New details surrounding a White House brawl between Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have spilled out into the open – with one insider saying the Tesla CEO rammed his shoulder into Bessent’s ribcage ‘like a rugby player.’
The Daily Mail was the first to report on the heated confrontation between Bessent and Musk, who’s since been iced out of Donald Trump‘s inner circle after their public blow-up this week.
Former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon revealed that there was more to the mid-April tussle, insisting that both men ended up landing blows.
They lost their patience with one another following a tense meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump snubbed Musk and instead took Bessent’s advice on whom to name as acting IRS Commissioner, Bannon said.
When Bessent and Musk exited the Oval Office, they began hurling insults at one another in the hallway. But it was Bessent who struck Musk where it hurts.
According to Bannon, Bessent dared to say that the billionaire’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was a failure, since Musk didn’t root out the $1 trillion in wasteful and fraudulent federal spending he promised he would.
‘Scott said, “You’re a fraud. You’re a total fraud,”‘ Bannon said.
That’s when Musk body-checked Bessent, who hit the world’s richest man right back, according to Bannon.
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