U.S. President Donald Trump, in an interview with NBC News on Saturday, said there would be “serious consequences” if billionaire Elon Musk funds Democratic Party candidates to run against Republicans who vote for Trump’s sweeping tax-cut bill.

Trump declined to say what those consequences would be in the phone interview, and went on to add that he had not had discussions about whether to investigate Musk.

Asked if he thought his relationship with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO was over, Trump said, “I would assume so, yeah.”

  • decapitae@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Because in a functional democracy, threatening opposition is encouraged and often leads to a healthy society. /s

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      He’d sorta have a point about people shouldn’t be able to just dump a few millions on elections to influence them, but since Elmo did literally that for trump it’s not only too late, it’s also hypocritical as shit

      Which makes sense because for Republicans it’s always them accusing Democrats of what they are doing themselves