Elon Musk told CNBC’s David Faber that the recent mass shooting at an Allen, Texas mall was “incorrectly ascribed to be a white supremacist action.” He falsely claimed that the allegation is solely based on information that the well-respected researchers at Bellingcat found on “an obscure Russian website that no one’s ever heard of, that had no followers.”
In fact, Bellingcat says the information about the shooter’s profile was first published in The New York Times. The Bellingcat article goes into great detail to persuasively establish that the profile on the Russian site is the same guy as the shooter.
But Musk doesn’t need no stinking facts! Ignoring all the proof provided by Bellingcat – including the shooter’s swastika and “SS” tattoos and a patch on his vest that read RWDS (Right-Wing Death Squad) – Musk declared that Bellingcat “does psy-ops.”
“I’m saying that ascribing it to white supremacy was bullshit,” Musk added.
Well, if there’s one thing Musk does know about, it’s BS. But he also knows white supremacy and anti-Semitism – and spouts it quite regularly.
No wonder Musk wants to pretend that the Texas shooter was not what we can all see that he was: it struck way too close to home.
