Rep. Ro Khanna is behind the Epstein bill. His ‘sugar daddy’ visited Epstein’s island.
In 2014, Ro Khanna, a former Obama official, was on the campaign trail in his congressional race while touting his support from LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman.
Around the same time, Hoffman was visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s island.
A decade later, Hoffman and Khanna have become some of the most vocal crusaders against the long dead Epstein. Hoffman dropped an estimated six figures on a Monday Night Football ad by supposed Epstein ‘survivors’ demanding the release of the ‘Epstein files’. None of the ‘survivors’ in the ad mentioned the names of any of the men who abused them or revealed that the ad was being paid for by an associate of Jeffrey Epstein and a visitor to his ‘island’.
The ad, in support of Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie’s performative Epstein bill, highlighted the longstanding connections between Khanna, Hoffman and Epstein.
When Rep. Khanna appeared on CNN to demand that “the Epstein class needs to go”, Reid Hoffman chimed in to agree, “we need the full truth.” The ‘truth’, according to Rep. Khanna’s Silicon Valley ‘sugar daddy’, is that “my few interactions with Jeffrey Epstein came at the request” of MIT and he only did it because “Epstein had cleared the MIT vetting process.”
The actual truth, as we have learned so far, is that Reid Hoffman visited Epstein’s island once, was planning to make a second trip to the island, and then stay at Epstein’s Manhattan place.
Hoffman stayed in touch with Epstein, made further plans to see the sex predator, and continued communicating with him for the next few years. The billionaire Democrat donor blamed ‘MIT vetting’ for his decision to pal around with a man whose sex abuses were a matter of public record. Now he’s blaming President Trump, condemning the president’s “calls for baseless investigations” into him and “Donald Trump and his slanderous lies”.
Republican ‘Never Trumpers’ like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rep. Massie have lined up to work on Hoffman’s Epstein agenda with his Democrat representative: Rep. Ro Khanna.
Even as Rep. Khanna demagogued about the Epstein files, claiming that “justice is long overdue” and claimed that his work will “shock the conscience of the country”, he has refused to ask congressional Democrats to return Hoffman’s money. Understandable since the congressman had received $7,000 from Reid Hoffman just this year. And he’s not doing refunds.
Rep. Ro Khanna had shown no past interest in the Epstein issue and he represents many of the Silicon Valley donors, like Hoffman, tied up with Epstein, but dived into Epstein demagoguery with the opportunist’s genius for holding completely incompatible positions required for a man who simultaneously represented Big Tech and co-chaired the Bernie Sanders campaign. --->READ MORE HERE
Rep. Ro Khanna promises to fix all the things he’s doing wrong.
In 2023, Rep. Ro Khanna, the most active stock trader in Congress, demanded that some sort of law be passed to urgently stop members like him from trading stocks.
“All I want for Christmas is to clean up the corruption in Congress,” Rep. Khanna, who is Hindu, declared. “Our political system should not be for sale.”
That year, Rep. Khanna made 4,253 trades making him by far the House’s most active trader.
The completely useless resolution that Khanna knew had no chance of passing urged banning “members of Congress from holding and trading individual stocks”, imposed term limits, a ban on PAC contributions, a “binding code of ethics” and term limits for Supreme Court justices.
In 2024, Rep. Khanna traded $450,000 worth of stocks and was once again named the “most active trader” in Congress. The 200 transactions by Silicon Valley’s congressman included significant investments in tech companies, including major federal cybersecurity contractors like CrowdStrike and AOC, even while Rep. Khanna sits on the House Cybersecurity, Information Technology Oversight Subcommittee.
Rep. Khanna’s trades also “spanned all of the top five military contractors” while serving as a ranking member of the House Armed Services subcommittee on cybersecurity.
The 4th richest Californian in Congress with a net worth at least in the tens of millions, claims that most of these investments are a private trust held for his wife, Ritu Khanna, a 46-year-old woman, courtesy of her father, Monte Ahuja, an Indian immigrant who owns an investment company, Mura Holdings, and that it’s managed by independent money managers who keep going back to defense stocks even after he promised to divest from them back in 2021.
Despite introducing multiple proposals to get members of Congress out of the stock market, Rep. Khanna couldn’t even get his family out of trading stocks from industries he oversees.
But Rep. Khanna’s “political reform resolution” conveniently called for banning “members of Congress” from trading stocks. Not their spouses. Or the money managers of their spouses.
Silicon Valley’s congressman is certainly far from the only politician with sizable financial interests in companies that intersect with his congressional oversight areas, but he’s the sleaziest when it comes to loudly virtue signaling, calling for urgent reforms, condemning his colleagues and promising major reforms while doing all the things that he’s denouncing.
Now he’s at it again. --->READ MORE HERE
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