Elon Musk says Donald Trump seems in recordsdata regarding the disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
It’s the newest in a string of barbs between the boys as they seem to have dramatically fallen out in a public spat.
“Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.”
Picture:Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida with Jeffrey Epstein in 1997. Pic: Getty Photos
He gave no proof for the declare. In the meantime, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the remark.
In an announcement, she mentioned: “That is an unlucky episode from Elon, who’s sad with the One Huge Lovely Invoice [a Republican tax and spending bill] as a result of it doesn’t embody the insurance policies he wished.
“The president is focused on passing this historic piece of legislation and making our country great again.”
Musk’s submit appeared to have been deleted by Sunday with customers greeted with the message: “Hmm…this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.”
Epstein killed himself in his jail cell in August 2019 whereas awaiting trial on prices of intercourse trafficking minors.
Picture:Jeffrey Epstein. File pic: New York State Intercourse Offender Registry through AP
Trump in beforehand launched Epstein paperwork
Donald Trump has been named in beforehand launched paperwork regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
One Epstein accuser in 2016 mentioned she spent a number of hours with the disgraced financier at a Trump on line casino however she didn’t say if she met Mr Trump and didn’t accuse him of any wrongdoing.
Mr Trump as soon as mentioned he believed Epstein was a “terrific guy” however that they later fell out.
The newest claims by Musk concerning the Epstein recordsdata faucet into conspiracy theories that delicate recordsdata the federal government possesses haven’t but been launched.
In one other submit on Thursday, Musk, the proprietor of social media platform X, attacked Mr Trump’s tariffs, saying they “will cause a recession in the second half of this year.”
The Tesla boss shared a submit calling for Mr Trump’s impeachment and requested whether or not it was “time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle”.
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18:59‘Wheels come off’ Musk-Trump relationship
Musk additionally mentioned his firm SpaceX will start decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft “immediately” following Mr Trump’s threats to cancel authorities contracts with Musk’s companies.
Dragon is the one US spacecraft out there to ship crew to and from the Worldwide House Station.
The spat has already hit Tesla shares, which misplaced about $150bn (£111bn) in worth, closing down 14.3% for the day.
Picture:President Trump has responded to Musk’s criticisms about his signature tax invoice. Pic: AP.
It comes after the president mentioned he was “disappointed” with Musk after the entrepreneur publicly criticised Mr Trump‘s signature tax invoice.
The president advised his former backer and adviser missed being in authorities and has “Trump derangement syndrome”.
He added: “I’m very disappointed in Elon. I’ve helped Elon a lot.”
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0:47Footage exhibits Trump and Epstein in 1992
In a Reality Social submit, the US president mentioned: “Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave, I took away his EV mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went crazy!”.
On Tuesday, the world’s richest man known as the president’s tax and spending invoice “outrageous” and a “disgusting abomination” – days after abruptly leaving his place spearheading the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE).
The invoice, which incorporates multi-trillion-dollar tax breaks, was handed by the Home Republicans in Could and has been described by the president as a “big, beautiful bill”. In contrast, Musk has known as it the “big, ugly bill”.
Picture:Musk claimed accountability for Mr Trump’s election success. Pic: Reuters.
Shortly after the president expressed his disappointment in Musk on Thursday, the SpaceX boss responded.
“False”, he wrote on his X platform.
“This bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it!”
In one other scathing submit on X, Musk claimed accountability for Donald Trump’s re-election success.
He wrote: “Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.”
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1:48Why doesn’t Musk like Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’?
It got here after Mr Trump advised reporters the Tesla chief govt was unimpressed electrical car incentives had been being debated within the Senate and will face being reduce.
Final Thursday, Musk revealed on X that his scheduled time as a “special government employee” was coming to an finish.
However chatting with Gillian Joseph on The World, Errol Musk insisted there was “no rift between Elon and Donald Trump”.
