{"id":2656,"date":"2025-04-04T14:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:10:25","slug":"leavitt-swats-down-cnn-reporter-asking-about-elon-musk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=2656","title":{"rendered":"Leavitt Swats Down CNN Reporter Asking About Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The appointment of Elon Musk, a billionaire businessman and Trump supporter, as a special government employee was confirmed by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She was unable to elaborate, though, on whether Musk has received a security clearance or cleared a formal background check, a matter that has come under growing media scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>CNN Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins asked Leavitt about Musk\u2019s role and access to classified material during the White House press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs Elon Musk a special government employee, in your opinion?\u201d Collins enquired. \u201cAnd what sort of security clearance is he in possession of?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt replied, \u201cI can attest that he is a special government employee.\u201d Additionally, I can attest that he has complied with all relevant federal laws. I can follow up with you, but I\u2019m not sure about his security clearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appointment of Elon Musk, a billionaire businessman and Trump supporter, as a special government employee was confirmed by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday. &nbsp; She was unable to elaborate, though,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2657,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/2657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}