Elon Musk just accused Trump of being in the Epstein files.

And then it got worse from there. The lead starts right now.

Look, Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know well anymore.

And I'll be honest, I think he misses the place from our country.

Thank you.

Breaking up is hard to do. A relationship disintegrating in front of the world between Elon Musk and President Trump,

going after each other viciously and nonstop in public view, the fallout ongoing as I speak.

Plus, the man who is sitting right next to Trump, right there,

now here on the lead, the newly elected Chancellor of Germany,

why he wanted FaceTime with Trump on U.S. oil.

And when the robots revolt, artificial intelligence going rogue,

researchers saying some models are even blackmailing

their human creators to save themselves.

So it sounds like a horrifying episode of Black Mirror is becoming all too real.

Welcome to The Lead.

I'm Jake Tapper, this breaking news in our politics lead today, just in the last few hours, the relationship between President Donald J. Trump and billionaire Elon Musk has so rapidly disintegrated that Musk, without evidence, is now accusing President Trump of being in the as-yet unreleased, or as-yet-released, or as-yet-released Epstein files.

Musk tweeted this afternoon, quote, time to drop the really big bomb.

Donald Trump is in the Epstein files.

That is the real reason they have not been made public.

Have a nice day, DJT. This claim, which CNN

cannot confirm, of course, would imply that Trump was in some way name dropped in the case

surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious and convicted pedophiles who died by suicide in prison

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