Trump Threatens Musk and Musk Deletes Epstein-Trump Post

Donald Trump warned Elon Musk that he would face "very serious consequences" if he funds Democratic candidates. Musk seems to fear Trump to some extent, as he deleted his Trump Epstein tweet.

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As I’ve been saying from the beginning of this (a tiring thing to keep repeating, but it has to be repeated because so many were claiming Elon was the boss of Trump), Elon Musk is just not up to Trump levels of mafia enforcement. Elon Musk is used to getting his way with his own takeover tactics, but he’s never run into a Donald Trump before, and it shows.

And so today, when Donald Trump threatened Elon Musk, it was no surprise.

Trump said there would be “serious consequences” Elon Musk funds Democratic candidates to run against Republicans who vote in favor of the bill to destroy America.

“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News on Saturday. They noted that he “declined to share what those consequences would be.”

But then, a mob boss knows better than to spell it out.

“He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” Trump repeated.

Trump was, of course, on yet another phone interview. He does not do video interviews. If he were named Joe Biden, this would be troubling but as his name is convicted felon, no one is concerned.

It’s perfectly fine that Trump, in. his capacity as president, is issuing threats to a “private citizen” and the wealthiest man in the world. A man whose businesses we’ve been told have such power over the U.S. government that he was operating in a “shadow rule.”

“How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in,” Ronan Farrow reported in 2023 for the New Yorker. And yes, Musk did amass incredible power over the government, and yes, no Democrat would have taken him on in the manner he would need to be taken on, even though there were multiple justified investigations into his businesses.

Back then, Musk agreed he had more influence than the U.S. government in some ways:

The government is now reliant on him, but struggles to respond to his risk-taking, brinkmanship, and caprice. Current and former officials from NASA, the Department of Defense, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration told me that Musk’s influence had become inescapable in their work, and several of them said that they now treat him like a sort of unelected official. One Pentagon spokesman said that he was keeping Musk apprised of my inquiries about his role in Ukraine and would grant an interview with an official about the matter only with Musk’s permission. “We’ll talk to you if Elon wants us to,” he told me. In a podcast interview last year, Musk was asked whether he has more influence than the American government. He replied immediately, “In some ways.” Reid Hoffman told me that Musk’s attitude is “like Louis XIV: ‘L’état, c’est moi.’ ”

But now in response to Donald Trump’s cold dropping, Musk is taking back his threat about decommission “Dragon capsule,” a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station.

Musk also appears to have deleted his Epstein-Trump tweet, in which he claimed that the President was in the Epstein Files:

• Some of Elon Musk’s X posts, including one accusing President Donald Trump of links to Jeffrey Epstein, were no longer available as of Saturday morning.

• It was not immediately clear why the posts were deleted.

• The removal of the posts comes after Trump and Musk took to social media this week to exchange barbs.

Trump sure gets a lot done in terms of messaging, and it gets through even to someone as out of it and delusional as Elon Musk.

Elon Musk is afraid of no one, except Donald Trump.

He’s been threatened by Trump not to fund Democrats, and it seems if you’re reading his threat as though a mob boss were saying it, he’s also conveying that Musk needs to cease interfering in the passage of the Betrayal of America Bill, or else.

Or else what? He won’t say, because he doesn’t have to.

And that says everything.

Of course Democrats have already made it clear that Musk is not welcome into their tent. Apparently while Republicans are happy to welcome Nazi-saluters, Democrats prefer to look more “woke,” even if it means turning down the power to buy elections for Democrats, which we can suspect was not what the Supreme Court had in mind when they passed Citizens United.

Epstein Files

Do you also hear the Epstein silence from Republicans, who allowed Q-Anon to fuel their dominance from 2016 forward based on conspiracy theories without even a shred of viable evidence accusing Democrats of sex trafficking?

Cut to today after their felon president was accused of being in the Epstein Files, and suddenly they do not care about things like sex trafficking or child rape, because, and I quote, “That was a long time ago.”

Indeed.

Here’s a quick compilation of some of the troubling responses from Republicans:

There is no evidence that Trump is in the Epstein Files and he has denied any wrongdoing.

But he did have a close relationship with Epstein that started in the late 1980s and ended over a real estate deal in 2004, before the FBI began their investigation into Epstein for child sex trafficking.