MUSK CLAIMS TRUMP IS INCLUDED IN THE EPSTEIN FILES AS ROW BETWEEN THEM EXPLODES

Thu 05 June 2025:

Elon Musk says Donald Trump appears in files relating to the disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

It’s the latest in a string of barbs between the men as they appear to have dramatically fallen out in a public spat.

In a post on X, the tech billionaire said: “@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.”

Epstein killed himself in his jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking minors.

It comes after the president said he was “disappointed” with Musk after the entrepreneur publicly criticised Trump‘s signature tax bill.

The president suggested that his former backer and adviser missed being in government – and has “Trump derangement syndrome”.

He added: “I’m very disappointed in Elon. I’ve helped Elon a lot.”

In a truth social post the president said: “Elon was “wearing thin,” I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!”.

On Tuesday, the world’s richest man called the president’s tax and spending bill “outrageous” and a “disgusting abomination” – days after abruptly leaving his position spearheading the Department of Government Efficiency, known as ‘DOGE’.

The bill, which includes multi-trillion-dollar tax breaks, was passed by the House Republicans in May and has been described by the president as a “big, beautiful bill”. By contrast, Musk has called it the “big, ugly bill”.

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‘Without me, Trump would have lost the election’

Musk said earlier that Trump would have lost the 2024 U.S. election without his support, and suggested that it may be time for the country to establish a new political party.

“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” Musk wrote on X. “Such ingratitude.”

Musk posted a poll asking his more than 220 million followers if it is time to form a new political party in the U.S. While the poll has 23 hours to conclude, nearly 83% of respondents said it is time.

The comments and the apparent testing of the political waters mark the latest escalation in the growing feud between the once-close political allies after Musk left the White House, where he led Trump’s government-slashing effort.

Trump said Thursday that he is “very disappointed” with Musk amid the tech billionaire’s campaign against the president’s signature spending and tax bill.

The president suggested that Musk’s criticism of his “big, beautiful bill” may be rooted in jealousy. “I think he misses the place. I think he got out there and all of a sudden he wasn’t in this beautiful Oval Office,” he said.

“I’m very disappointed, because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here, better than you people. He knew everything about it. He had no problem with it. All of a sudden, he had a problem, and he only developed the problem when he found out that we’re going to have to cut the EV mandate,” Trump said in the Oval Office as he hosted German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Tesla shares drop amid intensifying row

The “EV mandate” refers to a long-standing one-time tax credit of up to $7,500 for those who purchase electric vehicles.

Shares of Tesla were sharply lower in late-day trading, with the auto manufacturer down nearly 16% amid the intensifying row.

Musk quickly responded with a post on X with “whatever,” and rebutted Trump’s suggestion that he had even seen the bill before he left the White House, calling the claim “false.” He acknowledged, however, that some of his opposition stems from the elimination of the electric vehicle tax credit.

“This bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it!” he wrote.

“Keep the EV/solar incentive cuts in the bill, even though no oil & gas subsidies are touched (very unfair!!), but ditch the MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK in the bill. In the entire history of civilization, there has never been legislation that both big and beautiful. Everyone knows this! Either you get a big and ugly bill or a slim and beautiful bill. Slim and beautiful is the way,” he added.

Musk ramped up his crusade Wednesday to convince lawmakers to kill Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which is estimated to add $2.42 trillion to US budget deficits over the next decade.

“Bankrupting America is NOT ok!” Musk posted Wednesday on X.

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