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Humza Haroon Yousaf is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party from March 2023 to May 2024. He served under his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon as justice secretary from 2018 to 2021 and then as health secretary from 2021 to 2023.

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14 Nov, 2024

Yousaf: Musk has a ‘whole team trying to besmirch my reputation’

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After Musk suggested he had been “racist” in his private communications, Yousaf says he checked his private messages:

It was more out of complete and utter confusion of what the heck he was talking about. A very pointed accusation that he’s trying to make, and most people who commented underneath are saying the same thing, you know, ‘Go on Elon, release his Twitter DMs’…I’m thinking, I’ve been on Twitter for a long time, have I made an off-colour joke? Have I said something in a private communication? So, I thought I better do the belt and braces thing, and as I say there was nothing there, and unsurprisingly so

And accuses Musk of targeting him:

But here is somebody who is basically saying to me by the way ‘you better watch out; I’m going to release stuff on you and it’s going to make your life hell…I am certain he has a whole team of people who are looking at any information they can gather on me and try to use it to besmirch my reputation.

Yousaf repeats his claim that Musk is a racist, with “far-right, white supremacist tendencies”.

Elon Musk could have trillions let alone billions and he wouldn’t have enough to shut me up.