Trump-Musk feud shows what happens when unregulated money floods politics

Musk isn’t the first – or last – billionaire to pour big money into US elections

Elon Musk said, very loudly and very publicly, what is usually the quiet part of the role of money in US politics.

“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate. Such ingratitude,” he wrote on his X social media platform amid an ongoing feud with Donald Trump.

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