Elon Musk Back to Hailing Trump, Just Days After Accusing Him of Being in Epstein Files
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Elon Musk appeared to reverse course over the weekend, sharing support for President Donald Trump after accusing him days earlier of covering up his alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking schemes.
On Thursday, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO launched an extraordinary attack on Trump as their relationship disintegrated.
“@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public,” Musk wrote in a since-deleted post on X.
He later posted, “Without me, Trump would have lost the election… Such ingratitude.”
The blowup came as Trump dismissed Musk’s influence on the 2024 election and threatened to cut off his government contracts.
According to a report Saturday from The Washington Post, Trump had spent days manning the phones to tell confidantes that Musk is a “big-time drug addict.”
Trump also said he had no interest in repairing his relationship with the tech CEO, and Musk quietly took down his insults of the president.
By Sunday, as violent anti-immigration raid protests erupted in Los Angeles, Musk quietly amplified Trump’s rhetoric without comment and with no mention of their public falling out.
Just days after connecting Trump to the dead pedophile, Musk reposted a Truth Social statement from Trump on X, in which the president declared Los Angeles “invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals,” and ordered federal action to restore “law and order.”
Musk added two American flag emojis to the post.
He also shared another Trump message calling on Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass to “apologize to the people of Los Angeles” and claiming that “these are not protesters, they are troublemakers and insurrectionists.”
Musk offered no additional commentary on Trump’s earlier threats or the reports that he has been privately disparaging him over his alleged drug use and depression.
The only insight Musk gave into his thinking came in a cryptic post Sunday evening.
He wrote, “It’s outrageous how much character assassination has been directed at me, especially by me!”
Musk also replied to on X user, but offered little insight into his state of mind.
