{"id":2012231,"date":"2023-08-25T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T19:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-reacts-to-doj-weaponization-against-him\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T19:56:31","slug":"elon-musk-reacts-to-doj-weaponization-against-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-reacts-to-doj-weaponization-against-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk responds to DOJ&#8217;s &#8216;weaponization&#8217; targeting him."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-reacts-to-doj-weaponization-against-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2012231&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Elon\u2064 Musk Fires Back at DOJ Lawsuit, Exposes\u200b Weaponization of Government Agencies<\/h2>\n<p>After the Department of Justice announced a lawsuit\u2062 against SpaceX for allegedly preferring to hire Americans and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prosecution-rests-its-case-in-ahmaud-arbery-murder-trial\/\" title=\"Prosecution Rests Its Case in Ahmaud Arbery Murder Trial\">legal citizens<\/a>\u2062 over &#8220;refugees&#8221; and &#8220;asylum seekers,&#8221; Elon Musk, the company&#8217;s owner, didn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-may-ease-ccp-virus-lockdown-from-march-foreign-secretary-says\/\" title=\"UK May Ease CCP Virus Lockdown From March, Foreign Secretary Says\">hold back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On\u200d Friday, Musk responded to a tweet, expressing his\u200c true feelings about the DOJ&#8217;s lawsuit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you speak up against the illiberal regime,\u2062 they find ways to go after you: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BxrJ1QVV1l\">https:\/\/t.co\/BxrJ1QVV1l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They hope to scare\u200d others not speak out like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a>. The DOJ sued Palantir for nonsense after\u200d our co-founder Peter\u200b Thiel spoke at \u200bthe\u200c 2016 Republican convention, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Lonsdale (@JTLonsdale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JTLonsdale\/status\/1694749322196185327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, this isn&#8217;t the first time the\u2063 DOJ has targeted individuals who speak out against their agenda. Shortly \u2063after\u2064 Peter\u200b Thiel, co-founder of Palantir, spoke\u200c at the 2016 Republican National \u200bConvention, the Department of Labor sued his company for alleged &#8220;racial discrimination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk didn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-trump-chides-rival-desantis-to-get-home-amid-floridas-insurance-crisis-and-campaign-woes\/\" title=\"Trump tells DeSantis to return home amidst Florida's insurance crisis and campaign troubles.\">hold\u2062 back<\/a> in his response \u2062to Joe \u2062Lonsdale, stating, &#8220;The weaponization of government\u2064 agencies needs to stop. This \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-reacts-to-doj-weaponization-against-him\/\" title=\"Elon Musk responds to DOJ's 'weaponization' targeting him.\">fundamentally undermines\u200c public faith<\/a> in the justice system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The weaponization of government agencies needs \u2064to stop. This fundamentally undermines public faith in \u200bthe justice system.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon\u2063 Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1695005568661147937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Furthermore, President Joe Biden has made it clear that he\u200b has his sights set on Musk. \u2062After Musk purchased a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> last November, Biden ominously \u200bremarked that his business transactions were &#8220;worth being looked at.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BIDEN:\u200c I think that Elon Musk&#8217;s cooperation and or\u2062 technical relationships with \u200bother countries is worthy of being looked at. Whether or not he is doing anything inappropriate \u2014 I&#8217;m not suggesting that \u2014 I&#8217;m suggesting that it&#8217;s worth being looked at. But that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ll say. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I11l87M5FQ\">pic.twitter.com\/I11l87M5FQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiegerReport\/status\/1590469847640526849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Left\u200c now considers Musk a \u2064political enemy because \u2062he supports the First Amendment. However, appealing\u200d to their alleged good nature won&#8217;t stop the abuse. The Democrats have shown\u2062 themselves to\u200d be bullies,\u200d manipulating\u200c the legal system to silence their\u2062 opponents.<\/p>\n<p>So, \u200dwhat will stop the Left? It&#8217;s \u2063clear that they will only respond to equal or greater legal force.\u200b The American people, Musk, and even former President Donald \u2063J. Trump must rely on the\u200b GOP to deliver \u2062the legal pushback needed to restore confidence in the system. Unfortunately,\u200d such a response has been lacking thus far.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1692980418669000&#038;usg=AOvVaw15MNQZ1U33fOZBroIc4gYb\">CLICK HERE\u2062 TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece\u2063 are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outspoken Elon Musk responded to the Department of Justice&#8217;s lawsuit against SpaceX, accusing the company of favoring American and legal citizen hires over &#8220;refugees&#8221; and &#8220;asylum seekers.&#8221; In a tweet on Friday, Musk candidly expressed his thoughts on the matter, making his stance clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":2012232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}