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I think that Trump likes to impress other people and Elon Musk is the richest man in the world and that’s one way of showing off for Zelenskyy,
Haberman told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins
This call attracted a lot of attention for a variety of reasons,
Haberman saidIn this case, it’s the richest man in the world who has business with government and it’s slightly different but it’s pretty in keeping with Trump’s character,
she saidWe have to protect our geniuses, we don’t have that many of them,
the president-elect said during his victory speech early Wednesday morning
Oh, let me tell you, we have a new star,
he said
There are all sorts of potential conflicts of interest. The question is whether that bothers Trump or not,
Schnur said
The type of cost-cutting, slash-and-burn approach that he brought to Twitter is not possible in the public sector,
Mittelstead saidThe specific worry with Musk and NHTSA is that the Trump administration might influence the decisions that civil servants are making to benefit the business interests of Tesla,
Cardozo School of Law professor and tech regulation expert Matthew Wansley saidThe ceiling for what he could possibly get out of government contracts could be raising,
Mittelsteadt saidI don’t see any guardrails going up in terms of verifying the truth of information that’s already gone by the wayside since X was taken over,
said JoharThey’ve appeared to have developed a very strong personal rapport,
Schnur saidIf there is a general tariff, the price of those will skyrocket,
George Mason University Mercatus Center research fellow Matt Mittelsteadt said in an interviewTesla has the scale and scope that is unmatched,
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a recent note to investorsWe’ve seen lobbying efforts, we’ve seen Super Pacs, but this is a different level we’ve never seen before,
said Gita Johar, a professor at Columbia Business SchoolIt’s impossible to imagine how much influence Elon Musk could have in this administration because there’s no precedent,
University of California Berkeley professor Dan Schnur said‘Conflict of interest’ seems rather quaint.”
Pausing for a moment, Johar addedWe will land an American astronaut on Mars,
Trump said during an October rallyI’m for electric cars,
Trump said during a campaign event in AugustWe will never allow public debate to be outsourced to deregulated social networks in the hands of special interests, whether American or Chinese,
Barrot added in the Le Parisien interview published Sunday
Let’s hope he doesn’t do to American democracy what he did to Twitter. Democracy is a delicate treasure,
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said in an interview with Le Parisien when asked about the part Musk could play in the new Trump administration