{"id":674,"date":"2026-01-11T09:12:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/?p=674"},"modified":"2026-01-11T09:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:12:58","slug":"musk-prosecution-row-elon-musk-fires-back-after-ex-msnbc-host-calls-on-2028-democrats-to-prosecute-him-explosive-response-sparks-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"MUSK PROSECUTION ROW: Elon Musk Fires Back After Ex-MSNBC Host Calls on 2028 Democrats to \u201cProsecute\u201d Him \u2014 Explosive Response Sparks Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTesla founder\u00a0Elon Musk<\/a>\u00a0called out former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan on Wednesday after Hasan suggested that any future Democratic president or presidential candidate should run on a platform of prosecuting him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the next Democratic president has to be ruthless \u2014 not just president, next presidential candidate,\u201d Hasan said on Zeteo\u2019s weekly\u00a0\u201cAsk the Editor\u201d series<\/a>. \u201cThe 2028 Democratic primaries have to showcase a group of politicians who are running for office to not just fix things, not just offer a bright new future, not just running on a change platform, but are running on a platform to prosecute and punish the people who broke the law, destroyed our country, destroyed our democratic fabric, destroyed society \u2014 I mean, turned people against one another.\u201d<\/p>\n

He argued that rising concerns about alleged fraud\u00a0centered on the Somali community<\/a> in Minnesota were \u201cnonsense,\u201d claiming they were driven by social media and its algorithms \u2014 and he placed part of the blame on Musk.<\/p>\n

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Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan suggested that any future Democratic president, or even candidate, should run on prosecuting people like Elon Musk.\u00a0\u00a0(David Livingston\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI said this recently to [former Obama aide] Jon Favreau on Twitter. I said maybe \u2014 I\u2019m only half joking when I say this \u2014 which is the next Democratic president should run on a plan to prosecute Elon Musk,\u201d Hasan said. \u201cThat would win \u2014 I mean they would easily go to the top of the pack. They would immediately go to the top of the polls in the Democratic race \u2014 that the first Democrat comes out and says, \u2018My first act as president is to prosecute Elon Musk.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The clip went viral on social media \u2014 partly thanks to Hasan sharing it himself.<\/p>\n

Musk, responding to a post sharing the clip, replied, \u201cIn their eyes, enabling freedom of speech is high crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Elon Musk called out the former MSNBC host for calling on future Democratic presidents to prosecute him, replying, \u201cIn their eyes, enabling freedom of speech is high crime.\u201d\u00a0(Chesnot\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Hasan preempted critics by claiming that there was already precedent for politicizing the justice system.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, people will say, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re politicizing.\u2019 That ship has sailed, right? That ship has sailed,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Republicans have no grounds to bring that up. And any Democrat who brings it up \u2014 they\u2019re living in the wrong world, right? There has to be accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n

He criticized past presidents who chose to look forward rather than prosecute their predecessors for alleged crimes, declaring that era is over.<\/p>\n

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Mehdi Hasan speaks onstage during the Crooked Media \u2013 Lovett or Leave It: Live on Tour, on April 25, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Paul Morigi\/Getty Images for Crooked Media)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThe Democratic president, if he or she wins in January 2029, is inaugurated, has to come in with a day-one plan for accountability. Has to run on accountability. Has to pledge accountability. Has to put the fear of God into their Republican opponents,\u201d Hasan said of\u00a0future Democratic candidates.<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tesla founder\u00a0Elon Musk\u00a0called out former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan on Wednesday after Hasan suggested that any future Democratic president or presidential candidate should run on a platform of prosecuting him. \u201cI think the next Democratic president has to be ruthless \u2014 not just president, next presidential candidate,\u201d Hasan said on Zeteo\u2019s weekly\u00a0\u201cAsk the Editor\u201d series. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}