LinkedIn Co-Founder Secretly Funds E. Jean Carroll's Trump Lawsuit

Reid Hoffman, the billionaire behind LinkedIn and a major Democratic donor, has been revealed to be secretly funding E. Jean Carroll's rape case against former President Donald Trump. The disclosure came out in contentious correspondence between lawyers for Carroll and Trump, who are battling over whether to delay the trial scheduled to start in two weeks. While it's unclear if the payment arrangement has any material impact on the case itself, Trump's lawyers are using it to ask a federal judge to push back the trial or even open up another round of investigation before it starts.