Musk Called Trump Privately Before Posting Message of 'Regret'
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... President Trump received a phone call from Elon Musk late on Monday night, outreach that led to a public expression of regret by the billionaire early Wednesday for the attacks he had lodged against the president in their extraordinary public showdown last week, according to three people briefed on the conversation.

The call came after the tech entrepreneur spoke privately on Friday with Vice President JD Vance and the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, about a path to a truce. Ms. Wiles told associates she had come to like working with Mr. Musk and was one of his regular points of contact. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.

Those conversations paved the way for the strikingly chastened tone Mr. Musk struck in an X post early Wednesday, in which he wrote: "I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far."

Representatives of Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk did not respond to requests for comment. ...