The Tesla and SpaceX CEO fired back after being accused of being a hypocritical immigrant, saying the Democrats were desperate
US President Joe Biden has attacked tech billionaire Elon Musk over his alleged hypocrisy regarding immigration, saying that the entrepreneur began his long career in the US as an “illegal worker” before becoming the wealthiest man in the world.
The remarks, made on Saturday, followed a Washington Post report that alleged, citing Musk’s former business associates, court records and documents, that the businessman obtained a work visa in 1996 after he had already been working in the country without one. At the time, the billionaire was launching his startup Zip2, an IT-company that provided and licensed online city guide software for newspapers.
“That wealthiest man in the world turned out to be an illegal worker here when he was here,” Biden said at a campaign event in support of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “He was supposed to be in a school, when he came on a student visa. He was working. He was violating the law and he’s talking about all these illegals.”
In response to the claims, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO made posts accusing the incumbent president outright lying and saying “losing the election was making the Democrats desperate.”
“I was in fact allowed to work in the US. The Biden puppet is lying,” Musk wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “They know this, as they have all my records.”
“So NOW he cares about illegals,” he quipped in conclusion.
The tech entrepreneur, who is currently backing Republican candidate Donald Trump, had previously accused the Democrats of bringing a large number of illegal immigrants to swing states. Each of the two major US political parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, dominates dozens of states in the country. However, voters are more evenly divided in the remaining ‘swing’ or ‘battleground’ states, making them key to winning the election.
“Triple digit increases over the past 4 years! Their STATED plan is to give them citizenship as soon as possible, turning all swing states Dem,” Musk stated earlier this week in a post on X.
Musk, who had previously positioned himself as politically neutral, publicly endorsed the Republican nominee shortly after the failed assassination attempt on Trump on July 13. The former president has promised to create a new government post called ‘secretary of cost-cutting’ tailored specifically for Musk if he wins.
