WASHINGTON — Jared Isaacman made clear he believes his nomination to be administrator of NASA was pulled by the White House because of his ties to Elon Musk.

Appearing on an episode of the All-In Podcast published June 4 , Isaacman said he was informed by the White House May 30 that President Trump was withdrawing his nomination to lead the space agency, a move that became public the next day . The podcast appearance provided his first public comments about the withdrawn nomination other than social media posts.

“I got a call Friday of last week that the president decided to go in a different direction,” he recalled. “It was a real bummer.” He added that he did not expect the decision to become public until after the weekend in order to notify “a number of parties in government.”

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