Elon Musk goes on Epstein tirade after feds say client list doesn't exist: ‘This is the final straw'
Through a flurry of memes and terse replies to various users, Musk, 54, insinuated that the federal government was protecting the late pedophile's associates and threw shade at Attorney General Pam Bondi.
'This is the final straw,' the world's richest man ominously replied to a post from user 'Autism Capital' who alluded to Bondi's claims in February that she had the client list 'sitting on my desk right now to review.'
4 Elon Musk bashed theTrump administration's handling of the Epstein files.
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4 Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his prison cell on Aug. 10, 2019.
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On Sunday evening, Axios reported on a memo from the DOJ that concluded there was no evidence that the sex predator either maintained a 'client list' or was killed in prison.
FBI Director Kash Patel has publicly stated for weeks that he believes Epstein committed suicide and wasn't murdered by someone else, despite the proliferation of conspiracy theories to the contrary.
Early Monday, Musk posted a meme mocking the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein case.
'What's the time? Oh look, it's no-one-has-been-arrested-o'clock again…' Musk wrote in another post with a picture of 'the official Jeffrey Epstein Pedophile Arrest Counter.'
At another point in his tweetstorm, Musk zeroed in on a key conclusion in the memo that there is 'no credible evidence … that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals.'
'So … umm … then what is Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for? Stuff like this does not improve people's faith in government,' Musk pondered.
Maxwell, a UK-born socialite and regular companion of Epstein, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in June 2022 after being convicted the previous year on charges of sex trafficking minors and conspiracy.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO also retweeted a meme of a stoic-looking Maxwell with captions asking: 'Why is she the only one going to prison? Where's all the men that had Sex [sic] with those under age [sic] girls[?]'
Musk also appeared to back up far-right influencer Mike Cernovich's contention that there exists a ring of elite pedophiles at the very top of global society.
'There is a chain of command on this planet, and elite pedophiles are at the very top. Even above Trump. Way above him,' Cernovich wrote on X.
Musk replied, 'There is a troubling subtext to [novel] The Player of Games, where [author] Iain Banks alludes to elite pedophiles secretly controlling an alien society.'
'Perhaps it was a critique of Earth.'
The tech mogul also responded to a clip of then-candidate Trump pledging last year to release the Epstein files if he gets elected, writing: 'Anytime now'.
4 Elon Musk has been feuding with President Trump over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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Musk has waded into the Epstein drama in the past, highlighting how some of his rivals had met with the notorious pederast in the past.
Last month, in a since-deleted post, Musk decided it was 'Time to drop the really big bomb' during his simmering feud with President Trump.
'@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public,' he alleged in the post that he later took down. 'Have a nice day, DJT!'
The South Africa-born billionaire later acknowledged he had overstepped the mark with his posts.
Trump, 79, has admitted to being friendly with Epstein in the past, but the relationship began to sour following a bruising 2004 bidding war over a Palm Beach property.
4 Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, pictured in 1997.
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Three years later, Page Six reported that Epstein had been banned from Trump's Mar-a-Lago club over making inappropriate advances toward an 18-year-old masseuse.
'Her father found out about it and went absolutely apes—,' a source said at the time. 'Epstein's not allowed back'
Epstein, 66, was found dead in his prison cell at the Manhattan Correctional Center on the morning of Aug. 10, 2019.
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