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2d ago

Russia offers political asylum to Elon Musk over Trump feud

www.newsweek.com

A Russian official said the American billionaire Elon Musk could be offered political asylum in Russia over his fierce dispute with Donald Trump

Dmitry Novikov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, made the comments to Russian state news outlet TASS.

"I think that Musk has a completely different game, [so] he will not need any political asylum, although if he did, Russia, of course, could provide it," Novikov said, in remarks translated from Russian.

Musk and Trump, ostensibly political allies over cuts to federal spending, publicly clashed on June 5 in a series of exchanges across social media and in comments to reporters.

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2d ago

Russia offers political asylum to Elon Musk over Trump feud

www.newsweek.com /russia-offers-political-asylum-elon-musk-over-trump-feud-2081887

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2d ago

Russia Offers Political Asylum to Elon Musk over Trump Feud

www.newsweek.com /russia-offers-political-asylum-elon-musk-over-trump-feud-2081887

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2d ago

Putin / Russia offers political asylum to Elon Musk over Trump feud (Hybrid War Lost to Russia, Surkovian, Edward Snowden subconscious play)

www.newsweek.com /russia-offers-political-asylum-elon-musk-over-trump-feud-2081887

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Yes. please take him.
- Do we really want the guy who just made off with a large portion of government sensitive data to go to Russia?
  
  Do you think physical distance is keeping the data safely within our borders?
  
  Like he hasn't already given Russia the data.
  
  I'd rather punish him here
  
  Between Agent Krasnov and Agent Muskovite I'm sure they already have full access, this is just their way of getting a dig in at everyone who already knows this is the case. The Kremlin is basically rubbing it in our faces to tell us they own all these guys and they know there's nothing we can do about it.
  
  The guy in the White House already gave it to them.
  
  Yes we do.

"Elon has too much government information to go to Russia!"
Y'all, please, listen, Russia already has our government information. The important thing to note here is that whether Elon runs off to Moscow or not, Russia making the offer may well drive a wedge between Russia and Trump. That, in and of itself, is good news. Trump has very few political allies at this point, with most of the world turning against him and trusting the US less. If he is even further alienated, there's a decent chance his party loses reelection or refuses to go along with his insane 3rd term plans. It'll take us a long time to rebuild international goodwill, but alienating Trump is a good thing.
Happy to proven wrong is there's an aspect I'm not considering here, but in my mind when the fascist fight each other it's good for the rest of us. Makes them easier to tackle, especially if the nonfash (and specifically the left) can unify.
- I just want to watch Trump have a full-on narcissistic collapse.
- On what do your base that Russia already have all the US secrets? I see several people on this talking point and I would really like something backing this claim.
  This (as it stands right now) is not going to drive a wedge between Russia and Trump That's the reason it's a lower official saying it. Deniability. But let's see how it develops from here.
  Anyways I agree with you that it's always better when the right is fighting each other instead of anybody else.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%27s_disclosures_of_classified_information
- I'm just here for the titty baby tears. Anything more is a bonus :)

Sure, why not? I hear Russia is extremely drug-use-positive and cultivates oligarchs who don't submit to authority.
- They have incredible windows too

I mean Putin already has his ear. Guess they want the rest of him.

I seriously applaud whoever managed to push that through.
I don't support anything they do, but that is top tier comedy.
- The dude with access to all of the federal government data gets offered asylum and you wonder how that happens?
- Well both Trump and Elon have Russian ties. Right now Trump is the bigger asset to them. So if they publicly offer asylum to Musk, it makes Elon look like the worse bad guy and make Trump less bad and possibly slow any attempts to having him removed by the Senate.
  So Russia can get Elons money being spent there, and Trump's dumbassery trying to reduce and remove sanctions against Russia.
  In their eyes it's a win win.

Do it. Pull a Steven Seagal.
- Yeah, but what would passing out and shitting himself really accomplish? Focus, man!

From Ketamine to Krokodil, hell yeah I hope Elon takes Putler up on that offer

No, no, no.
I live in Finland and that is too close.

So it is all theatre.
Because Russia is now involved in the "fued." Orchastraited by the Kremlin no doubt. Is it to set up reasoning to help Elon avoid legal consequences in exchange for money? Data? Is it to distract from the funding bill and policies being enacted to kill 258,000,000 Americans?
- Wait, what about "killing 258 million americans"? What did I miss? That's a larger portion than I'd suspected they were aiming for...
  
  That's like 2 or 3 fentanyl pills, if I understand Bondi right...
  
  The numbers floated around were a healthy population of "around 100m" and Bondi stated something about saving 75% of Americans.
  They lie, but they certainly can't come up with numbers for a lie.
  
  its the amount of fentanyl, bondi claimed to have prevented that much deaths like last month.

Russia must be loving this. Now nobody is talking about a third of their air force being wiped out by toy drones.
- lol this is Putin's wet dream come true.

If Musk actually does go to Russia, then I think any of his American investments will be up for grabs. That would be quite entertaining.

That would not end well.
He should do it.

I'm not sure it's a smart move by Russia if a Russian official sides with Musk at this point. Not saying it's not a perfect match though.
- I was honestly surprised that they went with such a statement. Putin is smart enough (smarter than much of the US) to understand that Trump is a lazy degenerate, but it seems a bit premature to openly ridicule Trump.

Of course he can, he's earned it several time over. He's done more damage to the US on Russia's behalf than 50 years of Cold War ever did.
- How quickly and conveniently they offered him asylum and publicly 🤣😆

If his story ends in defenestration I would be tickled.
- Assuming the feud is real (I'm still suspicious, as when they announced him leaving no one believed musk was truly leaving) I would imagine musk would try to get trump removed and after failing I really wouldn't be surprised we would see some assassination attempts.
  BTW I'm not on Twitter, but when he says that trump wouldn't win election without him, I wish people would respond that he is full of bullshit and trump alone would win anyway, pushing him to say more.
  
  when he says that trump wouldn’t win election without him, I wish people would respond that he is full of bullshit and trump alone would win anyway, pushing him to say more.
  I believe that Trump may not have won without him. He weaponized twitter to push misinformation against the Dems and in favour of Trump. I don't know if the result of that can be quantified in such a way that we'd know for sure whether it changed the outcome, but it certainly had an impact.

its gonna be hard for this to be any more hilarious

Take it! I mean, people act like he “owns” his companies but he owns like 8% of Tesla and SpaceX is probably similar. No one gives a shit about his monkey torture project and X+xAI is worthless. Boring Company isn’t doing anything. And if you’re the “CEO” of more than one company, you’re actually running zero. He’s a mascot. We could probably be rid of him for less than the price of widening an interstate for ignorant reasons.
- SpaceX is probably similar
  Tesla is a publicly-traded company. There is no reason to believe SpaceX, which is still privately held, should be similar.
  A 2023 Wall Street Journal article (linked here in archive form) claims Musk controls 42% of its equity has 79% voting control.
  
  Thank you for the clarification. None of us know their cap table, obviously, but that’s more plausible than me just guessing based on Tesla.

That would be the dumbest thing he could possibly do to himself. Honestly I hope he is smarter than that because Putin would turn him upside down and shake him until every last nickel falls out of his pockets, and put it all into the war effort against the Ukraine.

He'd have a good time there with the others who got asylum... Assad, Yanukovych, Marsalek, ...
- Steven Seagal
- snowden was basically trapped in russia, when the us revoked his passport, because he leaked secrets much like now chelsea manning did(before her transition). people like seagull , tulsi, musk are not the same as snowden.
  
  Snowden kinda got forced. Not even remotely the same.

he lasted 6.7 longer than truss.

Wait I'm out of the loop, musk and trump have been fighting?
- Yes, very publicly, but remember that they lie about everything anyway. So it's not like the world is a better place because two pieces of s*** are insulting each other in front of the world. They could fight today and work together next week if they think it'll get them more power and money, because that's all they live for.
  
  No yeah I figure everything coming from those guys mouths is to be taken by with an oceans worth of salt. But besides them just shouring as we expect from the kids they are, wasn't there something that ignited it?
- Exactly what everyone expected would happen is happening.
  The 2 egomaniacs are sick of each other and lashing out.
- Oh man, I'm jealous you get to hear it all at once. It's only been a couple days.

Great, a new country for Musk to rule over
- Ha, not a chance. Putin is the absolute master of keeping his oligarchs in line. Muskateer would be just another convenient pawn of his. Wouldn't surprise me to learn that Putin is actually the richest person on earth, far surpassing Musk's volatile market-based wealth. Dude is pure evil, but, unfortunately for the world, also appears to be quite shrewd.

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This is fucking hilarious

Of course they would, think of how much data this guy has that he could provide.

Why elon musk doesn't just leave? he have money, he can be doing anything, he can be learning how to bake, or, improving his gaming skills without the media eye

And still there are americans who support him and his policies

yeah let’s let elon elope to one of our most significant international rivals after letting him plunder virtually every datapoint owned by the federal government. i look forward to the russian bot farms becoming personalized down to the individual.
i mean no offense but are you guys that are cheering for this fucking stupid? do you just read stuff and respond based on how it makes you feel?
- do you just read stuff and respond based on how it makes you feel?
  I mean, yeah? Don't you?
  
  no lmao.
  surprisingly hot take these days but I prefer critical analysis to being an emotional reactionary.
  i suppose that's just "cringe' tho, isn't it?

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