'Upset that I sold his car': Senator hits back as Musk doubles down on 'traitor' remark

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) fired back at tech billionaire Elon Musk for continuing to insist that the former decorated veteran and one-time astronaut was “a traitor” to the United States for defending Ukraine in its war against Russia's invasion.

Kelly on Thursday delivered a terse takedown of Musk on CNN moments after the head of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency upped his beef with Kelly in a Fox News interview.

“I don’t even know if he deserves a response,” Kelly told CNN’s Erin Burnett before going on to launch a fierce rebuke of Musk.

“He's unelected, inexperienced, at least when it comes to regard to the federal government and what he's trying to accomplish here,” Kelly said. “He’s an unelected billionaire, and I think he needs to stay in his own lane – making rockets, making cars. He also might be a little upset that I sold his car.”

“By the way, Erin, I sold the car after he called me a 'traitor' the first time,” the Arizona senator added.

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But Kelly wasn't done, later slamming Musk for being supportive of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime.

“I mean, who is Elon standing with at this point? A bunch of billionaires,” Kelly told the CNN host. “It seems to me that some folks in the administration sort of switched sides here. I would put Elon at this point in the category of being much closer to Russia on this issue.”

He added that while he wants the bloody Russia- Ukraine conflict to end “as much as anybody,” Musk “throws this traitor word around, at least with regards to me, fairly freely.”

“I don’t think he's a serious guy, and he hasn't given this a lot of thought,” Kelly said.

He added that he’s spent his career “defending our country,” and concluded that “standing with our allies and standing up for democracy is in the best interest of the United States."

Watch the clip below or at this link.