How 'Musk' director Alex Gibney became a critic
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The leadup to the film's release has seen some controversy after Musk used several insults to describe Gibney — " an idiot " was among the mildest ones — and threatened a defamation lawsuit.

In a letter sent to Gibney's Jigsaw Productions company that emerged in September, Musk attorney Alex Spiro focused on an exchange between Gibney and Ashley St. Clair, a one-time MAGA influencer who had a child with the billionaire.

St. Clair describes in the film text messages Musk sent her before the November 2024 presidential election in which he said he was "feeling more optimistic" about Donald Trump winning because "tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix."

Musk further told St. Clair that he planned on tapping "'lasers' from space," adding that "I have over 10 thousand lasers in space right now."

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