Trump Is Bragging That He Planted the Elon Musk Drug Abuse Story in the New York Times

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-brags-about-insane-plot-to-screw-musk-wolff/

37 comments

  1. But surely the New York Times wouldn’t act as a wannabe dictator’s patsy!

  2. As per [original article](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-brags-about-insane-plot-to-screw-musk-wolff/) 📰:

    Donald Trump is getting personal in his war on Elon Musk, according to author Michael Wolff.

    The president has been beefing about his former pal on phone calls with associates, claiming that he tipped off The New York Times about the billionaire’s alleged drug use, Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast on Wednesday.

    The Times reported in May that the 53-year-old was using ketamine, as well as Adderall, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, during Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign-which he spent hundreds of millions to support. Musk denies that he was taking drugs.

    “I was tracking some Trump phone calls on Monday night. And it’s sort of worth explaining here that over a long period of time, I’ve gotten to know and cultivated a lot of people who Trump regularly speaks to,” Wolff told host Joanna Coles.

    “Trump speaks to them, and then they speak to other people,” he said, adding, “whoever he calls, he says the same thing to everybody. So you know exactly what is on his mind.”

    Apparently, Musk was on his mind on Monday.

    The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has reignited his feud with Trump this week, rage-posting against the behemoth spending bill that Trump is trying to push through Congress. By Tuesday, it had irked Trump enough to provoke a public threat, in which the president suggested Musk’s government subsidies could dry up and send him packing “back home to South Africa.”

    “He’s like, calling people to say, ‘do you think Elon is crazy?'” Wolff said of Trump.

    “In one of these phone calls-many of them-he was on about, you know, how many drugs he takes,” he continued. “‘He takes drugs all the time. You know that, don’t you? You know, The New York Times wrote about it. They said, he takes drugs.'”

    According to Wolff, Trump said, “‘actually, we dropped a dime to The New York Times … on Elon’s drug taking.”

    Wolff said he has no idea if someone in Trump’s team was actually the source of that story, but “he is just claiming credit for that now.”

    The Times said its account of Musk’s behavior was based on interviews with more than a dozen people who have known or worked with him, as well as private messages reporters had obtained.

    The White House did not immediately return a request for comment. Trump’s communications director, Steven Cheung, has previously told the Daily Beast that Wolff is a “lying sack of s–t” who “fabricates stories.”

    Earlier in the conversation, Wolff, author of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House and several other titles about the president, said Musk and Trump’s fallout has entered “blood score” territory.

    Even if the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” fails in the House, “Elon is pi–ed” now, Wolff said, predicting that the richest man in the world might actually create a new political party if that transpires.

    Musk has threatened to form an “America Party” if the “insane spending bill passes,” and said he would fund primary opponents to any lawmaker who “campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history.”

    Trump wants the bill passed by July 4 and has been calling for GOP unity as House Republicans struggle to coalesce around the controversial legislation.

  4. Says the guy who had Ronny Jackson running the WH Free Apothecary.

  5. So the President of the United States brings in Musk, unleashes him on the US government and our national data with a cadre of spunky youth in support, knows he has a drug problem, and instead of firing him, allows him to continue that work while tipping off the New York Times. This is the brag he’s making. We are a nation with unserious people in serious roles.

  6. info: If someone admits to planting a story about someone else’s alleged drug use, does that open them up for a hell of a defamation lawsuit. OR is that part of their official presidential duties and thus they are immune?

  7. If we had actual journalists they would ask when Trump found out about his drug use and question why he let him run rampant through our government ignoring security checks for Elon.

  8. So he’s admitting to know about the drug problem, and continued to let him lead a team with huge access to sensitive information?

  9. “Wolff said he has no idea if someone in Trump’s team was actually the source of that story.” Then why publish this? This is like Gorilla Channel all over again.

  10. Nothing new here. Trump loves to claim the media is the enemy of the people, but sadly he’s also very good at using it to his own ends and too many people don’t see who is actually feeding the beast.

  12. Did he call in as john barron?his alias in the 90’s when he snitched on himself too the tabloid press.

  13. Assuming this is true, that means the Times are, evidently, nothing more than a propaganda mouthpiece rag for the new fascist regime?

    I hope once this is all said and done, no American lets them off the hook for this.

  14. I suppose a really iffy person, might be giddy as hell that a certain someone was high AF as they were throwing millions of dollars at them. Anywho, damn, what were we talking about again?

  15. So he knew Elon is a drug addict and Elon knew Trump is a pedophile on the Epstein list, now we all know what they know.

  18. If musk is anything, he is not lazy. We’ve all known of his inhuman work hours and consumption of stimulants to keep going.  Now trump, there is  the definition of lazy! 

  20. This is all a big joke to this maniac. He doesn’t care about anything but money and his own ego. Congress is enabling all this. Call your reps

  21. No he didn’t. Elon’s drug use isn’t a secret, and has been well known for years. Trump’s just looking for an opportunity to look strong.

  22. According to speaker Johnson if Trump is committing crime without hiding it, that’s okay. If he tries to cover it up (lies) then it’s not. That’s the right wing reality now.

  23. “I knowingly let a drug addict break into a scif and take your personal data, I paid in advance to warn you about it. Aren’t I gods gift to America”

  24. So what you all should take away from this is that if ever you needed another reason to not trust the NYT…

  25. The most consistent thing that is shamelessly inconsistent with him is the Tesla sales pitches back when they were pals and how now “nobody wants an EV” language now.

    It’s such a constant that I’m amazed the redhat cult doesn’t occasionally question these constant about face moments where he’ll explain that his current position on all topics was always his position. 😵‍💫

  26. Anything trump accuses someone else of doing always means he is doing it himself.

  30. All we really need is a single reporter to “cozy” up to Trump, get him to spill the beans, and voila…

  31. This could go a lot of places in this cartoon villian timeline. We all knew Elon was going to get heaved under the bus sooner or later. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the evidence of election tampering can’t be buried under enough bribes & Elon gets the blame for corrupting the system. Higher than a kite ketamine kid kills American democracy! Whatever it is, the foundation is being laid & waters are being tested to see what they can shovel off onto Elon’s plate & how much blame they cam soak him for. Up next: Zucker the sucker.

    It’d be wild to watch all these billionaires be reduced to rubble in the next 4 years. It’d be the sweetest Uno Reverse card from the Universe.

  32. He did this with Obama’s birth certificate. He and his minions know how to manipulate the media. The GOP media people are Russian assets.

  33. From the article: “*The Times* said its account of Musk’s behavior was based on interviews with more than a dozen people who have known or worked with him, as well as private messages reporters had obtained.”

    Trump thinks that journalists just blindly publish the first rumors they hear, when actually journalists are supposed to verify stories before publishing them. I guarantee that whatever Trump’s “tip” was was a drop in the bucket compared to the other information the NYT had, assuming the tip wasn’t just Trump’s imagination.

  34. Ugh, I wish we didn’t have to pay attention to every awful piece of nonsense this man says.

  35. I’m starting to think that this Trump guy may not be a very good person.

  37. And Elon has been talking about Trump in the Epstein files. Being a pedi is so much worse than a drugie.

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