Musk ‘believes in America’: DeSantis defends X owner after antisemitic post

Florida governor claims he hasn't seen the message in which Musk tweeted an enthusiastic agreement with antisemitic post

Ron DeSantis defended Elon Musk as a guy that believes in America" on Sunday as the Florida governor refused to condemn X's billionaire owner for an antisemitic post that caused numerous key advertisers to desert the social media platform.

In an interview Sunday on CNN's State of the Union, the Republican Florida governor claimed he had not seen the message on the platform that was formerly known as Twitter. The message - in which Musk said an X user who accused Jewish people of hating white people was speaking the actual truth" - was denounced by the White House on Friday as abhorrent".