Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is refusing to condemn Elon Musk ‘s post endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory, maintaining Sunday that he wasn’t familiar with the post despite it prompting major companies to pull advertising from the billionaire’s X social media platform.
“I did not see the comment,” DeSantis, the governor of Florida, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “And so, I know that Elon has had a target on his back ever since he purchased Twitter because I think he’s taking it in a direction that a lot of people who are used to controlling the narrative don’t like.”
Musk has sparked outcry with a recent tweet responding to a user who accused Jews of hating white people and for professing a general indifference to antisemitism. “You have said the actual truth,” Musk tweeted in a reply Wednesday.
He’s running for the office of President of The United States of America, and the multi-billionaire who owns what is still one of the world’s most influential social media platforms openly spouts antisemitic rhetoric.
It seems pretty fair to ask a candidate about his view on that issue.
Elon Musk has nothing to do with it. Ask about the Israel issue all you want, that’s fair. But it’d be like asking him about YOUR tweet about Israel. It doesn’t fucking matter.