Billionaire Elon Musk will be part of the administration of the US president-elect Donald Trump. He is to advise on reducing government bureaucracy. The billionaire's acquisition of such an important position has made his opponents look at Elon Musk's actions before his involvement in Donald Trump's campaign with even greater concern. Like a boomerang, the topic of his mysterious conversations with… Vladimir Putin.
“Alarming.” Americans are worried about Musk's contacts with Putin
“Wall Street Journal” in October it described that Elon Musk was to be in constant contact with Vladimir Putin for two years. “The conversations concerned personal, business topics and the geopolitical situation,” we read. However, it happened that Vladimir Putin asked the billionaire not to activate the Starlink satellite Internet service over Taiwan as a “favor” for Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Elon Musk himself admitted that he only talked to the dictator about space.
Even before Elon Musk entered politics for good, this matter was highly controversial. His company SpaceX is a key supplier of technologies, including: for the Pentagon and NASA. This gives him access to American military secrets and space programs. “The alarming thing is that the beneficiary of billions dollars in government contracts and sensitive military operations, he has an open line to the main opponent of the US,” says Jeanne Shaheen, head of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee for Europe.
Elon Musk is in trouble. There is a letter to initiate proceedings
Jeanne Shaheen and Jack Reed are the US senators who asked the Pentagon and Attorney General Merrick Garland to initiate an investigation into Elon Musk's contacts with Vladimir Putin. They believe that government contracts with SpaceX in particular should be examined.
“These relationships between a known U.S. adversary and Mr. Elon Musk, a beneficiary of billions of dollars in U.S. government funds, raise serious questions about Mr. Musk's credibility as a state contractor and holder of an access clearance. information classified,” the Democratic senators wrote in a letter, the details of which are published Reuters Agency. According to Reuters, an investigation into this matter is unlikely due to the billionaire's close relationship with Donald Trump.