Musk Engages in Twitter Spat After Rebuttal From Ocasio-Cortez

Tesla CEO said Democratic Party ‘highjacked by extremists’
Ocasio-Cortez refers to ‘billionaire with an ego problem’

Former Twitter COO on Elon Musk

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By Steven T. Dennis

April 29, 2022 at 11:08 PM UTC

Updated on

April 30, 2022 at 12:37 AM UTC

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Elon Musk engaged in a Twitter spat with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after she rebuked billionaires and delivered an indirect rebuttal to the Tesla Inc. chief executive’s tweet saying that the Democratic Party “has been hijacked by extremists.”

Musk, who has agreed to buy Twitter Inc. for $44 billion, tweeted about Democrats to his nearly 89 million followers Thursday, hours after tweeting a cartoon showing liberals sprinting far to the left since 2008.