Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York called out Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut Tuesday after Murphy brought up a gesture Tesla CEO Elon Musk made during a Monday event.
Liberal media outlets as well as Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex of New York seized on the gesture Musk made while giving a speech during Trump’s inaugural festivities, claiming the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chairman gave a Nazi salute. Murphy asked Stefanik about Musk’s gesture during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing about her nomination to serve as ambassador to the United Nations.
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“What do you think about Trump’s most visible advisor, Elon Musk, performing a Nazi salute?” Murphy asked Stefanik during the hearing.
“That is simply not the case,” Stefanik said. “To say so – the American people see through it. They support Elon Musk.”
The Anti-Defamation League explainedthat Musk’s gesture was not a Nazi salute in a Monday post on X, noting that it was …