What are the Epstein files? have become the focus of the violent clash on social media between Elon Musk and Donald Trump? "An unfortunate episode": this is how the US administration defines the billionaire's accusations according to which the US president would be, in fact, "in Epstein's archives". He said this to CNN press spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt: “This is an unfortunate episode for Elon, who is not satisfied with the One Big Beautiful Bill because it doesn’t include the policies he wanted. The president is focused on passing this historic bill and making our country great again,” he said.
Meanwhile, the White House has denied the rumors that have been circulating in the last few hours: a phone call is not expected between the US president and the number one of Tesla, as initially hypothesized by the media. Trump, on the contrary, is “not interested” on a call with Musk, a senior White House official told NBC News.
What are the Epstein files?
Why Musk spoke out on social media about Epstein Files wanting to include Trump in the contact list of Jeffrey Epstein, the US financier convicted of sexual crimes and who committed suicide in prison in 2019? Already on February 27, Attorney General Pamela Bondi had released the first part of Declassified Epstein case documents, which however largely contained previously leaked documents, even if never officially made public by the American government. The papers had not revealed anything that was not already known, confirming the relationship between Trump and the financier.
The name of the American president also appears in Epstein's plane log, the known Lolita-Express. The tycoon traveled on the plane with Epstein on October 11, 1993 and again on May 15, 1994 with his then-wife Marla Maples, their daughter Tiffany and their babysitter: first from Palm Beach to Reagan Washington Airport and then from Washington to Teteboro Airport, New Jersey. The contacts between Epstein and Trump had been known for some time and photos of them together had already emerged, including one with Maxwell and Melania. But it is not known whether the documents not yet released contain any new information.
Meanwhile, Democrats of the House of Representatives have asked theFBI and the Department of Justice if it is true that the name of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, is in the so-called "Epstein files", as claimed yesterday by Elon Musk. This is what he learned Axios.
For now, the one to respond to Musk's insinuations on X is the American lawyer, David Schoen, who was also one of the lawyers who represented Trump during his second impeachment trial in the United States Senate: "I was hired - he writes - to lead the defense of Jeffrey Epstein as his criminal defense attorney 9 days before his death. He had sought my advice for months before that. I can authoritatively, unequivocally and definitively state that he had no information that could harm President Trump. I specifically asked for it!".
Musk-Trump: Tesla first bounces on the stock market and then falls
The Trump-Musk partnership “has fallen apart in spectacular fashion,” US media write, amid mutual accusations and “trippings,” starting with Musk’s criticism of the spending bill and the president’s cuts to incentives for electric cars. And the disagreements may be just beginning.
In the meantime, waiting for the phone call, the first clearing concerns Tesla: the title, which on the eve had lost 14,26%, tries to rebound and in the pre-market on Wall Street it rises by 5%. The futures of the American stock market are also running, which closed in the red yesterday: those on the Dow Jones are marking +0,7%, those on the Nasdaq +1,3%. But in mid-afternoon, Italian time, Tesla is losing more than 5% again
Musk, Space X: Backtracking on Dragon
The stakes are high, after all, so much so that even Bill Ackman, entrepreneur, billionaire and “king” of the hedge funds, intervened to ease the tension: “I support Trump and Elon Musk, they should make peace for the good of our great country,” he wrote on X. And Musk immediately responded, commenting on the post: “You are not wrong.” Among other things, Musk seems intent on backtracking on the front of Dragon, SpaceX's spaceship which he had decided, yesterday, to dismantle.
