Elon Musk, whose estimated $270 billion personal fortune is helping fund Donald Trump’s campaign, has maintained “regular contact” with Vladimir Putin since late 2022, according to a bombshell report by the Wall Street Journal.
The talks coincided with the entrepreneur’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in October of that year and increased in frequency and scope since then. Russia exerted pressure and even made implicit threats against Musk’s businesses, the paper wrote.
