Remember that time Musk claimed that USAid paid Reuters, the news agency, to conduct social engineering and he had the screenshots to prove it but the screenshots actually disproved it. The payment was to Reuters Special Services which is a separate company that provides cybersecurity services. If you looked further into the details you found they were providing the US government services to protect against social engineering attacks.
I don't believe a word that Elon says. Lies come out of his mouth and keyboard almost easy as they do from Trump's.
I'm old enough to remember when the US stood up for democracy and stood up to dictators. Ronald Reagan would have punched Trump in his face if he was still around.