Trump’s niece says Musk now ‘owns’ ex-president: ‘He’s at all times been up on the market’ | EUROtoday

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Donald Trump’s estranged niece is accusing the previous president of getting a “new owner” due to his more and more shut relationship with tech billionaire Elon Musk.

“Donald Trump has always been for sale,” Mary Trump wrote in a Substack publish on Saturday.

“Given this decades-long pattern, it’s not surprising that the world’s richest fascist, South African jumping bean Elon Musk, would also be interested in purchasing a few shares in a man who is willing to sell whatever he can get his hands on —whether it’s steaks or American national security — because he values money more than anything,” she added.

For Musk, Mary Trump argued, the help is “a safe bet because he knows, if Donald is elected, he’ll do anything Musk wants him to do.”

The Independent has contacted Musk and Trump for remark.

Musk, who reportedly initially needed to endorse Florida Governor Ron DeSantis within the 2024 election, has devoted appreciable time and a spotlight to supporting the Trump marketing campaign of late.

Musk frequently touts Trump to his tens of millions of followers on his social media platformX, and joined the previous president at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, earlier this month – an occasion which noticed Trump return to the scene of the July assassination try for the primary time.

Musk additionally based a pro-Trump tremendous PAC that’s reportedly spent round $80m supporting the previous president. The PAC is among the key organizations forming the spine of the Trump marketing campaign’s unorthodox get-out-the-vote technique, which has relied unusually strongly on exterior teams as an alternative of extra tightly managed marketing campaign efforts.

The group has resorted to eye-catching techniques, like paying potential voters to enroll in a petition expressing help for Trump-ian takes on points like freedom of speech and the proper to bear arms.

Trump, for his half, has welcomed the help with open arms, praising Musk as a genius and promising to nominate him to run a authorities fee presiding over large spending cuts.

Such a place would put Musk in a extremely distinctive and influential place, especiallly as a businessman whose corporations like SpaceX have contracts price a whole lot of tens of millions of {dollars} with the federal authorities.

The Trump marketing campaign has additionally leaned on Musk throughout key moments within the marketing campaign, reportedly efficiently lobbying Musk’s X social community to stop circulation of hyperlinks resulting in a reporter’s articles containing materials that was hacked from the Trump marketing campaign.