Hapless Humza Yousaf certainly picks his battles – and this week the former first minister has taken aim at Elon Musk. On a Tortoise media podcast, Yousaf rather pompously claimed that the tech billionaire was part of a campaign to ‘besmirch’ his reputation and insisted he was ‘certain’ the Twitter CEO had access to his private messages on the social media app. Er, right. Talk about delusions of grandeur, eh?
When quizzed on whether he believed the Twitter owner had private message access, Yousaf was adamant to listeners:
I’m certain he absolutely does and I’m certain he scours the private messages of those that he sees as a threat. In fact, I’m certain he has a whole team of people who are now looking at any information they can gather on me and try to use it to besmirch my reputation, and he’ll use any nefarious tactics in order to do that.
Crikey. Hapless Humza didn’t stop there either, adding ominously:
Let me be clear that Elon Musk could have trillions, let alone billions, and he wouldn’t be able to shut me up.
Much to everyone else’s dismay, Mr S would add…
Yousaf’s latest intervention follows a Twitter spat between the duo during the summer riots – in which the Nat slammed Musk as a ‘race baiter’ and ‘one of the most dangerous men on the planet’. The Tesla chief was quick to hit back – blasting Scotland’s former leader as a ‘scumbag’ before claiming that Yousaf is ‘obviously super racist against white people’. Shots fired!
Musk went on to note: ‘Legal discovery will show that however big a racist he’s been in public communications, he is vastly worse in private communications.’ The tech billionaire has reportedly denied ever accessing personal messages on Twitter – but that hasn’t stopped his remark from getting under Yousaf’s skin. Steerpike suspects that the newly-appointed leader of the US Department of Government Efficiency may have more important matters to consider than the contents of Yousaf’s messages however…
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