Elon Musk, SpaceX Chief Engineer, speaks with NASA International Space Station Program Manger Kirk Shireman, after the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on the Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Elon Musk Turns on Trump, Publicly Claims He Was in Epstein Files

The war of words between President Trump and Elon Musk has now seriously escalated in the past 24 hours with Trump publicly deriding Musk and threatening to pull his government contracts.

However, Musk has now significantly escalated the confrontation by accusing Trump of purposefully withholding the Epstein files because his name was in it.

It has been commonly understood that Trump had a previous connection to Epstein for years, something Trump has been very open about. And it seems unlikely that any compromising information exists connecting Trump to Epstein beyond what is already known given that the Biden administration would have likely already leaked such information if it, in fact, existed.

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