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Elon Musk Makes Joe Scarborough Melt Down With Brutal Fact-Check

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Elon Musk came to the defense of former President Donald Trump over the weekend, embarrassing MSNBC host Joe Scarborough to the point that he deleted a post on X criticizing the Republican over his recent “bloodbath” comment.

The controversy stemmed from remarks Trump gave in Ohio on Saturday where he said Americans would face a “bloodbath” if President Joe Biden were reelected in November. Mainstream media outlets jumped on the term, proffering suggestions that President Trump and his supporters would resort to violence if he lost a rematch akin to the violence during the January 6th, 2021 riots at the Capitol. That theme was picked up by Scarborough, who said Trump “[p]romised another ‘bloodbath’ if he loses again.”

That didn’t sit well with the X owner.

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“Jan 6 was not a ‘bloodbath’ by any definition and Trump was referring to job losses in the auto industry when he used that word. Your post is extremely misleading,” Musk wrote in a reply to Scarborough.

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Soon after, Scarborough’s original post was deleted, though not before the exchange was captured and the liberal news anchor was ridiculed for his red herring, according to the Daily Caller.

Scarborough must have had a restless night’s sleep because he appeared on his program Monday morning to continue his rant that President Trump will instigate violence if he loses to Biden.

“These idiots on Twitter, these idiots on cable news, these idiots on Sunday shows [babbles incoherently] ‘He was talking about the auto industry’… just bulls****. Let me say that at 6:15 a.m., just bull****,” he told a guest while fellow anchor Mika Brzezinski expressed shock.

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“These people may be stupid, we’re not,” Scarborough added in a dig at Trump supporters.

With President Trump leading President Biden in virtually every recent poll, progressives’ panic has kicked into high gear, especially in states like Ohio and Michigan where blue-collar union auto workers have gone on strike to protest new electric vehicle mandates they say would shutter factories and slash domestic jobs. President Trump has taken advantage of the Democratic Party’s schism within the unions, arriving on the ground with direct appeals for workers to ditch Biden and support his attempt to return to the White House.

Without a popular incumbent or domestic policies, Democrats have resorted to fear-mongering about the possibility of violence if President Trump ever comes close to the Oval Office again. Biden Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith continues to prosecute the former president over statements and actions surrounding J6 though has seen a number of delays that may push the trial well past Election Day on November 5th. Were he to win a second term, it’s widely expected that a President-elect Trump would seek to dismiss the charges against him.



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