Trump ally Elon Musk has reignited his war with former Trump advisor Steve Bannon amid the release of new Epstein documents.
The war between the two men started around the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term when Musk came out in support of H-1B visas, and Bannon, in turn, came out against them.
The feud subsided over time, but then returned with a vengeance recently after new Epstein documents were released by the Department of Justice, showing Bannon’s name listed in them thousands of times.
“Bannon is evil,” Musk bluntly tweeted Monday afternoon:
Bannon is evil https://t.co/pQOO0hlaf2
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 9, 2026
He also posted a picture of Bannon and Epstein hobnobbing.
Look:
That’s a real selfie pic with Bannon & Epstein https://t.co/3U3vvEihOp
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 9, 2026
In another tweet, he linked to a report about Bannon’s alleged money laundering.
The report was based on Bannon’s alleged use of in-game currency in the “World of Warcraft” to launder money to people.
“Emails indicate Epstein created an account with the game’s publisher, and Bannon previously ran a company selling the same in-game currency for cash years before meeting the financier,” according to Forbes.
“Bannon was laundering money for evil people,” Musk wrote in his tweet.
Look:
Bannon was laundering money for evil people https://t.co/1WkomaNT0i
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2026
But Bannon isn’t just facing Musk’s wrath — he’s facing the wrath of a wide number of conservative commentators and influencers.
“The fact that Steve Bannon was a Trump-hating degenerate and an ally who was trying to clear the ‘good name’ of Jeffrey Epstein through the production of a documentary is only the tip of [sic] filth-encrusted iceberg,” commentator Ian Miles Cheong tweeted.
Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, meanwhile, sarcastically tweeted that Bannon is clearly a “man of the people,” and longtime Trump ally Roger Stone tweeted that Musk “certainly turned out to be right about Steve Bannon.”
.@elonmusk certainly turned out to be right about Steve Bannon.https://t.co/ZhIInhYTTQ
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) February 8, 2026
All this follows reports based on the DOJ’s new releases, revealing that Bannon and Epstein enjoyed a close relationship all the way up until the day the latter was finally arrested in July of 2019.
“In the days leading up to Epstein’s arrest in July 2019, the two men exchanged a steady stream of text messages, veering from breezy banter and dark humor to more serious strategizing around Bannon’s efforts to foment a global populist movement,” according to CNN.
“Writing from Paris, Epstein pressed Bannon to rally US support behind a Slovakian leader seeking a top NATO post. Bannon, meanwhile, wanted Epstein’s help connecting a close ally in Israel with the country’s former prime minister. They also traded barbs about the indictment of a British anti-Muslim activist and made plans to meet the morning of July 7 once Epstein returned from Europe,” CNN noted.
Their conversation came to an abrupt end the day that Epstein was arrested, June 6.
How did the two even wind up becoming friends? Because Bannon wanted to spread the MAGA movement worldwide, and for that he needed access to Epstein’s resources — including, as noted by CNN, “strategic advice, connections to the highest levels of government and business, and access to his vast wealth.”
In fact, so committed was Bannon to his mission that he didn’t even seem to mind that Epstein had a criminal past involving the sexual abuse of children.
However, Bannon didn’t even register in Epstein’s world until after the 2016 presidential election that catapulted Trump into the White House.
After the election, one of Epstein’s acquittances sent him an interview Bannon had done in 2014 in which he’d “predicted with eerie precision the populist uprising that would carry Trump to the White House, forecasting a middle-class revolt, led by right-wing forces, that would soon upend geopolitics,” according to CNN.
That video evidently impressed Epstein, because the two met for the first time shortly thereafter. But according to CNN, they didn’t become close until about a year later when “they connected to export Bannon’s global vision.”
And FYI, this happened right after Bannon was kicked out of the White House…
“Their alignment took shape as both men found themselves on the margins of Trump’s orbit,” CNN noted. “Bannon had been pushed out of the White House in August 2017 after serving as a senior adviser, and Epstein’s once-close friendship with Trump ended in the mid-2000s.”
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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