Following the assassination attempt on former President Trump, the Washington Post has come under fire for a story that suggested a “billionaire Trump supporter helped craft the shooting.”
“X’s right-wing business elite, including Elon Musk and hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, used their megaphones to back Trump and stoke the narrative about Saturday’s attack,” The Washington Post reports. Said.
Trump was nearly assassinated on Saturday when a bullet grazed his ear during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The Washington Post article also named venture capitalists David Sachs and Sean Maguire, who slammed the report on social media.
“I don’t know what ‘story’ they are referring to, but I know what I saw and what the Butler audience witnessed live,” Sachs, the Craft Ventures executive, said in a lengthy post on X.
“This is not a ‘story’ – it’s the truth. Trump withstood an assassin’s bullet. Such courage cannot be faked,” he added.
Sequoia founder Sean Maguire also criticized the report, saying, “AKA ‘Elon, Sachs, Ackman et al are fighting our lies with the truth and we don’t like it. Stop it.'”
Musk also responded to Sachs’ post.
“One hundred percent,” he wrote, agreeing with Sachs’ criticism.
The Washington Post did not respond to a request for comment.
Sachs, a prominent Silicon Valley Trump supporter, is scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention this week and hosted a fundraiser for the former president at his home last month.
Trump has also received backing and support from Musk and other ultra-wealthy Americans since his conviction in Manhattan criminal trial on 34 counts of first-degree falsifying business records.
“I just gave $300,000 to Trump. I’m prepared to lose a friend,” Maguire said. I wrote to X in May.
Musk voiced his support for Trump at the time, and gave his full support after Saturday’s assassination attempt on the former president.
“I fully support President Trump and wish him a speedy recovery,” Musk wrote to X.
