WASHINGTON: Billionaire Elon Musk took his marketing campaign to chop the US federal authorities into uncharted waters on Friday (Mar 21), holding an unprecedented top-level assembly on the Pentagon and calling for the prosecution of any defence division officers leaking “maliciously false info” about his go to.
Musk, whose companies have a lot of defence division contracts, met US Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth for 80 minutes in his first such talks on the Pentagon, which is accountable for a big chunk of federal authorities spending. It was unclear whether or not US generals joined that assembly just about.
The New York Instances reported that Musk could be briefed on secret warfare plans for China, one thing Musk, Trump and others denied. Musk known as the report “pure propaganda” and urged authorized motion in opposition to leakers.
“I look ahead to the prosecutions of these on the Pentagon who’re leaking maliciously false info to NYT. They are going to be discovered,” he wrote on X earlier than the Hegseth assembly.
On the White Home after the assembly, Trump mentioned he didn’t need to present the USA’ plans for a possible warfare with China to anyone and hinted at Musk’s potential battle of curiosity.
“I do not need to present that to anyone. However definitely you would not present it to a businessman, who helps us a lot,” Trump mentioned. “Elon has companies in China, and he could be inclined, maybe, to that,” Trump mentioned.
Standing subsequent to Trump, Hegseth mentioned he had a casual dialog with Musk which targeted on innovation and efficiencies.
“There was no warfare plans, no Chinese language warfare plans. There was no secret plans,” Hegseth mentioned.
