I'm John Bats with my colleague Elizabeth Peake of the Hill, a columnist of Fox News

to columnist, much on Fox Business, publishing in the New York Sun, a column about Elon Musk.

In praise of Elon Musk, not only Tesla, not only the boring company, but also SpaceX waiting

for the next test of super heavy and starship.

And yet, Liz, you assemble the details that are, it's impossible not to come to conclusion

that the White House is at odds with Elon Musk.

Why?

He has independent opinions.

There are lots of billionaires with independent opinions.

Why Musk?

Sure.

It's a good question.

Well, I think it's because, number one, early on, Joe Biden went after Elon Musk, kind

of ignored him, even though he was incredibly keen to rep up EV sales, electric vehicle sales

in the U.S., somehow Musk was odd man out to the White House because he didn't have

a unionized labor force, and that was considered bad behavior.

But obviously more recently, because Musk bought Twitter, he published the Twitter files,

which, along with the senior, the officials who were running Twitter at the time, and

also Facebook and everybody else, suppressed the Hunter Biden, New York Post story, which

could have had some impact on the 2020 election.

So I think from that moment forward, Elon Musk was considered an enemy of this administration,

but it's a pretty extraordinary thin-skinned and petty view, because what has Elon Musk

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