Tech billionaire Elon Musk has expressed regret over his broadsides against United States President Donald Trump following the spectacular  public falling out between two of the world’s most powerful men.

“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far,” Musk said in a post on X on Wednesday.

Musk’s expression of regret comes after he made a series of extraordinary attacks on Trump, including an unsubstantiated claim that his administration has refused to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in order to protect the president.

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