The country’s most endangered Senate Democrat has a rallying cry – and he’s calling it the ‘Epstein Class.’
It’s a shorthand term that Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff has coined to describe the wealthy and powerful, he argues, who have escaped political accountability, and it’s become central to his pitch as he fights to hold his Senate seat in 2026.
During a campaign rally last month, Ossoff stated, ‘we were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It is the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class, ruling our country.’
‘They are the elites they pretend to hate,’ Ossoff noted, before claiming that President Donald Trump is ‘closing rural hospitals to cut taxes for George Soros for Elon Musk.’
George Soros and his son Alex are top Ossoff donors, and George appeared in the Epstein files.
Federal Election Commission records reveal that Ossoff has received over $100,000 from individuals named in the Epstein files between his various campaign accounts.
In essence, part of that very Epstein class he decries is funding his bid for another term in power – which could become an issue for him in his re-election campaign.
The state’s senior senator, at just 39, Ossoff faces one of the toughest reelection maps in the country. The Cook Political Report has labelled him the ‘most endangered incumbent’ of the cycle – a line his own campaign has been running in Google display ads.
Jon Ossoff speaks to the crowd during an outdoor drive-in rally on December 5, 2020 in Conyers, Georgia
Carol Mack, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend Henry Street Settlement Event on May 16, 1995 in New York City
Ossoff’s barrage of attacks on the ‘Epstein Class’ has driven much of his national profile, including during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted pedophile, reportedly died in jail by suicide in 2019.
The appearance of an individual’s name in the files is not necessarily evidence of wrongdoing.
LinkedIn founder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman has given Ossoff $27,864 dollars between his 2020 and 2026 campaigns.
Hoffman appears in the files at least 2,619 times, per a Daily Mail analysis.
Billionaire Democrat donors George Soros, and his son, Alex, have given Ossoff $20,600 dollars each, for a total of over $40,000 in contributions.
In an FBI victim statement, George Soros was said to have been on a yacht with Epstein, in which he witnessed the victim being sodomized and raped, in a heavily drug-induced state, with the bottoms of his feet being slashed.
Reid Hoffman, Partner at Greylock and co-founder LinkedIn, speaks during the WSJ Tech Live conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal at the Montage Laguna Beach in Laguna Beach, California, on October 21, 2024
George Soros is seen with his son Alexander, in Munich, Germany in this picture obtained from social media and released February 16, 2023
Pierre Omidyar, the founder and chairman of eBay Inc. is shown
Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend who was involved in many aspects of his life and business, noted in an interview conducted by the US Department of Justice, ‘I don’t think he knew him,’ when asked about a relationship between Epstein and Soros.
Laurene Powell-Jobs, the owner of the Atlantic, who has been pictured with Maxwell, gave Ossoff $8,200, split between his 2020 Senate race, as well as a prior 2017 contribution during his election for the US House of Representatives.
Eric Schmidt, a top advisor to Google and Youtube’s parent company Alphabet Inc, gave $10,667 to Ossoff.
In a 2013 email from an apparent mutual contact of both Epstein and Schmidt, Todd Meister, the writer notes to Epstein that ‘Schmidt was blown away by’ him ‘in a positive way.’
John Doerr, an early tech investor and California-based venture capitalist, has made two contributions of $3,500 to Ossoff’s 2026 campaign, for a total of $7,000.
Doerr was listed on email chains with Epstein from John Brockman, who hosted events with ‘sumptuous dinners [and] exclusive conferences… for the rich, the smart, and the powerful,’ per the Department of Justice.
Jeffrey Dean, now a Senior Fellow at Google, has contributed $7,650 to Ossoff. Dean was mentioned in the Epstein files as someone Jeffrey should meet and was described as an ‘interesting’ person.
Renowned Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg gave $5,600 to Ossoff’s 2020 campaign.
In a 2011 Cannes Diary for the Huffington Post, Epstein’s publicist Peggy Siegal said that ‘a gang of young people’ came off of Steven Spielberg’s ‘new yacht’ at two o’clock in the morning.
Hollywood publicist Jenny Siegal offered to bring Jeffrey Epstein ‘a little baby back for you.. or two’ from a trip
Other individuals named in the files and who have also donated to Ossoff include businessman Sidney Kimmel, real estate mogul and venture capitalist Nick Pritzker, architect, philanthropist, and medical technology heir Jon Stryker, hedge fund leader David Shaw, former CEO of DreamWorks Animation Jeffrey Katzenberg, billionaire heiress Katharine Rayner, and former Democrat Senator George Mitchell, who Epstein once described as a ‘very close friend.’
Epstein-connected billionaire, Pierre Omidyar, gave $355,000 from the Omidyar Network Fund, Inc. to Insight TWI, an investigative news company formerly headed by Jon Ossoff.
As early as 2004, Omidyar attended John Brockman’s annual Edge Billionaire’s Dinner with Epstein.
From 2010 to 2013, Omidyar was on email chains with Epstein from John Brockman, who hosted events with ‘sumptuous dinners [and] exclusive conferences… for the rich, the smart, and the powerful.’
The Ossoff campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the Daily Mail.
