A Newsmax host seemed skeptical about Elon Musk’s accusation that Donald Trump is named in the Epstein files, throwing the billionaire’s 5-year-old son into the fray.
On Carl Higbie Frontline, the eponymous host asked the tech billionaire why, if what he claimed was true, he allowed his son, X Æ A-12, to be with Trump on Marine One back in March.
“If you knew he was on the Epstein client list, why did you let him board Marine One with your son?” Higbie asked, as a video played of the two approaching the presidential helicopter on the White House lawn. “Just asking.”
Musk’s post on X about Trump and Epstein, the deceased registered child sex offender and accused sex trafficker, was a “low blow,” Higbie said.
It’s “something that he knows can’t be immediately verified,” he explained.
Epstein pleaded guilty to once count each of soliciting minors for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute in Florida state court in 2008. He served 13 months in jail and was registered as a sex offender.
“Also, if Trump was on that island doing something illegal, after all the legal battles that Biden threw at him, if he had done something illegal with Jeffrey Epstein, you would think they would have thrown that at him. No? They pulled out the stops on everything else,” the Newsmax host continued.
“The only thing we can point to that was a known association with Epstein was that he was at his club once,” he said. “By the way, Trump kicked him out of that club because of reported bad behavior.”
Higbie, who maintained that he wasn’t “taking a side” in the Trump-Musk feud, explained why he thought Musk “blew up a little bit irrationally on Trump today.”
Musk’s frustration with the GOP tax bill was understandable, Higbie said. “But don’t take it out on the man.”
Congress, especially House Speaker Mike Johnson, was the more appropriate target.
“The first chance that those people who ran on fiscal conservatism got, the first bill that they put forward on this they raise the debt ceiling by five trillion dollars guys,” he said. “You can’t promise to a very ideologically driven base that you’re fiscally conservative. Look, I’m part of that base. What did you think was going to happen, Mike?”
At several points in his monologue, Higbie echoed other right-wing cable hosts in hoping that the spat ends soon.
“Can we just hug it out for the sake of the country?” he asked, imaging himself brokering a deal between the two. “Honestly, I think I speak for most of America right now.”
