Francis Tuschek<\/p>\n\n\n\n
US government efficiency chief and tech billionaire Elon Musk has accused the American \u201clegacy media\u201d<\/em> of waging a concentrated \u201ccharacter assassination\u201d<\/em> effort against him, claiming they would have \u201cimmediately\u201d<\/em> killed him \u201cin reality\u201d<\/em> if offered such an opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Space X and Tesla CEO made the remarks on Saturday in an interview with Lara Trump, a Fox host and the US president\u2019s daughter-in-law, during which he reflected on the fallout of his speech at the inauguration of Donald Trump back in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the event, Musk made gestures that were perceived by some as Nazi salutes. The billionaire, however, continues to insist that his actions were deliberately misrepresented by the mainstream media and had nothing to do with Nazi gestures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cObviously, I\u2019ve not harmed anyone in my life, so it\u2019s an outrageous thing to claim that I\u2019m a Nazi,\u201d<\/em> he claimed. \u201cIf you repeat a lie, you know, the sort of \u2018he\u2019s a Nazi lie\u2019 enough times, some people actually believe it, especially people that still believe the legacy news, you know.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Propaganda works because people want simple narratives. But the truth is messier, and it\u2019s worth fighting for. I\u2019m not here to play their game. I\u2019m here to build a better future, no matter how many lies they throw my way.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The main \u201cissue\u201d<\/em> with the Nazis was not their \u201cmannerisms\u201d<\/em> or their \u201cchoice of dress,\u201d<\/em> but the \u201cfact that they killed millions of people,\u201d<\/em> Musk argued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The billionaire also defended the US president, stating that Trump has been the target of a similar \u201cpropaganda\u201d<\/em> campaign for over 20 years already. The US leader is \u201cnot a violent person,\u201d<\/em> Musk said, and \u201cin fact has done a lot to prevent wars and stop wars, which is the very opposite of being a Nazi.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Musk claimed that the media\u2019s hatred of him is very personal and that his critics would not hesitate to assassinate him if presented with such an opportunity. He did not elaborate on who exactly he suspected of being capable of a such an act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey\u2019re trying every angle to get me. If they could press a button and kill me in reality, they\u2019d press it immediately. But since I\u2019m a little hard to kill, they\u2019re resorting to character assassination instead,\u201d<\/em> he claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Francis Tuschek US government efficiency chief and tech billionaire Elon Musk has accused the American \u201clegacy media\u201d of waging a concentrated \u201ccharacter assassination\u201d effort against him, claiming they would have \u201cimmediately\u201d killed him \u201cin reality\u201d if offered such an opportunity. The Space X and Tesla CEO made the remarks on Saturday in an interview with Lara Trump, a Fox host and the US…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n