Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has come out swinging after a New York Times report alleged that Musk was going to be briefed by the Pentagon on the U.S. plans for war with China.
According Mediaite, Musk threatened to prosecute the NYT’s anonymous sources, who told them that the briefing was set to happen Friday.
Musk reposted a Truth Social post by President Donald Trump who called the report “fake news”, while Musk called the report “pure propaganda.”
“The New York Times is pure propaganda,” Musk said. “Also, I look forward to the prosecutions of those at the Pentagon who are leaking maliciously false information to NYT. They will be found.”
In a later Truth Social post, Trump called the Times the “worst and most purposely inaccurate newspapers” in the world.
“Elon Musk will be briefed by the Pentagon about the USA’s top-secret plans against China should there be a War,” according to the Failing New York Times, one of the worst and most purposely inaccurate newspapers anywhere in the World,” Trump said. “Their FAKE concept for this story is that because Elon does some business in China, that he is very conflicted and would immediately go to top Chinese officials and ‘spill the beans.’”
Trump went on to say the Times could challenge CNN with its fake news and called the reporter who wrote the report, Maggie Haberman, “Maggot Hagerman.”
“RATINGS CHALLENGED FAKE NEWS CNN immediately picked up on this absolutely ridiculous and false story, which is probably libelous, and went heavy with it,” Trump said. “Fortunately, nobody was watching! Maggot Hagerman, the really dumb ‘scammer’ who constantly writes about me for the Times, using anonymous, made up (nonexistent!) sources, and who I haven’t spoken to in ages, is a big part of the Scam. She led the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, only to realize that she was duped and got it wrong.”
Trump noted Haberman should lose her Pulitzer Prize and called her an enemy of the people.
“She owes me a totally discredited Pulitzer Prize for her bad reporting,” Trump said. “The Fake News is the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE…And Elon is NOT BEING BRIEFED ON ANYTHING CHINA BY THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR!!!”
