(📢) NATSEC COMMUNITY NOTE: Musk is confessing to beginning to blame Ukraine for a war Putin started—thus working to aid Putin—at exactly the moment he began having clandestine business and geopolitical negotiations with Putin.
He should be arrested.
🔗: wsj.com/world/russia/m… x.com/elonmusk/statu…
He should be arrested.
🔗: wsj.com/world/russia/m… x.com/elonmusk/statu…
1/ I used to be a federal criminal investigator. I'm now a Musk biographer who recently published a book about Musk, PROOF OF DESTRUCTION. Not a single federal criminal investigator who has researched Musk as I have would doubt that he's coordinated aiding the Kremlin since 2022.
2/ The beginning of the Musk-Putin conspiracy came shortly after Musk made associates aware he wanted to expand Tesla factories to Russia, suggesting he'd received the same business-related entreaties from Kremlin agents Trump got in 2013, 2015, and 2016. cnn.com/2021/05/21/bus…
3/ The Trump-Russia Scandal was never about Trump allegedly aiding in Russian _hacking or propaganda_.
Though that allegation was never made—by anyone—it was all Mueller investigated. In fact, the allegation was Putin tempting US businessman to betray America via business deals.
Though that allegation was never made—by anyone—it was all Mueller investigated. In fact, the allegation was Putin tempting US businessman to betray America via business deals.
4/ I wrote three national bestsellers about the relationship between Trump, Putin, Russia and Ukraine.
Not a single fact in all 1,500+ pages of that trilogy has ever been refuted.
Not one.
What I found was that Putin was promising business deals in exchange for a “peace deal.”
Not a single fact in all 1,500+ pages of that trilogy has ever been refuted.
Not one.
What I found was that Putin was promising business deals in exchange for a “peace deal.”
5/ Putin established an MO: personally and through agents, he approached businessmen he felt could influence policy and offered business deals—for them to bring their businesses to Russia—if they would push his fake deal to end the hostilities in Ukraine among politicians in DC.
6/ This is why Musk subsequently lied about wanting to take Tesla to Russia, even as he pushed a so-called deal in Ukraine that was—U.S. media universally reported—identical to *everything* the Kremlin demanded *and* what it had passed to Trump via Cohen. .newsweek.com/elon-musk-refu…
7/ Musk’s rhetoric on Ukraine did a 180 as soon as he began speaking to Putin about geopolitics *and business*. He was compromised at that point: not a Kremlin agent, no, but a Kremlin asset (a very different concept, and well worth Googling the many differences between the two).
8/ After this point, not only did Elon Musk exclusively push a “deal” in Ukraine the Kremlin had written, we *also* began to see Cybertrucks end up in Russia... somehow... and Starlink technology begin to end up in Russia... somehow... and Musk pushing to end Russian sanctions.
11/ How was so much Musk tech getting to Kremlin soldiers at a time Musk was secretly communicating with the Kremlin, turning off Starlink over Crimea (which he at first lied about), pushing a Kremlin-written “peace deal,” and going full pro-Russia MAGA? thehill.com/policy/defense…
12/ When a Chechen warlord alleged that Musk had arranged for him to get a Cybertruck, I knew I had to speak up as a Musk biographer.
And that was when Musk and I had our second interaction here on Twitter. ktla.com/news/russian-w…
And that was when Musk and I had our second interaction here on Twitter. ktla.com/news/russian-w…
13/ Ramzan Kadyrov, a Chechan warlord who is a tough guy who never jokes and fully realized the importance of publicly claiming Musk was working with the Kremlin to get his tech to Russian soldiers to fight *against* U.S. allies—arguably, statutory Treason—was clear on his gift.
14/ So Musk was caught in a lie. Without accusing him of gifting the warlord the Cybertruck, I *did* say he had the ability to *disable* it—and that that would signal that he didn’t want Russian troops to have his products as they made war on American allies.
Musk was in a bind.
Musk was in a bind.
15/ So a series of things then happened very quickly. Musk, who’d always read my work and throttled my feed but had never addressed me *directly*, was so rattled by my accusation that he did so—calling me a “retard”...for saying he gifted a Cybertruck to a Chechen warlord.
Oops!
Oops!
16/ I hadn’t accused him of gifting the Cybertruck.
I’d accused him of being unwilling to remotely disable it.
So he either had to claim he couldn’t remotely disable it *or* admit that he *could* but had done nothing when he found out a Russian leader had his product illegally.
I’d accused him of being unwilling to remotely disable it.
So he either had to claim he couldn’t remotely disable it *or* admit that he *could* but had done nothing when he found out a Russian leader had his product illegally.
17/ I had put him in a bind. Which meant Putin and his leaders were in a bind. So this is how it was dealt with.
First, where it began: apnews.com/article/russia…
First, where it began: apnews.com/article/russia…
18/ Then, where it went next: a Russia media outlet claiming that Kadyrov lied, though he clearly had not lied. meduza.io/en/news/2024/1…
19/ Then, Musk—who had sworn he could not remotely disable a Cybertruck, and called me a retard for saying otherwise—disabling the Cybertruck, exactly as I knew he could. cnn.com/2024/09/20/bus…
20/ But Musk still had plausible deniability about the remote disabling, until this happened... washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
21/ Musk was so desperate to show that his Cybertruck—his ugly, refrigerator-like, poorly made vehicular baby—hadn’t spontaneously combusted in Las Vegas as it has elsewhere, that he revealed how much control Tesla maintains over every Cybertruck it sells. reddit.com/r/electricvehi…
22/ So Kadyrov had told the truth about Tesla and other Musk products appearing in Russia in a way Musk could track *but wasn’t* (because he was secretly negotiating with Putin), but he wasn’t supposed to give up the game...a game I revealed, per Le Monde. lemonde.fr/en/internation…
23/ That was why Musk got so flustered he acknowledged in public his awareness of my writings on him and called me a retard—an attack that birthed several news stories wondering why Musk had gotten so worked up.
He was worked up because his clandestine schemes had sprung a leak.
He was worked up because his clandestine schemes had sprung a leak.
24/ Trump-Russia collusion in the 2024 U.S. election happened in plain view—through the $290 million (a record-exploding amount) that Mr. Musk gave to the Trump operation—after two successive presidential elections in which Russian aid for Trump had been secret and controversial.
25/ Most Americans don’t know that George Soros—a progressive bogeyman Musk has made out to be a *literal supervillain*—gives ~10% the amount to Democrats that Musk gave Trump.
You *can’t contemplate* how fruitful the secret Musk-Putin alliance was for Putin...and for Mr. Trump.
You *can’t contemplate* how fruitful the secret Musk-Putin alliance was for Putin...and for Mr. Trump.
26/ This thread is being throttled within an inch of its life. Its only hope of going wide here on Twitter is you RETWEET-ing the first tweet in the thread.
27/ The upshot of all of this: angered by how Democrats dealt with the pandemic—which he felt cost him money—and wanting to take Putin up on business offers of the sort Trump tried to (before Putin yanked them back) in 2013, 2015 and 2016, Musk turned on America around 2021-2022.
28/ Yesterday Elon Musk demanded that America exit NATO.
Also a *Kremlin* demand.
Yesterday Musk even demanded America exit *the United Nations*—a dream beyond *anything* Putin could have imagined when he began courting Musk secretly earlier this decade. wsj.com/world/russia/m…
Also a *Kremlin* demand.
Yesterday Musk even demanded America exit *the United Nations*—a dream beyond *anything* Putin could have imagined when he began courting Musk secretly earlier this decade. wsj.com/world/russia/m…
29/ Musk did not turn on Ukraine, the EU, NATO—even the United Nations!—organically.
He was *turned*—after he began jonesing to move his businesses into Russia and after he began having clandestine contacts with Putin. From that point in, everything changed for Musk. Everything.
He was *turned*—after he began jonesing to move his businesses into Russia and after he began having clandestine contacts with Putin. From that point in, everything changed for Musk. Everything.
30/ Consider his new views:
1⃣ US out of UN and NATO.
2⃣ A Kremlin “deal.”
3⃣ No Starlink in Crimea.
4⃣ Starlink in Russian tech.
5⃣ Teslas in Russian hands.
6⃣ A sudden turn toward Trump.
7⃣ $290M in political gifts.
8⃣ The 2024 election suddenly being “existential” (for whom)?
1⃣ US out of UN and NATO.
2⃣ A Kremlin “deal.”
3⃣ No Starlink in Crimea.
4⃣ Starlink in Russian tech.
5⃣ Teslas in Russian hands.
6⃣ A sudden turn toward Trump.
7⃣ $290M in political gifts.
8⃣ The 2024 election suddenly being “existential” (for whom)?
31/ But this is only the tip of the iceberg! He started ending old friendships. He changed so much—personality-wise—Grimes called him unrecognizable. He became distant from his kids. He went on ketamine to deal with stress and depression.
And yes, kids, he also *bought Twitter*!
And yes, kids, he also *bought Twitter*!
32/ Betraying a country that has given you everything, and doing it for money—not just new factories, but the ability to set up shop in a nation where you will not be sued for gender and racial discrimination, disobeying regulations, unethical bioengineering testing—is stressful.
33/ It changed Musk considerably. newsweek.com/entertainment/…
34/ He gained weight, he lost relationships, he became—his employees felt—suicidal. Why? Because he knew what he had become. mercurynews.com/2023/11/08/elo…
35/ With aid from Putin allies in Saudi Arabia, and under a false claim he wanted to reduce bots—when in reality Putin wanted Twitter as a political weapon to reelect Trump—Musk in the most deranged and haphazard and weird and deceitful way bought Twitter. aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/2…
36/ As soon as he bought Twitter, it was clear bots had had nothing to do with it. In fact, bots were *allowed* to proliferate so that Musk could claim that two Putin pals—him and his Saudi backer—buying Twitter had made it *more* popular rather than less. gzeromedia.com/news/analysis/…
37/ Musk then *admitted* his reason for buying Twitter wasn’t to make it more functional (as it became less so, post-sale), nor that he had proof of government tampering (the Twitter Files were such a bust he had public rifts with the pet journos he brought in for that fiasco)...
38/ ...but to “save civilization,” the *decades-old rhetoric* Musk has *always* used when he’s doing something purely in his own interest.
But it was far more than this. It was also an echoing of the oldest Russian propaganda there is about World War III. wsj.com/livecoverage/t…
But it was far more than this. It was also an echoing of the oldest Russian propaganda there is about World War III. wsj.com/livecoverage/t…
39/ The biggest threat to world peace comes from Mr. Putin, so in a classic bit of autocratic gaslighting the Kremlin has—for 20 years now!—used as fallback rhetoric the idea that anyone *who makes it mad* is risking WWIII.
Not Russia, mind you—only its agitators are risking it.
Not Russia, mind you—only its agitators are risking it.
40/ This is the equivalent of a wife-beater screaming at his victim, “WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME DO THIS?!”
(As dedicated misogynists—the former also a serial sexual predator and rapist—Trump and Musk would of course not understand this analogy, as such a scream sounds fine to them.)
(As dedicated misogynists—the former also a serial sexual predator and rapist—Trump and Musk would of course not understand this analogy, as such a scream sounds fine to them.)
41/ Many Americans were mystified at how, out of nowhere, Musk not only became political, became pro-Russian, and became a different person seemingly overnight, but *also* suddenly started claiming that if a Russian enemy became the U.S. POTUS it could... “threaten civilization.”
42/ In writing three national bestsellers on Trump and Russia and Ukraine, I found that Putin routinely had his agents push foreign allies to say that they supported the Kremlin for the sake of “peace” and to avoid WWIII (i.e. the end of civilization).
Musk echoed this to a tee.
Musk echoed this to a tee.
43/ The thing is, only a captured and compromised person would *ever* utter such nonsense—given that it was Putin who invaded Georgia, Putin who invaded Ukraine, Putin who invaded Chechnya, Putin who pushes us ever closer to WWIII. Everyone normal sees it. theguardian.com/world/2022/feb…
44/ So what changed for Musk? His clandestine business and geopolitical negotiations with Putin—*exactly* the sort Trump had to have through *intermediaries* because he was a politician, but that Musk could have *directly* because he was not (and was not eligible to ever be one).
45/ To be clear, this was a *genius* play by Putin. He realized that if he could turn a non-politician billionaire against America using the same venal entreaties he had had to use intermediates to bring to *intermediaries* of Trump throughout 2016 and after, what he could do...
46/ ...was capture the U.S. government indirectly and never be blamed for it because talking with Musk secretly isn’t illegal. The only thing that’d be illegal is bribing Musk, which is why...
...Donald Trump—on Musk’s advice—just launched the biggest war on Bribery laws *ever*.
...Donald Trump—on Musk’s advice—just launched the biggest war on Bribery laws *ever*.
47/ More: nytimes.com/2025/02/14/us/…
48/ More: msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…
49/ More: us.transparency.org/news/pause-on-…
50/ More: morganlewis.com/pubs/2025/02/n…
51/ So foreign election interference already happened; what we’re seeing now is a cleanup: retroactively creating a legal framework within which what Musk apparently did is neither Bribery nor Treason nor even political corruption, even as co-POTUS Musk sleeps at the White House.
52/ This thread is being throttled within an inch of its life. Its only hope of going wide here on Twitter is you RETWEET-ing the first tweet in the thread.
53/ Putin is inside the White House.
Every day.
He has an office there. He sleeps there. He travels on Air Force Once and Marine One.
He writes Trump executive orders. He sets policy for the White House. All in the person of Elon Musk.
Putin did this: wsj.com/politics/natio…
Every day.
He has an office there. He sleeps there. He travels on Air Force Once and Marine One.
He writes Trump executive orders. He sets policy for the White House. All in the person of Elon Musk.
Putin did this: wsj.com/politics/natio…
54/ And it’s all happening under our noses.
Ask any Russia or Ukraine expert what the White House would be doing if Putin were co-running it with Trump through Elon Musk, and they will say: end aid to Ukraine (check); start to exit NATO (check); attack the EU (check).
But also:
Ask any Russia or Ukraine expert what the White House would be doing if Putin were co-running it with Trump through Elon Musk, and they will say: end aid to Ukraine (check); start to exit NATO (check); attack the EU (check).
But also:
55/
1⃣ Claim US aid to Ukraine is $350B—a Kremlin figure—not the actual $100B (check).
2⃣ Falsely claim the US aids Ukraine more than Europe—another Kremlin lie (check).
3⃣ Falsely call Zelinskyy a dictator (Kremlin lie, check).
4⃣ Call Ukraine the aggressor (Kremlin lie, check).
1⃣ Claim US aid to Ukraine is $350B—a Kremlin figure—not the actual $100B (check).
2⃣ Falsely claim the US aids Ukraine more than Europe—another Kremlin lie (check).
3⃣ Falsely call Zelinskyy a dictator (Kremlin lie, check).
4⃣ Call Ukraine the aggressor (Kremlin lie, check).
56/
5⃣ Falsely say that Russia wants peace in Ukraine and that Ukraine does *not* (check).
6⃣ Say that the Trump-Russia Scandal was a hoax Ukraine had a hand in (check).
7⃣ Falsely accused Biden of working with Ukraine to steal U.S. presidential elections (a Kremlin lie, check).
5⃣ Falsely say that Russia wants peace in Ukraine and that Ukraine does *not* (check).
6⃣ Say that the Trump-Russia Scandal was a hoax Ukraine had a hand in (check).
7⃣ Falsely accused Biden of working with Ukraine to steal U.S. presidential elections (a Kremlin lie, check).
57/
8⃣ Call for Zelenskyy to step down, as the Kremlin wants (check).
9⃣ *Start* the so-called peace negotiations by derangedly *conceding up front* everything the Kremlin wants (check).
🔟 Shut off all aid to Ukraine (as of today, Mission Accomplished by Trump, Musk, and Putin).
8⃣ Call for Zelenskyy to step down, as the Kremlin wants (check).
9⃣ *Start* the so-called peace negotiations by derangedly *conceding up front* everything the Kremlin wants (check).
🔟 Shut off all aid to Ukraine (as of today, Mission Accomplished by Trump, Musk, and Putin).
58/ I could go on. Putin wants a rift between the US and Canada—check. Putin wants a rift between the US and a key EU ally (Denmark) over Greenland—check.
Putin—said to be the world’s actual richest man—wants to bribe Trump and Musk in untraceable crypto. yahoo.com/news/trump-cry…
Putin—said to be the world’s actual richest man—wants to bribe Trump and Musk in untraceable crypto. yahoo.com/news/trump-cry…
59/ Even Elon Musk *stans* have wondered why Musk is with him *every second of the day*. He travels with Trump; has an office where Trump does; sleeps where Trump does; has roughly the same itinerary; is on calls that have nothing to do with “DOGE.” The secret? See Occam’s Razor.
60/ Musk can do—and can *be* to Trump—what Putin cannot be: a Kremlin asset who shadows him at all times and ensures that his actions serve the glory of Russia and in all respects harm America.
And it’s working. It’s working beyond Putin’s wildest dreams. cnbc.com/2025/02/28/the…
And it’s working. It’s working beyond Putin’s wildest dreams. cnbc.com/2025/02/28/the…
61/ So many federal employees are being fired that the U.S. government is becoming non-functional. Our alliance with Europe is dead. Our ability to stave off tens of millions of deaths in the next pandemic is approaching zero. Ukraine will get nothing from us, now. So Putin wins.
62/ And the best part? The Kremlin did not hide any of this. Sure, Musk lied for years and years about not being in contact with Putin, but once their clandestine relationship was revealed, major media just dropped it.
So the Kremlin just stated what it had done... uh... openly.
So the Kremlin just stated what it had done... uh... openly.
63/ “DOGE” is an open Kremlinist attack on the United States.
It has found no fraud and abuse; is lying about its savings; and has fired everyone in government who *actually* looks for fraud and abuse because it’s merely intended to weaken our government.
It’s Treason-adjacent.
It has found no fraud and abuse; is lying about its savings; and has fired everyone in government who *actually* looks for fraud and abuse because it’s merely intended to weaken our government.
It’s Treason-adjacent.
64/ More: newrepublic.com/post/192248/do…
65/ More: npr.org/2025/03/01/nx-…
66/ More:
67/ Trump is spending *more* money than Biden—even as he’s *fired* all the people who can identify actual waste and fraud in the U.S. government.
Why? Because the point of DOGE was to insert the Kremlin agenda into U.S. policy, *especially* killing USAID. reuters.com/world/us/us-go…
Why? Because the point of DOGE was to insert the Kremlin agenda into U.S. policy, *especially* killing USAID. reuters.com/world/us/us-go…
68/ More: themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/06/rus…
69/ Why won’t U.S. major media explain *any* of this to Americans? Why does PROOF have to do it?
🔗: sethabramson.substack.com
🔗: sethabramson.substack.com
70/ America, you’ve been betrayed.
Your country is no longer your own. Elon Musk is the conduit between Vladimir Putin that Donald Trump has been looking for for a decade, and money and policy now flows through Musk to Trump.
This is simply *not* an American government anymore.
Your country is no longer your own. Elon Musk is the conduit between Vladimir Putin that Donald Trump has been looking for for a decade, and money and policy now flows through Musk to Trump.
This is simply *not* an American government anymore.
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FACTCHECK 1/ Grok claims it found just four errors in this 75-post thread (I asked it to identify any/all such errors) so I will now address them in the following posts in the thread. Follow along to see the entirety of this self-factcheck. I will start with Item #4 in this list.
FACTCHECK 2/ Grok misread the claim it references in Item #4. I did not allege, and do not believe, that the Kremlin directed Musk to oppose US involvement in NATO and the UN. I said that it is a Kremlin “demand” that NATO be dissolved—it is—which would involve the US exiting it.
FACTCHECK 3/ By comparison, I noted that the US exiting the United Nations would be a “dream” for the Kremlin—it’s not a demand—and it would be. His public statements make perfectly clear that Musk understands his demands on America (re: NATO and the UN) mirror Kremlin interests.
FACTCHECK 4/ As to Item #3, I’ve probably written more words in English establishing Musk and Putin as pathological liars than any U.S. author.
Even Grok doesn’t _credit_ their claims their contacts—after years of lying about them—were anodyne, it merely notes them, which is OK.
Even Grok doesn’t _credit_ their claims their contacts—after years of lying about them—were anodyne, it merely notes them, which is OK.
FACTCHECK 5/ In contrast, as a human not an AI, I can note Putin and Musk are two of the most consistent deceivers alive; lied about their contacts for years, suggesting they’re not and were never anodyne; worked to hide the contacts (ditto); and admit they discussed geopolitics.
FACTCHECK 6/ Moreover, as this thread details—indeed, arguably _undersells_—Musk’s public conduct and demeanor and policy positions changed so markedly after entering into clandestine negotiations with a longtime KGB agent (Putin) that calling the contacts anodyne would be silly.
FACTCHECK 7/ As to Item #2, Grok once again weirdly misreads me. I didn’t allege Musk _sold_ equipment to the Russians. I said he did _nothing_ to remotely disable equipment he could’ve _instantly disabled_ until forced to, _and_ made no known efforts to stop black-market sales.
FACTCHECK 8/ Musk is the most Extremely Online man alive. Yet he’s issued no statements of concern about his tech turning the tide of the war in Russia; announced no investigations of his tech flooding into Russia; has announced no programs to investigate or disable illicit tech.
FACTCHECK 9/ Indeed, as this Thread notes, he’s _repeatedly_ been caught _lying_ on these subjects.
He lied about Starlink over Crimea. He lied about contacts with Putin. He lied about being unable to remotely disable Cybertrucks.
_And_ he’s attacked Putin’s _victims_, instead.
He lied about Starlink over Crimea. He lied about contacts with Putin. He lied about being unable to remotely disable Cybertrucks.
_And_ he’s attacked Putin’s _victims_, instead.
FACTCHECK 10/ The only valid critique from Grok is Item #1. This thread asserts law enforcement has probable cause for an arrest (a low standard), but does not name the crime. Options could potentially include: Bribery, FARA, Hatch Act, Logan Act, FCPA, Treason or Election Fraud.
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