White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Sunday downplayed reports Elon Musk “body-checked’’ Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a heated meeting, calling their dispute simply a “robust disagreement.’’
Leavitt acknowledged to Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that she wasn’t in the room when the April dust-up took place but contended she wouldn’t call it a “fistfight” based on what she heard second-hand about the scrum — which supposedly included Musk ramming into Bessent’s rib cage “like a rugby player.”
“I certainly wouldn’t describe it as a fistfight, Maria,” Leavitt told host Maria Baritomo after the journalist characterized it as such. “It was definitely a disagreement, although I was not there. I didn’t witness it with my own eyes.
“When this story originally broke, I said from the podium that there have definitely been healthy disagreements amongst the cabinet and Elon Musk,” Leavitt said. More here
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