Elon Musk calls for release of Tommy Robinson in bizarre post on X
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has called for the release of imprisoned far-right agitator Tommy Robinson. In several recent posts on his social media site X, the billionaire expressed support for the founder of the anti-Islam English Defence League and railed against Sir Keir Starmer.
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Musk – a prominent advisor to US president-elect Donald Trump – said the prime minister was to blame for failures relating to the Rochdale grooming scandal while he was director of public prosecutions. He posted and reposted multiple calls for Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, to be released from prison.
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. The activist was jailed for 18 months in October after pleading guilty to showing a defamatory video of a Syrian refugee during a protest last year.
Judges previously heard that he fled the UK hours after being bailed last summer, following an alleged breach of the terms of a 2021 court order. The order was imposed when he was successfully sued by refugee Jamal Hijazi for making false claims about him, preventing Robinson from repeating any of the allegations.
Pictures later showed him on a sun lounger at a holiday resort in Cyprus while violent riots erupted across the UK in the wake of the attack in Southport. Posts promoted by Musk suggested Robinson was ‘smeared as a “far-right racist” for exposing the mass betrayal of English girls by the state’, an apparent reference to the grooming gang scandal.
