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Washington, June 11 (EFE).- The magnate Elon Musk, at odds with U.S. President Donald Trump, expressed his regret this Wednesday for "some" of the posts he disseminated on social media against Trump, who had been one of his biggest political allies since his arrival at the White House.
"I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump from last week. They went too far," Musk wrote on the social network X.
Until last Thursday, Trump and Musk had collaborated closely, the South African businessman even donated 250 million for the Republican's presidential election and they called each other "friends", but the magnate's departure from the Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE, in English) was followed by a series of accusations from Musk towards Trump on his social network X.
Musk intensified his attacks against Trump's fiscal megaproject that pursues significant tax cuts, and the situation just blew up when the owner of X accused the president of hiding the 'Jeffrey Epstein list' because his name appears on that list of the New York sex offender, which led to a flood of personal reproaches. The tech magnate, who until then had seen his support for Trump continue to push up the valuation of his companies, suggested that he would dismantle NASA's SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, but five hours later he retracted and also deleted the message linking Trump to Epstein. For his part, Trump has threatened to cancel the multimillion-dollar contracts that Musk's companies have with the White House, and has assured that he will be "a while" without speaking to the also owner of X. According to The New York Times, Musk's companies will benefit from at least $3 billion through nearly one hundred contracts with seventeen different agencies, including NASA and the Department of Defense, which rely on SpaceX for the launch of satellites and other services. On the other hand, Tesla, which after the harsh dialectical dispute lost $152.4 billion in value and fell 14% on the stock market this week, will stop earning $1.2 billion annually, according to JP Morgan, if Trump's tax bill is finally approved.
