Elon Musk Says ’60 Minutes’ Staffers ‘Deserve a Long Prison Sentence’ — In Response to Show’s Interview With a GOP DOGE Critic

Elon Musk accused the staff of CBS’s 60 Minutes of being the “biggest liars in the world” on Sunday and declared they “deserve a long prison sentence.”

Musk made the chilling post on X in reply to a 60 Minutes tweet promoting its latest episode.

“President Trump says USAID is rife with fraud. But Andrew Natsios, a Republican former administrator of USAID, calls that ‘utter nonsense.’ Natsios says USAID is ‘the most accountable aid agency in the world,’” read the 60 Minutes post, which linked to a clip from the show’s interview with Natsios. Natsios has been a prominent defender of USAID as a key national security tool around the world and has publicly refuted Musk’s claim that DOGE needed to shutter the agency to stop widespread fraud and wasteful spending.

Musk replied and wrote, “60 Minutes are the biggest liars in the world! They engaged in deliberate deception to interfere with the last election. They deserve a long prison sentence.”

Musk shared a clip from 60 Minutes’s interview with Kamala Harris during the election as part of his post. President Donald Trump has long railed against 60 Minutes for having edited its interview with Harris. Trump eventually sued CBS over the interview, which resulted in both CBS and the FCC releasing the full transcript and unedited version of the interview.

Vice President JD Vance shared another segment of the 60 Minutes episode from over the weekend in which German prosecutors explained how under their law “insults” online can result in charges.

“Insulting someone is not a crime, and criminalizing speech is going to put real strain on European-US relationships. This is Orwellian, and everyone in Europe and the US must reject this lunacy,” Vance wrote in reply – doubling down on his attacks on European countries last week.

Vance later in the day replied to Mehdi Hasan needling him over the White House banning AP reporters from events over the outlet’s refusal to call the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” Vance replied to Hasan, “Yes dummy. I think there’s a difference between not giving a reporter a seat in the WH press briefing room and jailing people for dissenting views. The latter is a threat to free speech, the former is not. Hope that helps!”

Vance’s tweets publicly rebuffing Musk’s call to jail journalists for content he doesn’t like was noticed by many observers. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), for example, shared the two posts next to each other and wrote, “Now do you guys.”