A jury handed E Jean Carroll $90 million for accusing Trump of assault in a department store dressing room thirty years ago.
Now the man who secretly paid for that lawsuit is under federal criminal investigation.
What O'Reilly said about the man who paid for is what a federal grand jury may soon have to weigh.
Reid Hoffman DOJ Investigation Targets His Carroll Nonprofit
Reid Hoffman is the LinkedIn co-founder turned Democrat megadonor who spent years pouring money into left-wing causes designed to take down Trump.
E. Jean Carroll is the 82-year-old former magazine columnist who claimed Trump raped her in a Manhattan department store dressing room sometime in the mid-1990s – a story so thin she couldn't pin down the year it supposedly happened.
A liberal Manhattan jury gave her a $90 million judgment anyway.
What conservatives suspected from the start – that the whole operation was funded by Trump's political enemies – is now a federal criminal investigation.
Hoffman routed the money through his nonprofit, American Future Republic, which transferred it to Carroll's law firm, Kaplan Hecker & Fink. The firm had originally been retained for an unrelated case.
When Carroll's lawyers decided to sue Trump, they asked whether the Hoffman funds could cover those costs instead.
In her 2022 deposition, Carroll swore no one else was funding her lawsuit. She was wrong – or she lied. That distinction is now the federal government's to sort out.
O'Reilly played a resurfaced clip of Hoffman explaining his involvement on his show. Hoffman said his team thought Carroll's "voice should be heard."
The former Fox News host wasn't buying it.
"Okay, sure. How many other voices have you funded to the tune of $7 million, you crank," O'Reilly said. "This guy is the worst – he's not the worst, but he's in the top five."
E Jean Carroll Perjury Charge and the 90 Million Dollar Question
Federal prosecutors in Chicago are investigating Hoffman's American Future Republic for possible money laundering, obstruction, and conspiracy. Whether Carroll lied in her deposition about the funding is also in play, though investigators have signaled Hoffman's nonprofit is the primary target.
Carroll's lawyers recently said her memory has been "refreshed" on the funding question. She now acknowledges Hoffman helped pay for it.
O'Reilly wasn't interested in the memory refresh.
"I mean, I know Trump," he said. "And I know the world that E. Jean Carroll inhabits, and I know exactly what happened there."
He called her accusations "absurd" and "insane" – the same words conservatives have used since the story first surfaced in 2019.
Reid Hoffman Carroll Funding and the Democrat Lawfare Machine
Hoffman is a founding member of the "PayPal Mafia" – a Silicon Valley power network that includes Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. While Musk and Thiel went one direction, Hoffman spent years going the other.
A major Clinton donor in 2016, Hoffman later partnered with George Soros to fight "disinformation" and turned up repeatedly in the Epstein files the DOJ released.
And he quietly dropped $7 million into a lawsuit designed to destroy Donald Trump.
The money moved through a nonprofit, from the nonprofit to a law firm, from the law firm into a years-long civil campaign against a sitting president – while the plaintiff swore under oath she was doing it alone.
O'Reilly built his career identifying exactly this kind of operation. Twenty years at Fox News, No. 1 in cable news for most of it, because he could see the structure underneath the story.
What he saw y wasn't a billionaire exercising his rights – it was a coordinated operation that required someone to lie under oath to stay hidden, and now the Justice Department agrees it's worth a criminal investigation to find out who knew what.
Carroll got $90 million. Hoffman got cover. Trump got the bill.
Now the accounting is starting.
Sources:
- Sean James, "Bill O'Reilly Shreds 'CRANK' LinkedIn Founder for Funding E. Jean Carroll Case Against Trump," Mediaite, June 2, 2026.
- Josephine Walker, "DOJ Probe Targets Reid Hoffman Nonprofit Tied to E. Jean Carroll Case," Axios, May 28, 2026.
- "Hoffman's Antics Go Beyond Backing Carroll's Anti-Trump Lawfare," The Federalist, May 29, 2026.
- Athena Thorne, "You Love to See It: DOJ Digs Into E. Jean Carroll's Possible Perjury," PJ Media, May 28, 2026.
