Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has threatened legal action after former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), once a member of the far-left Democrat ‘Squad’ in the House, referred to President Donald Trump’s top adviser as a “Nazi” and a “thief” during a recent appearance on CNN.
“I’ve had enough. Lawsuit inbound,” Musk wrote on X on Friday, replying to a clip of Bowman’s recent round table discussion on CNN. Bowman, who was beaten in last July’s Democratic primary by a centrist pro-Israel candidate, said to a panel of commentators that the “American people do not trust Elon Musk and Elon Musk is incompetent in his position.”
“How do we know? Because they fired tens of thousands of people, was challenged in court. The court said the people have to go back, and now the people are coming back,” Bowman told CNN.
“He’s incompetent. He’s a thief. He’s a Nazi. And people don’t trust him,” Bowman claimed of Musk.
Left-wing media outlets accused Elon Musk of performing a “Nazi salute” while addressing a crowd on President Trump’s Inauguration Day. In response, Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, urged him to take legal action against CNN and other outlets for spreading what she called a false and defamatory narrative.
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Some Democrats have echoed the same false fascist accusations, including Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), a former “Squad” colleague of Jamaal Bowman, who referred to Musk last month as a “Nazi nepo baby.”Bowman, a former member of the progressive “Squad” of left-wing House Democrats of color, was defeated by George Latimer in the July Democratic primary for New York’s 16th Congressional District. Bowman, who accused Israel of committing “genocide” during its war with Hamas terrorists, claimed that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a well-funded pro-Israel lobbying group, spent millions to “brainwash” voters against him.
In 2023, Bowman was formally censured by the House of Representatives after he pulled a fire alarm in the Capitol during government shutdown negotiations—an act seen as an attempt to delay proceedings.
Among those supporting Elon Musk’s potential lawsuit was conservative journalist Andy Ngo, who rose to prominence after being assaulted by Antifa rioters in Portland, Oregon, in 2019, Fox News reported.
