Will Elon Musk find refuge in Moscow? While the relationship is turning off between the richest man in the world and the president of the United States, after the first of the White House at the end of May, Russia proposed this Friday, June 6 to welcome Tesla and Spacex to the Russian agency Tass on its ground.
“Elon Musk could obtain political asylum in Russia, but it is unlikely to need it,” said Dmitri Novikov, first vice president of the Duma International Affairs Committee, equivalent to the National Assembly in Russia.
The latter was asked about the growing tensions for several days between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, while a former White House advisor asked the billionaire, born in South Africa and American naturalized, expelled from the country.
“I think Musk plays a completely different game, he will not need political asylum, even if he needed, Russia could, of course, provide him,” said Dmitri Novikov.
“At this stage, the return of the democratic field to the White House in three years is not, it seems to me, what Musk needs, and is not ready to applaud it. Therefore, there are tactical and strategic differences, and he will respect them, it seems to me,” said one of the vice presidents in Duma, evoking “individual disagreements” between the president and the Elon Musk.
Your “welcome” companies in the EU
In addition to Russia, a spokesman for the European Commission proposed this Friday, in the tone of the joke, to welcome Elon Musk’s companies on their ground.
“He is the very welcome,” said Paula Pinho, spokesman for the European Executive, a journalist who asked if the billionaire had contacted the European Union to install their companies or create new ones.
His colleague Thomas Régnier kissed more seriously by emphasizing that “all” was “welcome to start” his activity “and settled inside the EU.” “This is precisely the goal of Choice Europe,” an EU initiative in favor of new companies and expanding companies, he added.
The musk has “turned crazy” according to Trump
Since Elon Musk left the White House, where he had the mission of reducing public spending, the president and having a tense relationship for him.
The US president said that Elon Musk’s mission had ended, “went crazy” due to an unfavorable decision of electric vehicles, before threatening it “to cancel (SUS) subsidies and government contracts”, “the simplest way,” according to Donald Trump, to save billions and billions of dollars in our budget. “
Elon Musk, who largely financed the presidential campaign of the real estate tycoon, replied saying that “Trump would have lost the elections” without him and accusing him of “ingratitude.”
He also said, without providing evidence, that the president’s name was in the archive of Jeffrey Epstein, this American financial in the heart of a vast scandal of sexual crimes and exploitation that committed suicide in prison in 2019 before he could be judged.
Elon Musk’s action in the Government, marked by mass cuts in international aid, closures of federal agencies and layoffs of thousands of public officials, made it very unpopular in the United States, while in Europe, its defense of the ideas and parties of the extreme right has aroused indignation in several countries.
Source: BFM TV
