"Time to drop the really big bomb," Musk wrote on X, the social platform he owns. "[Trump] is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public."

Minutes later, he followed up: "Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out."

Names of powerful people previously associated with Epstein — who died by suicide in a Manhattan jail in 2019 — including Trump, Prince Andrew and former President Clinton, have been mentioned in court documents related to Epstein's decades of sexual abuse.