LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman tries to explain away comment saying he wished he could martyr Trump [Video]

LinkedIn’s co-founder Reid Hoffman has sought to clarify comments he made about Donald Trump before the assassination attempt against him, in which he said that he wished the former president was a “martyr.”

The internet entrepreneur said at an Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference last week, before the shooting incident at Trump’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday night, that he wished the presumptive Republican candidate for the White House was “an actual martyr” – a comment that then gained fresh attention after the assassination attempt.

Hoffman has since clarified his comments in a lengthy post on X, but this also has come as his political adviser came under fire for reportedly floating the idea that the assassination attempt could have possibly been ”staged.”

Hoffman wrote on X: “A point …