Tesla boss Elon Musk blasts Biden, Democrats on Twitter

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday blasted the Biden administration and Democrats on Twitter, because the world’s richest man doubled down on his vow to vote for Republicans.

Musk in a tweet accused the Biden administration of doing “all the pieces it may possibly to sideline” and ignore Tesla, regardless of its dominance within the electrical car business.

Musk, who’s making an more and more fraught try to purchase Twitter for $44 billion, advised Thursday that Democrats would goal him with a smear marketing campaign after he introduced that he would vote for GOP candidates.

“Prior to now I voted Democrat, as a result of they have been (largely) the kindness get together. However they’ve turn out to be the get together of division & hate, so I can now not assist them and can vote Republican,” Musk tweeted Thursday.

“Now, watch their soiled tips marketing campaign in opposition to me unfold …,” he wrote, ending the tweet with a “popcorn” emoji.

Hours later Thursday, Business Insider published a bombshell report detailing allegations that Musk uncovered his genitals to a non-public jet flight attendant as he requested her for a full physique therapeutic massage on a SpaceX flight to London. The report stated he supplied to purchase her a horse for her acquiescence to his purported sexual requests.

Musk denied the woman’s claims. Insider reported that they have been detailed in a written declaration from a buddy of hers, submitted to bolster a grievance the lady made to SpaceX’s human assets division.

However neither Musk nor SpaceX have denied Enterprise Insider’s report that the aerospace agency he based and runs paid the lady $250,000 in severance in alternate for her silence after she complained about his alleged conduct.

Musk in a tweet wrote, “The assaults in opposition to me must be seen via a political lens – that is their normal (despicable) playbook – however nothing will deter me from combating for an excellent future and your proper to free speech.”

On Thursday, after Musk tweeted that he anticipated a “soiled tips marketing campaign in opposition to me” following his announcement that he would vote Republican, the Democratic podcaster Jon Favreau fired again at Musk.

“Hey man, if you wish to assist a bunch of electrical vehicle-hating local weather deniers, that is on you,” tweeted Favreau, who was a speechwriter to President Barack Obama.

“Unsure that it helps the trigger that you just and your group have devoted a lot of your lives to, however I suppose you may get some consideration on Twitter, so there’s that!” Favreau wrote.

Musk replied Friday, writing, “Hello Jon! You are a good dude, however obv die-hard Dem, so must assist the get together, however this Adminstration has finished all the pieces it may possibly to sideline & ignore Tesla, despite the fact that we now have made twice as many EVs as remainder of US business mixed.”

Earlier this week on the All In Summit in Miami, Musk stated he would classify himself “as a reasonable, neither Republican or Democrat,” who “overwhelmingly” voted for Democrats up to now.

“I would by no means have voted Republican. Now, this election? I’ll,” Musk stated on the occasion.

“The Democratic Get together is overly managed by the unions and the trial attorneys, notably the class-action attorneys,” he stated.

Musk’s beef with the Biden administration goes again to August of final yr. He was not invited to President Joe Biden’s signing ceremony for an govt order that known as on automakers to promote extra electrical automobiles — however executives from General Motors, Ford and Chrysler have been.

“Yeah, appears odd that Tesla wasn’t invited,” Musk tweeted.

It was reported in February that Biden had no fast plans to ask Musk to White Home conferences with company leaders.

Musk told CNBC in emails that same month that Biden was ignoring Tesla in favor of giving consideration to legacy automakers.

“The notion of a feud isn’t fairly proper. Biden has pointedly ignored Tesla at each flip and falsely acknowledged to the general public that GM leads the electrical automobile business, when in reality Tesla produced over 300,000 electrical automobiles final quarter and GM produced 26,” Musk stated within the e mail on the time.

Final month, Musk, GM CEO Mary Barra and different prime auto executives met with senior Biden administration officers about electrical car charging stations.

— Extra reporting by Lora Kolodny and Brian Schwartz