If Trump wins, Elon Musk has one objective: to develop into his high advisor | EUROtoday

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Elon Musk he might add a political profession alongside that of an entrepreneur and multi-billionaire. A profession alongside Donald Trump. If there’s a subsequent administration of The Donald, the South African tycoon might enter the circle of the President's “advisers”, with a say on burning points starting from the financial system to immigration and border safety, from expertise and science to area army forces. The two would have mentioned a job that ensures the patron of Tesla e SpaceX “formal input and influence”. Musk, in accordance with rumors, doesn’t disguise his ambition and Trump is actively contemplating the provide of the place.

Never so shut

The closeness between Musk and Trump is nothing new, with the electrical automotive magnate having develop into more and more linked in recent times to Republican Party and its extra populist and right-wing currents led by Trump. In 2022 he introduced by way of social media that he was really saying goodbye to positions that he outlined as average to declare that sooner or later he would vote Republican, provided that the Democrats “are the party of division and hatred and I can no longer support them” . Nor is Musk's dislike for the incumbent Democratic President a thriller Joe Biden, Trump's probably opponent in November. However, negotiations for a authorities place for him had not emerged and have now been revealed by Wall Street Journal, which cites sources near the talks. Musk now calls Trump instantly on his cellphone to alternate opinions.

Musk wasted no time in displaying concrete assist for Trump. If you might be sparing in donations and specific declarations of assist for candidates, after a “bilateral” assembly in Florida he would nonetheless have knowledgeable Trump that he had launched a number of initiatives. Together with different billionaires of comparable political opinions, similar to Nelson Peltzintends to begin with to “galvanize influential allies” and stress enterprise leaders to desert Biden and thus facilitate his defeat in November.

The essential face-off in Florida would happen on the huge ocean-view property of Peltz in March. A political and household affair: the protagonists had been accompanied by their offspring, together with Musk's son, X, Trump's son, Barron, and Peltz's son, Diesel, a tech entrepreneur and good friend of Musk. They exchanged jokes in regards to the weak spot of Biden's management.

Musk's initiative to stop voting fraud

But Musk's strikes already transcend talks and guarantees to persuade rich financiers to take the sphere whereas Trump's marketing campaign remains to be struggling in fundraising behind Biden. Musk has additionally created a purely electoral initiative. In the Journal's description, it’s “a data-driven project to prevent scams” within the vote. Trump and Republicans proceed to say with out proof that US elections are rigged by Democrats, and critics warn that such anti-cheating campaigns typically develop into efforts to suppress the participation and voting of segments of the inhabitants and areas historically extra favorable to opponents . Trump, displaying authoritarian streaks, immediately went as far as to as soon as once more query his acceptance of the end result if he had been defeated, the identical thesis that he had supported in attempting to overturn Biden's victory in 2020 and in encouraging the assault on Congress on January 6, 2021.