Trump and Musk furious after pentagon-leak

Trump and Musk furious after pentagon leak

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The full -screen peak went for both Elon Musk and Donald Trump when the New York Times revealed that Musk would receive secret information about US planning for a potential war with China. Photo: AP

The New York Times wrote that Elon Musk would receive top secret information from the Pentagon.

Then it took a house to hell.

Musk now threatens to chase the newspaper’s sources and Trump goes to personal attacks against one of the reporters.

Everyone agrees that Elon Musk was received in the Pentagon Defense Headquarters on Friday. The brawl is about what he did there.

Already late on Thursday revealed the New York Times that the visit was scheduled. In addition, with reference to two anonymous sources of government, the newspaper wrote that Musk would receive top -secret information about US planning for a potential war with China. Another source stated that the visit would be about China, but without giving any other details.

Trump: “How ridiculous?”

Just hours later, the dementia machine started. IN A post On his platform Truth Social wrote Trump:

“Fake news is up again, this time it is Failing New York Times.InfocloseFailing New York Times. An expression Trump often uses. They said, incorrectly, that Elon Musk is going to Pentagon tomorrow to become a brief for a potential war against China. How ridiculous? China will not even be mentioned or discussed.”

At lunch on Friday, a furious Trump went to continued attack on the newspaper.

“Failing New York Times, one of the worst and most consciously wrong newspapers in the world. Their fake concept for this story is that because Elon does some business in China and cannot choose sides, he would immediately go to Chinese top officials and gossip,” he wrote.

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Full-screen Times reporter Maggie Haberman. Photo: Mark von Holden/AP

Renamed the reporter to the “mask”

Trump also attacked CNN who reported the information and then went to a specific attack on Maggie Haberman, one of several new Times reporters with byline foclose village in a newspaper article stating who or who wrote it and taken pictures. in the article.

“Maggotinfoclosemaggotmaggot means mask. Trump has also used this desert name on Maggie Haberna. Haberman, a very stupid fraud that constantly writes about me for Times, uses anonymous, invented (non -existent!) Sources and which I have not talked to eternity, is a large part of the bluff.” “

On x la elon musk out a screenshot of Trump’s first post and wrote That he intends to chase the newspaper’s report:

“The New York Times is pure propaganda. In addition, I look forward to the charges against those at Pentagon who maliciously leaks false information to Nyt. They will be found”.

“Very well equipped”

Interviewed by reporters in the White House later on Friday, Trump once again denied that Elon Musk learned something about scenarios for a war with China. He also claimed that there were such plans for the visit.

– We do not want a potential war with China, but I can tell you that if we had it we would be very well equipped to handle it. But I do not want to show detinfoclose adopted: the plan. For someone and certainly, you would not show it to a businessman who helps us so much.

Elon Musk’s company Space X and Starlink have heavy defense contracts with the United States. At the same time, Tesla has two factories in China that account for a large part of the company’s electric car production.

New Times: Set after the leak

In a new article on Friday The New York Times wrote that the planned draw on war with China would have taken place in a security -classified conference room called “The Tank”, but that the plans were blown off when the information leaked. The magazine also named two top militaries who, together with Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, would have held the presentation.

Elon Musk’s visit instead took place in the Secretary of Defense’s service room and only one of the two top military was included, according to the new Times.

When he was done, Musk gave a brief comment on the reporters outside the Pentagon.

– It’s always a good meeting. I’ve been here before, you understand, he said According to BBC.

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