Overview

• Elon Musk asserted on X that President Trump is named in classified Epstein documents and implied that their nondisclosure serves to protect him
• David Schoen, Jeffrey Epstein’s final defense lawyer, publicly declared that Epstein had no damaging information on Trump
• Reps. Stephen Lynch and Robert Garcia formally requested DOJ records and a release timeline from Attorney General Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to verify Musk’s claim
• President Trump dismissed Musk as “out of his mind” in an ABC News interview and threatened to terminate government contracts with Tesla and SpaceX over their dispute on the spending legislation
• Russian officials offered Musk political asylum, but Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the clash was an internal US matter and declined to intervene