Former President Donald Trump’s interview Monday night with billionaire supporter Elon Musk was a wreck. Then it actually began.
Slated to start at 8 p.m. Eastern on X, the conversation was subject to a more than 40-minute delay thanks to technical difficulties that Musk attributed, without evidence, to a denial-of-service attack from Democratic partisans (the same who presumably derailed last year’s livestream with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis). When it finally got underway, it was, as the Arizona Republic’s Bill Goodykoontz commented, “every bit as unhinged and worthless as you would expect.”
There was, predictably, nothing new. After nine years of this, the Republican candidate has nothing new to say — just variations of how he launched his first run for the White House in 2015: lies about immigrants all being murderers and rapists, despite their committing crimes at a significantly lower rate than U.S.-born citizens.
The only thing new here was Trump’s opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, who the 78-year-old termed a “phony” and falsely claimed was the Biden administration’s “border czar” and thus responsible for an influx of law-abiding migrants from the Americas.
Ultimately, more than two hours passed without a single tough question or interesting response. Musk was slavish in his devotion — at one point, he asked for a job in a future Trump administration, the Pentagon contractor offering his help on cutting government spending — while Trump rambled through his usual talking points, with an apparent lisp that his campaign blamed on listeners’ faulty hearing.
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