Elon Musk has stepped up his attacks on MAGA warrior Steve Bannon by taking aim at the jail time the former Trump strategist served over the investigation into the January 6 Capitol attack.
After firing off a flurry of schoolboy slurs, in which he described Bannon as “peak r-tard”, “authoritarian”, and a “communist r-tard,” Musk lashed out again on his social media platform, declaring: “Steve Bannon is a criminal.”
The comment came in response to a post by another X user featuring a video from Bannon’s ‘War Room’ podcast.
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During the podcast, Bannon slammed Musk’s government cost-cutting efforts, claimed the Tesla billionaire “doesn’t know anything about the real world”, and suggested Trump should seize his company, SpaceX.
“There’s plenty of fraud out there, and he didn’t find it—this was President Trump’s first complaint with the DOGE. Was it all BS?” Bannon said.
“President Trump tonight should sign an executive order calling for the Defense Production Act and seize SpaceX tonight before midnight.”
While Bannon, a staunch populist, has always been an ardent skeptic of Musk, a tech billionaire, the MAGA stalwart leaned into his disdain for the former First Buddy after his spectacular blowup with Trump on Thursday.
As part of that feud, Musk had initially threatened to decommission SpaceX, which is vital in helping the US government transport people and cargo to the International Space Station.
The new salvo aimed at Bannon was a reference to his four-month prison sentence, which he served last year, after he was convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress.
Those charges stemmed from his refusal to comply with a subpoena issued by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack at the US Capitol in 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the building trying to stop Joe Biden’s election victory from being certified.
Bannon had also faced state and federal charges relating to an allegedly fraudulent fundraising campaign for Trump, known as ‘We Build the Wall’. He was pardoned by Trump on the federal charges but pleaded guilty to a state charge in February.
