The Legal Implications of Elon Musk’s Actions | A Conversation with Jim Acosta

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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After Elon Musk called Sen. Mark Kelly a traitor, Musk’s disrespect for Kelly’s military service becomes clear. Steve Schmidt sits down with Jim Acosta to break down Musk’s criticism of Social Security and looks for greater accountability within DOGE. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningses.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/ X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Jim Acosta show. It's Tuesday. You can see on screen there is Steve Schmidt. Always love talking to Steve Schmidt. And, you know, you and I booked this appearance a week ago or so. And it just so happens. You are the perfect guest to talk about what we're going to talk about first, in that you were an advisor to Arizona
0:22.8	Senator John McCain, presidential candidate John McCain, Maverick John McCain. And you have another
0:30.7	Arizona senator in the last 24 hours being referred to as a traitor by Elon Musk.
0:38.6	That's where we are right now in America, ladies and gentlemen.
0:41.4	You have Elon Musk, the world's richest man ahead of Doge, talking about slashing things like
0:49.1	Social Security.
0:50.1	He calls Social Security a Ponzi scheme.
0:52.6	He's got his minions running through agencies of the federal government vacuuming up people's personal data.
0:58.9	Well, yesterday, the Washington Post reporting this, that Elon Musk called Mark Kelly, a senator from Arizona, a decorated Navy pilot and former NASA astronaut, a traitor in a post on X.
1:13.5	After the senator visited Ukraine and expressed his support for the country in its war with Russia. I mean, I said this the other day, Steve, after, you know,
1:19.9	Trump gave his speech before a joint session of Congress. I said it the other day when Lindsay
1:24.7	Graham, you know, came out and was trashing Zelensky.
1:28.4	John McCain would be rolling in his grave over all of this.
1:33.4	But to have Elon Musk refer to Senator Kelly, a veteran, an astronaut, as a traitor,
1:42.3	you know, can we put Elon Musk in a spaceship and launch him into
1:48.0	outer space? I mean, your thoughts. Well, great to be with you, Jim. Yeah. And good to see
1:56.4	everybody. Let me just say this, that what Elon Musk said does not indict Captain Mark Kelly,
2:06.6	U.S. Navy's character.
2:08.6	It indicts Elon Musk's.
2:11.6	And it shows this profound arrogance, an unbridled megalomania, an assertion really of mental illness,
2:27.1	fused with a malevolent political dogma that is a acute national emergency in a growing global crisis.
2:40.0	And so what we saw here is a venomous strike by a serpent at the leg of a great American.
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