Tech billionaire Elon Musk blasted President Trump on Saturday over his protection of Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi and her dealing with of the case associated to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Musk, in a publish on the social platform X late Saturday, responded to a different X consumer, who screenshotted Trump’s Reality Social assertion earlier that day and wrote, “This is in the running for worst post ever made.”
“Seriously,” Musk stated, agreeing with that sentiment about Trump’s publish. “He said ‘Epstein’ half a dozen times while telling everyone to stop talking about Epstein.”
“Just release the files as promised,” Musk added.
Musk, a couple of minutes later, responded to a separate publish calling the Epstein case Trump’s “Achilles’ heel,” rebuking the president for pledging to launch the information on the marketing campaign path and now dismissing the importance of the case.
“This is a very big deal,” Musk responded. “What the hell kind of system are we living in if thousands of kids were abused, the government has videos of the abusers and yet none of the abusers are even facing charges!?”
Earlier on Saturday, Trump took to Reality Social to supply a sweeping protection of his lawyer common, who has come beneath scrutiny because the Justice Division launched a memo on Monday that concluded Epstein didn’t maintain a so-called “client list” of high-profile people to blackmail them.
The memo additionally concluded there was no proof to recommend foul play in Epstein’s 2019 dying, 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 publish, through which he wrote, “LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB — SHE’S GREAT!”
“What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein,” Trump stated on Reality Social.
The president recommended a few of his political opponents “created” the Epstein information and that the outrage from some within the MAGA motion over the paperwork associated to the case is strictly what Trump’s longtime critics are in search of.
“For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to Files 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’ Agents, THE LAPTOP FROM HELL,’ and more? They created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called ‘friends’ are playing right into their hands,” Trump wrote within the publish, referring to FBI’s probe into the alleged ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 marketing campaign.
“Why didn’t these Radical Left Lunatics release the Epstein Files? If there was ANYTHING in there that could have hurt the MAGA Movement, why didn’t they use it? They haven’t even given up on the John F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King, Jr. Files,” Trump stated on Saturday.
