The New Yorker:

After spending more than a hundred million dollars to help Trump get elected, Musk stands to earn a lot more.

By John Cassidy

On Wednesday, during a gathering at Mar-a-Lago attended by some of Donald Trump’s closest associates, a speaker demanded, “Where is the George Soros of the right?” In a scene that an attendee captured on video, Elon Musk, the fifty-three-year-old South African-born billionaire who reportedly spent about a hundred and thirty million dollars to aid Trump’s campaign and support other Republicans in competitive races, raised his arm. Amid loud cheers, the speaker declared, “God bless you, Elon. We are so, so grateful.”

Musk has claimed publicly that he has never asked Trump for any favors, and that Trump has not offered him any. Despite spreading misinformation on X, his social-media platform, and heavily financing the campaign of someone who plotted an autogolpe, he has also denied being a political extremist. After the Mar-a-Lago video surfaced, Musk wrote on X that he was the “ ‘George Soros’ of the middle.” In other words, he has portrayed himself as someone who entered the political arena to make the world a better place.

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