A Republican strategist was scolded for his attempts to defend tech billionaire Elon Musk during his appearance on a CNN news program. Scott Jennings, a conservative who once worked in the administration of former President George H.W. Bush, was part of the panel on the Table For Five program on Saturday (April 5) when the topic of Musk becoming “political poison” came up after his candidate lost in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election last week.
Jennings downplayed the host’s and other panelists’ reaction as “dramatically over-reading the results in Wisconsin,” going on to add: “He’s a great entrepreneur. I think his companies and he personally are getting all sorts of negative attention and even vandalism and all these violent attacks, and it’s terrible. I know personally that he’s been getting death threats, all for the sin, all for the sin, of having been a liberal who decided to support Donald Trump and then go serve in his government for a short period of time.”
Higher Learning podcast host Van Lathan immediately pushed back. “It’s actually not true,” he said, adding: “I just want to say something real quick. I understand it, a lot of people want to frame this as people started to hate Elon Musk or not like Elon Musk once Elon Musk decided to support Donald Trump –– it’s just not true.” Jennings retorted, “I definitely think it’s true.” Lathan fired back, “It started long before then when Elon Musk bought Twitter. Hate speech just erupted on Twitter. Elon Musk’s flirting with Nazism and far-right type of stuff for a couple of years before this, has made –– has gotten people off the Elon Musk bandwagon.” Host Abby Phillip interjected to agree with Lathan. “I think chronologically that is accurate,” she said.
“I don’t think it’s solely about Donald Trump,” Phillip continued after quelling the crosstalk. “I think it is, to Van’s point that he has been, even before he owned Twitter, actually before he bought it, before he wanted to buy it, he was turning his personal platform into a place where conspiracy theories, harassment. He accused a random person of pedophilia and was sued for it. I mean, like, this was happening years ago before all of this.”
Check out the segment above.
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