Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday blasted the Biden administration and Democrats on Twitter, because the world’s richest man doubled down on his vow to vote for Republicans.

Musk in a tweet accused the Biden administration of doing “all the things it might to sideline” and ignore Tesla, regardless of its dominance within the electrical automobile trade.

Musk, who’s making an more and more fraught try to purchase Twitter for $44 billion, prompt Thursday that Democrats would goal him with a smear marketing campaign after he introduced that he would vote for GOP candidates.

“Prior to now I voted Democrat, as a result of they had been (largely) the kindness social gathering. However they’ve turn into the social gathering of division & hate, so I can now not help them and can vote Republican,” Musk tweeted Thursday.

“Now, watch their soiled methods marketing campaign in opposition to me unfold …,” he wrote, ending the tweet with a “popcorn” emoji.

Hours later Thursday, Enterprise Insider printed a bombshell report detailing allegations that Musk uncovered his genitals to a personal jet flight attendant as he requested her for a full physique therapeutic massage on a SpaceX flight to London. The report stated he provided to purchase her a horse for her acquiescence to his purported sexual requests.

Musk denied the lady’s claims. Insider reported that they had been detailed in a written declaration from a good friend of hers, submitted to bolster a criticism the lady made to SpaceX’s human sources division.

However neither Musk nor SpaceX have denied Enterprise Insider’s report that the aerospace agency he based and runs paid the lady $250,000 in severance in alternate for her silence after she complained about his alleged conduct.

Musk in a tweet wrote, “The assaults in opposition to me needs to be seen by way of a political lens – that is their commonplace (despicable) playbook – however nothing will deter me from preventing for an excellent future and your proper to free speech.”

On Thursday, after Musk tweeted that he anticipated a “soiled methods marketing campaign in opposition to me” following his announcement that he would vote Republican, the Democratic podcaster Jon Favreau fired again at Musk.

“Hey man, if you wish to help a bunch of electrical vehicle-hating local weather deniers, that is on you,” tweeted Favreau, who was a speechwriter to President Barack Obama.

“Undecided that it helps the trigger that you simply and your staff have devoted a lot of your lives to, however I suppose you may get some consideration on Twitter, so there’s that!” Favreau wrote.

Musk replied Friday, writing, “Hello Jon! You are a good dude, however obv die-hard Dem, so need to help the social gathering, however this Adminstration has achieved all the things it might to sideline & ignore Tesla, though we’ve made twice as many EVs as remainder of US trade mixed.”

Earlier this week on the All In Summit in Miami, Musk stated he would classify himself “as a average, neither Republican or Democrat,” who “overwhelmingly” voted for Democrats up to now.

“I’d by no means have voted Republican. Now, this election? I’ll,” Musk stated on the occasion.

“The Democratic Social gathering is overly managed by the unions and the trial attorneys, significantly the class-action attorneys,” he stated.

Musk’s beef with the Biden administration goes again to August of final 12 months. He was not invited to President Joe Biden’s signing ceremony for an government order that referred to as on automakers to promote extra electrical autos — however executives from Basic Motors, Ford and Chrysler had been.

“Yeah, appears odd that Tesla wasn’t invited,” Musk tweeted.

It was reported in February that Biden had no fast plans to ask Musk to White Home conferences with company leaders.

Musk advised CNBC in emails that very same month that Biden was ignoring Tesla in favor of giving consideration to legacy automakers.

“The notion of a feud shouldn’t be fairly proper. Biden has pointedly ignored Tesla at each flip and falsely acknowledged to the general public that GM leads the electrical automotive trade, when in actual fact Tesla produced over 300,000 electrical autos final quarter and GM produced 26,” Musk stated within the e-mail on the time.

Final month, Musk, GM CEO Mary Barra and different prime auto executives met with senior Biden administration officers about electrical automobile charging stations.

— Further reporting by Lora Kolodny and Brian Schwartz