X owner Elon Musk slammed the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s highly controversial case against former President Donald Trump this week after the jury returned a guilty verdict.
The verdict was the culmination of a weeks-long courtroom battle in which Trump said that he was the target of a “political persecution” as he runs another campaign for a second term in the White House. The former president was found guilty on all 34 charges brought in the hush-money trial.
“Great damage was done today to the public’s faith in the American legal system,” Musk posted on X. “If a former President can be criminally convicted over such a trivial matter – motivated by politics, rather than justice – then anyone is at risk of a similar fate.”
Musk later responded to author J.K. Rowling on the site after she said that she struggled to “see why it’s a trivial matter if a…
