{"id":144137,"date":"2025-06-02T15:28:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/new-york-times-defends-report-on-elon-musks-drug-use-amid-attacks\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T15:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:28:28","slug":"new-york-times-defends-report-on-elon-musks-drug-use-amid-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/new-york-times-defends-report-on-elon-musks-drug-use-amid-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Defends Report On Elon Musk’s Drug Use Amid Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThe New York Times<\/a> defended its reporting on Elon Musk<\/a>\u2018s drug use, after he claimed that the publication was \u201clying\u201d in its article that claimed he was, amongst different issues, \u201ctaking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the weekend, Musk attacked the report from Kristen Grind and Megan Twohey, writing on X that \u201cto be clear, I am NOT taking drugs! The New York Times<\/a> was lying their ass off. I tried *prescription* ketamine a few years ago and said so on \ud835\udd4f, so this not even news. It helps for getting out of dark mental holes, but haven\u2019t taken it since then.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Times responded with a press release, \u201cKirsten Grind and Megan Twohey\u2019s thoroughly sourced report provides an important and fair look into Musk\u2019s drug use and family conflicts. They interviewed a dozen people who have known or worked with him, and saw private text messages, legal documents and photographic evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThey additionally addressed any notion that Musk was not given a chance to reply. \u201cElon Musk is just lashing out because he doesn\u2019t like our article. We provided Musk with multiple opportunities to reply or rebut this reporting before publication and he declined, opting instead to try to distract with a social post and no evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe report<\/a>, revealed on Friday, additionally claimed that Musk traveled with a medicine field that held about 20 tablets,. The Times famous that it was unclear if Musk \u201cwas taking drugs when he became a fixture at the White House this year and was handed the power to slash the federal bureaucracy.\u201d They did check with his erratic habits when he served in his authorities position.<\/p>\n

\n\tMusk appeared with Trump on Friday in an Oval Office press convention, form of a swan tune because the billionaire\u2019s official authorities service got here to an finish. <\/p>\n

\n\tFox News\u2019 Peter Doocy tried to ask Musk in regards to the report, however Musk reduce him off and as a substitute accused the Times of being discredited in its Pulitzer Prize profitable protection of the investigation into Russian interference within the 2016 election and attainable coordination with the Trump marketing campaign. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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[ad_1] The New York Times defended its reporting on Elon Musk\u2018s drug use, after he claimed that the publication was \u201clying\u201d in its article that claimed he was, amongst different issues, \u201ctaking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[10193,517,3495,3135,6248,1059,1419,207],"class_list":{"0":"post-144137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-attacks","9":"tag-defends","10":"tag-drug","11":"tag-elon","12":"tag-musks","13":"tag-report","14":"tag-times","15":"tag-york"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}