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Elon Musk Shades Trump After Old Video Of Him Calling Out Government For Not Prosecuting Epstein Clients Resurfaces
Sowell Quotes captioned the video:
"Elon Musk: 'They put like five or six hundred January 6th protesters in prison and not one person on the Epstein's client list.'"
The interview from the short-lived show Tucker Carlson Network (TCN) on X was released on October 7, 2024, before Trump had been reelected.
One hour and 42 minutes after Sowell Quotes shared the clip, Musk quote posted it, lending credence to claims Musk data mines his own platform to find any mentions of his name to either stroke his ego or lash out at his critics. He wasn't tagged on the post.
The billionaire added the caption:
"Still true today"
You can see Musk's repost here:
Reactions to the post varied wildly with some agreeing with Musk and others accusing him of being part of an Epstein cover-up.
But most pointed fingers at MAGA Republican President Donald Trump or his administrationâespecially Attorney General Pam Bondi.
It's unclear what Musk's point was, beyond self-promotion, in resharing the 2024 interview.
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The Trump administration has taken great pains to try to deny the existence of and to distract voters from their many ties to registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Former Prince Andrew was arrested in the United Kingdom and several political figures resigned over ties to Epstein or his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, but in the United States, only Epstein and Maxwell were arrested.
Epstein was indicted and arrested by Trump's Department of Justice in July 2019 and died in DOJ custody in August.
Maxwell was arrested in 2020 and convicted in 2021 of five felonies including sex trafficking of a minor, conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. In June 2022, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Civil actions by survivors of Maxwell and Epstein's exploitation and abuse kept the evidence against them sealed until January of 2024.
In August 2025, Maxwell was moved, for an unknown reason, by the Trump administration to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas.
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MAGA Senator Compared ICE Agents To Mexican Cartel Hitmen In Accidentally Accurate X PostâAnd He Just Deleted It
On Sunday, Mexican authorities killed drug cartel kingpin Nemesio âEl Menchoâ Oseguera Cervantes in the forest near Tapalpa, in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, southeast of Puerto Vallarta and west of Mexico City. The death of Cervantes lead to retaliatory violence in the region.
Lee shared a video clip on X of men in masksâeither cartel hitmen or ICE agents, he didn't specify which they wereâgetting gas.
He captioned the clip:
"Cartel hitmen wear masks."
"Leftists arenât complaining."
You can see a screenshot of his since deleted video post here:
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Several of Lee's fellow Senators responded to his declaration that lawless, violent individualsâlike cartel hitmen or ICE agentsâwear masks.
Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy reshared Lee's post with the caption:
"Oh dear Mike. I literally couldnât make our argument better than you do. The bad guys wear masks. The good guys donât."
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York wrote:
"Yes. Cartel hitmen wear masks. Thatâs why ICE shouldnât."
Hawaiian Democratic Senator Brian Schatz shared Lee's post with the message:
"Mike, I would like ICE to have the same standards as a local police department, not cartel hitmen."
Others also dunked on Lee online.
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The account Polling USA shared Lee's post with the caption:
"pov you point out drug cartels do exactly what ICE does and you think you're owning the libs"
Then after Lee deleted it shared a screenshot of his post captioned:
"He deleted this post lmfaooo"
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This isn't Lee's first time "tweeting then deleting" because he made a horse's hind end of himself on social media.
In 2020, his tweets were called out as pro-fascism. Lee again faced backlash in 2025 over a series of tweets about the assassination of Minnesota state Democratic Representative Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their dog Gilbert and the attempted assassination of Democratic state Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette.