'Big name' Musk allies may soon get shown the door amid bitter spat [View all]
Source: Raw Story
June 9, 2025 7:51PM ET
Now that tech billionaire Elon Musk has fallen out with President Donald Trump, his ongoing allies still working within the White House could be prime targets, Semafor reported on Monday evening.
"MAGA loyalists are taking advantage of the Trump-Musk rift to threaten the standing of anyone in the administration who’s perceived as too close to the Tesla CEO," reported Shelby Talcott and Eleanor Mueller.
The man spearheading this effort is Steve Bannon, former Trump adviser and far-right webcaster, "whose long-running animosity toward Musk peaked last week with the former calling to deport Musk from the US and the latter deeming Bannon a 'Communist r-----.'"
The key figure Bannon most wants ousted, per the report, is David Sacks, who like Musk is a South African immigrant entrepreneur involved with him in the early days of PayPal, and is currently serving as a cryptocurrency adviser in the Trump administration. “You’re dangerous. It’s all about you, not the country.”
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Link to Semafor article - Musk’s administration allies become targets
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