Elon Musk is taking his feud with President Donald Trump a step additional, posting on X that the explanation the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata haven’t been launched is as a result of Trump is in them.
“Time to drop the actually large bomb,” Musk posted Thursday afternoon on X, previously Twitter. ”[Trump] is within the Epstein recordsdata. That’s the actual purpose they haven’t been made public.
“Have a pleasant day, DJT!”
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Epstein was a financier who died in jail whereas awaiting trial for intercourse trafficking fees in 2019. In February, the White Home promised to launch a trove of paperwork associated to the case, however what was in the end launched was largely already recognized.
The billionaire’s “actually large bomb” could also be extra of a dud. It’s lengthy been reported that Trump was on Epstein’s flight logs. However Musk’s put up nonetheless indicators an escalation in his sudden about-turn with Trump.
The 2 appeared to take pleasure in a honeymoon interval as Musk ripped aside the federal authorities as the top of the so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity. However on Thursday the 2 traded barbs after Musk criticized Trump’s so-called Huge Lovely Invoice, a spending measure that might lower Medicaid advantages and lengthen tax cuts for the rich.
The name-calling has solely escalated since Thursday morning. Trump threatened to terminate Musk’s authorities contracts in a Fact Social put up.
“The best method to save cash in our Finances, Billions and Billions of {Dollars}, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,” Trump posted. “I used to be all the time shocked that Biden didn’t do it!”
“Go forward, make my day …” Musk posted on X in response.
Musk then accused Trump of masking up the Epstein recordsdata.
“Mark this put up for the long run,” Musk stated in a followup. “The reality will come out.”
Later Thursday afternoon, Trump responded to Musk by defending his invoice.
“I don’t thoughts Elon turning towards me, however he ought to have achieved so months in the past,” Trump posted partly.
The White Home known as Musk’s conduct “unlucky” in an announcement to JHB.
“That is an unlucky episode from Elon, who’s sad with the One Huge Lovely Invoice as a result of it doesn’t embody the insurance policies he needed,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated. “The President is targeted on passing this historic piece of laws and making our nation nice once more.”
Final yr, Trump denied the earlier Epstein associations.
“I used to be by no means on Epstein’s Airplane, or at his ‘silly’ Island,” he wrote in Fact Social put up.