Elon Musk, a tech billionaire, slammed the Democratic Party after a former head of the party said good things about Brazil’s control over free speech.
Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, sent a happy message to Brazil after that country banned Musk’s social media site X on Friday.
“Will anyone in the media ask for an answer?”
On Labor Day, X, he wrote, “Thank you, Brazil!”
Critics say that Musk has a beef with a judge on the Brazilian highest court who has told his companies to punish his political enemies. Musk has said that the judge is a tyrant and likened him to the bad guy from the “Harry Potter” movies.
Ellison had been a deputy chair for the DNC in the past.
Ellison’s message made Musk angry. “The Democratic Party—the same political party that used to support the First Amendment—now wants to end the First Amendment,” Musk said.
Others said Ellison was wrong to say what he said.
“Will anyone in the media ask Tim Walz to say something? This is his AG. This is his government,” an official from Minnesota said.
“Ellison swore an oath to our constitution, which both protect the rights he says a foreign country should take away.”
Someone else said, “The AG of Minnesota is supporting the repression of free speech in another country.”
“Does anyone in the Minnesota media want to follow up on this? Or are we still writing about Walz’s food choices at the State Fair?” requested the executive director to find Republicans in the Minnesota House.
“Would anyone in the press like to ask Tim Walz if he agrees with his Attorney General praising censorship just to hurt Elon Musk?” asked Kostas Moros, a lawyer and writer.
People have also said bad things about Ellison for supporting the anti-Israel part of the Democratic Party. In 2017, he came very close to becoming chair of the DNC.
