"Musk is obsessive, almost manic, about the stakes & the need for Mr. Trump to win" NYT reports scale/frenzy of Musk's backing for Trump is without any precedent. Estimates $ spend around $140 million + use of X on top of that A real life Citizen Kane www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/u...
Elon Musk is planting himself in Pennsylvania, has brought his brain trust to help and may even knock on doors himself.
Willing to intervene personally to remove anti-Trump content, breaking his ostensible commitments on speech bsky.app/profile/cnn....
Donald Trump’s campaign connected with Elon Musk’s X last month to discuss hacked Trump campaign materials circulating on the social media platform before X blocked links to the files and banned the independent journalist who published the materials, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign connected with Elon Musk’s X last month to discuss hacked Trump campaign materials circulating on the social media platform before X blocked links to the files...
What Kompromat does Putin have on him, I wonder?
My (totally unfounded) take is that he’s banking on Trump mandating the use of whatever shonky payments system Musk is trying to turn Twitter into. Or at least mandating something Musky. It would make up for the multibillion dollar loss that Twitter has become.