(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Billionaire Elon Musk had a peculiar reaction to a new documentary’s insinuation that he may have used Starlink to meddle in the 2024 presidential election to benefit President Donald Trump.
“Lmao,” an acronym for “laughing my ass off,” Musk wrote via X. He was responding directly to journalist Michael Shellenberger’s reporting on Musk, a documentary by Alex Gibney.
The documentary, reported on by The Hollywood Reporter on Sept. 2, features Musk’s former girlfriend and mother to one of his children, Ashley St. Clair, who claimed that Musk had a “degree of certainty” about the results of the election before they were released that she “had never seen before.”
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 4, 2026
St. Clair went on to claim that Musk told her before the election that “he was going to unleash the ‘anomaly in the matrix.'”
According to THR, the documentary showed a text message between St. Clair and Musk, with Musk allegedly writing: “I have ten thousand lasers in space.”
Asked by Gibney whether St. Clair believed Musk was referring to Starlink, St. Clair responded: “I mean, I don’t know where else he has space lasers.”
The allegations surrounding Musk’s comments echo broader disputes over Trump’s electoral victories.
After Trump’s 2016 victory, he faced years of claims that the Russian government had meddled in the election to help him.
Those claims paved the way for allegations that Trump had colluded with Russia to win the election. No evidence was ever found to substantiate the latter conspiracy theory.
