Kash Patel’s Online Attacks on Elon Musk Revealed: ‘Clown’
It’s a Beast of a time in Washington. Donald Trump’s D.C. reality show is full of new characters, plot twists, and cliffhangers, and the Daily Beast will navigate you through it. The 47th president won’t need to drain The Swamp. It’s all leaking here…
Kash Patel has a history of attacking Silicon Valley billionaires, including the world’s richest man who now controls the world’s biggest (for now, at least) superpower.
So how are he and Elon Musk expected to work together when Trump and Musk are employing a signature Silicon Valley approach to radically eviscerating the federal government?
“Elon Musk is is big tech colluding with our government to censor our elections. You’ve had months to set the record straight, n you have failed,” Patel, Trump’s chosen conspiracy theorist to run the FBI, posted to Truth Social, intentional typos and all, on July 23, 2023.
Patel continued, “Your cheap Titter posts and your Mickey Mouse clown droppings do not absolve you- you are as bad as FBI/DOJ n you and are making millions from the disinformation campaigns. You are a complete and total fake who cares only about $.”
Other previous posts by Patel trashing Musk—who, according to the White House, holds the title “special government employee”—have already disappeared. So if the links cited here suddenly no longer work, our Swamp readers will know why.
Patel routinely belittled Musk’s social media platform as “Titter” and a tool of “disinformation” and censorship as he touted Trump’s MAGA platform as the superior way to spew disinformation. (Hmm, could the “Titter” slight have sent Musk over the edge to rename Twitter X and later call his son by the same letter?)
Patel embraced QAnon and other conspiracy theories before pivoting in his Senate confirmation hearing to disavowing any such record. His controversial nomination could be put to a Senate committee vote as soon as next week.
His old social media posts, including one from May 21, 2023, presaged how his battle tactics gaslighting tech billionaires may outshine their money.
In a Fox News interview posted on TikTok, Patel may have foreshadowed his future working with—or not; we shall see—the man running Trump’s government in his capacity as the leader of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
“We’re all paying for it, this is why he’s so rich. DOD’s biggest contractor is Elon Musk. I’ll never get hired from him now. Can you edit that out?”
Lol, Kash. We’ll see if Trump’s top DOGE wingman and billionaire-in-chief thinks you’re the real deal.
“Ill take Elon seriously when he gets rid of #GovernmentGangsters who sold out to the private sector after selling out their country,” Patel posted on Dec. 5, 2022.
How could Kash not take Elon seriously now?
Daily Beast’s The Swamp is written by David Gardner, Mary Ann Akers and Juliegrace Brufke.