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I briefly alluded to this article yesterday, but it’s worth noting that Elon is actually doing what Twitter’s critics imagine it did before:
Elon Musk, seen over the weekend jumping for joy alongside former President Donald J. Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa., is now talking to the Republican candidate multiple times a week.
He has effectively moved his base of operations to Pennsylvania, the place that he has recently told confidants he believes is the linchpin to Mr. Trump’s re-election.
He has relentlessly promoted Mr. Trump’s candidacy to his 201 million followers on X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter that he bought for $44 billion and has used to spread conspiracy theories about the Democratic Party and to insult its candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Above all, he is personally steering the actions of a super PAC that he has funded with tens of millions of dollars to turn out the vote for Mr. Trump, not just in Pennsylvania but across the country. He has even proposed taking a campaign bus tour across Pennsylvania and knocking on doors himself, in part to see how his money is being used.
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The relationship has proved significant in other ways. After a reporter’s publication of hacked Trump campaign information last month, the campaign connected with X to prevent the circulation of links to the material on the platform, according to two people with knowledge of the events. X eventually blocked links to the material and suspended the reporter’s account.
One of the core components of Republican politics in 2024 is pretending to believe conspiracy theories that can be used to justify doing the things you purportedly condemn:
Elon is actually doing all the things that the far right thinks George Soros has been doing for 20 years.
Musk is buying the election, actively censoring speech he doesn't like, and swaying a cabal of billionaires. Not Soros. https://t.co/Wz4Nl3NygH— Mike Rothschild (no relation) (@rothschildmd) October 11, 2024
Anyway, I hope they can get to the bottom of the unfathomable mystery of Elon Musk’s political views one day.