<p style="font-weight: 400;">The Washington Post, among the myriad of news outlets that have not asked a single question of Vice President Kamala Harris since she was anointed the Democratic presidential nominee, criticized Elon Musk’s interview with former President Donald Trump on X, carping that Musk asked “softball questions.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">According to X, the interview and the discussion that revolved around it generated <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musks-trump-interview-discussion-generates-1-billion-views-x-says?topStoryPosition=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly 1 billion views</a>.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The Post, which commonly repeats Democratic talking points, titled their <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/12/trump-returns-x-elon-musk-interview/?utm_campaign=wp_politics_am&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_politics&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3eb1eb7%2F66bb33a14c681d73b252aca9%2F59725ef49bbc0f1cdce2f54d%2F6%2F58%2F66bb33a14c681d73b252aca9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">piece</a>, “Trump returns to X with technical glitches, softball questions from Musk.”</p>
<p>Musk explained the technical glitches before the interview got going, stating, “There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X. Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The Post, however, framed the glitches as an &#8220;embarrassment&#8221; for Musk and Trump, opining: “It was the latest mishap for the Republican nominee as he has sought to regain his footing amid a surge in Democratic enthusiasm for his new rival, Vice President Kamala Harris. &#8230; The joint appearance was also a high-profile embarrassment for Musk’s X, which has faced numerous outages since the entrepreneur’s takeover and suffered from a server meltdown during a presidential campaign launch last year.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The Post insisted that Musk “focused on comfortable topics for Trump, such as undocumented immigration.” However, according to a February 2024 report from <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/611135/immigration-surges-top-important-problem-list.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gallup</a>, immigration has become a priority issue for Americans under the Biden-Harris regime. “Significantly more Americans name immigration as the most important problem facing the U.S. (28%) than did a month ago (20%),&#8221; Gallup explained. &#8220;Immigration has now passed the government as the most often cited problem, after the two issues tied for the top position the past two months.”</p>
<p>Prior to the conversation, a Post reporter pressed the White House on whether it had any ability to stop the interview with Trump from happening altogether.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">WATCH: Washington Post &#8216;journalist&#8217; asks the White House if they can stop Trump&#8217;s interview with Elon Musk on 𝕏</p>
<p>&#8220;I think that misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue&#8230;it&#8217;s an America issue&#8230;What role does the White House or the President have? Any sort of… <a href="https://t.co/trGO1LnYXr">pic.twitter.com/trGO1LnYXr</a></p>
<p>— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1823126481158947026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In April, the Center for Immigration Studies <a href="https://cis.org/Arthur/Polls-Show-2024-Shaping-Be-Immigration-Election">published</a> a piece titled, “Polls Show 2024 Is Shaping Up to be An ‘Immigration’ Election.” They added, <a href="https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2024/03/Fox_March-22-25-2024_National_Topline_March-27-Release.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Fox News</a> and <a href="https://harvardharrispoll.com/key-results-march-4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard/Harris</a> each just released their latest polls, and they reveal immigration is shaping up to be the main issue in the 2024 election.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The European Union sent a <a href="https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1823033048109367549">warning</a> to Musk ahead of the interview, saying he should take steps to address “the amplification of harmful content,” or he could face action to “protect E.U. citizens from serious harm.” X CEO Linda Yaccarino <a href="https://x.com/lindayaX/status/1823052643733823640">fired back</a> that the EU “patronizes” European citizens and was an “unprecedented attempt to stretch a law intended to apply in Europe to political activities in the US.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss blasted, “I am appalled by the attacks on free speech in Britain and Europe. We can&#8217;t be truly free without free speech. Good for  @elonmusk and @X for standing up to these bullies.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I am appalled by the attacks on free speech in Britain and Europe.</p>
<p>We can&#39;t be truly free without free speech.</p>
<p>Good for <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/X?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@X</a> for standing up to these bullies.</p>
<p>&mdash; Liz Truss (@trussliz) <a href="https://twitter.com/trussliz/status/1823324885268959337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Musk knew the legacy media would bash the interview, writing on X, “Almost all of legacy media will trash the Trump conversation, thus driving total listeners probably past 200+ million.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Almost all of legacy media will trash the Trump conversation, thus driving total listeners probably past 200+ million 😂 <a href="https://t.co/44Mhr2hkAu">https://t.co/44Mhr2hkAu</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1823212033816584201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2024</a></p></blockquote>

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