Billionaire Elon Musk on Friday is set to receive a briefing from the Defense Department on the country’s top-secret plans for how it would fight a potential war with China — should one ever happen — according to multiple news reports.
The news was first reported by The New York Times.
President Donald Trump dismissed the report as “completely untrue,” blasting the Times for covering what he described as falsehoods.
“How ridiculous?” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. “China will not even be mentioned or discussed. How disgraceful it is that the discredited media can make up such lies.”
Musk echoed Trump’s words, going a step further by threatening to go after the Times’ unnamed sources.
“I look forward to the prosecutions of those at the Pentagon who are leaking maliciously false information to NYT,” Musk wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “They will be found.”
The report, which cited two U.S. officials, raised eyebrows especially because Musk…
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