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//// One of the British divers who helped
rescue a soccer team of 12 boys and their
coach who were trapped in a cave in Thailand
for over two weeks, is unimpressed with Elon
Musk's submarine that was intended to carry
out the mission.
In response to that, Elon Musk called him
a pedophile.
The real classy move came shortly after CNN
published an interview with Vern Unsworth
who helped find the boys and the coach and
bring them back to safety.
He told the news outlet,
"He can stick his submarine where it hurts.
It just had absolutely no chance of working.
He had no conception of what the cave passage
was like.
The submarine, I believe, was about 5-foot-6
long, rigid, so it wouldn’t have gone around
corners, gone around any obstacles.
It wouldn’t have made it the first 50 meters
into the cave from the dive start point.
He told CNN that he doubted Elon's sincerity
in creating the submarine named 'Wild Boar'
after the soccer team.
He called the rescue effort just a PR stunt.
On Sunday Elon Musk responded to the interview
on Twitter claiming that not once during his
visit to Thailand did he see the British diver.
He said that a Brit in Thailand was sus and
then challenged the "dude" to show final rescue
video.
Then in a subsequent tweet he said,
You know what, don’t bother showing the
video.
We will make one of the mini-sub/pod going
all the way to Cave 5 no problemo.
Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it.
Musk offered no evidence of his allegation
that the diver was a pedophile leaving the
twitter verse to believe that his remarks
are nothing but petty.
That didn't stop him from doubling down on
his pedophile statement, telling a Twitter
user that he bets a signed dollar it's true.
At the time of this report the diver has not
responded to Elon's claims, but he's not the
only one the CEO of Space X upset this weekend.
Elon caught a lot of heat for donating $33,900
to Protect the House, a political action committee
that works to keep Congress under Republican
control.
Filings obtained by ProPublica show that Musk
is among the PAC's top 50 donors.
In the past Musk has made several claims statements
that he opposes the Republican party.
Despite these reports he tweeted Sunday morning,
Reports that I am a top donor to GOP are categorically
false.
I am not a top donor to any political party.
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