Billionaire Elon Musk eliminated a position on X published in the height of his dispute with US President Donald Trump, in which he accused him of being involved in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, named for a financial one accused of sexual exploitation of minors. “It’s time to put aside the great bomb: (Trump) is in Epstein archives,” published the rich entrepreneur in the social network X on Thursday, which he owns, when his disagreements with the Republican degenerate in violent acquisition.
“This is the real reason why they were not made public,” he said, wishing a “good day” to the president in an ironic tone.
In response, the White House was content to qualify these attacks as “unfortunate,” the US president says that the businessman had “completely lost the pedals.” The richest man in the world did not provide evidence to his accusations, but he published a video dating from 1992 in which Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein seem to joke during one night.
These messages were no longer visible on their account on Saturday morning. Other publications written or shared by the billionaire have also been eliminated, one of which he called to fire Donald Trump.
The Epstein Affair, an international scandal
The story of Jeffrey Epstein, an American financial in the heart of a vast international scandal of sexual crimes and exploitation that committed suicide in prison in 2019 before being tried, fed many conspiracy theories and obsess part of the radical American right.
Donald Trump’s government has committed to “lift the veil” in this “disgusting” matter and made many documents in the archive in February, but not its entirety. According to some supporters of the Republican President, celebrities and political figures close to Epstein are involved.
If the friendly links between the latter and Donald Trump have been known for a long time, the US president has always denied having spent time in Epstein’s property in the American Virgin Islands, where, according to prosecutors, the financial one participated in sexual trafficking with minor girls.
A “formidable type”
Donald Trump, who was Epstein’s neighbor in Florida and New York, described him in the early 2000s as “formidable type.” “It is very fun to be with him. He even tells himself that he loves beautiful women as much as he, and many of them are very young,” he told New York magazine.
In 2024, a judge in New York revealed names of contacts, knowledge, family, victims or alleged accomplices of Jeffrey Epstein, among which Donald Trump or former Democratic president Bill Clinton appeared, not to mention the slightest illegal or reprimanding behavior.
If Donald Trump and Elon Musk do not seem ready to reject after their breakup, whose political and economic consequences could be heavy, the situation seemed to calm down a little on Friday at the end of the day. “I only wish you good luck,” said the president of the press, Elon Musk replied in X: “Similarly.”
Source: BFM TV
