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00:00It was billed to be Donald Trump's big return to Elon Musk's social media platform,
00:04but quickly fell victim to X's technical failures.
00:08The space hosting the conversation between Musk and Trump on Monday night went on the blink.
00:13Musk claimed a cyber attack, saying there appeared to be a massive DDoS attack,
00:18referring to a distributed denial of service attack.
00:21However, the rest of X was operating fine at this time,
00:24which is not consistent with the DDoS attack.
00:27Starting the conversation late, Musk started by lauding the former president
00:32for surviving his assassination attempt in July,
00:35while Trump said he would go back to the seat of the crime.
00:39What were you about to say about illegal immigration before you were rudely interrupted?
00:43Well, I was going to say how good the numbers were.
00:45By the way, we're going back to Butler and we're going to go back in October.
00:50We're all set up and the people are fantastic in Butler.
00:53It's a big, it's a great area.
00:56In a rambling monologue with little interjection from Musk,
00:59Trump covered a range of topics, including the US economy and international affairs,
01:04claiming that under his leadership,
01:06neither the Ukraine war nor Hamas's October 7th attack on Israel would have occurred.
01:12With 1.3 million listeners at its height,
01:14facts were left unchecked, including a series of smears of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden,
01:20as well as unsubstantiated claims on immigration figures.
01:23A self-proclaimed free speech absolutist,
01:26Musk allowed a number of controversial far-right figures like Trump,
01:30who had been banned from the platform previously known as Twitter, to return.
01:34Elon Musk endorsed Trump for president on July 13th,
01:38and the conversation was clearly intended to boost the Republican nominee's message.
01:42However, offline, Trump is not faring quite so well,
01:46having slipped behind Kamala Harris in polls in three key swing states last week.