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I look forward to the prosecutions of those at the Pentagon who are leaking maliciously false information,
China will not even be mentioned or discussed,
Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Thursday about the meeting We look forward to welcoming @elonmusk to the Pentagon tomorrow. But the fake news delivers again — this is NOT a meeting about “top secret China war plans.” It’s an informal meeting about innovation, efficiencies & smarter production. Gonna be great!”
Meanwhile, the defence secretary wrote on X We want a guy like Elon Musk in the Defense Department to help us come up with creative solutions to the problems that we face today. But this article — this article is ridiculous. It’s fake. And I say it on the record,
That is completely fake, ... This is egregious. This is fake. The New York Times should retract this story.”
Parnell said of the article, adding ... He went Their FAKE concept for this story is that because Elon does some business in China, that he is very conflicted and would immediately go to top Chinese officials and “spill the beans”,
We look forward to welcoming @elonmusk to the Pentagon tomorrow
Hegseth also denied it in a post to X, saying The Fake News is the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE... And Elon is NOT BEING BRIEFED ON ANYTHING CHINA BY THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR!!!"
I've been to the Pentagon many times over many years. Not my first time in the building,
