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A source in the Biden-Harris administration is sounding the alarm about “deeply corrupt” calls from billionaire Democratic donors for Kamala Harris to fire FTC commissioner Lina Khan if she wins the 2024 election – something the presumptive presidential nominee has yet to denounce.
拜登-哈里斯政府的一位消息人士对亿万富翁民主党捐助者呼吁卡玛拉·哈里斯(Kamala Harris)发出“深度腐败”的警告,要求卡马拉·哈里斯(Kamala Harris)在赢得 2024 年大选后解雇联邦贸易委员会委员莉娜·汗(Lina Khan)——而这位总统候选人尚未对此予以谴责。
Venture capitalists Reid Hoffman and Vinod Khosla, and media mogul Barry Diller, who have together donated millions of dollars to Harris’ now-principal campaign committee and associated PACs, were quick to call out Khan as a “dope” who is “waging war” on their business interests — and argue she should be sacked.
风险投资家里德·霍夫曼(Reid Hoffman)和维诺德·科斯拉(Vinod Khosla)以及媒体大亨巴里·迪勒(Barry Diller)共同向哈里斯现任主要竞选委员会和相关政治行动委员会捐赠了数百万美元,他们很快就将汗称为“蠢货”,正在“发动战争”。他们的商业利益 - 并认为她应该被解雇。
The anger at Khan comes as the FTC investigates companies in which each man has a financial interest. At least five portfolio companies in which Khosla has invested are currently facing FTC investigations, The Post has learned.
对汗的愤怒之际,联邦贸易委员会正在调查每个人都拥有经济利益的公司。据《华盛顿邮报》获悉,科斯拉投资的至少五家投资组合公司目前正面临联邦贸易委员会的调查。
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a presidential campaign rally on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at the Georgia State Convocation Center in Atlanta, Ga.
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A source in the Biden-Harris administration is sounding the alarm about “deeply corrupt” calls from billionaire Democratic donors for Kamala Harris to fire commissioner Lina Khan if she wins the 2024 election.
拜登-哈里斯政府的一位消息人士对卡玛拉·哈里斯的亿万富翁民主党捐助者呼吁“深度腐败”发出警告,如果她赢得 2024 年大选,就解雇专员莉娜·汗。
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Khosla, worth an estimated $7.5 billion according to Forbes, took to X Wednesday to echo Hoffman’s comments that Khan needs to go. It’s unclear which companies are in the crosshairs, but Khan’s portfolio includes behemoths like OpenAI and DoorDash.
据福布斯报道,科斯拉的身家估计为 75 亿美元,周三他在 X 上回应了霍夫曼关于汗需要下台的评论。目前尚不清楚哪些公司成为目标,但 Khan 的投资组合包括 OpenAI 和 DoorDash 等巨头。
He had donated $413,000 to the Biden Action Fund in June before Harris’ ascent to the top of the Democratic ticket, federal campaign finance filings show.
联邦竞选财务文件显示,在哈里斯成为民主党候选人之前,他于 6 月份向拜登行动基金捐赠了 413,000 美元。
The 95-year-old mother of Marc Fogel, the American teacher imprisoned in Russia for the past three years, slammed the Biden administration for not including her son in the latest prisoner swap that freed three jailed Americans.
拜登-哈里斯政府消息人士表示,“呼吁这样做并与捐款相结合,这是严重腐败的行为”,并指出对霍夫曼担任董事会成员的微软和迪勒旗下 Angi 旗下的 Homeadvisor 进行的反垄断调查。国际航空委员会。
“By publicly calling for her to be removed, they’ve put Kamala in an impossible situation,” the source spilled to The Post. “The idea Kamala would fire a 35-year-old, brown, progressive icon is bananas.”
消息人士向《华盛顿邮报》透露:“通过公开要求将她撤职,他们已经将卡马拉置于了一个不可能的境地。” “卡玛拉解雇一位 35 岁、棕色皮肤的进步偶像的想法简直就是香蕉。”
Neither the Harris campaign nor Hoffman responded to a request for comment.
哈里斯竞选团队和霍夫曼都没有回应置评请求。
Diller, who donated the maximum to the Biden-Harris re-election campaign last year as well as $100,000 to their PAC, told The Post on Wednesday that he regretted his criticisms of Khan’s intelligence — but not her aggressive anti-trust litigation.
迪勒去年向拜登-哈里斯连任竞选活动捐款最多,并向政治行动委员会捐赠了 10 万美元。他周三对《华盛顿邮报》表示,他对批评汗的情报感到遗憾,但对她咄咄逼人的反垄断诉讼并不后悔。
Lina Khan, Chair, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaking at a hearing of the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government at the U.S. Capitol.
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The anger at Khan comes as the FTC investigates companies in which each man has a financial interest.
对汗的愤怒之际,联邦贸易委员会正在调查每个人都拥有经济利益的公司。
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“Don’t know what was in my head during that interview — she’s anything but a dope — she’s smart!” he said. “I do disagree with her on competitive issues where I think the FTC has overreached.”
“不知道在那次采访中我脑子里在想什么——她绝不是个傻瓜——她很聪明!”他说。 “在竞争问题上,我确实不同意她的观点,我认为联邦贸易委员会的做法有些过分。”
But Hoffman in an interview with CNN on Tuesday afternoon doubled down his calls for Khan’s ouster, claiming that he was “not buying levels of influence.”
但霍夫曼在周二下午接受美国有线电视新闻网 (CNN) 采访时,加大了要求汗下台的呼吁,声称他“不会购买影响力”。
“I would hope that Vice President Harris would replace her,” he told CNN anchor Jake Tapper, adding that his opinion as a “donor and expert should be kept secre– separate.”
“我希望副总统哈里斯能够取代她,”他告诉美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)主播杰克·塔珀(Jake Tapper),并补充说他作为“捐助者和专家的意见应该保密”。
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn Corp., speaks during the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, June 22, 2023.
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Hoffman in an interview with CNN on Tuesday afternoon doubled down his calls for Khan’s ouster, claiming that he was “not buying levels of influence.”
霍夫曼周二下午在接受美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)采访时,加大了要求汗下台的呼声,声称他“不会购买影响力”。
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The LinkedIn cofounder, who has given at least $7 million so far this year to the Harris-aligned Future Forward PAC, went on to say, “I don’t ever show up at the White House saying, ‘I think you should do this.’”
这位LinkedIn联合创始人今年迄今为止已向与哈里斯结盟的Future Forward PAC捐赠了至少700万美元,他接着说:“我从来没有出现在白宫说,‘我认为你应该这样做.’”
But in December 2023, visitor logs show Hoffman took meetings with White House aides including Rachel Chiu, who serves as a special assistant to the president and chief of staff at the Office of Political Strategy and Outreach.
但在 2023 年 12 月,访客日志显示,霍夫曼与白宫助手进行了会面,其中包括担任总统特别助理兼政治战略和外联办公室幕僚长的 Rachel Chiu。
The Democratic megadonor funneled $923,000 to the then-Biden Victory Fund, now Harris Victory Fund, a little more than two weeks after the West Wing sit-down.
在西翼静坐两周多后,这位民主党巨额捐助者向当时的拜登胜利基金(现在的哈里斯胜利基金)注入了 923,000 美元。
Barry Diller, chairman and chief executive officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp
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“Don’t know what was in my head during that interview — she’s anything but a dope — she’s smart!” Diller told The Post. “I do thought disagree with her on competitive issues where I think the FTC has overreached.”
“不知道在那次采访中我脑子里在想什么——她绝不是个傻瓜——她很聪明!”迪勒告诉《华盛顿邮报》。 “我确实认为在竞争问题上不同意她的观点,我认为联邦贸易委员会在这些问题上做得太过分了。”
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“When I speak to these things, I speak more as a venture capitalist — I never speak as a Microsoft board member,” Hoffman went on to tell an incredulous Tapper. “I’ve never had a conversation with Kamala Harris about this.”
“当我谈论这些事情时,我更多地以风险投资家的身份说话——我从来不以微软董事会成员的身份说话,”霍夫曼接着对难以置信的塔珀说道。 “我从未与卡马拉·哈里斯谈论过此事。”
“There aren’t like a hundred Reid Hoffman,” Tapper shot back. “It’s not like one of you is a donor, and one of you has opinions on Lina Khan, and one of you is on the board of Microsoft and one of you is a venture capitalist.”
“里德·霍夫曼的数量不到一百个,”塔珀反驳道。 “这不像你们中的一个是捐助者,一个对莉娜·汗有意见,一个是微软董事会成员,一个是风险投资家。”
“I don’t think there’s a politician alive that’s able to compartmentalize the way you’re suggesting they should,” he emphasized, before noting: “You and other donors went after Lina Khan pretty quickly after Biden announced he was dropping out of the 2024 race.”
他强调说:“我认为没有一个活着的政治家能够按照你建议的方式进行划分。”然后指出:“在拜登宣布退出竞选后,你和其他捐助者很快就追随了莉娜·汗。” 2024 年比赛。”
Reid Hoffman joins The Lead with Jake Tapper
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“I don’t think there’s a politician alive that’s able to compartmentalize the way you’re suggesting they should,” Tapper told Hoffman, noting: “You and other donors went after Lina Khan pretty quickly after Biden announced he was dropping out.”
塔珀告诉霍夫曼:“我认为没有一个活着的政治家能够按照你建议的方式进行划分。”他指出:“在拜登宣布退出后,你和其他捐助者很快就追捕了莉娜·汗。”
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Hoffman refused to back down and even suggested that Harris “might watch our segment.” Still, he acknowledged that his support for Harris and disdain for Khan wasn’t doing the Democratic Party any favors given Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance’s backing of the FTC commissioner.
霍夫曼拒绝让步,甚至建议哈里斯“可以观看我们的节目”。尽管如此,他承认,鉴于共和党副总统候选人 JD 万斯对联邦贸易委员会委员的支持,他对哈里斯的支持和对汗的蔑视并没有给民主党带来任何好处。
“Lina Khan is the person I would point out as the best person within the Biden administration,” Vance had said at Bloomberg’s “RemedyFest” tech forum in February. “I like a lot of things that Lina Khan is doing.”
“我认为莉娜·汗是拜登政府内最好的人选,”万斯二月份在彭博社的“RemedyFest”科技论坛上表示。 “我喜欢莉娜·汗所做的很多事情。”
The infighting between the Biden-Harris administration official and Democratic donors is revealing the party now “caters to corporate big tech interests,” one GOP operative told The Post
一名共和党工作人员告诉《华盛顿邮报》,拜登-哈里斯政府官员与民主党捐助者之间的内讧表明该党现在“迎合大型科技公司的利益”
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Hoffman refused to back down and even suggested that Harris “might watch our segment,” while acknowledging that his support for Harris and disdain for Khan wasn’t doing the Democratic Party any favors.
霍夫曼拒绝让步,甚至建议哈里斯“可能会看我们的节目”,同时承认他对哈里斯的支持和对汗的蔑视不会给民主党带来任何好处。
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“There was a left-wing populist movement and they used to be anti-Wall Street and anti-big tech but they aren’t anymore,” the operative said.
“有一场左翼民粹主义运动,他们曾经反华尔街和反大型科技公司,但现在不再了,”这位特工说。
“Vance thinks about antitrust; and they have a serious antitrust agenda and they’re probably more friendly to Khan,” the operative added. “They would probably want to focus on tech/media and give oil/gas a pass. But they agree that tech companies need scrutiny.”
“万斯考虑反垄断;他们有严肃的反垄断议程,而且他们可能对汗更友好,”该特工补充道。 “他们可能希望专注于科技/媒体,并给予石油/天然气通过。但他们一致认为科技公司需要接受审查。”
“The issue is they’re likely to use antitrust to pursue an agenda and she wouldn’t fall in line,” the source also said. “They want someone who can continue her record who will do Trump’s bidding.”
“问题是他们可能会利用反垄断来实现议程,而她不会遵守,”消息人士还表示。 “他们想要一个能够延续她的记录、听从特朗普命令的人。”
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, arrive at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 20, 2024, in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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“Vance thinks about antitrust; and they have a serious antitrust agenda and they’re probably more friendly to Khan,” one GOP operative told The Post.
“万斯考虑反垄断;他们有严肃的反垄断议程,而且他们可能对汗更友好,”一位共和党工作人员告诉《华盛顿邮报》。
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Hoffman, sources also said, needs more friends in Washington as he and Microsoft face even more scrutiny from lawmakers.
消息人士还表示,霍夫曼在华盛顿需要更多的朋友,因为他和微软面临着立法者更严格的审查。
Over the last few weeks lawmakers have weighed investigating Microsoft in response to comments he made about his wish for Trump to be an “actual martyr,” according to the Washington Reporter.
据《华盛顿报道》报道,过去几周,议员们考虑对微软进行调查,以回应他希望特朗普成为“真正的烈士”的言论。
The company is also under fire following allegations they routed support calls made to Department of Defense contractors to China.
该公司还因被指控将给国防部承包商的支持电话转接到中国而受到批评。
Hoffman is both trying to ingratiate himself to candidates and trying to distance himself from anything controversial — including splitting from former adviser Dmitri Mehlhorn who suggested the assassination attempt on Trump could have been “staged.”
霍夫曼既试图讨好候选人,又试图与任何有争议的事情保持距离——包括与前顾问德米特里·梅尔霍恩(Dmitri Mehlhorn)分道扬镳,后者暗示对特朗普的暗杀企图可能是“上演的”。
Antitrust support has gone mainstream in recent years, with polling from YouGov showing nearly 70% of voters want antitrust action.
近年来,反垄断支持已成为主流,YouGov 的民意调查显示,近 70%的选民希望采取反垄断行动。
The FTC declined to comment.
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