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By Sana Pashankar

November 21, 2024 at 6:48 PM UTC

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Jeff Bezos has shot down Elon Musk’s claim that the Amazon.com Inc. founder told “everyone” Donald Trump would lose the US election and they should sell off their SpaceX and Tesla Inc. stock.

“Nope. 100% not true,” Bezos said in a rare post Thursday on X, the social media platform Musk owns. Musk then appeared to back down. “Well, then, I stand corrected,” the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive officer replied on Thursday — adding a laughter emoji.