Powell Jobs was photographed with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s convicted accomplice. In 2015, Epstein was actively seeking an introduction to Powell Jobs. Whether he got one is a question The Atlantic has shown zero interest in investigating. Shocking.
Hollywood showed up too. Jeffrey Katzenberg — the DreamWorks co-founder who once described himself as the “most powerful person in Hollywood you’ve never heard of” — donated $5,400. Steven Spielberg matched him at $5,400. Venture capitalist John Doerr contributed $24,000. Jon Stryker, the billionaire heir, added $7,700.
Every single one of these donors has appeared in Epstein-related records, court filings, or flight logs. Every single one of them is funding Roy Cooper’s Senate campaign. And every single one of them gets treated by the mainstream media as a perfectly respectable member of the donor class.
Try to picture this in reverse. Imagine a Republican Senate candidate had taken $200,000 from donors who appeared in Jeffrey Epstein’s files. Donors who emailed Epstein about “ice cream for the girls.” Donors named on yachts where sexual assaults allegedly occurred. Donors photographed with the convicted madam. CNN would run a seven-part documentary. The New York Times would assign a Pulitzer team. Rachel Maddow would have a bulletin board with red string.
But it’s Roy Cooper. He’s a Democrat. So Townhall’s Amy Curtis breaks the story, and the silence from every major newsroom in America is deafening.
It gets worse. Cooper’s political orbit includes two registered sex offenders who attended his events: former State Rep. Cecil Brockman, indicted on sex offense counts, and Chad Turner, convicted of a lewd act with a minor. These aren’t random strangers who wandered into a fundraiser. These are people in the political ecosystem of a man who wants to be a United States Senator.
We’re not saying Roy Cooper knew what these donors did on private islands and yachts. We’re saying he took their money — almost $200,000 of it — and not a single reporter has asked him to give it back. Not one. In a country where a Republican governor would be destroyed for accepting a campaign contribution from someone who once shared a elevator with Epstein, Roy Cooper walks around with $200,000 in Epstein-adjacent cash and the press corps yawns.
The donor class protects its own. Always has. The only question is whether North Carolina voters are paying attention.
