Trump confidant Elon Musk’s China ties pose security risk, ex-general warns.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/31/elon-musk-china-security-risk-trump

49 comments

  1. Well anybody who spends $250 million will want something in return .

  2. Everything about the incoming administration is a security risk.

  4. Get used to a million of these warnings and absolutely zero resolutions

  5. Add it to the pile of statements that would have held weight before the election.

  6. Thought that said confident at first and was like

    The drumpf had a coherent correct thought for once ?!

  8. Elon Musk is a walking, talking security threat for the U.S. He is, in essence, an extra-national figure. A one man nation state. And he isn’t bothering to even conceal it any more.

  9. Trump is a walking security risk. I hope they keep a close eye on those documents!

  10. Funny how Musk calls Scholz a dictator, and compares Starmer to Stalin, yet he never criticises the actual autocratic actions of Putin and Xi.

  11. Security risks? Trump uses a cell phone for all his incoming Presidential communication. He blabbed sensitive Israeli intel to Russians. He talked state business on the phone in front of surrounding tourists at Mar-a-Lago. He took classified documents home and kept them lying around. Does anyone really thing Musk is a bigger security risk than Trump?

  12. I read that as “Trump confident Elon Musk’s China ties pose security risk” and was genuinely surprised. But no, it was “confidant” not “confident”. So back to not being surprised.

  13. It’s literally an administration of convicted criminals and foreign agents. This is easily the most shamelessly corrupt administration of any allegedly democratic country in a very long time.

  14. Yep, and that’s what the country voted for. No one is going to care.

  15. President musk dismisses any concerns trump has with cash

  16. I wonder if they ever did a security clearance on him.

  17. what security?

    drumpf’s gonna sell out the country just to brag, elmo’s loyalty lies exclusively with his bank account and the rest of the incoming cabinet is conspiracy asshats. and they’re owned by foreign entities the lot. there’s no security in any of this.

  20. Oh the biggest security risk is pointing at other security risks?
    Such a massive pile of hypocritical bollocks.

  21. Just expect nothing but escalated fuckery after the swearing in of America’s first king

  22. We know! Stop bothering. Let them burn down the country, and in the ashes we will mock the Trump voters as we all starve. It is what we deserve now.

  23. Can we just put all these into a monthly digest or news letter from now on? 

  25. So trump now sees him as a problem? So he won’t be in charge of anything government related then?

  27. > Lt Gen Russel Honoré condemned Musk’s web of Chinese business interests – including $1.4bn in state bank loans and a Tesla factory subject to Beijing’s stringent information-sharing laws

    No conflict of interest there. Nope. None at all. Not one iota. /s

  28. Elon tried selling electric cars to China. They made their own that last longer.

  29. Lol, warnings warning everywhere. Nothing is ever done about it.

  30. No shit Sherlock. Trump’s OWN ties with China pose a security risk. AND his ties with Russia.

  31. It’s an administration open to being bought by anyone for anything. There are no morals in place. China and Russia should be our enemies. They do not like us nor will give anything up that doesn’t favor them.

  34. How the hell does Musk still have a top secret security clearance?

  35. Of course they do. Elon isn’t socially intelligent enough to know that all the dictators he’s met are using him.

    Every time he meets one, he suddenly loves them and their government. It’s insane.

    Xi was no different. Made Elon think that he was special and that they wouldn’t steal Teslas files then force him out like they do with every other western manufacturer that tries to move to China.

  36. Why does it feel like this title is intentionally using “confidant” to mislead people into thinking that Trump is confident that Elon Musk’s China ties are a security risk? Why is Trump the lead name in the title? Or why is Trump in the title at all?

  37. I’ve already accepted the very real possibility of USS Cole type incidents happening consistently. Not even because our government actively sold us out, but because they’re selling away other things and don’t realize how our enemies can use it against us.

    I worry very much for our active service members, especially those deployed abroad.

  40. The guy who said he’d go to war with the American people because they’re insulting him on Shitter? Noooooo shit..

  41. So we have a Russian asset president and a Chinese asset co-president.

  43. I wouldn’t be surprised if somehow musk himself leaks some infos. Just to get attention

  44. Imagine being such a brain dead culture war suckered anti-woke idiot you get fleeced by trump for 250mil LMAO

  45. I’m honestly even more worried about the thousands of Billionaires who know how to keep a low profile and get whatever they want in the shadows. Elon’s overwhelming desire to be famous and popular at least keeps us aware of the shenanigans he’s pulling.

  46. Aren’t Musk’s ties to Russia a security threat to the US? Lol…

    The fact that he calls Putin in the evenings is all right, apparently! Lol…

  48. Ok, but the elephant in the room might just maybe be the president elect’s ties to Russia?

  49. As “Deal makers and entrepreneurs”, the incoming administration, sees OPPORTUNITIES where others see risks and problems

    /s

    I don’t have a drinking problem, I have a drinking opportunity

    We don’t have corruption risks, we have corruption OPPORTUNITIES!!

    Pessimists
    /s

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