Tech billionaire Elon Musk blasted President Trump on Saturday over his defense of Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi and her dealing with of the case associated to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Musk, in a post on the social platform X late Saturday, responded to another X user, who screenshotted Trump’s Fact Social assertion earlier that day and wrote, “That is within the operating for worst put up ever made.”
“Critically,” Musk mentioned, agreeing with that sentiment about Trump’s put up. “He mentioned ‘Epstein’ half a dozen occasions whereas telling everybody to cease speaking about Epstein.”
“Simply launch the recordsdata as promised,” Musk added.
Musk, a couple of minutes later, responded to a separate put up calling the Epstein case Trump’s “Achilles’ heel,” rebuking the president for pledging to launch the recordsdata on the marketing campaign path and now dismissing the importance of the case.
“It is a very large deal,” Musk responded. “What the hell sort of system are we dwelling in if 1000’s of youngsters have been abused, the federal government has movies of the abusers and but not one of the abusers are even going through fees!?”
Earlier on Saturday, Trump took to Fact Social to supply a sweeping protection of his lawyer common, who has come below scrutiny for the reason that Justice Division launched a memo on Monday that concluded Epstein didn’t hold a so-called “consumer record” of high-profile people to blackmail them.
The memo additionally concluded there was no proof to recommend foul play in Epstein’s 2019 loss of life, which had beforehand been decided to be a suicide.
However segments of Trump’s base of supporters have grown livid at Bondi, who had earlier indicated she had the so-called consumer record ready on her desk.
Trump has stood by Bondi and reiterated his assist of his lawyer common on Saturday in a prolonged put up, through which he wrote, “LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB — SHE’S GREAT!”
“What’s occurring with my ‘boys’ and, in some circumstances, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi, who’s doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Crew, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s taking place. We’ve got a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘egocentric folks’ try to harm it, throughout a man who by no means dies, Jeffrey Epstein,” Trump said on Truth Social.
The president instructed a few of his political opponents “created” the Epstein recordsdata and that the outrage from some within the MAGA motion over the paperwork associated to the case is precisely what Trump’s longtime critics are on the lookout for.
“For years, it’s Epstein, over and over. Why are we giving publicity to Information written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration, who conned the World with the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, 51 ‘Intelligence’ Brokers, THE LAPTOP FROM HELL,’ and extra? They created the Epstein Information, similar to they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele File that they used on me, and now my so-called ‘associates’ are enjoying proper into their palms,” Trump wrote within the put up, referring to FBI’s probe into the alleged ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 marketing campaign.
“Why didn’t these Radical Left Lunatics launch the Epstein Information? If there was ANYTHING in there that would have harm the MAGA Motion, why didn’t they use it? They haven’t even given up on the John F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King, Jr. Information,” Trump mentioned on Saturday.