The Patriot Post® · Musk Interviews Trump and Riles Harris
Elon Musk is one guy. Let’s remember that.
Admittedly, he’s a remarkably rich and powerful guy, but he’s still one guy. So when Kamala Harris complains to her supporters that the world’s most influential African American is “a lackey for Team MAGA” and that he’s “using his vast fortune and broad reach to try to control our democracy,” well, wethinks she doth protest too much. How dare a tech titan turn his back on her, huh?
After all, Donald Trump may have Elon Musk on his side, but Kamala Harris has everyone else: the mainstream media, Hollywood, the unions, the schools, the colleges and universities, the foundations, the increasingly woke mega-corporations like Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta, and the list goes on.
Nevertheless, while Musk was interviewing Donald Trump for roughly two hours last night on his X platform, Harris was holding out her tin cup, exhorting her supporters to “chip in $25 now” so that she can “respond to their lies.”
Harris wasn’t content to merely assail Musk, though. In a separate X post last night, she pounced on Le Bête Orange: “Trump’s entire campaign is in service of people like Elon Musk and himself — self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024.”
There’s a word for a missive like this: projection.
Beyond that, while Kamala kvetches about Musk and Trump exercising their First Amendment rights, she won’t let anyone else turn that same First Amendment on her. Indeed, it’s been 23 days since Harris began holding “our democracy” hostage by refusing to sit for so much as a single friendly interview with even a pseudo-journalistic toady. Thus, as she continues to execute her Basement 2.0 strategy, she leaves the American people wondering about her record of achievement as our nation’s border czar, and about her take on the issues more broadly, and about the dizzying array of flip-flops that have come to define her — from border enforcement to fracking to single-payer healthcare to an “assault weapons” ban.
To be fair, though, Harris did hold a 77-second micro-presser on the tarmac last week, during which she informed an eagerly awaiting world, “I’ve talked to my team. I want us to get an interview scheduled before the end of the month.”
Kamala’s complaints about free speech come in the wake of a Musk-Trump interview that was knocked offline by what Musk called “a massive DDOS attack.” This left a lot of listeners in the lurch for around 30 minutes while Musk’s X team worked to shut the attack down. “Worst case,” he told them, “we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.”
As the New York Post reports, “More than 1.2 million users of Musk’s social media platform tuned in to the interview … and heard the Republican nominee for president and the tech titan put their heads together on immigration, foreign policy, inflation, government spending and energy issues. Trump, 78, also lobbed several barbs at the Harris-Walz ticket after Musk, 53, noted that the X Spaces event was "aimed at open-minded, independent voters just trying to make up their mind” with less than three months to go before Election Day.“
The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas listed seven takeaways from the event, which ran the gamut from a government efficiency commission to Trump’s greater sense of the Almighty in the wake of his near-assassination last month.
Very early this morning (or very late last night, depending on your perspective), Musk made clear that despite the event’s technical difficulties, it had generated plenty of interest: "Between 7:47 PM and 10:47 PM ET, President Donald Trump’s Space post received 73 million views. During the same period, there were 4 million posts about Elon Musk and President Trump’s conversation on 𝕏, generating a total of 998 million views.”
Counting caveats apply, of course, but it’s safe to say that a lot of folks are interested in the growing partnership between Musk and Trump — a partnership that includes both political and commercial components, as evidenced by Trump’s nuanced and freedom-based take on electric vehicles, and which represents the biggest piece of a not insignificant base of support that Trump has cultivated among a handful of free-market tech leaders and entrepreneurs.
As for the attack that interrupted the Musk-Trump interview, it’ll be interesting to see who claims responsibility for it — or, barring that, who is found to be responsible for it, as such an attack represents a naked act of election interference.