How did Elon Musk become Trump’s right hand?

According to Isna, the British media, referring to the many efforts of the American billionaire Elon Musk for the victory of Donald Trump in the elections, reported that he has become one of Trump’s trusted people and will probably achieve great power.

According to the Guardian newspaper, Musk, who did not support any of the US presidential candidates until the middle of this year, has become a constant element in Donald Trump’s inner circle in less than five months.

In addition to the financial perks, Elon Musk reportedly asked Trump to appoint a number of SpaceX employees to high-ranking government roles, including at the US Department of Defense.

According to the Guardian, Elon Musk’s position in this circle was the result of months of efforts by the richest man in the world and the injection of at least 130 million dollars from his personal assets in support of Trump. He even left his home in the state of Texas and went to the sensitive state of Pennsylvania to give a daily bonus of one million dollars to those who vote for Trump!

Elon Musk’s exact role in the Trump administration is still unclear, but the president-elect has said he will put him in charge of auditing the federal government’s spending to make sweeping reforms in this area.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s companies have signed billions of dollars in contracts with the US government, and his placement in such a position will lead to a huge conflict of interest. But according to the Guardian, Trump has been criticizing the role of regulatory bodies for a long time and has ignored such contradictions.

Even in the picture that Trump’s grandson published of the Trump family on the night of the election victory, you can see that Elon Musk is standing right in front of Trump’s son-in-law Eric Trump and Jared Kushner.

According to the Guardian, Musk’s rise to Trump’s close circle happened quickly. In March, he denied any bias during the election campaign, but in July, when Trump was the target of a botched assassination attempt, he quickly announced his support for him and called on all those in the tech industry to support the Republican Party. do

According to this report, even “JD Vance” was proposed as Trump’s choice for the vice president of the United States by Elon Musk.

After Elon Musk announced his support for Trump, he quickly established Superpac or America Pac, and in July donated $15 million to Trump. He then increased his donations exponentially each month, eventually giving Trump a total of $118 million by Election Day.

In the US elections, financial contributions are not limited to what ordinary people and non-governmental organizations directly contribute to the campaign headquarters. An American citizen can indirectly and without any connection with the campaign headquarters of a candidate, spend money to advertise in favor of him or against his rivals. American citizens, organizations and lobbyists do this through private organizations called Political Action Committees or PACs.

These committees are currently of two types: committees affiliated with candidate headquarters, which raise limited amounts of money for the campaign headquarters, and committees independent of candidate headquarters, which raise unlimited contributions. The second category is known as “Super Pack” and unlike the first category, it is not allowed to give the money it has collected to the advertising headquarters and must spend it independently. Since superpacks have no limit on how much money they can receive, candidates can dramatically increase their chances of winning the election by spending huge sums of money, something many Americans have objected to and considered corrupt.

Musk also took on the role of Trump’s second-in-command in the final months of the election, accompanying him in speeches, providing policy ideas and managing campaign strategy.

Superpack, founded by Elon Musk in support of Trump, took over the bulk of Trump’s campaign activities in sensitive states, employing hundreds of people across the country to conduct face-to-face, digital and mail campaigns.

As the final days of the election approached, Elon Musk was donating $1 million a day to selected voters who had joined the Trump campaign. But Musk’s lawyers recently admitted in a Pennsylvania court hearing that the winners were not chosen at random, but rather by Musk’s committee, which led to a voter lawsuit against Musk.

Although Elon Musk’s plans to support Trump, including the donation of a million dollar prize, faced many criticisms and many legal challenges, he had complete freedom of action in the social network X (formerly Twitter), which he bought.

According to the Guardian, Musk’s purchase of Twitter and its rebranding as X is considered a financial failure, as most advertisers have left the platform, and it is worth less than half of what Musk paid for it today.

But what Elon Musk got after buying Twitter was control of one of the most influential communication platforms in the world. By manipulating Twitter’s algorithms, he made the most of this huge platform to support Trump during the election days.

In August, Elon Musk conducted a live interview with Trump that aired on Platform X. The broadcast of this interview showed how much the situation has changed since Trump’s account was suspended in 2021 until today. In the August interview, not only was Trump’s account reactivated, but the owner and CEO of the social network presented it as a way for America to prosper.

Elon Musk posted more than 145 tweets in the 24-hour period after the interview, and on the eve of election day, his page was filled with misinformation and claims by far-right theorists about election fraud.

Musk, who under the pretext of “absolute freedom of speech” allowed the publication of any unsubstantiated allegations against Trump’s rivals, took a hard-line approach to Trump’s critics. For example, when a reporter published information about J.D. Vance, Elon Musk blocked all links related to the investigation and suspended the reporter from Twitter.

Regardless of any official role Musk has in the Trump administration, he has become one of his closest and trusted confidants, to the point where Trump described him as a “super genius” in his victory speech.

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