A top White House aide nursing a grudge against Elon Musk is being partly blamed for igniting President Donald Trump’s war with the Tesla CEO.
Sergio Gor, the White House director of presidential personnel, urged Trump to rescind his nomination for Musk’s personal friend Jared Isaacman to lead NASA, sparking a rift between the president and the world’s richest man that erupted in public Thursday, the New York Post reported.
“The NASA guy was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” a White House source told the Post, suggesting that Gor wanted “to bury the knife in [Musk’s] back.”
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