If he does cut Musk loose, yeah, Tesla is toast. But Trump instinctively defers to money. So long as Trump hasn’t cut Musk loose, Musk is “the richest man in the world”. Trump may not want to risk letting all that money, in the hands of an open, shameless manipulator of US politics, go offsides.

OTOH Trump might realize, The can ruin Musk. Then there’s no money left for retribution, nothing to worry about. He could pull his own Khodorkovsky. All I got is 🍿

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