Lara Trump blames glitches during Musk interview on ‘deep state’

Without offering a shred of evidence, Lara Trump has blamed the tech glitches during Donald Trump’s interview with Elon Musk on X on the “deep state.”

The daughter-in-law of the former president made the comments during an appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program on Monday night, and she went on to claim that Trump’s adversaries have beengiven a “free pass” while President Biden is in the White House.

Trump’s interview with Musk on Monday began 40 minutes late and suffered from glitches, in a situation that was reminscient of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement on the platform last year.

“I think it’s pretty obvious at this point, there are a lot of people out there and there’s a massive effort, of course, to keep Donald Trump out of the White House,” Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump and the Republican National Committee co-chair, claimed on Monday. “These people are terrified. This is the deep state. This is the swamp in Washington, DC.”

Musk and Trump were supposed to begin speaking live on X at 8 p.m. ET on Monday, but after users reported not being able to tune in, the broadcast didn’t begin until 8:40 p.m.

In May last year, DeSantis launched his campaign on X in an announcement beset by glitches, as the app crashed multiple times for users. During the first 30 minutes, all that the listeners could hear was garbled speech and feedback as the connection dropped on several occasions. The audience dropped from 600,000 to 40,000 listeners before going back up to 100,000.

At the time, Musk blamed the problems on the site’s servers. On Monday, Musk blamed the issues on what he said appeared to be “a massive DDoS attack” on the platform.

Lara Trump said on Monday, “These are the