The accusation, made without evidence, generated an exchange of criticism between Musk and the White House. Vice President JD Vance tried to minimize the incident, describing Musk as ’emotional’.
“It’s time to launch the big bomb: (Trump) is in the Epstein archives,” the businessman published on Thursday at the X, which he owns, at the height of a public divergence with the US President.
In the answer, the White House called Musk’s attacks – the richest man in the world – as “unfortunate”, with Donald Trump claiming that he thought that the owner of the companies Tesla, Starlink and Spacex had “completely lost control.”
Musk did not present any proof to support his accusations, but republished a 1992 video in which Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein seem to be together at a party.
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On Friday, US Vice President Jd Vance considered that Musk was making a “big mistake” by attacking Donald Trump, but tried to minimize the situation, said the multibillionaire is “an emotional type.”
“I hope that eventually Elon will return to the group. Perhaps this is not possible now, because it is so radical,” said Vance.
Jeffrey Epstein, an American finance who was at the center of a scandal related to sexual exploitation of minors, committed suicide in prison in 2019 before being tried.
Although Epstein’s friendship relationship with Donald Trump was a long time ago, the US President repeatedly denied having been on the property on the American virgin islands, where, according to prosecutors, the sexual trafficking of underage girls occurred.
After the mutual accusations, it seems unlikely that the relationship of Trump and Musk will be resumed, but the level of public confrontation between the two seemed to be back a little on Friday night.
