Fox’s Bret Baier Pushes Back On Elon Musk ‘Traitor’ Attack Against Mark Kelly: ‘He’s A Decorated Veteran’

Fox News anchor Bret Baier pushed back when DOGE czar Elon Musk stood by his attack on Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), naming reasons Kelly might not be a “traitor.”

Musk touched off a feud with Kelly when he attacked the former astronaut by calling him “a traitor” in a social media exchange over support for Ukraine.

Musk was a guest on Thursday night’s edition of Fox News Channel’s Special Report, flanked by members of the DOGE team. Toward the end of the interview, Baier lamented the “personal toll” that negative sentiment has to take:

BAIER: What’s something that people wouldn’t know about the president? You’re pretty close to him now. You spent a lot of time with him. What’s something that people wouldn’t know?

MUSK: I think the president is a good man. I think he is an honest man. And I have yet to see him do anything mean or anything that is wrong, that I would say morally wrong. Not even once.

BAIER: You know, a lot is coming your way, but sometimes you say stuff or post stuff that gets attention. You give it out, in other words. Democratic Arizona, Senator Mark Kelly posted on X about his trip to Ukraine to push for continuing to send U.S. weapons and support there. And you posted that he was a traitor. Well, why do that?

MUSK: Well, I think somebody should be — should care about the interest of the United States above the interests of another country. And if they don’t, they’re a traitor.

BAIER: Yes. But he’s a decorated veteran, a former astronaut, a sitting U.S. senator.

MUSK: It doesn’t mean he’s — it’s OK for him to put the interest of another country above America.

BAIER: Obviously, there are some Republicans who think supporting Ukraine is the right thing still, but there is a battle back and forth about how that — how do you think it comes to an end?

MUSK: Well, I think there will be a negotiated peace. And the thing that we should be concerned about is we should have empathy for the thousands of people that are dying every day in trenches for no movement in the lines. So, the borders remain the same. For the past two years, thousands of people have died every week for nothing. For what?

And I take great offense at those who put the appearance of goodness over the reality of it. Those who virtue signal and say, oh, we can’t give in to Russia, but have no solution to stopping thousands of kids dying every day. They just want that to continue forever. Have contempt for such people. And I want to make that clear.

BAIER: Yes.

MUSK: Because they’re virtue signaling and their lack of a solution means that kids don’t have a father, it means that parents lost a son. For what? Nothing.

BAIER: So, you’re optimistic that the president’s plan might work?

MUSK: The president’s plan is the only thing that will work.

Watch above via Fox News Channel’s Special Report.