Musk's phone calls with Putin

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Oct 25, 2024 2:30 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk ... has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the last two years ...

... He’s poured millions of dollars into Trump’s presidential bid and turned the platform once known as Twitter into a site popular with Trump supporters, as well as conspiracy theorists, extremists and Russian propagandists ...

During one talk, Putin asked Musk not to activate his Starlink satellite system over Taiwan as a favor for Chinese President Xi Jinping ...

... “If it was an approved phone call set up with the knowledge of the board of directors with lawyers present, that would be one thing. But when it’s off-the-cuff conversations with Vladimir Putin, who is obviously at odds with the U.S. government, that is going to cause a lot of concern” ...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-to-know-about-elon-musks-reported-phone-calls-with-putin-and-why-it-matters

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1. Senators call for probe into Musk's contact with Russia

16 November 2024

Sam Cabral
BBC News, Washington

... The multi-billionaire claims to hold a top-secret level clearance and his SpaceX company - one of the main contractors to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) - is deeply embedded in the federal government's defence and intelligence infrastructure.

"Russia’s ambitions in the space domain pose a direct threat to US national security," the senators wrote.

Reed and Shaheen noted that, unlike others with high-level security clearance, Musk does not appear to report his contacts with foreign government officials ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0l3wl76gzo

[Botany]

2. Musk and the Russian GRU stole the election for Trump. They had to make sure they were on the same page

And how many phone calls did Trump have with Putin when he was out of office?

This whole thing stinks.