Elon Musk flies to Mar-a-Lago as Trump seeks cash for those pesky court fees – By Mark Sumner (Daily Kos) / March 6. 2024
There are “billionaires,” and then there are billionaires. Unfortunately, sometimes they share the same delusions.
On Saturday, watchers of private-jet traffic noticed that Elon Musk’s plane was on the ground at the airport closest to Mar-a-Lago, leading to speculation that the CEO of Tesla might be on hand to meet with the guy who has spent years claiming electric vehicles are a Chinese hoax and that electric cars need to charge every 15 minutes.
On Tuesday evening, The New York Times confirmed that Donald Trump and Elon Musk met on Sunday in West Palm Beach as Trump desperately looks for a way to cover the $540 million he owes for a pair of recent legal judgments. Whether Musk has agreed to pick up the tab for Trump’s fines is unclear, but that he could do so for only about 1.2% of the check he wrote for Twitter shows the huge difference in wealth between the two men.
