REPORTER: If you have received billions of dollars in contracts from the Pentagon and the president is directing you to look into the DoD, does that present a conflicts of interest?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 11, 2025
MUSK: First of all, I'm not the filing the contract. It's people at SpaceX pic.twitter.com/JFQKHAQDvZ
Elon Musk: "There's a limestone mine where we store all the retirement paperwork. You look at this picture of this mine, this mine looks like something out of the '50s because it was started in 1955. It's like a time warp. And then the limiting factor is the speed at which the… pic.twitter.com/4CGQcSKk9y
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 11, 2025
Reporters: But if there is a conflict of interest when it comes to you yourself, for instance, you’ve received billions of dollars in federal contracts.. Is there any sort of accountability check and balance in place that would provide any transparency for the American people?
Musk: If you see anything you say like, wait a second, Elon, that seems like maybe that’s, you know, there’s a conflict there. They’ll say it immediately.
That was one of the most surreal events I’ve ever seen. Trump was like an old, withered potted plant sitting next to him.