Waving the white flag…
Early Wednesday morning, billionaire Elon Musk publicly apologized to President Donald Trump, putting an end to the online feud.
Musk, who recently deleted posts warning that Trump was named in the files relating to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, had mostly broken with Trump over the “One Big Beautiful Bill” currently moving through the Senate. He went so far in a number of posts to call for people to vote against anyone in Congress who supported it.
In his Wednesday morning post, however, he voiced regret for how far he’d taken his attacks: “I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far.”
Many began to question whether a reconciliation between the two billionaires was on the table as Musk voiced his support for Trump’s actions in California.
On several occasions, Musk either reposted or commented positively on posts from Trump or his team regarding the administration’s actions to control the rioting in Los Angeles County.
Musk also shared Trump’s statement criticizing California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass for their failure to restore order once the protests turned violent. Rioters have been seen specifically targeting law enforcement and federal agents, including throwing rocks at federal vehicles.
U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said Monday that 40-year-old Elpidio Reyna, a resident of Compton, California, was the man seen on video throwing rocks at law enforcement vehicles in Paramount, injuring one federal officer and damaging government vehicles.
“Elpidio Reyna can run, but he can’t hide. He threw rocks at federal officers leaving a command post in Paramount on Saturday, a brazen attack caught on film and that could have resulted in deaths. Reyna, 40, is charged with assault on a federal officer, and faces up to eight years in prison if convicted,” Essayli posted on X.
A video shared with the post shows a man wearing a motorcycle helmet pelting rocks at federal vehicles on Saturday afternoon.
Reyna has not yet been arrested, and the FBI is offering $50,000 for information that leads to his capture.
Trump authorized sending another 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles on Monday and deployed hundreds of Marines.
“The Insurrectionists have a tendency to spit in the face of the National Guardsmen/women, and others,” he posted on Truth Social. “These Patriots are told to accept this, it’s just the way life runs. But not in the Trump Administration. IF THEY SPIT, WE WILL HIT, and I promise you they will be hit harder than they have ever been hit before. Such disrespect will not be tolerated!”
