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.
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.
Musk’s post said: “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
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’s lawyer at the time of his death.
Attorney David Schoen said in an X post that Epstein told him he had nothing inappropriate or damaging on the future president.
“I was hired to lead Jeffrey Epstein’s 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!” the attorney wrote on the platform.
Also, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer who had a falling out with the president during his first term, also refuted Musk’s allegation.
“I have extensive knowledge of Trump being by his side for almost a decade and a half,” Cohen told MSNBC on Friday. “I’m telling you it’s nonsense. To the best of my knowledge and everything that I know, it’s not true.”
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Last month, Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed that the FBI is analyzing “tens of thousands of videos of [Jeffrey] Epstein with children or child porn” and that there are “hundreds of victims” as she addressed concerns about the delay in releasing the case files.
“The FBI is diligently going through that,” Bondi told reporters on Wednesday morning, explaining that the volume of evidence was why more files had not yet been provided.
Epstein’s 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.
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.
“The president ordered them released, the attorney general ordered them released, we all know they have not been released,” Comer told The Benny Show in May.
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).