SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. File photoWASHINGTON, May 20. American businessman Elon Musk called on Twitter to explain why Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters was allowed to spread disinformation about alleged secret ties between former US President Donald Trump and Russia. According to Musk, this is a «cheat» by members of the Clinton campaign, because of which a lawyer associated with the Democratic Party (Michael Sussman) is under investigation. «(Twitter CEO) Parag Agrawal and (general lawyer) Vijay Gadde, what do you say to this?» Musk asked on his Twitter account.
Twitter employees claim that the deal with Musk was not suspendedInformation about the presence of a «hidden channel of communication» between Trump and Alfa Bank in September 2016 was handed over to investigators by Michael Sussman, who was then a lawyer in the campaign headquarters of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. As a result, Sussman himself was sued for perjury: he stated that he did not work for a client when he requested meetings to transfer information about the channel, but later, as indicated in the indictment, he billed the Clinton campaign for related efforts. As it became known the day before , the FBI investigation was unable to find evidence of any covert channel between the Trump Organization and the Russian bank. The FBI concluded the allegations were unfounded, according to James Baker, a former chief adviser to the U.S. agency. on Twitter
