{"id":337,"date":"2025-06-08T22:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2025-06-08T22:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:05:30","slug":"musk-deletes-x-post-accusing-trump-of-being-in-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Musk Deletes X Post Accusing Trump Of Being In \u2018Epstein Files\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and Starlink CEO Elon Musk appears to have made a big gesture toward repairing his relationship with President Donald Trump after the two of them had a big public falling out this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several X users noted that Musk has deleted a post in which he essentially accused Trump of being involved in nefarious activities with Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted pedophile who hanged himself while in federal custody in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musk\u2019s post said:&nbsp;\u201cTime to drop the really big bomb:&nbsp;@realDonaldTrump&nbsp;is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING:  Elon Musk just deleted this post: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FOoLEDe5fs\">pic.twitter.com\/FOoLEDe5fs<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krassenstein\/status\/1931302480656163043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But the post has since been deleted, leaving many to conclude that Musk is attempting to make amends. The deletion also comes after others have vigorously smacked down the accusation as false, including Epstein\u2019s lawyer at the time of his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorney David Schoen said in an X post that Epstein told him he had nothing inappropriate or damaging on the future president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was hired to lead Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s defense as his criminal lawyer 9 days before he died. He sought my advice for months before that. I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitively that he had no information to hurt President Trump. I specifically asked him!\u201d the attorney wrote on the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I was hired to lead Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s defense as his criminal lawyer 9 days before he died.  He sought my advice for months before that.  I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitively that he had no information to hurt President Trump.  I specifically asked him!<\/p>&mdash; David Schoen (@SchoenDavid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SchoenDavid\/status\/1930801003114152120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, Michael Cohen, Trump\u2019s former personal lawyer who had a falling out with the president during his first term, also refuted Musk\u2019s allegation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have extensive knowledge of Trump being by his side for almost a decade and a half,\u201d Cohen told MSNBC on Friday. \u201cI\u2019m telling you it\u2019s nonsense. To the best of my knowledge and everything that I know, it\u2019s not true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Trump hater and his former attorney Michael Cohen says Epstein allegations against Trump are complete \u201cnonsense.\u201d<br><br>Cohen, who testified against Trump, says he has \u201czero knowledge of any relationship between Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.\u201d<br><br>\u201cI have extensive knowledge of Trump\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8WoP767ej5\">pic.twitter.com\/8WoP767ej5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1931357273978487211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed that the FBI is analyzing \u201ctens of thousands of videos of [Jeffrey] Epstein with children or child porn\u201d and that there are \u201chundreds of victims\u201d as she addressed concerns about the delay in releasing the case files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe FBI is diligently going through that,\u201d Bondi told reporters on Wednesday morning, explaining that the volume of evidence was why more files had not yet been provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Epstein\u2019s riches and altruism established him as a prominent figure in politics, academics, and finance. However, the full nature of his crimes remains unknown, including whether he had any collaborators other than his incarcerated partner, Ghislaine Maxwell; Trump vowed to release the files before taking office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky and the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, had expressed his concern that important Epstein records would have been destroyed prior to the inauguration of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe president ordered them released, the attorney general ordered them released, we all know they have not been released,\u201d Comer told The Benny Show in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a member of the House Oversight Task Force on the declassification of government secrets, which is working on the Epstein files, Comer is a member of the task force, which is chaired by Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and Starlink CEO Elon Musk appears to have made a big gesture toward repairing his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}