Gavin Newsom and leading Democrats have spent the last few days fulminating about "authoritarianism" by Donald Trump for sending National Guard and Marine units to protect federal law enforcement agents and sites. What will they have to say when they discover that the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice spied on an industrialist supporter of the opposition party?
Oh, wait, Trump didn't do that. Joe Biden did that. For two years, according to the Wall Street Journal, Merrick Garland and Alejandro Mayorkas surveilled Elon Musk and his contacts to check out "influence." This seems to have started around the time that Musk bought Twitter and refused to participate in the Biden administration's Big Tech-Big Government Censorship Complex:
Several U.S. government agencies in 2022 and 2023 tracked foreign nationals coming and going to Elon Musk's properties, according to people familiar with the matter.The investigation included the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department. It focused on people visiting the tech billionaire, from countries in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, who might have been trying to influence him. Until last week, Musk was one of President Trump's closest advisers. ...
The probe, predating the current Trump administration, highlights concerns about the number of foreign nationals in Musk's orbit. Musk runs five companies, including SpaceX, with sensitive government contracts, and has had unprecedented access to top government officials.
Note the pretext for spying on this political enemy of Biden's is the same pretext the Democrat-Media Party used to launch the RussiaGate Hoax: We're so, so scared that our political enemy is talking to foreigners we're compelled to spy on him and get FISA warrants against him.
Musk seems to have reconsidered some of the things he said during his Twitter meltdown:
The feud between Elon Musk and President Trump appears to be cooling--at least publicly--as Musk on Friday deleted a provocative tweet accusing Trump of being tied to the long-sealed Jeffrey Epstein files. The now-removed post had read: "Time to drop the really big bomb... @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!"
The accusation came amid Musk's multi-day online assault on Trump's proposed spending bill, which he labeled as bloated and misguided. But the tweet quickly triggered a wave of rebuttals, including from David Schoen, Epstein's former criminal defense lawyer.
"I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitively that he [Epstein] had no information to hurt President Trump," Schoen wrote on X. "I specifically asked him!"
The White House dismissed Musk's outburst as political sour grapes. "This is an unfortunate episode from Elon, who is unhappy with the One Big Beautiful Bill because it does not include the policies he wanted," said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday. "The president is focused on passing this historic piece of legislation and making our country great again."