Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon seized a chance to air his grievances with Elon Musk amid the SpaceX founder’s blowup with President Donald Trump.
In a Friday interview with NPR, Bannon was requested about prior feedback that Trump ought to cancel all authorities contracts with Musk. The tech mogul’s corporations, which embrace Tesla, SpaceX and synthetic intelligence startup xAI, have been given billions in federal {dollars} over time, according to The New York Times.
“I believe we’ve as a rustic a nationwide safety concern right here,” Bannon stated Friday, including that Musk has a reportedly “massive drug problem” and a “deep monetary and enterprise relationship” with China.
The MAGA podcaster continued, “And we all know he’s requested for personal briefings of high secret data.”
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The Wall Street Journal reported in March that Musk had requested a Pentagon briefing on plans for a possible warfare with China. Trump instructed reporters on the time that Musk wouldn’t see the plans, citing his enterprise ties to China as a battle of curiosity.
The previously Musk-led Division of Authorities Effectivity, a group tasked with rooting out supposed fraud and waste throughout the federal authorities, has drawn scrutiny over its entry to classified materials and the personal information of U.S. residents.
Bannon then doubled down on his call to investigate Musk’s immigration standing.
“You have got somebody whose authorized standing is in query,” he told NPR, including that you simply “can’t deport individuals from all around the world” and “depart a white South African, who could also be right here illegally, right here.”
Bannon, who pleaded guilty this year to scamming individuals who donated cash in the direction of constructing a wall on the U.S. Southern border, added, “It’s simply not proper.”
The South African-born Musk is a naturalized U.S. citizen. Final yr, The Washington Post reported that Musk was working illegally within the U.S. at the start of his profession within the Nineties, although Musk denied the allegation.
Bannon has by no means been Musk’s largest fan, beforehand calling him a “parasitic illegal immigrant” and a “truly evil guy.”
Talking to NPR on Friday, Bannon theorized in regards to the root of Musk’s falling out with Trump and added yet another insult to the roster: an “11-year-old baby.”
“He hasn’t turned up any fraud,” Bannon stated, criticizing Musk’s efforts at DOGE. “So there’s been quite a lot of rigidity. And Elon Musk, just like the 11-year-old baby he’s, didn’t take it very properly.”
