"I'll just spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the government outright... I can then have the government reward me with billions of dollars of contracts".

If the SEC, FTC or anyone else "is investigating my companies... I can just tell them to knock it off, & they'll do it."

20 yrs ago, Musk couldn't do that. But then SCOTUS said "we'll allow it."

https://www.thenerdreich.com/attack-of-the-trillionaire/

#USPol #EUPol #Musk #news #oligarchy #SCOTUS #Autocracy .

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