Trump Open To Mending Fences With Musk After Spending Bill Dispute
President Donald Trump revealed this week that he is open to reconciling with billionaire Elon Musk over their falling out due to the president’s “big, beautiful bill.”
“Look, I have no hard feelings. I was really surprised that that happened. He went after a bill that’s phenomenal. He just — I think he feels very badly that he said that, actually,” Trump said during an interview on “Pod Force One with Miranda Devine” that was published Wednesday.
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Trump’s comments came after Musk expressed regret over some posts he made last week regarding Trump, marking a significant retreat from his online conflict with the president.
“I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far,” Musk posted to his X platform on Wednesday, though he didn’t specify which posts for which he was most regretful.
Tensions flared last week between President Trump and Elon Musk after the former DOGE chief called the president’s sweeping tax and spending package a “disgusting abomination.”
I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 11, 2025
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The dispute quickly escalated, with Trump declaring that his relationship with Musk was over and threatening to revoke federal funding for Musk’s SpaceX ventures.
In response, Musk intensified the feud by posting—and later deleting—a message suggesting Trump’s name appeared in documents connected to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Musk’s post said: “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
Trump denied the claim in an interview with ABC News, saying Musk had “lost his mind” and made it clear he had no intention of reconciling.
Musk has also removed a separate post in which he appeared to support efforts to impeach the president.
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As for Musk’s initial assertion that Trump was “in” the Epstein files, several people have since publicly refuted that.
Attorney David Schoen said in an X post that Epstein told him he had nothing inappropriate or damaging on the future president.
“I was hired to lead Jeffrey Epstein’s defense as his criminal lawyer 9 days before he died. He sought my advice for months before that. I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitively that he had no information to hurt President Trump. I specifically asked him!” the attorney wrote on the platform.
I was hired to lead Jeffrey Epstein’s defense as his criminal lawyer 9 days before he died. He sought my advice for months before that. I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitively that he had no information to hurt President Trump. I specifically asked him!
— David Schoen (@SchoenDavid) June 6, 2025
Also, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer who had a falling out with the president during his first term, also refuted Musk’s allegation.
“I have extensive knowledge of Trump being by his side for almost a decade and a half,” Cohen told MSNBC on Friday. “I’m telling you it’s nonsense. To the best of my knowledge and everything that I know, it’s not true.”
NEW: Trump hater and his former attorney Michael Cohen says Epstein allegations against Trump are complete “nonsense.”
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 7, 2025
Cohen, who testified against Trump, says he has “zero knowledge of any relationship between Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.”
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Last month, Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed that the FBI is analyzing “tens of thousands of videos of [Jeffrey] Epstein with children or child porn” and that there are “hundreds of victims” as she addressed concerns about the delay in releasing the case files.
“The FBI is diligently going through that,” Bondi told reporters on Wednesday morning, explaining that the volume of evidence was why more files had not yet been provided.
Epstein’s riches and altruism established him as a prominent figure in politics, academics, and finance. However, the full nature of his crimes remains unknown, including whether he had any collaborators other than his incarcerated partner, Ghislaine Maxwell; Trump vowed to release the files before taking office.
Rep. James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky and the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, had expressed his concern that important Epstein records would have been destroyed prior to the inauguration of the Trump administration.
