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Congressional Republicans are openly attacking Elon Musk like never before after the billionaire Tesla founder claimed President Trump is "in the Epstein files" and even called for him to be impeached.

Why it matters: It's a stunning fall from grace for a man who flexed so much influence over Republican lawmakers just weeks — even days — earlier.

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• "This is absolutely childish and ridiculous. Enough of this nonsense," Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) said of Musk's comments, adding that the recently departed Trump lieutenant has "lost some of his gravitas."
• "Nobody elected Elon Musk, and a whole lot of people don't even like him, to be honest with you, even on both sides," said Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.).
• A spokesperson for Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Driving the news: Musk initially focused his attacks on the massive GOP tax and spending cut legislation, arguing Tuesday that it doesn't go far enough in cutting the deficit.

• By Thursday, he turned his sights on Trump, claiming Trump is "in the Epstein files" and adding, "The truth will come out."
• He took his boldest step by responding to a post that said "Trump should be impeached and JD Vance should replace him" with a single word: "Yes."

What they're saying: "We're getting people calling our offices 100% in support of President Trump," said Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.), a member of House GOP leadership.

• "Every tweet that goes out, people are more lockstep behind President Trump and [Musk is] losing favor," Hern added.
• Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) said Musk is "starting to look a little crazy" and "was always an important voice, but ... it's going to be a lot more people weighing what Trump has to say than what Musk has to say."

Between the lines: Musk's $420 billion net worth and ability to pour millions into any given GOP primary has been something of a Sword of Damocles for congressional Republicans since he entered politics.

• He has even signaled he supports primary challenges against the 215 House Republicans who voted for the bill.
• But now that it's Trump vs. Musk, Republican lawmakers privately say they're far more afraid of a Trump non-endorsement than they are of Musk's money.

What we're hearing: "I would rather have Trump on my side," said one House Republican, speaking on the condition of anonymity to offer candid thoughts on the electoral side of the Trump-Musk blowup.

• Said another: "On the value of Elon playing against us in primaries compared to Trump endorsing us in primaries, the latter is 100 times more relevant."
• "Elon can burn $5 million in a primary, but if Trump says 'that's the person Republicans should reelect,' it's a wasted $5 million," the lawmaker said.

The intrigue: Even critics of Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill" say Musk is undermining the substantive case he and others are trying to make against the legislation in its current form by turning to personal attacks.

• "I think it undermines his effectiveness," said Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.). "I would not have recommended that."
• Others said Musk waited too long to weigh in: "It was disappointing to see Elon Musk's outrage, if you will, come when it did. We could've used his voice a couple weeks ago," said Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.).

Yes, but: There remains a small rump caucus of Republicans who are willing to keep saying complimentary things about Musk — even at the risk of alienating Trump.

• Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a steadfast opponent of the bill who Trump has called to primary, said that while he doesn't support impeaching Trump, he still respects Musk.
• "This is the language Trump speaks in. [Musk] is speaking it back to him," Massie said.
• Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) called Musk a "genius" and said "words, to me, don't matter. It's what he does."

The bottom line: Republicans are finally acknowledging that this rift was foreseeable given the big personalities involved.

• "You've got two high-profile, strong leaders. In some ways, this was probably bound to happen," said Norman.
• Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.) told Axios: "I think we all kind of knew that it was not going to end great."

Harvard University filed a complaint Thursday challenging President Trump's proclamation a day earlier that ordered the suspension of the entry of international students.

The big picture: Harvard argues in the filing that amends an existing lawsuit that Trump's proclamation violates the First Amendment and that the president's actions "are not undertaken to protect the interests of the United States," but instead to pursue a government vendetta against Harvard."

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House Republicans are issuing a subpoena to former President Biden's personal physician Kevin O'Connor as part of their investigation into the ex-president's health.

Why it matters: House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) is ramping up the probe after new revelations emerged about Biden's cognitive decline in Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper's new book, "Original Sin."

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• In addition to O'Connor, Comer has requested testimony from nine of Biden's former aides including Neera Tanden, Anita Dunn and Ron Klain.

Driving the news: In a letter to O'Connor accompanying the subpoena, Comer wrote that the Biden doctor is compelled to appear at a deposition on June 27.

• Comer wrote that he is investigating whether O'Connor "contributed to an effort to hide former President Biden's fitness to serve from the American people."

Zoom in: O'Connor's attorney cited D.C. statute, the American Medical Association's code of ethics and the principle of physician-patient privilege in refusing to accept Comer's initial request for testimony, Comer wrote.

• Comer called those claims "improper and illegitimate" and said sending written questions "will not satisfy the Committee's legitimate oversight and legislative needs."

• Sean "Diddy" Combs drew a rebuke from the judge at his Manhattan sex-trafficking trial on Thursday.
• The judge told Combs' attorneys that he'd noticed Combs repeatedly "nodding vigorously" at the jury.
• Combs could be barred from the courtroom if it happened again, the judge warned.

The trial could soon be missing him.

The judge overseeing Sean "Diddy" Combs' Manhattan sex-trafficking trial threatened to kick the rapper out of the courtroom after seeing him "nodding vigorously" during a witness's testimony on Thursday.

US District Judge Arun Subramanian said he personally saw Combs appearing to send signals to the jury while one of his lawyers grilled a prosecution witness about her interactions with Combs.

If it happened again, Subramanian warned the defense team, the judge would consider talking to jurors about what Combs was doing — and it could result in "the exclusion of your client from the courtroom."

"I really meant it," the judge said. "There should be no efforts whatsoever to have any interactions with the jury."

Prosecutors allege Combs sex-trafficked women by forcing them to engage in "freak offs" — dayslong, drug-fueled sexual performances involving male sex workers.

Combs has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him, and his attorneys say all his relationships were consensual. The blockbuster trial, playing out in a lower Manhattan courtroom, is expected to conclude within a month.

The apparent head-nods came up during Thursday's cross-examination of Bryana "Bana" Bongolan, a friend of R&B artist Cassie Ventura, the prosecution's star witness.

Bongolan had told the jury on Wednesday that Combs physically attacked Ventura and herself.

Bongolan testified she once watched Combs throw a knife at Ventura, and Ventura throw it back.

Bongolan also said Combs once leaned into her face and announced, "I'm the devil and I could kill you," and said that in September, 2016, he hoisted her into the air and dangled her over Ventura's 17th-story balcony.

During the cross-examination that Combs reacted to, defense attorney Nicole Westmoreland highlighted apparent inconsistencies between what Bongolan has alleged in a civil lawsuit, her interviews with prosecutors, and her testimony.

Westmoreland pursued a familiar theme pushed by Combs' legal team: That his accusers have financial motives to accuse him of wrongdoing.

In one example, Bongolan's ongoing lawsuit accuses Combs of violent sexual assault, an allegation not made in her June 4 testimony, though Bongolan did tell jurors that Combs' hands cupped her breasts before he hoisted her up from under her arms.

The jury heard earlier in the trial that Combs settled a civil lawsuit from Ventura for $20 million. Ventura also testified that a hotel where Combs beat her agreed to a $10 million settlement.

Bongolan's civil lawsuit against Combs asked for $10 million in damages.

"It means a lot for you to become a ten-millionaire soon, doesn't it?" Westmoreland asked Bongolan.

"I care about justice," Bongolan answered.

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• Elon Musk and Donald Trump are breaking up on social media.
• On the social media they own, that is: Musk is using Twitter and Trump is using Truth Social.
• But it wouldn't matter what platforms they use, or own: When you're this rich, famous and powerful, everything you say or type shows up everywhere, instantly.

It was easy to predict that Elon Musk and Donald Trump would break up someday. Even the dummy typing this imagined it.

What I didn't imagine was that the divorce between two of the most powerful men in the world would play out on rival social platforms.

Musk is tweeting away on the thing many of us still call Twitter — which he owns, of course — and Trump is firing back on Truth Social — the would-be Twitter rival he owns.

First and foremost, the spectacle of two billionaires having a potentially deeply consequential flame war is … truly something. When Jack Dorsey and crew were dreaming up their microblogging service nearly 20 years ago, they weren't dreaming of this.

But the fact that it's happening on two different social networks is also fascinating. And it underscores that "social networks" isn't always the best way to think about these platforms. At least when it comes to their mega-rich, mega-wealthy owners, these things are simply megaphones to holler at the world.

Trump, recall, became a surprisingly effective Twitter troll in the run-up to his first election, and especially once he took office. He became expert at "programming" the news by tapping out a few incendiary lines on his Twitter account, and reveling in the chaos that could create. (The guy typing this made a pretty good podcast about all that.)

Then Twitter banned Trump, which by all accounts deeply upset Trump, and that banishment helped prompt Musk to buy Twitter, and then reinstate Trump.

Why Trump never really came back to Twitter

But in the meantime, Trump had created his own Truth Social network as a Twitter alternative. And Trump has both a legal obligation and a financial imperative to post on Truth Social first.

A license agreement with Trump Media & Technology Group, the company that owns Truth Social, requires Trump to post all "non-political social media" items to Truth Social first, then wait six hours before running them anywhere else. More important: If the guy who owns the social media platform isn't using the social media platform for his social media, why would anyone else use it?

Even after Musk and Trump merged forces last summer, Trump still spent almost no time on Twitter. Instead, he's kept plugging away on Truth Social.

And what's happened since — and especially now — forces us to rethink how these platforms work.

For instance: Lots of people who used to use the platform formerly known as Twitter thought that removing Trump from Twitter would diminish his power. But that obviously wasn't true. Trump crushed all comers in the last Republican primary, and won a meaningful victory in last fall's general election, despite little-to-no presence on Twitter.

More important is that Trump's ability to make the world turn based on his words isn't dependent on Twitter at all. He's the President of the United States, so whatever he says, whenever he says it — on a Truth Social post, on the White House lawn, aboard Air Force One — gets instantly amplified, oftentimes with great consequence. Trump could spout off on Tumblr or Friendster (I just Googled — Friendster still exists) and his message would get out there.

At the same time, Trump's presence on Truth Social doesn't seem to have meaningfully boosted usage on that platform.

We can't measure that with traditional metrics — because, tellingly, Trump Media continues to not provide any metrics about how many people use the service — but on vibes. You may read plenty of stories about how Trump posted something on Truth Social, but what about anyone else?

Meanwhile, the things we can see from Trump Media don't suggest the platform is booming: In 2024, the company's meager revenue line actually declined by 12% over the previous year. Even more telling may be the company's seeming pivot into life as a bitcoin repository — which may turn out to make a lot of money for Trump and his partners, but doesn't suggest a real interest in running a media platform.

And at the same time, a Trump-less Twitter has … I don't know if thrived is the right word. A meaningful number of influential users and big advertisers have left the service, and its financial condition seems hopeful at best.

But despite the rise of would-be challengers, Twitter remains the most prominent place for public, real-time chatter, more or less by default. That's why people who tell you social media isn't great for you still use Twitter when they want to insert themselves into the conversation — like The New York Times' Ezra Klein did last year during crucial points in the election cycle.

That speaks to the stickiness of social networks, and how hard it is to replicate them somewhere else. But again, that isn't relevant to Musk's use of the platform to attack Trump: Musk could print out all of his insults on paper and they'd still carry the same weight and import.

When mega-billionaires speak, people listen

Put it another way: Mark Zuckerberg owns multiple huge social networks. If he were going to join this brawl, it wouldn't matter which one of them he used to come over the top rope. All that would matter is the world's second-richest man was in the fight, too, and anything he said or did would be covered by everyone, everywhere.

So cut to Thursday, when Trump has been calling to cut "Billions and Billions of Dollars" from the federal budget by "terminat[ing] Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts" and Musk is accusing Trump of suppressing embarrassing information about disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein because Trump "is in the Epstein files."

The insults and threats are being lobbed from different platforms — and are at the same time directly responding to each other but also pretending the other one doesn't exist. Like exes who refuse to speak with each other, but spend all their time telling their mutual friends how awful the other one is, knowing it will get back directly to the person they're complaining about.

Except in this case, the exes are two of the most powerful people in the world. So it doesn't matter what platform they use to do it.