Elon Musk defends Trump and slams establishment media for taking ['bloodbath'] quote out of context

Just the News ^ | 3/17/24 | Madeline Hubbard

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is defending former President Donald Trump on Sunday after multiple establishment media outlets ran headlines stating that the former president warned the U.S. would see a "bloodbath" if he is not reelected.

Although Trump did use the word "bloodbath" during a speech in Ohio on Saturday, outlets such as NPR, Politico, The Hill, NBC News, The New York Times and others used the term in headlines without context. Musk said the headlines were "legacy media lies" and he made multiple posts Sunday criticizing their use of the term and stressing the need for context.

Musk responded to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough's post on X, formerly Twitter, of video clips from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and the caption: "Donald Trump’s America. And he is proud of it. Promised another 'bloodbath' if he loses again."

[DesertRhino]

The actual literal bloodbath in America is abortion, BLM/Antifa murder and violence and illegal aliens beating young nursing students to death.

[DesertRhino]

Insults? You called me a supporter of the Chinese communist party. Moron may have been rude. Simpleton would have been more polite.

[PeterPrinciple]

Is the American Revolution even taught?

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That is our job now............................

[hardspunned]

I’m homeschooling 12 and 14 year old granddaughters, they are well aware.

[SunkenCiv]

...MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough...

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[AnotherUnixGeek]

I'm not seeing it while I'm using TikTok.

Do you see transgender content while you're using TikTok?

I don't use TikTok - I don't see the point of subjecting myself to a medium ultimately controlled by a foreign Communist power.

[MinorityRepublican]

I don't use TikTok - I don't see the point of subjecting myself to a medium ultimately controlled by a foreign Communist power.

All you did was to present your opinion rather than evidence.

I had the experience of using TikTok. And I did not encounter the content that you said I would see.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

All you did was to present your opinion rather than evidence.

I had the experience of using TikTok. And I did not encounter the content that you said I would see.

There are written articles about this, which is what I use to inform my opinion - you can find them if you're interested in more data points about TikTok than just your own experience. And it is indisputable that TikTok is controlled by the CCP.

[desertsolitaire]

Fair enough.
I tend to micromanage and worry too much.
Fortune favors the bold and I don’t think the bullsh*t that the main stream Dem media are shoveling has much effect any more.
On to helping with Republican ballot harvesting and voter sign up, transporting to polls,, etc.

[desertsolitaire]

Excellent analogy.

[GreyFriar]

Thank you.

[BradyLS]

“Reap the whirlwind...”

“Six ways to Sunday...”

...Just off the top of my head.

Yup. The Media gives him and so many others on the left a pass.

[DouglasKC]

So true. Musk is 100% unwoke. He's called the philsophy that he's fighting against a mind virus and bought twitter specificaly to try and stop it.

[Freee-dame]

AFAIK Ford factories in Mexico are not owned by the CCP

[navymom1]

You stated that so much better than I ever could!

[joesbucks]

We buy so much from the ccp, why does Mexican cars matter?

[newzjunkey]

We see the propaganda. It’s all about terrorizing people away from voting against Biden.

I think we all understand what he means by bloodbath to the domestic auto industry with threat of China dumping product in our market. He’s also effectively calling out domestic auto makers for their part of building 30% in Mexico.

This is a “fine people” hoax where Trump specifically and repeatedly condemned white nationalists and neoNazis while saying people want to protect their heritage and history by preserving statues whether Robert E Lee or Washington or Jefferson. He was leaning in to being honest about the history rather than erasing it because that’s how communism deals with problematic history.

He’ll say crazy off the cuff things, sure, and I would’ve preferred another candidate with a similar agenda but we cannot allow these complete lies about his statements, literally election misinformation, to stand as truth.

[Truthsearcher]

It’s called a figure of speech.

Don’t pretend you don’t know what that is. Just like when people so and so will be “slaughtered at the ballot box”, it doesn’t men they are going to get physically murdered, it just means they will lose badly.

[joesbucks]

I’ll give you that.

[Texan4Life]

MSM Freakout ! ! ! !