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Cardi Bis inNicki Minaj's business again. Again, without at all wanting to be.
The "Bodak Yellow" rapper took to X on Monday to defend herself against an allegation from self-described Trump advisor Alex Bruesewitz that she is in some way affiliated with the Cyabra, an Israeli disinformation tracking company behind a new report concerning Minaj.
That report, titled "Inauthentic Amplification of Political Discourse on Nicki Minaj's X Account" andpublished byPoliticoon Monday, claims that a "sophisticated army of bots" was behind Minaj's recent ascent in conservative politics. When Bruesewitzcalled the reporta "total scam" and pointed out Cardi's agent, Mike G, is affiliated with Cyabra, essentially tying her to the claims made about Minaj, Cardi hit back hard.
"Listen, you involved me in something that has nothing to do wit me so now we're gonna talk about the facts," shewrote in replyto Bruesewitz on X, threatening to "sue you, you wet dirty dog."
"Cyabra is a data company with a lot of investors like Mike G, customers like Elon Musk and Pepsi that use that company for data and even has Mike Pompeo on the board of advisors," Cardi explained. "So what you need to focus on is the fact that data is VERY real and leave me out of your bulls---."
Cardi reiterated that she did not "have anything to do with that and I don't give AF!! Now lie and say that's not true!!! See what happen when you involve me in s--- that don't have nothing to do with me? I get down to the GRISTLE of it!!"
Entertainment Weeklyhas reached out to representatives for Cardi and Minaj.
Cyabra's "targeted analysis of engagement activity on Nicki Minaj's official X account" found that 33 percent of accounts that interacted with the rapper over a two-month span were inauthentic. That's over 18,000 accounts from nearly 55,000 analyzed, representing "substantially higher than baseline levels typically observed in organic social media discourse."
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The company was able to identify one day, Dec. 26, when 56 percent of all comments on political posts made by Minaj came from fake accounts. Cyabra concluded from these findings that "a coordinated fake campaign was actively amplifying political content on Nicki Minaj's X account" during the period studied.
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Minaj was by no means an ardent supporter of Democratic policies or politicians during her rise to fame (she rapped aboutvoting for Mitt Romneyin 2012), but she has become an unequivocal booster of right-wing politics, and Donald Trump in particular, over the last year.
The "Starships" rapperappeared with Trumpin January at an event announcing his new Trump Accounts policy. After the event she touted receiving a "Trump Gold Card," which the Trinidad and Tobago-born Minaj claimed finalized her U.S. citizenship.
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Cardi B and Nicki Minaj have, meanwhile, beenfeuding for years, most recently over the sales of the former's latest album,Am I the Drama?
Minaj has not yet publicly weighed in on the Cyabra report, but Cardi and Breusewitz's back-and-forth raged on after the initial spat. Mike G, a member of her representation team at United Talent Agency, was indeed announced as amember of an advisory panelfor Cyabra in 2025. But Cardi insisted she doesn't "keep track of my agents investments," and further pressed him on the relevance of their argument.
"America got so many issues, businesses are closing, homeowners are slashing the prices on their homes, interest rates are high,"she wrote. "Yet Trump's advisor is arguing on Twitter with a female rappers. Ladies and gentlemen this is America."
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