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Theodore Schleifer

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How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

Sure. Elon Musk has a lot of kids. Elon has had a lot of marriages or had kids with women who are not his wife. And one of his children began to identify as trans. And Elon has said publicly that this issue, trans issues, is really what kind of pushed him away from the Democratic Party. And he's talked a little bit about it publicly. He doesn't always want to go into the personal stuff.

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How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

I find in some of his public commentary, he's not eager to talk about this. But we know that it played some role in kind of him becoming Right. Right. Right. Crime, immigration, the woke mind virus that is infecting American kids. He is motivated, like all of us are, frankly, by our personal experiences.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

I find in some of his public commentary, he's not eager to talk about this. But we know that it played some role in kind of him becoming Right. Right. Right. Crime, immigration, the woke mind virus that is infecting American kids. He is motivated, like all of us are, frankly, by our personal experiences.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

I find in some of his public commentary, he's not eager to talk about this. But we know that it played some role in kind of him becoming Right. Right. Right. Crime, immigration, the woke mind virus that is infecting American kids. He is motivated, like all of us are, frankly, by our personal experiences.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

And clearly, Elon's family life has played a role as well in sort of getting him to be more conservative.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

And clearly, Elon's family life has played a role as well in sort of getting him to be more conservative.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

And clearly, Elon's family life has played a role as well in sort of getting him to be more conservative.

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How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

I think he's basically said as much. Yes.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

I think he's basically said as much. Yes.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

I think he's basically said as much. Yes.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

This is just the culmination of everything that came during the Biden era. When I went to Silicon Valley in 2017, it was impossible to be an outspoken Republican because you would be allying yourself with Trump.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

This is just the culmination of everything that came during the Biden era. When I went to Silicon Valley in 2017, it was impossible to be an outspoken Republican because you would be allying yourself with Trump.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

This is just the culmination of everything that came during the Biden era. When I went to Silicon Valley in 2017, it was impossible to be an outspoken Republican because you would be allying yourself with Trump.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

And even if you were a believer that there should be tougher border enforcement or that the government spends too much money or anything that Elon Musk says today, you would also have to defend all of these positions that were absolutely reviled in the tech industry. So most Republicans in tech, frankly, just shut up. They didn't talk about politics at all. They talked about their companies.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

And even if you were a believer that there should be tougher border enforcement or that the government spends too much money or anything that Elon Musk says today, you would also have to defend all of these positions that were absolutely reviled in the tech industry. So most Republicans in tech, frankly, just shut up. They didn't talk about politics at all. They talked about their companies.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

And even if you were a believer that there should be tougher border enforcement or that the government spends too much money or anything that Elon Musk says today, you would also have to defend all of these positions that were absolutely reviled in the tech industry. So most Republicans in tech, frankly, just shut up. They didn't talk about politics at all. They talked about their companies.

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How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

They were not eager to get involved. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley liberal billionaires are sort of the war chest of the resistance, and they're leading the effort to push back on Trump. Now, fast forward to 2020. Joe Biden wins. Trump leaves office. Jan 6 happens. Now there is the ability, developing slowly, you know, at the time I'm there, 2021, 2022, to be anti-Biden.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

They were not eager to get involved. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley liberal billionaires are sort of the war chest of the resistance, and they're leading the effort to push back on Trump. Now, fast forward to 2020. Joe Biden wins. Trump leaves office. Jan 6 happens. Now there is the ability, developing slowly, you know, at the time I'm there, 2021, 2022, to be anti-Biden.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

They were not eager to get involved. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley liberal billionaires are sort of the war chest of the resistance, and they're leading the effort to push back on Trump. Now, fast forward to 2020. Joe Biden wins. Trump leaves office. Jan 6 happens. Now there is the ability, developing slowly, you know, at the time I'm there, 2021, 2022, to be anti-Biden.

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How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

Even if you are not really vocally pro-Trump, you know, you could argue that we should have a different Republican nominee. People like Ron DeSantis were getting a lot of currency among Silicon Valley Republican billionaires. Elon Musk was not that involved right at this point, but plenty of kind of Musk acolytes, someone like David Sachs, who is now the White House AI czar.