Elon Musk blamed the launch failure of his scheduled X Spaces livestream interview with Donald Trump on a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDOS), but some members of his staff called the explanation baloney, according to The Verge. An unnamed staff member from the company told The Verge that there was a “’99 percent’ chance Elon was lying about an attack.” Another source told The Verge that the technical malfunction was not due to a DDOS attack. Platform users noted that the rest of the social media service appeared to function while the livestream crashed. Want more breaking political ne…