A Russian official said the American billionaire Elon Musk could be offered political asylum in Russia over his fierce dispute with Donald Trump
Dmitry Novikov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, made the comments to Russian state news outlet TASS.
“I think that Musk has a completely different game, [so] he will not need any political asylum, although if he did, Russia, of course, could provide it,” Novikov said, in remarks translated from Russian.
Musk and Trump, ostensibly political allies over cuts to federal spending, publicly clashed on June 5 in a series of exchanges across social media and in comments to reporters.
Why elon musk doesn’t just leave? he have money, he can be doing anything, he can be learning how to bake, or, improving his gaming skills without the media eye
Of course he can, he’s earned it several time over. He’s done more damage to the US on Russia’s behalf than 50 years of Cold War ever did.
How quickly and conveniently they offered him asylum and publicly 🤣😆
its gonna be hard for this to be any more hilarious
“Elon has too much government information to go to Russia!”
Y’all, please, listen, Russia already has our government information. The important thing to note here is that whether Elon runs off to Moscow or not, Russia making the offer may well drive a wedge between Russia and Trump. That, in and of itself, is good news. Trump has very few political allies at this point, with most of the world turning against him and trusting the US less. If he is even further alienated, there’s a decent chance his party loses reelection or refuses to go along with his insane 3rd term plans. It’ll take us a long time to rebuild international goodwill, but alienating Trump is a good thing.
Happy to proven wrong is there’s an aspect I’m not considering here, but in my mind when the fascist fight each other it’s good for the rest of us. Makes them easier to tackle, especially if the nonfash (and specifically the left) can unify.
On what do your base that Russia already have all the US secrets? I see several people on this talking point and I would really like something backing this claim.
This (as it stands right now) is not going to drive a wedge between Russia and Trump That’s the reason it’s a lower official saying it. Deniability. But let’s see how it develops from here.
Anyways I agree with you that it’s always better when the right is fighting each other instead of anybody else.
I just want to watch Trump have a full-on narcissistic collapse.
From Ketamine to Krokodil, hell yeah I hope Elon takes Putler up on that offer
I’m not sure it’s a smart move by Russia if a Russian official sides with Musk at this point. Not saying it’s not a perfect match though.
I was honestly surprised that they went with such a statement. Putin is smart enough (smarter than much of the US) to understand that Trump is a lazy degenerate, but it seems a bit premature to openly ridicule Trump.
Do it. Pull a Steven Seagal.
Yeah, but what would passing out and shitting himself really accomplish? Focus, man!
Great, a new country for Musk to rule over
This is fucking hilarious
Take it! I mean, people act like he “owns” his companies but he owns like 8% of Tesla and SpaceX is probably similar. No one gives a shit about his monkey torture project and X+xAI is worthless. Boring Company isn’t doing anything. And if you’re the “CEO” of more than one company, you’re actually running zero. He’s a mascot. We could probably be rid of him for less than the price of widening an interstate for ignorant reasons.
SpaceX is probably similar
Tesla is a publicly-traded company. There is no reason to believe SpaceX, which is still privately held, should be similar.
A 2023 Wall Street Journal article (linked here in archive form) claims Musk controls 42% of its equity has 79% voting control.
Thank you for the clarification. None of us know their cap table, obviously, but that’s more plausible than me just guessing based on Tesla.
Russia must be loving this. Now nobody is talking about a third of their air force being wiped out by toy drones.
lol this is Putin’s wet dream come true.
Wait I’m out of the loop, musk and trump have been fighting?
Exactly what everyone expected would happen is happening.
The 2 egomaniacs are sick of each other and lashing out.
Yes, very publicly, but remember that they lie about everything anyway. So it’s not like the world is a better place because two pieces of s*** are insulting each other in front of the world. They could fight today and work together next week if they think it’ll get them more power and money, because that’s all they live for.
Oh man, I’m jealous you get to hear it all at once. It’s only been a couple days.
Sure, why not? I hear Russia is extremely drug-use-positive and cultivates oligarchs who don’t submit to authority.
They have incredible windows too
That would be the dumbest thing he could possibly do to himself. Honestly I hope he is smarter than that because Putin would turn him upside down and shake him until every last nickel falls out of his pockets, and put it all into the war effort against the Ukraine.
I mean Putin already has his ear. Guess they want the rest of him.
