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Dispute with Trump escalated: Musk announces the withdrawal of Dragon room capsule
From friends to enemies: it is high between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The tech billionaire takes consequences and wants to take out his Dragon spaceship.
In the dispute with US President Donald Trump, Tech billionaire Elon Musk announced the withdrawal of the Dragon room capsule, which is brought to the international space station with the US astronauts. His space company SpaceX will “immediately” begin to take the Dragon spaceship out of operation on Thursday in the short message service X. This was a response to Trump’s announcement that government orders should be terminated for his companies, the multimillionaire, which had been allied until recently.
The Dragon room capsule is currently the only US room vehicle with which NASA astronauts can be brought to the ISS. The corresponding contract with SpaceX has a volume of around five billion dollars (around 4.4 billion euros). Material is brought to the space station with the Cargo Dragon space capsule.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk argue on the open stage
There had been an open break between Trump and his former consultant Musk. Musk has repeatedly attacked a tax law wanted by the President because it would massively enlarge the debt mountain of the United States. Trump described Musk as “crazy” on Thursday and threatened to withdraw government orders to the companies of the richest person in the world.
Musk, who leads SpaceX and the electric car manufacturer Tesla, was responsible for cuts and expenses in ministries and authorities as Trump’s consultants. He made a lot of enemies with his rabid procedure and his dispute and was most recently controversial among many of Trump’s Republicans.
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In October 2024, Elon Musk suddenly appeared in Donald Trump’s election campaign. At an event in Pennsylvania, they share the stage – probably not by chance in the place where Trump had survived an assassination three months earlier
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Musk claims Trump appears in “Epstein files”
On Thursday, Musk Trump also attacked the earlier acquaintance with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had committed suicide in a New York prison cell in 2019. Trump appeared in the “Epstein files”, wrote Musk on X. “That is the real reason why they were not published.”
The files mean judicial documents for the Epstein case. Epstein was once a mighty investor with relationships with high -ranking personalities in the USA and abroad. He is said to have sexually abused minors and young women for years and were instigated for prostitution. Trump and Epstein knew each other.
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