Days after leaving his role at the Department of Government Efficiency initiative, created by U.S. President Donald Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk took part in a social media feud with his former ally.
Musk alleged on X, his social media site, that Trump was named in the Epstein files and would have lost the 2024 presidential election without him and also posted a poll asking whether it was time to form a new political party.
He also, according to some online, shared a post calling for Trump to be impeached.
He did indeed share such a post — the claim is true.
Conservative influencer Ian Miles Cheong posted a screenshot of Musk's Epstein files accusation, saying he would back Musk against the president and called for Trump to be impeached and replaced with Vice President JD Vance.
Musk's repost of the statement simply read "Yes."
In Trump's first term, the House of Representatives impeached him twice. He was charged with obstruction of Congress and abuse of power in 2019 after allegedly attempting to push Ukraine to investigate future President Joe Biden by withholding military aid. The Republican-controlled Senate acquitted him in 48-52 and 47-53 votes. (Sen. Mitt Romney, a Republican, broke with his party and voted guilty on the first charge).
A week before he left office, Trump was impeached a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection over his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The Senate again acquitted him, although the trial took place after he left office. The second time around, 57 senators (including seven Republicans) voted to remove Trump from office. However, they fell short of the two-thirds majority, or 67 votes, required.