In a current interview with journalist Kara Swisher, Hillary Clinton accused Elon Musk of threatening to “rape” Taylor Swift.
The allegation stems from feedback that the Tesla CEO and X proprietor made in response to Taylor’s endorsement of Kamala Harris.
“High-quality Taylor … you win…I offers you a toddler and guard your cats with my life,” Musk wrote on the social media platform he bought in 2022.
Musk’s Try at Humor Falls Flat
Taylor referenced J.D. Vance’s “childless cat lady” aspersions in her endorsement. And that appears to have impressed Musk’s cat remark.
As for the half about giving the pop icon “a child” — nicely, the reasoning behind that comment is much less clear and way more controversial.
In her interview with Swisher, Clinton alleged that Musk’s supply to “impregnate” Swift was “form of one other means of claiming rape.”
Hillary Clinton Goes Off on Elon Musk
“I can’t perceive why he says what he says. It simply is past my creativeness,” Clinton stated.
“Whether or not it’s Trump or Musk or every other so-called masters of the universe within the expertise world, misogyny is such part of their worldview, and so they gravitate towards toughness and brutality and machoism.”
Hillary went on to attract an unflattering comparability between Taylor’s profession and Musk’s.
“Right here’s Taylor Swift, a self-made billionaire who brings pleasure to individuals who imparts life classes, significantly to women and girls. They’ll’t stand it,” Clinton stated.
Clinton went on to counsel that Taylor’s endorsement of Harris had “triggered” Trump and his supporters.
“I imply, if it had occurred earlier than the controversy, it could’ve overpowered the controversy,” she famous.
“The truth that it occurred proper after the controversy and simply added to Kamala’s momentum should have simply set all of them off,” Clinton added.
A String of Controversies
Clinton’s allegations come on the heels of a separate controversy. Earlier this week, Musk tweeted and deleted a comment about Harris that he later dismissed as a joke.
Within the wake of Sunday’s assassination try towards Donald Trump, Musk tweeted:
“Nobody is even making an attempt to assassinate Biden/Kamala.”
For apparent causes, the tweet didn’t go over nicely. In actual fact, the hashtag “#DeportElon” trended on account of Musk’s comment.
He later deleted the tweet and defined that it was an try at humor:
“Properly, one lesson I’ve realized is that simply because I say one thing to a bunch and so they chuckle doesn’t imply it’s going to be all that hilarious as a put up on X,” he wrote.
It’s robust to think about how the present election cycle may get any extra absurd. However we get the sensation that the subsequent six weeks will take this nation to locations we by no means imagined.
