Constitution is greater than any president, Musk slams Trump

Washington: Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted that Constitution is greater than any president in response to the former president Donald Trump's call for terminating the parts of US Constitution after the release of "Twitter Files".

"The Constitution is greater than any President. End of story," Musk's tweet read.

According to trump, "Twitter files" shows that the Joe Biden's team was in touch with Twitter in suppressing Hunter Biden's laptop story in 2020.

Trump said: "a massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great 'Founder' did not want, and would not condone false and fraudulent elections."

"With the revelation of massive, widespread fraud and deception in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 out and declare the rightful winner, or do you have a new election?," the former president posted last week.

It was Musk who released internal 'Twitter Files', via posting a link to the account of independent journalist and author Matt Taibbi, that revealed how the micro-blogging platform took orders from the Biden's team to suppress the censorship of his son Hunter Biden's laptop story, published by the New York Post during the 2020 US presidential elections.

But Musk thorugh his tweet sided with sided with the White House in condemning former US president Donald Trump for his call.

The White House asked the people to "universally condemn" Trump for arguing that parts of the US Constitution should be terminated.

The White House said in a statement that the American Constitution is a sacrosanct document "that for over 200 years has guaranteed that freedom and the rule of law prevail in our great country".

"The Constitution brings the American people together, regardless of party and elected leaders swear to uphold it," White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement.

Musk last month reinstated Trump on Twitter, after he was banned on the platform in the wake of the Capitol Hill attack in 2021.

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