March 15, 2025
CNN wants you to know that Biden did not strand the astronauts Musk is rescuing
By Thomas Lifson
Now that Elon Musk is on Trump’s team and the latest two-minute hate (and vandalism) target, he must not be allowed to look heroic in the media. But the spectacle of his SpaceX stepping up to rescue the astronauts who have been left in orbit at the International Space Station for months longer than planned is awfully compelling and—face it—downright epic. It takes no imagination whatsoever to foresee how the media would play up a successful rescue if Musk had happened to be a loyal Democrat.
The fact that Musk is doing what gigantic defense contractor Boeing was incapable of accomplishing—and the fact that his DOGE team is simultaneously uncovering unimaginable levels of waste, fraud, and abuse in federal spending -- makes the mission even more toxic in the eyes of the media division of the Democrat party. The truth reinforces the notion that the business-as-usual in the federal government has amounted to a gigantic waste accomplishing much less than private companies can deliver at far lower cost.
But the most politically devastating aspect of the rescue for Democrats is that Musk says he offered to rescue the lost in space crew during the Biden presidency, but was refused, he believes, for political reasons, since he was already vocally and financially supporting the Trump presidential campaign:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1897420509966688555more
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/cnn_wants_you_to_know_that_biden_did_not_strand_the_astronauts_musk_is_rescuing.html
