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Since taking over Twitter/X, Elon Musk has been increasingly vocal on political issues. But there’s one issue where the billionaire has remained coy: who, if anyone, will he be endorsing this election? Though Musk has said in previous interviews that he was “against Biden”, he has so far refrained from following that train of thought to publicly supporting Trump.
That could all be about to change. According to new reporting in Puck, Elon Musk convened a “dozen or so” of America’s captains of industry at the residence of fellow Paypal mafia member, David Sacks. The names included former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, Rupert Murdoch and Steven Mnuchin after Musk reportedly told associates that he was ready to “formalise his running political commentary on Twitter/X into an official endorsement of some sort”. “All were there as members of a burgeoning anti-Biden brain trust,” Puck writes, “united by a shared sense of grievance”. Maybe he just wants Trump to start using X again…
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SubscribeMusk is a South African Boer who left his country due to black rule. Woke America forced S Africa to reduce the ruling Boers to an oppressed minority. Of course, Musk has MAGA opinions. The problem that he has is that his Woke customers are the customers for his cars since MAGA workers cannot afford them. He is also a defense contractor whose published opinions offend Biden his customer. With Trump as President SpaceX gets government contracts not given by Biden. Most defense contractors bribe both parties equally. Musk has not done this, and SpaceX future requires a Republican president. He might not respect Trump but he needs friends in Washington not enemies like Biden.