Elon Musk against everyone, new quarrel with Trump loyalist?

More rumors in the American media about tensions between the magic circle of Donald Trump and Elon Musk the richest man in the world who was crucial to the tycoon’s victory and who according to some is acting as co-president. Now it is the well-informed Axios who reveals the quarrel that broke out last week between the founder of Tesla and owner of X with Boris Epshteyn,a longtime Trump advisor.

According to the reconstruction, Musk would have questioned the 43-year-old lawyer’s excessive influenceborn in Moscow and naturalized American, Trump advisor since 2016, in the administration appointments process. In particular, the controversial one of Matt Gaetz as Justice and William McGinley as head of the legal office at the White House.

What angered Epshteyn, who also coordinated the tycoon’s defense team in his many trials, was the fact that Musk questioned the credentials of the candidates he presented, including Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, the criminal lawyers who defended Trump and who they will have high positions in the Department of Justice.

“Lite? Huge explosion in Mar a Lago”

The result was a heated argument, described as “a huge explosion” by Axios sources, during a dinner last Wednesday at Mar a Lago, with other guests at the table, with Musk accusing Epshteyn of passing information on the transition to the media Trump, including appointments. Epshteyn responded that Musk didn’t know what he was talking about.

The argument between the two does not come as a surprise, but it is a sign that the magic circle of advisors and longtime intimates are increasingly unnerved by the constant and intrusive presence at Trump’s side of the billionaire, who the American press has already nicknamed ‘first buddy’. As Nbcnews sources revealed in recent days, Musk talks about everything and, above all, promotes and pushes his candidates, even resorting to utterances about ‘his’ X.

This does not mean that there are no Musk enthusiasts in Trump’s entourage, starting with his family, his sons Don jr and Eric, and his niece Kai who considers him an “uncle by marriage”. Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and far-right commentator Tucker Carlson also have a good relationship with him.