Sean Hannity’s Donald Trump-Elon Musk Sit Down Interview: Plenty Of Softballs And Few Surprises

Perhaps the most unexpected thing about Sean Hannity’s hourlong sit-down Tuesday with Donald Trump and Elon Musk — a first — was the initial question that the Fox News host posed to the duo.
“So he’s working for free with Doge. He’s kind of put a lot of his life on hold. And you sued Twitter a number of years ago. You just made him pay $10 million?” Hannity asked.
Unperturbed, Musk said he had just let the lawyers figure out the dicey legal matter, while Trump claimed that his No. 1 adviser got a “big discount.”
“It’s very low. I was looking to get much more money than that,” Trump said.
Hannity was referring to the latest settlement of a Trump lawsuit, this time from Musk’s X, which earlier this month agreed to pay the sum to the president even if the litigation had long been dormant.
Otherwise,...
“So he’s working for free with Doge. He’s kind of put a lot of his life on hold. And you sued Twitter a number of years ago. You just made him pay $10 million?” Hannity asked.
Unperturbed, Musk said he had just let the lawyers figure out the dicey legal matter, while Trump claimed that his No. 1 adviser got a “big discount.”
“It’s very low. I was looking to get much more money than that,” Trump said.
Hannity was referring to the latest settlement of a Trump lawsuit, this time from Musk’s X, which earlier this month agreed to pay the sum to the president even if the litigation had long been dormant.
Otherwise,...
- 2/19/2025
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