WASHINGTON – Elon Musk accused former President Joe Biden of stranding two astronauts for “political reasons.”
“They were left there for political reasons, but that's not good,” the world's wealthiest man next door to President Trump in a joint interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Tuesday night. I said I was sitting in.
In September, Mask's SpaceX launched a crew dragon capsule to save the pair and successfully docked it to the space station.
The billionaire told Honity that Craft will return to Earth in “about four weeks.”
“We have brought astronauts back from the space station many times, and they've always been successful,” Musk said, adding that his team will be “very careful.”
“They didn't have an alarm clock with Biden,” Trump said.
“He was going to leave them in space. I think he was going to leave them in space… he didn't want publicity.”
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Snie Williams were stuck in June when problems were discovered at Boeing's Starliner capsule.
Trump said in a social media post last month that Biden “waived” Wilmore and Williams, prompting them to denial.
“We don't feel abandoned, we don't feel stuck, we don't feel stuck,” Wilmore insisted on CNN's Anderson Cooper, “Other people do that I understand why I think about it.”
“It was a little longer than we thought,” Williams said, but “we made the most of it.”
The joint interview featuring Trump and Honity was filmed last week at the White House, focusing primarily on the Department of Government Efficiency initiative of Musk, cutting federal spending.
