‘Did He BODY-CHECK the Treasury Secretary?!’ Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Grills Karoline Leavitt On Elon Musk’s Throw Down With Scott Bessent
Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo tried to get to the bottom of the reported throw down between Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
In an interview on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures, Bartiromo asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt about a Washington Post report that Musk and Bessent got into a physical altercation back in April.
“The Washington Post reported after speaking with Steve Bannon that Elon Musk aggressively body checked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the White House,” Bartiromo said. “We’re all trying to figure out what happened here and how come this got to this level. What happened? Did he body-check the Treasury Secretary in the White House?”
Leavitt tried to laugh off the question and categorized the dispute as a “healthy disagreement”
“Well, look, when this story originally broke, I said from the podium that there have definitely been healthy disagreements amongst the cabinet and Elon Musk,” Leavitt said. “There were times in which they got frustrated with one another. But I think that really speaks to the heart of this cabinet and the president’s team, that they can have these robust disagreements and then still come together to do what’s right for the people they are serving.”
Bartiromo followed up — pressing the White House spokesperson on whether Musk and Bessent came to blows.
“What I’m trying to understand here is how rough this got,” Bartiromo said. “Because the president said that Elon Musk disrespected the office of the president. Now, we know that there was real disrespect in a lot of those X posts from Elon Musk, for sure. But did he actually get physical? Was there a fistfight that he body-checked the treasury secretary?”
“I certainly wouldn’t describe it as a fist fight, Maria,” Leavitt replied. “It was definitely a disagreement. Although I was not there, I didn’t witness it with my own eyes. I heard about it through secondhand reporting. But again, we’ve moved on from that. The president has moved on from it.”
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