Musk Has Bought His Way Into A Position Of Enormous Power

The following is part of an article by Dan Rather: 

Elon Musk has been dubbed Donald Trump’s “First Buddy” — a riff, I assume, on the title First Lady. The moniker seems innocuous, almost cute. It is anything but.

Musk now has unchecked access to Donald Trump. He is a regular fixture at Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago. He has sat in on calls with world leaders and has met with the Republican leadership in Congress. Trump has tasked Musk with implementing “drastic” reforms in the federal government as the head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency — a convenient job for a man with many multimillion-dollar federal contracts.

Here’s the price tag for all this access: $277 million. That’s how much Musk spent to help elect Trump, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. No surprise, that’s more than any individual has ever spent on a single election.

And for all that money, you too could be co-president.

The Trump campaign claimed it was all about lifting up average Americans. Here’s the reality: So far Trump has packed his administration with at least a dozen billionaires.

Musk, the electric car maker, rocket builder, X owner, and richest person in the world is a private citizen. He is also unelected. He has not been vetted by the FBI, nor will he have to be confirmed by the Senate. According to The Wall Street Journal, Musk has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms, and ketamine, any of which would keep him from passing a government background check. He will be unconstrained by conflict of interest rules that normally govern civil servants. The fox isn’t just guarding the proverbial hen house, he bought it — chickens, coop, and all. . . .

Musk is prohibited from running for president since he was born in South Africa, so he has bought his way into power in a very big way. The more than a quarter of a billion dollars he invested in Trump amounts to less than 1% of Musk’s net worth. It’s paid off big time. Musk’s personal bottom line has grown by more than $100 billion since Election Day, as the value of stock in his various companies has skyrocketed. Musk certainly can be credited with seizing a great financial opportunity.