President Donald Trump denied angry reports that Elon Musk will receive a Pentagon briefing about a plan for every war that could break out with China and call it an 'absolutely ridiculous and false story'.
Both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal mentioned two American officials who said Musk was given a look at 'Top Secreco' war plans such as America and China came into conflict.
Trump recorded his Truth Social Report to attack some points of sale that have reported it and to hit the reporter Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, who has treated Trump for years and has won prizes for her reporting on him.
He said on Friday that the 'failing' New York Times' is one of the worst and most deliberately inaccurate newspapers around the world. “
Musk called the information 'false' and threatened the sources behind the stories with 'persecution'.
“The New York Times is pure propaganda. I also look forward to the persecutions of those in the Pentagon who leak malicious false information to NYT. They will be found, “he wrote on X.
Musk, the head of SpaceX, has various Pentagon contracts. He also serves as Head of Doge, Trump's initiative to lower the federal government. There has been concern, he did not check the power of the executive power.
The exact nature of Musk's visit to the Pentagon is unclear.
Musk is said to be informed by Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth and two other important officials about the details, of which WSJ said the 'maritime tactics and targeting plans' included.
The briefing for the China War Plan has around 20 to 30 slides that explain how the United States would combat such a conflict, The Times reported.
The newspaper assumed that Musk – who has had friendly relations with China for a long time – had to know what the Pentagon budgeting was because his department of government efficiency seems to reduce government waste.
Elon Musk has been called to the Pentagon for a top secret military briefing, with unbridled speculation about whether the 'first buddy' was given more power and access
Donald Trump hit claims from the 'fake news' that Musk got a glimpse of plans for a hypothetical war with China, but the exact nature of Musk's visit is unknown
Trump called the reports 'fake news'.
“They wrongly said that Elon Musk is going to the Pentagon tomorrow to be informed about a possible war with China.” How ridiculous? 'China will not even be mentioned or discussed. How shameful it is that the media discredited in discredit can make up for such lies. Anyway, the story is not true at all !!!, “he wrote on the Social Truth Thursday evening.
Hegseeth also denied it in a message to X and said: 'We look forward to welcome @elonmusk in the Pentagon tomorrow. But the fake news yields again – this is not a meeting about 'Top Secreceim China war plans'.
The Pentagon head added that they would discuss 'innovation, efficiency and smarter production' instead.
They confirmed that Musk will visit on Friday, but has not shared any further details.
'The Ministry of Defense is pleased to welcome Elon Musk in the Pentagon on Friday. He was invited by Secretary (Pete) Hegseeth and only visits, “said a Pentagon spokesperson.
Trump and Hegseeth are planned to give comments from the Oval Office on Friday at 11 am.
Access to the densely guarded military plan would mark a sharp extension of the role of Musk as a Trump adviser who has a spearhead to lower US government spending.
It would also raise questions about conflicts of interest for Musk, who, as head of both Tesla and SpaceX, has business interests in China and with the Pentagon.
The White House has said earlier that Musk will take itself back if conflicts of interest arises between his business transactions and his role in reducing the expenditure of the federal government.
Trump led a choir of administration voices in refusing the 'fake news' of 'The Failing New York Times' report in a post to truth social
Hegseeth also denied it in a message to X and said: 'We look forward to welcome @elonmusk in the Pentagon tomorrow. But the fake news yields again – this is not a meeting about 'Top Secreceim China war plans'
Washington and Beijing have had tense relationships for years about differences, ranging from access to technology, trading rates and cyber security to TIKTOK, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Human Rights and the origin of COVID-19.
Musk, on the other hand, often bent over to be nice with China and the authoritarian regime, because it is a huge and growing car market.
About 22.5 percent of the Tesla income comes from sales in China, which is being tipped to be the largest buyers of electric cars soon.
Musk routinely meets the requirements of the Chinese Communist Party, also to make a change of Tesla cars in 2021.
He also closed his factory for four days in 2022 during a Covid outbreak when he was told, despite calling the fascists of California to give the same order in 2020.
Rates on China are also not in the interest of Musk and he set himself up against President Joe Biden in 2024.
Neither Tesla nor I asked for these rates. Things that hinder the freedom of exchange or distort the market are not good, “he said at a technical conference in Paris.
'Tesla competes quite well in the market in China without rates and no respectful support. I'm no rates. '
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, on the left, shakes his hand with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang while he arrives for a meeting at the Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound in Beijing in 2019
Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk poses with Tesla China-made Model 3 Food owners on stage during a delivery event in the Shanghai factory in China in 2020 in 2020
Musk has had to deal with intense recoil from some legislators and voters for his chainsaw-swinging approach to take employees and cut programs, although Trump's supporters have praised it.
A high defense officer told reporters on Tuesday that approximately 50,000 to 60,000 civilian jobs will be reduced in the Ministry of Defense.
Musk's Doge has already reduced the staff at various federal agencies, has reduced the federal expenses and in an unprecedented move e -mailed federal employees with an e -mail with 'what they did last week'.
Trump and Musk have argued that the government is wasting and blown up. DOGE claims that it has saved $ 105 billion in cuts, but it has only publicly documented a fraction of those savings and their accounting has been plagued by errors.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has led the indictment to lower the federal workforce under the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) of the Trump administration, but her chief spokesperson seems to be full off-message.
In recent weeks, Doge has had to deal with intensive control because of the chaotic handling of dismissals, in particular the dismissing of important federal employees to try to rent them again later.
Among the affected were employees who were responsible for maintaining nuclear weapons sites in the US, a movement that has expressed serious concern about national security and Musk and his allies are now the increasing pressure on the face to reassess their approach.
Some endings are part of the 'last mission' of the Education Department, referring to Trump's vow to eliminate the department, which supervises $ 1.6 trillion at university loans, maintains civil rights in schools and offers federal financing for needy districts.
Musk speaks during the groundbreaking ceremony for Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory in Shanghai
Trump and Musk have argued that the government is wasting and blown up. Doge claims that it has saved $ 105 billion in cuts, but it has only publicly documented a fraction of those savings, and their accounting has been plagued by errors
The dismissals would leave the department with 2,183 employees, a decrease of 4,133 when Trump took office in January.
Trump has officially signed an executive order to greatly reduce the Ministry of Education on Thursday.
Similar closures served as a precursor to the conclusion of the headquarters of the US Agency for International Development, the Humanitarian Aid Agency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects Americans against unscrupulous lender people.
Until now, DOGE has reduced more than 100,000 jobs in the federal civil bureaucracy of 2.3 million members, frozen most foreign aid and thousands of programs and contracts, despite dozens of lawsuits that dispute the legislative of those movements.
The blunt approach of Doge has frustrated various officials of the White House and the Republican legislators, some of whom have confronted angry voters in the town halls.
Trump told the department heads last week that they, not Musk, have the last word about the staff, his first remarkable public relocation to control the CEO of Tesla.
All US government agencies are on the disposal of the assignment to come up with large -scale dismissal plans on Thursday, so that the next phase of Trump's cost -saving campaign was set up.
Various agencies have offered employee payments to retire early to fulfill Trump's question.
Employees of the affected educational department will be placed on 21 March with administrative leave, the department said.
Other agencies have offered flat -rate payments of up to $ 25,000 before tax to taxes to employees who agree to leave their jobs.
Among these are the Office of Personnel Management, the Social Security Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services, including its Food and Drug Administration.
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