Musk Returns Below the Belt in Renewed Feud
By Tom Kagy | 07 Jul, 2025

Elon Musk appears to suggest, once again, that Trump had a hand in suppressing the list of powerful clients of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Musk posted on his X account this counter of people convicted on Jeffrey Epstein's client list.

On his account on self-owned X Musk once again seemed to be calling out Trump for refusing to release a list purporedly kept by the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a potential tool for blackmailing rich and powerful clients.

Musk appears to be relying on an Axios piece citing an investigation report by the Justice Department and the FBI that found no such list kept the Epstein.  Another apparent source is a news headline describing a reference by Attorney General Pam Bondi to an Epstein list on her desk.

In the June episode of Musk's running feud with his onetime political ally and First Buddy Donald Trump he had suggested that Trump was among the names on such a putative list.  That post was deleted during what appeared to be a two-week truce in his feud with Trump.

In his recent renewal of attacks on Trump's tax bill, Musk calls Trump DOJ’s report "the final straw" and posted a counter displaying zero with the caption: “The Official Jeffery Epstein Pedophile Arrest Counter.” 

Musk appears to have concluded that it is no longer in his interest to preserve his alliance with Trump in the face of massive erosion to his Tesla brand due to his work on DOGE.  While Musk remains the world's richest person for now, the value of his Tesla shares — the source of most of his wealth — has been dropping at the average rate of about $1.5 billion per day since May.