Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon called Elon Musk a “snake oil” salesman and said anybody who trust him is a “fool” after the Twitter CEO’s interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
“Anybody watch that interview with Tucker Carlson last night that’s buying this guy’s snake oil—you’re a fool,” Bannon said on his War Room podcast.
“Let me just be blunt. Any of the fanboys and my brother, Darren Beatty, who I love, anybody that’s out there, fanboying for Elon Musk—you’re a fool, you’re a fool, you’re a fool. You think you trust this guy. If you trust him, you’re a fool,” Bannon added.
Bannon’s comments came after Fox News aired part one of Musk’s interview with Carlson. Among other things, Musk claimed that the government had “full access” to users’ private, direct messages on Twitter.
“The degree to which government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on on Twitter blew my mind,” Musk said. “I was not aware of that.”
