The New York Sun Liz Peek: Biden’s White House Harassing Elon Musk for What Appear To Be Political Reasons
President Biden’s White House is hounding Elon Musk. It’s ironic, since two of the president’s biggest initiatives would have foundered but for the mercurial multi-billionaire. Mr. Biden’s Green Dream would be nowhere without Tesla, which put electric vehicles on the map, and without Mr. Musk’s Starlink, Ukraine might already have succumbed to Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Nonetheless, the administration is determined to bring Musk to heal using all the agencies in its vast government. Why? Musk’s original sin was to embrace free speech and open up Twitter (now X) to conservatives. Worse, he allowed the so-called Twitter files to be published on X, baring how top executives at the social media site suppressed the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, possibly interfering with the 2020 election outcome.
Soon after the release of the Twitter files, the Federal Trade Commission began investigating layoffs that took place after Mr. Musk’s purchase of the company. The FTC demanded that Mr. Musk hand over internal communications regarding personnel decisions, and also his dealings with journalists. The House Judiciary Committee appropriately described the probe as an attempt to “harass” Musk.
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