CNN's Scott Jennings schooled on Elon Musk's slide into becoming 'political poison'

A discussion on CNN's "Table for Five" about the growing unpopularity of Elon Musk, led one panelist to straighten out conservative Scott Jennings who claimed the seemingly ever-present billionaire lost favor with liberals when he threw in his lot with Donald Trump.

With the segment devoted to the question of whether Musk has become "political poison" as evidenced by the loss this past week of a shot at a Wisconsin state Supreme Court seat that Musk threw his support and a reported $26 million at, Jennings suggested the billionaire is being unfairly maligned.

After stating that he thought every on the panel was "dramatically over-reading the results" in Wisconsin," he added, "He's a great entrepreneur. I think his companies and he personally are getting all sorts of negative attention and even vandalism and all these violent attacks, and it's terrible. I know personally that he's been getting death threats, all for the sin, all for the sin, of having been a liberal who decided to support Donald Trump and then go serve in his government for a short period of time."

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"It's outrageous," he emphasized.

That led podcaster, Van Lathan, host of "Higher Learning," to push back.

"It's actually not true," he began. "I just want to say something real quick. I understand it, a lot of people want to frame this as people started to hate Elon Musk or not like Elon Musk once Elon Musk decided to support Donald Trump –– it's just not true."

"I definitely think it's true," Jennings protested.

"It's definitely not true.," Lathan shot back. "It started long before then when Elon Musk bought Twitter. Hate speech just erupted on Twitter. Elon Musk's flirting with Naziism and far-right type of stuff for a couple of years before this, has made –– has gotten people off the Elon Musk bandwagon way before he decided to ––."

"I think chronologically that is accurate," CNN host Abby Phillip interjected.

After some overtalk, Phillip continued, "I don't think it's solely about Donald Trump. I think it is, to Van's point that he has been, even before he owned Twitter, actually before he bought it, before he wanted to buy it, he was turning his personal platform into a place where conspiracy theories, harassment. He accused a random person of pedophilia and was sued for it. I mean, like, this was happening years ago before all of this."

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