TLDR
Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have publicly fallen out.
Their argument centres around Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’.
It comes as Musk finished up at the White House last Friday, where he has spent the last few months focused on cutting government spending.
He claims this bill will drastically add to the government’s spend.
Below is a timeline of how this has played out in the past 12 hours.
Timeline
1:20am (AEST)
Musk reposts a tweet by Trump from 2013
1:46am
This repost is from Trump in 2012
2:00am (ish)
Trump speaks at a press conference
2:19am
2:25am
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2:46am
4:37am
Some of Elon Musk’s companies receive a lot of money from government contracts, including SpaceX (which will come back up in a second.)
Honestly, there were quite a few more from Musk, but they were all saying similar things.
And then...
5:10am
Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex criminal who died in jail in 2019. The Epstein files relate to the documents of a sex-trafficking investigation into him and his associates. Some have been made public, some have not.
6:09am
Dragon is a SpaceX spacecraft that has been used for years to transport astronauts to the International Space Station.
6:11am
An impeachment is an investigation into a high-ranking U.S. official believed to have committed "high crimes or misdemeanours".
For more context
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