Secret briefing in the Pentagon. Trump blocked Musk's participation

“Make sure that he would not go there,” the President of the United States Donald Trump was to say when he heard reports about the participation of billionaire Elon Musk in a top secret briefing about the plans of a possible war with China in the Pentagon, as reported by the Axios portal.

According to Axios, Donald Trump was surprised by the reports of “NYT” from March 20, when the journal reported that the next day his adviser, billionaire Elon Musk, was to receive a top secret briefing about the plans of a possible war with China in Pentagon. Trump was to order advisers not to allow this.

“Giving Musk access to the most guarded military secrets of the country would be a drastic extension of his already extensive role as an adviser to President Trump and the chief advocate of efforts to cut expenses and cleaning the government of people and the policy of which they are against” – said in the article New York Times.

Referring to officials, the journal specified that the top secret briefing was to concern the plan of the war with China, which contains about 20 to 30 slides and presents how USA They would lead a battle in conflict. The plan includes, among others, indications and warnings about the threat from Beijing, on which Chinese goals and when to hit and which of them will be presented to Trump to make a decision.

Trump blocked Muska

“As for K **** Elon does there? Make sure he wouldn't go there” – said the president. Shortly afterwards he posted an entry in social media in which he stated that the article “NYT” was “fake news”. Ultimately, Musk visited the next day Pentagon, but did not receive information about China.

“Elon has a lot of interests in China and he would be susceptible”

The Axios portal reports that Musk's actions irritate many members of the Trump administration. The cited official argues that the president himself “still loves Elon, but there are some red lines.”

Despite the president's claims that reports about the planned briefing for Musk were “fake news”, Trump later told journalists that he would not want something like that to take place, because “Elon has a lot of interests in China and would be susceptible.”

The Tesla group managed by Muska has “gigafabryka” – the company's largest plant – in Shanghai and brings some parts from China. He also strives in the Beijing authorities for permission to enable “Full Self-Driving” in China. Reuters reported on Tuesday that in connection with the duties imposed on China, the company suspended the supply of components to Semi trucks and Cybercab, developed by Tesla, who intended to be an autonomous taxi.

Musk opposes the duty and sharply attacked the main supporter of customs duties in Trump's administration, a commerce advisor Peter Navarro.

Data leak in the pentagon

On Tuesday, US Secretary Advisor Pete HegeSth, Dan Caldwell was derived from Pentagon by protecting in connection with leakage of secret data – said the Associated Press. According to the sources of AP, the HegeStha advisor is involved in the leak of ministerial information.

The case was first described by the Reuters agency. Caldwell was authorized to contacts the scandal regarding the disclosure of the chat in the Signal messenger, where representatives of the highest level of US administration discussed the plans of the rocket attack on Yemen. Chat news was revealed by the editor -in -chief of the Atlantic magazine Jeffrey Goldberg, who was mistakenly added to this conversation.

The officials with whom the AP contacted did not reveal what case the Caldwell movement concerned, but the agency pointed out that Signal Gate led to general movement in the Pentagon.