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like all the best doomed celebrity
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marriages Trump and Musk burnt very
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bright and not for very long we knew
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their bust up would come at some point
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but few could have imagined that it
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would get quite so bad at the end in the
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world's highest powered bar brawl Musk
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called for Trump to be impeached while
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Trump called Musk crazy but buckle up
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because the details get madder and
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weirder from here on in musk even
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re-shared an MSNBC news clip with
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archive footage of Trump and the
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pedophile financeier Jeffrey Epstein at
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a party in 1992 and a New York magazine
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interview from 2002 where Trump appears
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to call Epstein a terrific guy to top it
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all off Musk has alleged that Trump is
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quote unquote in the Epstein files
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that's all rooted in a relatively murky
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conspiracy theory about sensitive
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documents related to the case in the
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hands of the US government trump gave a
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withering description of why Musk left
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the White House posting on Truth Social
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quote "Elon was wearing thin i asked him
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to leave." And then he added "He just
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went crazy." The crux of their fallout
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is Trump's quote big beautiful budget
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which Musk has described as a disgusting
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abomination as if abomination itself
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wasn't strong enough the legislation is
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estimated to increase the budget deficit
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by $600 billion in the next fiscal year
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and some senior GOP figures agree
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senator Ran Paul said that the bill is
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like giving your 16-year-old a credit
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card watching them rack up $2,000 on
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booze and gambling and then raising
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their limit to $10,000 musk has been
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such a central part of Trump's 2024 and
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25 orbit that it's easy to forget that
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he is a relatively recent supporter of
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the president the Tesla chief told CNBC
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back in 2016 that Trump was not the
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right guy to be president and that he
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didn't seem to have the sort of
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character that reflects well on the
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United States he still joined Trump's
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first term economic advisory council in
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2017 but quit by June of that year in
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protest at the US pulling out of the
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Paris climate accord something that when
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Trump did it again this year Musk didn't
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seem to mind so much so what is next for
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Musk there's always the prospect that he
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himself could run for high office but
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he's not actually eligible to run for
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president he did post a poll on X during
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the dust up with Trump with the question
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is it time to create a new political
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party in America that actually
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represents the 80% in the middle but
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perhaps the more urgent question is what
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this all means for this Trump term can
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the president continue to slash taxes as
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spending explodes without going full Liz
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Truss for everything you need to know
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about this spectacular fallout as it
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continues to get uglier head to cam.com
