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Puzzled Trump Says He Has No Idea Why Musk Supported Him in the First Place (futurism.com)

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[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't make this out like it's some brilliant plan only a mustache-twirling villain could pull off; buying politicians is what oligarchs do, Musk just netted himself a bigger fish than most. He saw a rare opportunity to dribble some money on the king of all grifter politicians who is only interested in enriching himself and inflating his ego to get the things he wanted. But it's not clever or brilliant or genius, buying politicians is in fact rather pedestrian these days.