Plagued by technical issues, Trump-Musk interview on X gets off to a rocky start

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Plagued by technical issues, Trump-Musk interview on X gets off to a rocky start
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A much-touted interview between former President Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk got off to a rocky start Monday night after a technical delay before going into politics as usual.

In this file photo from 2020, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk talks with then-President Donald Trump, May 30, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

The conversation did not have a smooth start. As people tried to tune in, many were unable to, with an X message stating that the Spaces audio feed was unavailable. It finally began about 40 minutes later than advertised. Musk blamed a cyberattack, but he has not provided any evidence to support that, and the rest of the website appeared to be operating normally.on X, then known as Twitter, last year, which was plagued with technical glitches and abruptly ended after 20 minutes.

After that, the two men transitioned into a subject they agree on: illegal immigration and what they see as the Biden administration’s failure to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.Twitter had banned the former president after his supporters rioted on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, saying Trump’s posts violated its rules against glorifying violence. Since then, Trump has spent most of his time online posting to his own social network, Truth Social.

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