Alex Griffing
Senior Editor at Mediaite
New New Yorker, Tel Avivian for life, Coloradoan at heart. Senior editor/writer @mediaite, formerly @haaretzcom.
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mediaite.com | Alex Griffing
CNN anchor Kate Bolduan pressed Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, on Friday on whether or not the administration would really cancel Elon Musk’s government contracts amid the ongoing feud between the president and the Tesla billionaire.
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mediaite.com | Alex Griffing
Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney warned on Friday that whatever development comes next in the Trump-Musk feud roiling American politics and the economy would be likely to “shift the market” — even as Tesla’s stock price rebounds. “Now the big question: can Musk and the President patch up the feud or at least calm things down? We’ll see,” began Varney on the topic, adding:There were reports that there was supposed to be a call between Trump and Musk.
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mediaite.com | Alex Griffing
Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testified before the House Appropriations Committee this week and was grilled by Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) on his knowledge of trade deficits and where the trade deals stand. Dean pulled no punches in her assessment of Lutnick, beginning, “I fear the administration lacks a basic understanding of what a trade deficit is.”“I think many economists take issue with equating a country’s trade deficit with any one country and its economic well-being.
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mediaite.com | Alex Griffing
Steve Bannon told the New York Times on Thursday that he has been advising President Donald Trump on how best to fight back against Elon Musk’s ongoing attacks, including opening investigations into his companies and deporting him. “They should initiate a formal investigation of his immigration status because I am of the strong belief that he is an illegal alien, and he should be deported from the country immediately,” Bannon told the Times’s White House correspondent Tyler Pager.
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mediaite.com | Alex Griffing
Elon Musk escalated his fight against President Donald Trump to epic proportions on Thursday as the two spent the day duking it out on social media, with Musk going so far as to claim that Trump is implicated in the “Epstein Files.”“Time to drop the really big bomb,” Musk wrote on X, adding, “@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.
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