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President Trump claimed on Friday that a report in The New York Times, which detailed plans for Elon Musk to receive a briefing at the Pentagon on U.S. military plans for any prospective war with China, was “made-up” and “fake.”

The Times said afterward that it stood by the reporting in the article, which was first published on its website on Thursday evening. The plan for Mr. Musk to receive the top-secret briefing was also reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Hours after The Times’s report, Mr. Trump denied that Mr. Musk would be briefed on the Pentagon’s military plans involving China. On Friday morning, Mr. Musk met for 80 minutes with the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth. The Times and The Journal reported that the briefing was changed to an unclassified meeting after the coverage in the press.

Mr. Musk is the billionaire chief executive of private companies with significant financial interests in China. His companies also hold major contracts with the U. S. government.

Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, Mr. Trump acknowledged the prospect of a conflict of interest were Mr. Musk to be briefed on the closely guarded military secrets. “Elon has businesses in China and he would be susceptible perhaps to that,” the president said.

But Mr. Trump