The Washington Submit is taking warmth for a narrative that mentioned “pro-Trump billionaires have helped form taking pictures narrative,” following the tried assassination of former President Trump.
“The proper-leaning enterprise group on X, together with Elon Musk and hedge fund billionaire Invoice Ackman, used their megaphones to endorse Trump and gas storylines about Saturday’s assault,” the Washington Submit report said.
Trump was practically assassinated on Saturday after a bullet grazed his ear throughout a marketing campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The WaPo story additionally named David Sacks and Shaun Maguire, enterprise capitalists, who slammed the report on social media.
“I’m unsure what ‘narratives’ they’re referring to, however I do know what I noticed, and I do know what the gang in Butler witnessed stay,” Craft Ventures govt Sacks wrote in a prolonged X put up.
“This isn’t a ‘narrative.’ It’s the fact. Trump stood defiant within the face of an murderer’s bullet. There is no such thing as a method to faux braveness like that,” he added.
Sequoia founder Shaun Maguire additionally criticized the report with, “AKA ‘Elon, Sacks, Ackman and many others are combating our lies with the reality and we don’t prefer it. Please cease.’”
Musk responded to Sacks’ put up as properly.
“ONE HUNDRED PERCENT,” he wrote, agreeing with Sacks’ criticisms.
The Washington Submit didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Sacks, a distinguished Silicon Valley Trump supporter, can be talking on the Republican Nationwide Conference this week. He held a fundraiser for the previous president at his house final month.
Trump has additionally acquired assist and endorsements from Musk and different mega-wealthy People after his Manhattan felony trial the place he was discovered responsible on 34 counts of falsifying enterprise data within the first diploma.
“I simply donated $300k to Trump. I’m ready to lose pals,” Maguire wrote on X in May.
Musk additionally signaled his assist for Trump on the time and gave his full endorsement Saturday after the try on the previous president’s life.
“I totally endorse President Trump and hope for his speedy restoration,” Musk wrote on X.