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struggle4progress

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Mon Feb 17, 2025, 08:35 PM Feb 2025

Musk's phone calls with Putin [View all]

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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