LOS ANGELES, United States — Ashley St. Clair alleges in a forthcoming documentary that Elon Musk displayed unusual certainty about Donald Trump’s victory before the result of the 2024 presidential election was known.
The allegation appears in Musk, a documentary directed by Alex Gibney and previewed by The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, September 2, 2026.
The film presents text messages attributed to Musk as part of St. Clair’s account.
Their meaning remains unexplained, and the documentary preview did not establish that the messages were connected to the election result or that Musk possessed advance knowledge of the outcome.
St. Clair says she and Musk have a child together.
Musk has publicly questioned that claim, and the two have been involved in a custody dispute.
Musk’s Role in the 2024 Campaign
Musk was a prominent supporter of Trump during the 2024 campaign, spending more than $290 million in support of his election effort and holding town-hall events in battleground states.
At one political event, Musk presented a $1 million cheque to a rally attendee selected after signing a petition supporting a political action committee he had created.
The documentary also examines Musk’s subsequent leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE.
According to the film, Musk and members of the DOGE team obtained access to federal data concerning tens of millions of Americans.
The film does not establish how Musk used that information or whether it had any connection to electoral activity.
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Messages Presented in the Documentary
St. Clair says Musk approached the presidential contest with a “degree of certainty” that “I had never seen before.”
She also recounts Musk telling her before the election that he intended to unleash the “anomaly in the matrix.”
The film displays what it presents as a text exchange between them. One message attributed to Musk reads: “I have ten thousand lasers in space.”
Gibney is heard asking St. Clair whether Musk could have been referring to Starlink. She responds that she does not know what else his reference to lasers in space could have meant.
Neither St. Clair nor the documentary explains what Musk meant by the two statements.
A spokesperson for SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Beast.
St. Clair’s Break With the Political Right
St. Clair, who previously promoted hard-right causes, has since publicly distanced herself from the movement.
During an appearance on The Daily Beast Podcast in August, she said her custody dispute with Musk had changed her view of the broader political project.
She described it as a “cult” that treated women poorly.
After St. Clair publicly supported Vivian Wilson, Musk’s transgender daughter, Musk said he would seek full custody of the young boy whom St. Clair says they share.
