2026年9月23日 美国东部时间凌晨5:00 / 福克斯新闻
科林斯称奥索夫是“伪君子”：一边接受霍夫曼捐款，一边抨击“爱泼斯坦阶层”
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独家： 佐治亚州民主党参议员乔恩·奥索夫被批评为“伪君子”，他面临两项挑战：要么退还一名与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦有关的亿万富翁的大额捐款，要么收回他针对共和党人构成“爱泼斯坦阶层”的主要攻击言论。
奥索夫将自己的连任竞选定位为抵制富裕精英的影响力、将大笔资金从政治中清除。然而，他的竞选团队收到了硅谷亿万富翁里德·霍夫曼最高法定限额7000美元的捐款。这位风险投资家此前承认曾到访爱泼斯坦的私人岛屿。霍夫曼还向奥索夫关联的政治行动委员会“新参与政治行动委员会”捐赠了100万美元。
霍夫曼并未被指控有任何不当行为。但奥索夫的共和党挑战者、众议员迈克·科林斯表示，接受霍夫曼的捐款证明奥索夫“从头到尾就是个伪君子”。
在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时，科林斯表示，他给奥索夫一个非常简单的选择：退还里德·霍夫曼的捐款，要么解释为什么“爱泼斯坦阶层”不包括他自己的一位最高额捐款者。
民主党“爱泼斯坦阶层”攻击适得其反，顶级候选人获爱泼斯坦关联亿万富翁资助
在竞选活动中，奥索夫抨击美国政治“靠秘密资金、企业资金、亿万富翁资金运转”，并指责特朗普政府“将美国腐败推到了惊人的新高度”。他今年早些时候发表声明称：“有人告诉我们，‘让美国再次伟大’运动是为美国工薪阶层的。但这是一个由超级富豪掌控、为超级富豪服务的政府……这就是爱泼斯坦阶层，他们在统治我们的国家。他们就是那些假装憎恨的精英。”
然而，奥索夫的捐款人之一、总部位于西雅图的亿万富翁霍夫曼此前承认曾在爱泼斯坦的加勒比岛屿上过夜。两人首次已知的会面是在2013年7月19日，彼时爱泼斯坦已在佛罗里达州就招揽卖淫和为卖淫招募未成年人的州级指控认罪近五年。根据麻省理工学院的记录，当时担任该校媒体实验室顾问委员会成员的霍夫曼与其他教职员工一起在校园内与爱泼斯坦会面。
据《华尔街日报》报道，次年，霍夫曼到访爱泼斯坦的私人岛屿圣詹姆斯小岛并过夜。《商业内幕》报道称，在最近一次播客节目中，霍夫曼承认作为麻省理工学院筹款旅行的一部分，在爱泼斯坦的岛上住了一晚。谈及此次到访，他打趣道：“提醒自己：出发前先谷歌一下。”
《华尔街日报》报道称，2014年晚些时候，霍夫曼给爱泼斯坦送了冰淇淋，附言称是送给他或“姑娘们的”。
霍夫曼此后已为与爱泼斯坦的关联道歉，称“同意参与有爱泼斯坦在场的任何筹款活动，我帮助修复了他的声誉，延续了不公。对此我深感愧疚。”
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本届选举周期中，霍夫曼向奥索夫的竞选活动捐赠了7000美元。
今年8月，霍夫曼还向“新参与政治行动委员会”捐赠了100万美元，这是一家佐治亚州的政治组织，由奥索夫前高级顾问亚历山大·埃德尔曼运营。据福克斯新闻数字频道审查的9月联邦选举委员会文件显示，“新参与”已斥资近50万美元用于反对科林斯的媒体宣传。
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系“新参与政治行动委员会”和埃德尔曼置评。
科林斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，奥索夫接受霍夫曼的捐款“向佐治亚州选民传递了一个明确无误的信息”。
“他根本不在乎我们的州；他不代表该州的人民或该州的价值观。如果他在乎，他肯定不会与那些爱泼斯坦的朋友为伍，直接接受里德·霍夫曼的最高限额捐款，而霍夫曼在爱泼斯坦档案中被列为爱泼斯坦的朋友，”他说。
他指出：“我们现在可以想象，如果有人给你20美元，你不知道对方是谁，但如果有人直接向你的竞选团队捐出最高限额的款项，你肯定知道他们是谁，但你还是收下了。然后你转身就像个伪君子一样，谈论特朗普总统和爱泼斯坦档案，而事实上你自己也与此有关。”
奥巴马幕僚公开抨击民主党新星的特朗普攻击言论：“刻意且毫无必要”
科林斯认为，被广泛视为民主党新星的奥索夫实际上是将佐治亚州的参议院竞选作为未来总统竞选的跳板。
“很明显，这家伙只是把佐治亚州当作一个平台，”他声称。“他会尽可能多地筹款，根本不在乎钱从哪里来。”
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“所以我们在这里谴责，并要求乔恩·奥索夫谴责里德·霍夫曼，退还该捐款，并告诉里德·霍夫曼，我们要求你停止资助他的竞选活动。”
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福克斯新闻数字频道已通过霍夫曼目前担任合伙人的风险投资公司格雷洛克联系了他。福克斯新闻数字频道也已联系奥索夫的竞选团队置评。
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EXCLUSIVE: Ossoff challenged to return Epstein-linked donation or retract ‘Epstein class’ attack
September 23, 2026 5:00am EDT / Fox News
Collins calls Ossoff a ‘hypocrite’ for accepting money from Hoffman while railing against the ‘Epstein class’
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Mike Collins issues ‘demand’ for Jon Ossoff to return donation from Epstein associate
Georgia Republican Senate candidate Rep. Mike Collins issues a “demand” for Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., to return a donation from Reid Hoffman.
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EXCLUSIVE: Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia is being criticized as a “hypocrite” and faces a challenge to return a sizable donation from a Jeffrey Epstein-linked billionaire or drop one of his main lines of attack on Republicans as representing the “Epstein class.”
Ossoff has framed his re-election effort as pushing back on the influence of wealthy elites and getting big money out of politics. However, his campaign received the maximum legal contribution of $7,000 from Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman, a venture capitalist who previously admitted to visiting Epstein’s private island. Hoffman also donated $1 million to an Ossoff-linked political action committee, New Engagement PAC.
Hoffman has not been accused of any wrongdoing. But Ossoff’s Republican challenger, Rep. Mike Collins, says that accepting donations from Hoffman shows Ossoff “has been nothing but a hypocrite the entire time.”
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Collins said he is giving Ossoff a very simple choice: return the Reid Hoffman donation or explain why the “Epstein class” does not include one of his own maximum-dollar donors.
DEM ‘EPSTEIN CLASS’ ATTACK BACKFIRES AS TOP CANDIDATES FUNDED BY EPSTEIN-TIED BILLIONAIRE
Billionaire Reid Hoffman (left), a known former associate of Jeffrey Epstein, made contributions to the campaign for Sen. Jon Ossoff (right), D-Ga., and to a PAC opposing Ossoff’s challenger, Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga.(David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Ben Hendren/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
On the campaign trail, Ossoff has railed against American politics for “running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money” and accused the Trump administration of taking “American corruption to spectacular new heights.” He released a statement earlier this year, saying, “We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich… this is the Epstein class, ruling our country. They are the elites they pretend to hate.”
However, one of Ossoff’s donors, Hoffman, a Seattle-based billionaire, has previously admitted to spending a night on Epstein’s Caribbean island. Their first known meeting was on July 19, 2013, almost five years after Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to state charges of soliciting prostitution and procuring a minor for prostitution. According to Massachusetts Institute of Technology records, Hoffman, then a member of the university’s Media Lab Advisory Council, met with Epstein alongside other faculty members on campus.
The next year, Hoffman visited Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James, and stayed overnight, The Wall Street Journal reported. Business Insider reported that in a recent podcast appearance, Hoffman admitted to staying one night at Epstein’s island as part of an MIT fundraising trip. Regarding his visit, he quipped, “Note to self: Google before going.”
The Wall Street Journal reported that later in 2014, Hoffman sent Epstein ice cream, writing that it was for him or “for the girls.”
Hoffman has since apologized for his association with Epstein, saying that “by agreeing to participate in any fundraising activity where Epstein was present, I helped to repair his reputation and perpetuate injustice. For this, I am deeply regretful.”
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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend de Grisogono Sponsors The 2005 Wall Street Concert Series Benefitting Wall Street Rising, with a Performance by Rod Stewart at Cipriani Wall Street on March 15, 2005, in New York City.(Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
This election cycle, Hoffman donated $7,000 to Ossoff’s campaign.
In August, Hoffman also donated $1 million to New Engagement PAC, a Georgia-based political organization run by former Ossoff senior advisor Alexander Edelman. New Engagement has spent nearly $500,000 on media opposing Collins, according to September FEC filings reviewed by Fox News Digital.
Fox News Digital reached out to New Engagement PAC and Edelman for comment.
Collins told Fox News Digital that Ossoff’s acceptance of Hoffman’s donations is “sending a plain and clear message to the voters of Georgia.”
“He doesn’t care about our state; he doesn’t represent the people of the state or the values of our state. If he did, he certainly wouldn’t be associating himself with some of the Epstein friends out there, just taking money directly, maxed out, from Reid Hoffman who was in the Epstein files as an Epstein friend,” he said.
He noted, “I could see it now if somebody gave you 20 bucks, and you didn’t know who it was, but when somebody maxes out to your campaign directly, you know who they are, but yet you still take it. And then you turn around, and you go out there like a hypocrite, and you talk about President Trump and the Epstein files when you, in fact, are tied to it.”
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Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference at the Capitol Hill Club on Wednesday, December 4, 2024.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Collins argued that Ossoff, widely considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, is actually using his Georgia Senate campaign as a launching pad for a future presidential run.
“It’s very clear that this guy is just using Georgia as a platform,” he alleged. “He is going to get as much money as he can. He does not care where it comes from.”
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“So, we are here to condemn and demand that John Ossoff condemn Reid Hoffman, refund that donation, and tell Reid Hoffman we demand that you stop funding his campaign.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to Hoffman through Greylock, a venture-capital firm at which he currently sits as a partner. Fox News Digital also reached out to Ossoff’s campaign for comment.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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