‘That’s a Serious Crime’: Musk Accuses Top Trump Aide of ‘Breaking the Law’ – Maybe Being Russian Spy
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Just weeks after the public and very messy split between President Donald Trump and former DOGE chief Elon Musk, the tech CEO took things up yet another notch again in his feuds with members of the administration, trashing Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office Sergio Gor.
Musk blasted Gor earlier in the week as a “snake” when responding to a New York Post article which described Gor as “one of the most powerful men in the Trump administration” and said that despite his being “tasked with vetting thousands of staffers,” the top Trump aide “hasn’t been fully vetted himself.”
Gor featured prominently in many media stories about the rift that lead to the split between Trump and Musk, and it was reported that the two clashed repeatedly. The New York Post reported that Gor went on a “revenge tour” against the tech CEO, who blames Gor for the torpedoed NASA nomination of a close ally to a top NASA job.
An X user shared the New York Post article on Friday, putting Gor’s name in scare quotes and saying that the Trump aide “claims to have been born in Malta but the Maltese government has no such birth record.”
“People who knew him in Malta called him ‘the Russian boy,'” said the post, to which Musk replied: “He deliberately lied about where he was born on Federal forms. That’s a serious crime.”
Later, in a separate reply to the article, Musk added: “Gor is breaking the law.”
And he replied to his own post, adding, “*Goryachev” — a nod to claims circulating online in mostly left wing circles that Gor is not who he says at all, but rather “a Russian spy” named Sergey Goryachev.
That claim was debunked, however, with the real Goryachev being easily identified as a different person.
Still, the feud appears to be continuing apace with this latest accusation of criminal conduct made against Trump and his allies by former insider Musk.
