Former adviser taunts president over links to Epstein while Trump threatens to cancel contracts for Musk companies

Elon Musk called for Donald Trump to be impeached after mocking his connections to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as the president threatened to cancel federal contracts and tax subsidies for Musk’s companies in an extraordinary social media feud on Thursday.

The deterioration of their once close relationship into bitter acrimony came over the course of several remarkable hours during which the president and the world’s richest man hurled deeply personal insults over matters significant and insignificant.

In the most churlish moment of the astonishing saga, Musk said on X the reason the Trump administration had not released the files into Epstein was because they implicated the president. He later quote-tweeted a post calling for Trump to be removed and said Trump’s tariffs would cause a recession.

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    2 days ago

    LOL yes let’s impeach him again. We are stuck with this Orange Turd. Republicans have given us this turd and we can’t flush him for 4 years.

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      17 hours ago

      For the impeachment itself, assuming the Democrats all vote for it, Musk only needs to buy 9 republicans.

      For the trial, he needs to get 20 republicans for the two thirds. It’s not going to be cheap, but it sounds doable.

      The problem is that leaves Vance in charge, and a focused autocrat is not an upgrade.

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          2 days ago

          I believe he is referring to the “4 years” part. Trump is not leaving this time even if he loses

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            2 days ago

            Damn, I hurt myself in my confusion. Yes I dont believe it will be over in 4 years either^^

            On the other hand, “cant flush him for 4 years” does not really imply that it will be possible after the 4 years.

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      2 days ago

      LOL yes let’s impeach him again

      Why just once? Let’s impeach him two more times.