CNN’s Tap­per: When ‘Trim­ming the Fat Out of Twit­ter,’ Musk Opened the Door for ‘Nazis and Hamas’

CNN host Jake Tap­per said Tues­day on “The Lead” that when CEO Elon Musk attempt­ed to trim the “fat out of Twit­ter, what he basi­cal­ly did is just open the door for Nazis and Hamas.”

While dis­cussing Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump appointee Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead DOGE, an acronym for Deliv­er­ing on Out­stand­ing Gov­ern­ment Effi­cien­cy, Tap­per said, “What makes you think that, if you think that, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk might be might be good at this? I mean, obvi­ous­ly, Tes­la and Musk’s explo­ration of space are impres­sive. But when it came to trim­ming the fat out of Twit­ter, what he basi­cal­ly did is just open the door for Nazis and Hamas. So, you know, that might be a lean­er oper­a­tion at Twit­ter, but it’s also it also made Twit­ter kind of a cesspool.”

Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Jared Moskowitz (D‑FL) said, “Yeah, look, I’ve been a leader on that, send­ing let­ters to Elon about all the anti-Semit­ic com­ments, quite frankly, that I get towards me on Twit­ter. At the end of the day, I think every­one in Con­gress is of the posi­tion that gov­ern­ment isn’t per­fect. Right? So I’m look­ing for ways to improve gov­ern­ment. I think the Amer­i­can peo­ple expect us to find ways to improve gov­ern­ment, and in some places, that may be shrink­ing the size of gov­ern­ment. By the way, that used to be a Repub­li­can con­cept, but late­ly, they want more gov­ern­ment in bed­rooms. And so, I’m look­ing to have this over­all con­ver­sa­tion. It’s why I joined the cau­cus, to go there and meet with my col­leagues across the aisle. And Democ­rats shouldn’t fear this con­ver­sa­tion. I think there are ways to improve gov­ern­ment, and I’m look­ing to do that.”

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