Close friend of Ella Cook gives tearful tribute to Brown University shooting victim
Phoebe Peus, a close friend of Brown University shooting victim Ella Cook, gave a tearful tribute to her friend on “America’s Newsroom” on Tuesday.
Peus, a senior, remembered the 19-year-old sophomore as “such a bright light” and “extremely welcoming.”
“It’s such a devastating loss, I can’t believe she’s not with us anymore,” Peus said of her friend.
Peus said she was in the Brown Republicans club along with Cook and a small group of other students. Cook was vice president of the Brown University College Republicans.
“Ella really was outspoken, and I just want to live through her in that way and make a difference,” she said.
Cook was unsure about what she wanted to pursue following college, according to Peus, starting as a French major and thinking about switching to economics to potentially pursue a career in policy.
“She was so bright she could have done what she wanted,” the senior said.
Fox News Digital observed a stream of FBI agents — some wearing jackets with “Evidence Response Team” emblazoned on the back — heading into a rear entrance of the Barus and Holley engineering building early Tuesday on Brown University’s campus on the east side of Providence, R.I.
Crime scene tape is still set up around the property, and at another one of the building’s entrances nearby, a new memorial for the victims was growing. The attack on Saturday left two Brown University students dead and nine injured.
“For those who were injured and for those who should still be with us today, Rhode Island will always remember,” read one sign placed at the memorial.
“When is enough, enough?” read another.
Next to bouquets of flowers, a stack of dry erase markers lay on the ground, encouraging others to pay their respects.
On the other side of campus, where the police presence appeared scaled downward compared to recent days, mourners also paid tribute to the two deceased — Ella Cook, of Birmingham, Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, of Virginia.
“Our community will never be the same. Rest in peace, Ella + Mukhammad,” read one message there, while another, addressed to Mukhammed, said, “may you finally rest in peace, have solace and respite from this cruel world.”
Fox News Digital walked the potential path that the suspected gunman took after the deadly shooting at Brown University on Saturday.
The shooting happened inside a classroom in the Barus and Holley engineering building around 4 p.m. Saturday. Two students were killed, and nine others were wounded.
The potential path shown begins outside the engineering building, crosses a street and continues down a sidewalk to a nearby intersection where a person of interest dressed in all black was seen walking on surveillance video released by police.
Authorities have since released additional surveillance videos showing the person of interest walking on the sidewalk through what appears to be a residential area.
The person of interest was described as a male, approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall with a stocky build.
A vice president of College Republicans and an aspiring neurosurgeon have been identified as the two students killed in the mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday.
Ella Cook, of Birmingham, Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, of Virginia, were named as the two students killed when a gunman opened fire inside a classroom in the Barus and Holley engineering building on the campus of the university in Providence, Rhode Island. Nine other students were wounded.
Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham said Cook was one of its parishioners.
“Some of you haven’t heard, a lot of you have heard … [about] the tragedy yesterday at Brown University, the shooting of a number of people,” Rev. Craig Smalley said in a video the church posted of its Sunday service. “Tragically, one of our parishioners, Ella Cook, was one of those who was killed yesterday.”
Cook was a sophomore at the university. She was also vice president of the Brown University College Republicans.
Virginia leaders named Umurzokov as the second victim killed.
“I am heartbroken to learn that Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov — who just graduated from Midlothian High School — is among the victims of the horrific act of violence at Brown University,” Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger wrote on X.
Umurzokov’s family wrote in a GoFundMe post that he “had big dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon and helping people.”
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Former Department of Homeland Security advisor Charles Marino joined “Fox & Friends First” to discuss the latest on the investigation into the fatal mass shooting at Brown University as officials released new images of a person of interest.
Marino said law enforcement will likely have to release more details on the investigation to the public as the hunt for a suspect continued on Tuesday.
“They’re kind of getting backed into a corner here and having to release more and more information,” he said. “Initially during these investigations, less is more in terms of the information that you’re putting out.”
Officials released new videos showing a person of interest dressed in all black and a face covering walking in what appears to be a residential area.
Marino said the surveillance videos were “underwhelming in general, but you never know what someone may pick up on,” like a type of jacket or style of walk.
“With respect to the video footage, you always want to put out information that’s going to assist the public and assist law enforcement in getting valid tips coming in,” he said.
Videos released by authorities shows a person of interest walking the streets hours before a gunman opened fire at Brown University.
The Providence Police Department released the footage to the public in an effort to identify the person seen on camera.
Authorities described him as approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall with a stocky build.
Images show a person dressed in dark clothing with a face mask and beanie walking in what appears to be a residential area.
The gunman “definitely targeted” Brown University, though authorities are looking for other possible motives, officials said Monday.
“What I can tell you is that this individual definitely targeted Brown University,” Chief Colonel Oscar L. Perez, Jr. said at a news conference.
“Obviously, it’s something we’re looking into, as far as if there was anything else that he was targeting,” he added.
Perez said the families of the victims have been cooperative and that authorities were investigating reports that the gunman yelled something during the shooting.
Comer sends severe warning to Clintons as new deposition date looms
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is delaying Bill and Hillary Clinton’s depositions before Congress until January.
In a letter sent to their attorney on Monday evening, Comer warned that a failure to appear for their new dates would result in immediate contempt of Congress proceedings.
“They’re saying now that he’s going to a funeral on that day, so we’ve been going back and forth with the lawyer,” Comer told Fox News Digital the same evening. “We’re going to hold him in contempt if he doesn’t show up for his deposition.”
The letter said, however, that they failed to provide “alternative dates” for their testimonies.
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“Therefore, the Committee has chosen the date of January 13, 2026, for the deposition of President Clinton and January 14, 2026, for the deposition of Secretary Clinton. If your clients do not comply with these new dates, the Committee will move immediately to contempt proceedings,” the letter said.
The Clintons were originally subpoenaed over the summer to testify in the House Oversight Committee’s probe into Jeffrey Epstein.
They were part of a long list of former presidential administration officials called in for closed-door meetings with the panel’s lawyers.
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To date, just two people have shown up in person — former Trump administration Attorney General Bill Barr and former Trump administration Labor Secretary Alex Acosta.
Others have deferred their subpoena dates or opted to send in written statements due to various personal matters, but it appears Comer is not allowing the Clintons to sidestep an in-person grilling.
In his letter, the Republican leader even went so far as to criticize the Clintons’ lawyer for asking for the same treatment.
“Your correspondence with the Committee continues to ignore the Committee’s arguments, misstates relevant facts, and seeks information about the Committee’s investigation to which neither you nor your clients are entitled,” the letter said.
“As the Committee stated clearly in its November 21, 2025, letter to you, the Committee’s decision to forego in-person depositions for certain other individuals was because those individuals ‘lacked any relevant information to the Committee’s investigation or otherwise had serious health issues that prevented their testimony.’”
Comer said the former president and former secretary of state “are not similarly situated and therefore your argument that they are receiving unfair treatment — which you continue to repeat — is baseless.”
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“For example, unlike these other individuals, President Clinton and Secretary Clinton had a personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell,” he wrote.
Photos and other documents released by the committee so far have shown Bill Clinton and other powerful figures, including President Donald Trump, socializing with Epstein to varying degrees.
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Both Bill Clinton and Trump were shown to have handwritten entries in a book compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday, though until then much of the media scrutiny had been focused on Trump’s entry alone.
Neither of the Clintons have been implicated in any wrongdoing related to Epstein, however, and their social engagements with him appear to have ended long before his 2019 federal indictment on sex trafficking charges and subsequent suicide.
Video captures bystanders stepping in as gunman launches ISIS-inspired attack
Bystanders were seen on video confronting a gunman before his ISIS-inspired deadly mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, could begin.
Despite their efforts to disarm him, the gunman eventually overpowered the two bystanders and killed them, according to authorities.
The bystanders were later identified as Boris and Sofia Gurman, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. The outlet reported that the Gurmans were walking by as they saw the assailant exiting a vehicle. Though Boris had the upper hand for a moment after picking up the shooter’s rifle, the attacker allegedly picked up another rifle during the confrontation and fatally shot the couple, making them the first victims of the massacre.
“We are heartbroken by the sudden and senseless loss of our beloved Boris and Sofia Gurman,” the family said in a statement on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. “While nothing can lessen the pain of losing Boris and Sofia, we feel an overwhelming sense of pride in their bravery and selflessness.”
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In the video, obtained and verified by Reuters, an eyewitness replaying the dashcam footage recalls how the incident unfolded.
“You see the shooter here — he fired shots from here, shooting from here. And then look, this guy went and tackled him (shooter), knocking him to the ground. At that point, he had already grabbed the gun,” the witness, who was speaking in Mandarin, said in the video, according to a Reuters translation.
Authorities have identified the shooters as a father, 50, and a son, 24. The father was killed at the scene, while the son was shot by police and taken to the hospital in critical condition. Australian authorities also said that the shooters had improvised explosives and homemade ISIS flags in their vehicle.
On Sunday, the pair opened fire on families celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach, killing 15 people and leaving more than two dozen injured. The Australian government is investigating the incident as a terror attack targeting the Jewish community.
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During the deadly rampage, another bystander, Ahmed al Ahmed, an Australian immigrant, wrestled a gun away from one of the shooters. His attorney said that Ahmed does not regret intervening, despite being “riddled with bullets” and in intense pain.
“He doesn’t regret what he did. He said he’d do it again. But the pain has started to take a toll on him,” Ahmed’s attorney, Sam Issa, told The Sydney Morning Herald. “He’s not well at all. He’s riddled with bullets. Our hero is struggling at the moment.”
The outlet reported that Ahmed has undergone his first round of surgery and that Issa fears the hero bystander may lose his left arm.
“He’s a lot worse than expected. When you think of a bullet in the arm, you don’t think of serious injuries, but he has lost a lot of blood,” Issa said.
President Donald Trump praised Ahmed for his actions, calling him “a very, very brave person” and saying that he has “great respect” for him.
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The Bondi Beach attack is the worst mass shooting Australia has seen since the country implemented sweeping reforms after a shooter killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania, in 1996. Following the Bondi Beach attack, Australian leaders have vowed to strengthen the country’s already restrictive gun laws.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced several proposed actions, including limiting the number of guns one can possess.
“The government is prepared to take whatever action is necessary. Included in that is the need for tougher gun laws,” he said after meeting with his National Cabinet.
Erika Kirk reveals update following private sit-down with Candace Owens
Erika Kirk announced Monday that she had a productive conversation with Candace Owens, signaling a possible thaw in their rift following weeks of public tension in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Kirk shared the brief update in a statement on X and hinted that more details would come.
“Had a very productive conversation with @RealCandaceO.” Kirk said. “More to come from both of us. Looking forward to AmFest this week. Time to get back to work.”
In a separate update on X, Candace Owens echoed the same message, saying that the hours-long conversation involved more agreements than Owens had anticipated.
“Erika and I had an extremely productive 4 1/2 hour meeting that I think we both feel should have taken place a lot earlier than it did,” Owens said.
“We agreed much more than I had anticipated. Of course, we also disagreed on various points and people as well. Most importantly, we were able to share intel and clarify intent.”
She added that their conversation immediately helped ease tensions and said she would provide further updates on Tuesday.
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“I will of course have a full rundown for you all tomorrow as I am currently exhausted, but I wanted to quickly let you guys know that absolutely nothing was held back and the immediate result was that tensions were thawed,” Owens said.
The conversation represents a bid by both women to address weeks of online conspiracy-related tensions following Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Texas’ Arch Manning makes decision on NFL future ahead of crucial bowl game
Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning reportedly made a decision when it comes to his future at the school.
He has decided he will return to Texas in 2026 instead of going pro, according to multiple reports. Cooper Manning, Arch’s father, made the revelation in a text to ESPN.
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“Arch is playing football at Texas next year,” Manning wrote.
Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian told reporters at a pre-Citrus Bowl event that Manning would be able to benefit for at least one more season in college despite some NFL pundits believing Manning could be the first quarterback or even player taken off the board in the draft.
“He’s a young man who’s gotten better as the season’s gone on, and not only physically, but mentally, maturity-wise,” Sarkisian said. “I would think he’s going to want another year of that growth to put himself in position for hopefully a long career in the NFL. And he’s got some unfinished business of what he came here to do and what he came here to accomplish.”
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Manning hasn’t come out and said what he will do one way or another. He’s preparing to take on Michigan on Dec. 31.
Archie Manning, Arch’s grandfather, created a whirlwind in August when he said he expected his grandson to declare for the draft after his redshirt sophomore season. Arch had to tamp down on those expectations.
The 2025 season, however, didn’t exactly go as planned for Manning and the Longhorns. Despite starting the season ranked No. 1 in the country, Texas had a slow start out of the gate. They lost to Ohio State by seven and then suffered a tough eight-point loss to Florida.
Texas was demolished by Georgia before wrapping the season with an upset win over Texas A&M.
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Manning had 2,942 passing yards and 24 touchdown passes. He added 244 yards on the ground and eight rushing touchdowns.
Republicans shred Dems’ Trump-Epstein narrative in new internal House memo
FIRST ON FOX: The GOP majority on the House Oversight Committee is at war with their Democratic counterparts over what they say is a false narrative being crafted about President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
Republican committee staff authored a new talking points memo sent to GOP lawmakers on Tuesday morning that is aimed at discounting Democrats’ recent leaks of information on Epstein, accusing them of releasing information on a selective basis to paint a picture that is not there.
“Throughout the Oversight Committee’s review of the federal government’s handling of the Epstein and Maxwell criminal investigations, Democrats have demonstrated a sustained pattern of misconduct — misrepresenting witness testimony, selectively leaking cherry-picked documents, and manipulating emails and images — to fabricate yet another politically motivated hoax targeting President Trump,” the memo, obtained by Fox News Digital, said.
“As a result, nothing Democrats post or leak on this matter can be taken at face value.”
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The memo also encourages Oversight Republicans to take aim at “Legacy Media,” which it says “uncritically amplified these falsehoods, acting as a willing conduit rather than performing basic due diligence.”
“This reckless combination of partisan distortion and media malpractice undermines the Committee’s work, misleads the public, and distracts from the serious responsibility of ensuring accountability, transparency, and justice for the American people,” the memo said.
What had initially begun as a bipartisan investigation quickly devolved into partisan infighting.
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Democrats have argued that Republicans are using the probe to give Trump cover, while the GOP said the left is distorting facts to create a false narrative that Trump participated in Epstein’s crimes.
The pair were known to have a close friendship decades ago but had a falling out in the early 2000s before accusations of sexual contact with minors first surfaced. To date, the president has denied involvement — and not been implicated — in any of Epstein’s crimes.
Among the memo’s highlights are Oversight Democrats releasing three emails sent to the committee by Epstein’s estate which appear to suggest that Trump “knew about” various illicit activities of Epstein’s, including one which refers to him as “that dog that hasn’t barked.”
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Republicans said they selectively released three emails out of a tranche of 20,000 pages of documents at the time.
“When CNN questioned the redactions, Democrat Committee members falsely claimed Republicans were responsible. After Republicans released more than 20,000 pages, Democrats then claimed this transparency was intended to ‘disorient’ and ‘distract’ from their fabricated narrative,” the memo said.
In a later release of photos from Epstein’s estate, Republicans accused Democrats of having “censored adult women’s faces to smear President Trump.”
For example, one of the photos censored, they said, “shows President Trump standing next to adult Hawaiian Tropic women models.”
Democrats have not always mentioned Trump directly in their releases, but he has been a regular feature of the emails and photos they have made public.
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“It is time to end this White House cover-up and bring justice to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful friends,” Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the committee, said in a statement on one of the releases.
“These disturbing photos raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world. We will not rest until the American people get the truth. The Department of Justice must release all the files, NOW.”
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is facing a Dec. 19 deadline to release its files related to Epstein, pursuant to a near-unanimous vote in the House and a unanimous vote in the Senate.
Fox News Digital reached out to Oversight Committee Democrats for a response to the memo.
Giants quarterback’s rumored flame sparks major buzz with team gear in viral video
The woman who has been rumored to be dating New York Giants rookie Jaxson Dart kept NFL fans on their toes in a recent social media video.
Marissa Ayers, a 22-year-old model and ring girl for Most Valuable Promotions, appeared in a TikTok video showing a day in her life. She was wearing a Giants shirt that draped down to her knees. Ayers gave a glimpse of her morning, putting her makeup on, making her bed and getting ready for the day.
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Neither of the two have confirmed if they’re together. But Ayers was spotted on the Giants’ sideline earlier this month.
She was seen taking photos with Dart’s mom, Kara, as well as in the background of some shots of the quarterback himself before the Giants took on the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
An Instagram photo also showed Ayers with Kara Dart and Boston-based restaurateur David Ledbury.
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Dart and Ayers were first linked after reportedly appearing at a Halloween party together in October.
Ayers has more than 1.5 million TikTok followers and another 402,000 followers on Instagram, according to the New York Post. She was among the models who appeared as ring girls during the Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano fight over the summer.
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It’s unclear if she will be at any more Giants games this season.
Trump’s bold tax plan could crush Democrats’ monthly handout scheme
President Donald Trump loves a good foil. For America’s sake, he should find his next one in my home state of Illinois.
Cook County — home of Chicago and most of the state’s leftist lunacy — has taken the nation’s furthest step toward a so-called universal basic income (UBI). Going forward, many low-income residents will permanently get monthly checks of $500. The goal is to help the poor stay on their feet, but in reality, the poor will stay poor and get more numerous. Not only should the president call out this injustice, but he should contrast it with his recent call to eliminate income taxes altogether. This may be Trump’s greatest opportunity for moral and economic leadership yet.
Make no mistake: A UBI is the left’s next national priority. It’s the epitome of their now-impenetrable belief that government alone should provide for people’s needs. Democrats have laid the groundwork for UBI, as it’s called, with refundable child tax credits during the pandemic and pilot programs across the country. The rise of artificial intelligence, with its threat of job losses, gives further momentum to leftists who say that government should give everyone enough money to get by. Even some on the right, like billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, have jumped aboard the UBI bandwagon.
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But UBI, like so much of the welfare state, is a frontal assault on the human soul. It saps people’s willingness to develop and apply their inherent talents, making poverty a permanent way of life. While activists and media outlets unfailingly call programs like Cook County’s a “success,” real-world evidence shows their moral, economic and individual failure.
The recent pilot programs in Democratic cities caused fewer people to work. So did the refundable child tax credit. When the federal government tested an early version of UBI in the 1970s, recipients lost $5 in lifetime earnings for every taxpayer dollar they received.
Only one word can sum up UBI: evil. It’s morally wrong to steal people’s drive to make the most of their life. It’s inhumane to replace the ladder of opportunity with a cot. At its core, UBI encourages people to tolerate an unhappy existence instead of finding fulfillment through striving, succeeding and contributing to society.
But as Cook County shows, UBI has political momentum. The best way to beat such a bad idea is with a better idea. A transformative idea that not only highlights the injustice, but shows a real path forward. That’s where Trump comes in, especially his idea to eliminate income taxes.
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The president made this comment flippantly after a Cabinet meeting on Dec. 2, saying that income taxes won’t be needed because of tariff revenue. But the real case for killing income taxes is that, like UBI, they also stifle work and limit its rewards. He could frame ending income taxes as giving every American the “universal right to earn,” while directly contrasting it with a universal basic income.
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Without income taxes, every American would keep every penny of what they earn, full stop. There’s no greater spur to work, to innovate, to start a small business — to do all the things that move individuals and the entire nation forward. The universal right to earn would unleash a new era of growth and wealth creation, benefiting the least fortunate the most. Why? Because it taps into every person’s innate desire to strive and rise. Contrast that with a universal income, which traps people in poverty.
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Americans aren’t used to hearing such bold vision or language from Republicans, but if any politician can make a strong case, it’s Donald Trump. In fact, the president could go even further rhetorically, while still staying on firm moral grounds. At its core, taxing labor is a form of slavery, since it takes away the fruits of man’s labor. The 13th Amendment banned slavery, but the 16th Amendment reinstated a sliver of it by allowing income taxes. Donald Trump could easily say: For America’s 250th birthday, we should end this injustice once and for all and finally realize our national promise.
I freely acknowledge that eliminating income taxes is a gargantuan political lift. The chances of success are miniscule. But the same was once true of a universal basic income. Now it’s a fact of life in Cook County, and it will surely be Democrats’ top priority the next time they control the White House and Congress. Someone has to provide an alternative vision — one that actually uplifts the poorest Americans, instead of shackling them in poverty forever. President Trump, the universal right to earn is in your hands.
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Musk reportedly doles out funds to help Republicans win in 2026 midterms
Wealthy business tycoon Elon Musk has started doling out money for the GOP’s 2026 House and Senate races, according to Axios.
He recently gave large checks to help Republicans emerge victorious in 2026 congressional contests and indicated that he will shell out even more funding amid the election cycle, two sources told the outlet.
Axios reported that in November, Musk attended a dinner with Vice President JD Vance, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and former White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich. Jared Birchall, who is involved in managing the business magnate’s political donations, was also in attendance, the report noted.
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Musk’s deep pockets could give the GOP a financial boost as the party seeks to maintain its grip on the House and Senate majorities in 2026.
Musk strongly backed Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential contest and then went on to spearhead the administration’s Department of Government Efficiency cost-cutting effort for a time.
But the two men eventually had a falling out, and Musk indicated that he planned to launch a new political party called the America Party.
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But the tensions seem to have thawed.
On the day of the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist assassinated in September, Musk shared a photo of himself with Trump and wrote, “For Charlie.”
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Last month, Musk was among the attendees at Trump’s White House dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.