White House spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt said that there was a dispute between businessman Elon Musk and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, but it did not come to a fight.
"Although I wasn't there. I didn't see it with my own eyes," she added, noting that she learned about the incident from the words of other people.
She also said that US President Donald Trump, who quarreled with Musk, is not going to communicate with him in the near future.
Earlier, Trump called the fight between Elon Musk and By Scott Bessent. The incident occurred on April 17.
The details of the fight were cited by Newsweek. Bessent and Musk, coming out of In the Oval Office in the White House, walked down the hall and exchanged insults. The head of the Ministry of Finance reminded the businessman about the unfulfilled promise to reduce US budget spending by $ 1 trillion, after which the verbal altercation turned into a physical one. Musk pushed Bessent with his shoulder in the chest, he hit him back, said former adviser to the US president Steve Bannon. When they reached the office of the National Security Adviser, several people intervened to break up the fight, and Musk was escorted out of the West Wing.
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