LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman considers leaving US after Trump win: report

Following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory on Election Day, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is reportedly considering leaving the US. Three people familiar with the talks told the New York Times that Hoffman has told friends and allies that he is weighing such a move.

Hoffman is reportedly concerned about retribution from Trump as the billionaire has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on politics over the past few years, including helping pay for columnist E Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump. The Times reported that Hoffman is "worried about retribution from a president who has promised to go after his political opponents, including major Democratic donors."



The outlet reported that several other major donors or their advisors are also weighing the decision to move abroad. Among those who have taken the leap and left the US following Trump's victory are former daytime TV host Ellen DeGeneres and her partner Portia de Rossi, who moved to the UK only to have their new 43-acre property flood.

In a July report from Puck News, published the day prior to the first assassination attempt on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, Hoffman reportedly told attendees at the Allen & Company Conference in Idaho that he wished "I had made him an actual martyr" in response to tech mogul Peter Theil saying Hoffman’s funding of lawsuits against Trump made him a "martyr."

Hoffman wrote after the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt, "Peter Thiel said that my lawsuit work against Trump was ‘turning a clown into a martyr.’ In that context, I replied that I wished that Trump would martyr himself — meaning let himself be held accountable," per the New York Post. Hoffman added, "Of course I meant nothing about any sort of physical harm or violence, which I categorically deplore."