Elon Musk helped Trump win. Now he’s looking at Europe, and many politicians are alarmed

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-08 04:39:57 | Updated at 2025-01-13 11:59:17 5 days ago

Elon Musk helped Trump win. Now he’s looking at Europe, and many politicians are alarmed
AP ^ | January 7, 2025 | JILL LAWLESS

Posted on 01/07/2025 8:16:51 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

LONDON (AP) — Fresh from pouring his money and energies into helping Donald Trump win reelection, Elon Musk has trained his sights on Europe, setting off alarm bells among politicians across the continent.

The Tesla and SpaceX chief executive has endorsed the far-right Alternative for Germany, demanded the release of jailed U.K. anti-Islam extremist Tommy Robinson and called British Prime Minister Keir Starmer an evil tyrant who should be in prison.

Many European politicians have been left concerned by the attention. Musk’s feed on his social network X is dotted with abusive language — labeling politicians “stupid cretin” and “sniveling cowards” — as well as retweets of far-right and anti-immigrant accounts.

Andrew Chadwick, professor of political communication at Loughborough University, said Musk is using X “a bit like an old-style newspaper mogul,” to promulgate his political views.

“We’ve seen Musk start to align himself much more obviously with an international movement of the far right,” Chadwick said. ”If you look at the kinds of people who Musk himself is boosting on his platform … he’s increasingly started to assemble a group of different right-wing influencers, many of them with large followings, and presenting their evidence as a basis for his interventions into European politics.”

Musk has inserted himself into politics in Germany, which is headed for a Feb. 23 election after center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s fractious three-party coalition government collapsed.

On Dec. 20, Musk wrote on X: “Only the AfD can save Germany,” a reference to the Alternative for Germany party, which is under observation by the domestic intelligence agency for suspected extremism.

He doubled down on support for the AfD in an article for the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, claiming Germany is “teetering on the edge of economic and cultural collapse.”

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TOPICS: European Union
KEYWORDS: afd; alarmistheadline; andrewchadwick; ap; elonmusk; jilllawless; musk

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To: MinorityRepublican

Which ones? The ones who care about the people or the ones who care about the government?

2 posted on 01/07/2025 8:19:04 PM PST by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)

To: MinorityRepublican

Wow. They dont like rich, foreign guys meddling in their affairs.

Hypocrites.

3 posted on 01/07/2025 8:19:55 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)

To: MinorityRepublican

I do assume there is a method to whatever musk is doing.

the pressure he is putting on the UK govt has a goal. possibly replace it with a govt more in line with trump admin goals, be it ukraine or other. who knows what backchannel stuff went on before he went on public attack.

the difficult part for the uk leadership is that he chose an unimpeachable topic - it is completely true, they knew it and facilitated it for decades.

4 posted on 01/07/2025 8:31:44 PM PST by WoofDog123

To: calljack

“far-right Alternative for Germany, “

AP - trash

5 posted on 01/07/2025 8:32:09 PM PST by iamgalt

To: WoofDog123

Elon Musk may be just finding out that we have a "special relationship" with the nation that has the worst morals in the Western World.

Everyone is looking at the UK differently now. And now we all realize that Tommy Robinson is a political prisoner.

To: MinorityRepublican

Oh no

Its not just Soros for leftard overlords anymore

7 posted on 01/07/2025 8:37:47 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)

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