Gambiaj.com – (WASHINGTON, DC) – Billionaire Elon Musk alleged that President Trump has ties to convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein as part of his growing feud with the president, a fight that boiled over and turned personal on Thursday.
“Time to drop the really big bomb,” Musk wrote on X, the social platform he owns. “[Trump] is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.”
Minutes later, he followed up: “Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.”
Names of powerful people previously associated with Epstein — who died by suicide in a Manhattan jail in 2019 — including Trump, Prince Andrew, and former President Clinton, have been mentioned in court documents related to Epstein’s decades of sexual abuse.
Trump, before he was elected in November, said he would have “no problem” releasing files related to Epstein, something some lawmakers and many on social media have called for after Epstein’s death.
The president last year denied any connection to Epstein, writing on social media, “I was never on Epstein’s plane or at his ‘stupid’ island. Strong laws ought to be developed against AI. It will be a big and very dangerous problem in the future!”
In a statement on Thursday evening, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called Thursday’s spat “an unfortunate episode from Elon, who is unhappy with the One Big Beautiful Bill because it does not include the policies he wanted.”
“The President is focused on passing this historic piece of legislation and making our country great again,” Leavitt added.
A source familiar emphasized to The Hill that Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his Palm Beach Golf Club years ago and noted the administration previously released Epstein files with the President’s name included.
Musk, for months before and after the campaign, spoke glowingly of Trump’s character, the source emphasized, noting at one point the billionaire posted on social media saying he “loves him as much as a straight man can love a straight man.”
Musk’s allegation came just minutes after Trump threatened to cancel government contracts with Musk’s companies, calling him “crazy” and escalating an explosive feud between the two former allies.
Musk, the world’s richest person, who was granted extraordinary access to Trump’s government after he was elected, has criticized the “big, beautiful” spending bill Trump is trying to push through Congress.
The billionaire tech and media mogul suggested earlier Thursday that Trump would not have gotten elected last fall without him and called him ungrateful.
