MAGA henchman Elon Musk jumped aboard the anti-CBS bandwagon late Sunday, accusing the network’s flagship investigative program of lying about DOGE’s raid at the United States’ international aid agency.
The billionaire “first buddy” tweeted in response to an X post from 60 Minutes featuring an excerpt from an interview with a USAID worker fired during the Musk-led shutdown, who spoke about the uncertainty she and other former colleagues face after losing their livelihoods.
“60 Mins are such liars,” Musk wrote. “As the Community Note states, all employees were offered 8 months of pay and benefits,” he added, referring to a severance package extended only to workers who actively chose to leave their posts within a few working days of the offer being announced.
Responding to a comment below from a pro-MAGA account about the show’s November interview with Kamala Harris, Musk wrote: “60 Mins lied in a futile attempt to change the outcome of the election.”
Musk’s tirade against CBS’s 60 Minutes didn’t end there.
He later lashed out when the network posted tweet promoting an interview with a Republican former administrator of USAID who debunked Trump’s claim the foreign aid agency is fraudulent. Andrew Natosios called the president’s accusation “utter nonsense,” adding that USAID is “the most accountable aid agency in the world.”
Musk replied to the 60 Minutes post on X, calling for the program’s staffers to be jailed.
“60 Minutes are the biggest liars in the world! They engaged in deliberate deception to interfere with the last election,” the tech billionaire wrote. “They deserve a long prison sentence.”
Billionaire Musk is only the latest Republican figure to take a shot at the program, which has found itself in the middle of a legal drama emblematic of the wider crisis facing U.S. media after Donald Trump’s presidential victory last November.
After cancelling his own sit-down with 60 Minutes over a spat about fact-checking earlier in October, Trump flew into a rage against the program for what he claims was a generously edited interview with his Democratic opponent, calling for CBS’s licence to be revoked and suing the network for $10 billion in damages.
Earlier this month, reinstalled in the White House, he upped that amount to a cool $20 billion, amid reports that parent company Paramount is now trying to settle the suit despite protestations from the show’s producers.
