Elon Musk
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Elon Musk is a conservative Republican inheritor of South African mineral wealth who became a wealthy businessman after illegally immigrating to the United States on a student visa to Stanford University (in which he never enrolled), raising investor money in Palo Alto to found Zip2, then investing in PayPal, then receiving electric car government subsidies after investing in Tesla. In 2022-10, he purchased Twitter and lifted a ban on Donald Trump.
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- 1995: Elon Musk violated the terms of his J-1 student visa with Stanford University in order to found internet startup Zip2 as an illegal immigrant.[1][2] He falsely signed his HB-1 visa document.[3]
- 2013-04-29: Elon Musk and Kimball Musk give an interview to Jeff Skoll in Beverly Hills, California, at the 2013 Milken Institute Global Conference in which Kimball admits he and Elon were illegal immigrants.[4][5]
- 2023-09-07: CNN published a story describing how Elon Musk sabotaged a Ukrainian military operation against Russia's invasion of Ukraine by selectively turning off Starlink satellites near Crimea prior to a battle in 2022, according to an interview Musk gave to biographer Walter Isaacson.[6]
- 2024-09-16: Elon Musk indirectly called for the assassination of U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. Vice-President and US Presidential candidate Kamala Harris in light of the multiple assassination attempts against former U.S. President Donald Trump.[7][8][9]
- 2025-01-20: Elon Musk made the Nazi salute several times during a speech to honor Donald Trumpʼs reëlection as 47th President of the United States.[10][11]
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- ↑ George Porteous. (2024-11-11). “Elon Musk’s brief Stanford affiliation raises questions about previous immigration status”. Stanford Daily. Accessed 2024-12-29. “Luisa Rapport, director of media relations for the University, confirmed in an email to The Daily that Musk applied and was accepted to a graduate program in materials science and engineering. However, Rapport wrote that the University does not have “any record of him enrolling.” ¶ Despite openly discussing his withdrawal from graduate studies at Stanford, Musk has never publicly addressed its connection to his legal work status. According to legal experts who spoke to The Post, his decision to leave the program and pursue a startup meant he had no legal basis to remain in the United States.”.
- ↑ Maria Sacchetti; Faiz Siddiqui; Nick Miroff. (2024-10-27). “Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally”. Washington Post. Accessed 2024-12-29. “In 2005, Musk acknowledged in a late-night email that he did not have authorization to be in the United States when he founded Zip2. The email, from Musk to Tesla co-founders Martin Eberhard and JB Straubel, was submitted as evidence in a long-since-closed California defamation lawsuit and said he applied to Stanford so he could remain in the United States legally. ¶ “Actually, I didn’t really care much for the degree, but I had no money for a lab and no legal right to stay in the country, so that seemed like a good way to solve both issues,” Musk wrote. “Then the internet came along, which seemed like a much surer bet.” ¶ Musk never enrolled at Stanford. In a May 2009 deposition, he said he called the department chair two days after the start of the semester to say he wasn’t going to attend. In the same deposition, he said he began working at Zip2 — originally called Global Link Information Network — in August or September 1995.”.
- ↑ Thomas Smith; Matt Cameron. (2024-11-01). “When Elon Musk Violates Immigration Law It's Fine Though”. Opening Arguments, episode 1082. Accessed 2024-12-29. “Elon Musk had registered at Stanford to maintain a student visa but never actually attended classes at Stanford. The moment you drop out of classes, you're done. You don't have a visa anymore. You've got 30 days to leave the country. … It is true that an H-1B requires a college degree. It is not true that Elon Musk had a college degree in 1995... He got his degree in 1997. So just off the bat, he's lying about something because he knows he needs to pretend that he had an H-1 at that time. … He put that on his SEC filings when he was on the board of directors, that he received a degree in economics from UPenn in 1995... He definitely violated the terms of his status before he did that. No question.”.
- ↑ Jeff Skoll (host); Elon Musk; Kimball Musk. (2013-04-29). “Dinner Program - To Infinity and Beyond: Jeff Skoll Talks with Elon and Kimbal Musk”. youtube.com, @MilkenInstitute. Time:13m35s/50m55s . The Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, California. Accessed 2024-12-29.
- ↑ “2013 Global Conference” (program PDF). milkeninstitute.org. Accessed 2024-12-29. Archived from the original on 2013-05-25.
- ↑ Sean Lyngaas. (2023-09-07). “CNN Exclusive: ‘How am I in this war?’: New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire’s Ukraine dilemma ”. CNN. Accessed 2023-09-07. “Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled ‘Elon Musk.’ ”.
- ↑ Jeff Mason. (2024-09-16). “US Secret Service says it is aware of Musk post about Biden, Harris”. reuters.com. Accessed 2024-09-17.
- ↑ Isabelle Taft. (2024-09-16). “What We Know About the Apparent Assassination Attempt Against Trump”. nytimes.com. Accessed 2024-09-17.
- ↑ Michael Levenson. (2024-07-30). “What We Know About the Assassination Attempt Against Trump”. nytimes.com. Accessed 2024-09-17.
- ↑ Ryan Mac. (2025-01-20). “Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture”. nytimes.com. Accessed 2025-01-21. “Elon Musk ignited speculation and chatter online when he made a hand gesture twice during a speech celebrating President Trump on Monday. ¶ Speaking at a celebratory rally at the Capital One Arena in Washington hours after Mr. Trump was sworn in as president, Mr. Musk thanked the crowd for choosing Mr. Trump during “a fork in the road of human civilization.” ¶ Mr. Musk, who leads Tesla, SpaceX and the social media platform X, and who backed Mr. Trump last year during his presidential campaign, added, “I just want to say thank you for making it happen — thank you.” ¶ The billionaire then grunted and placed his hand to his heart before extending his arm out above his head with his palm facing down. After he turned around, he repeated the motion to those behind him. ¶ On CNN, commentators pointed out Mr. Musk’s gesture. Erin Burnett, an anchor, noted how striking the action was. The motion soon drew comparisons online to the salute popularized by Adolf Hitler, and others interpreted it as a Roman salute, which is also known as the “Fascist salute” and was later adopted by the Nazis. The Nazi variation of the gesture is illegal in some European countries, including Germany.”.
- ↑ Elon Musk. “Full Speech: Elon Musk speaks at Donald Trump inauguration rally, gives 'salute'”. youtube.com, 9News. Accessed 2025-01-21. Time: 0m57s/3m50s. ID:
wubITdJ_MCw.
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