On Friday night, ABC, CBS, and NBC celebrated a story from Thursday by their friends at The New York Times alleging the Department of Defense was set to grant Elon Musk a top-secret briefing on hypothetical war plans against China as part of his Friday meeting at the Pentagon, but was changed due to The Times raising concerns about his business work with Tesla in China. Of course, that’s not what happened and came despite vehement pushback from Trump officials.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell tore The Times a new one on Friday’s Fox & Friends, declaring the allegations “completely false,” “egregious,” and “fake” based on “five anonymous sources.”
“The New York Times should retract this story…I’ve on [bilateral] calls with the Secretary. I see how hard he’s working to implement the President’s agenda and achieve piece through…
