The freakout begins: "Elon Musk is slated to interview [former President] Donald Trump tonight on X…I think that misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue, it's an America issue. What role does the White House or the president have? Any sort of stopping that, or stopping the spread of that or sort of intervening in that?" a reporter from The Washington Post asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in a moment that went viral yesterday.
Her response was fairly anodyne but alluded to the purportedly problematic nature of Trump being interviewed or platformed at all, which is itself telling.
