The executive director of Tesla and owner of X, Elon Musk, said he could support a U.S. presidential candidate “in the final stretch” of this November’s elections, although he did not specify who, in an interview with former CNN presenter Don Lemon.
“I may, in the final stretch (of the elections), support a candidate, but I don’t know yet,” said Musk, who pointed out that he will make the decision later and that when he does he will explain “exactly why” he opted for that candidate.
However, Musk, who is one of the richest men in the world – and increasingly critical of Joe Biden’s Democratic government – said that it is “unlikely” that he will donate any of the candidates money.
Trump met with Musk in Florida this month but, according to the billionaire, the former president and Republican candidate did not ask him for support, donations or help to pay his legal fees, increasingly bulging by the multitude of court cases he faces.
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Although Musk has never given explicit support to Trump, he has been very critical on his social network with the policies of Biden and the Democratic Party, especially with regard to immigration.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the supporters of Robert F. Kennedy, nephew of former President John F. Kennedy and independent candidate in the presidential elections, expect Musk to support his candidacy.
The interview between Lemon and Musk lasted an hour and had a tense tone; both talked about several topics related to hate speech in X and Musk’s own opinions about some of the theories most beloved by the far right – such as the racist theory of the “great replacement” of the white population – and even the billionaire’s consumption of ketamine.
At one point in the interview, which took place at Tesla’s headquarters in Austin (Texas), Lemon showed several hate posts in X and told Musk that his platform should eliminate them because “they can lead to violence.”
To which Musk replied that although Lemon “loves censorship,” X will only remove content that is illegal, such as pornographic.
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Musk also said that the US should “overcome” racism and look to the future, since if you look to the past “everyone descends from slaves.”
Another tense part of the interview was when Lemon asked Musk about his medical prescription to use ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic with hallucinogenic potential.
Musk said that he uses ketamine from time to time to treat depression, a disease, which he said, sometimes suffers from.
Last week the former presenter of the CNN network announced that Musk canceled his agreement to make a program with X because he said he was not happy with the interview that the journalist had given him.
Lemon left CNN in April, two months after receiving criticism on ´CNN This Morning´ for saying that former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was not in her fullness as a woman, fullness that is achieved “at 20, 30 and perhaps 40”; she was later forced to apologize for the comment.
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Lemon, who became a face synonymous with CNN, worked on the network for 17 years.
The company has been trying to introduce more videos and long-format content since Musk took the reins after buying the company.
One of his X star collaborators is the controversial former Fox News presenter, Tucker Carlson, who has published exclusive interviews on X with Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the president of Argentina, Javier Milei.
A court orders the arrest of the Ukrainian Minister of Agriculture accused of corruption
The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine issued a preventive arrest warrant on Friday against the Minister of Agriculture, Mikola Solski, accused of being part of a plot that would have illegally appropriated about 2,500 hectares of land that belonged to the State before his arrival at the Ministry.
According to Ukrainian media, the court has issued a sixty-day arrest warrant, which Solski can avoid if he pays a bail of 75.7 million gryvnas (1.78 million euros at the current exchange rate).
Solski presented his resignation on Thursday – which must now be accepted by the Ukrainian Parliament – after being accused this week by the Anti-Corruption Office of Ukraine (NABU) of participating in a transfer of publicly owned land valued at 291 million gryvnas (about 7 million euros).
In addition, the organization investigates the still minister for trying to transfer another lot of land in an equally criminal way, valued at 190 million gryvnas (4.5 million euros).
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The events occurred, according to the Anti-Corruption Office, between 2017 and 2021.
From 2019 to 2021, Solski was president of the Committee on Agriculture and Land Policy of the Ukrainian Parliament and in 2022 he was appointed minister.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has marked himself as one of his priorities to combat corruption at the highest level in time of war to modernize the country and meet the requirements for access to the European Union.
The Chinese president tells the United States that he has to be “faithful” to his word to solve the “problems to be solved”
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the United States must “be faithful to its word” in order to solve the “problems still to be solved” in the bilateral relationship.
“China and the United States have gone through ups and downs but we must respect each other, cooperate and coexist. We must be partners and not harm each other, and for that we have to look for common ground, be faithful to the words and determined with the facts,” Xi said during the meeting.
According to a statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Xi also warned that “you can’t say one thing and then do another,” after which he acknowledged that, “despite the consensus and progress made” in recent months there are still “many problems to solve and room to make an effort.”
“This year we celebrate the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. The important thing we have learned in this time is that we must be partners, not rivals. That we must achieve a mutual benefit instead of harming each other. The important thing is to look for the common points and put aside the differences,” Xi said during the meeting.
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The Chinese president received Blinken this Friday in Beijing for an interview that was not part of the agenda of the official visit made to China by the American diplomat.
This is the second time Xi has received Blinken in Beijing, given that the Chinese president already met the American on his last visit to the Chinese capital in June 2023.
Before his meeting with Xi, Blinken also met today in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, who warned him of “growing problems” in bilateral relations, after the U.S. Senate approved a bill that will force the Chinese company ByteDance to sell the popular TikTok video application if he does not want the platform to be banned in the United States.
ByteDance, the parent company of the platform, has made it clear today that it has no intention of selling the application despite US legislation.
Earlier this week, TikTok – which, like Western services such as Google, Facebook, X or Instagram, is blocked in China, where ByteDance operates a similar application called Douyin – already anticipated that it would challenge the new US law, which it considers “unconstitutional” in court.
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U.S. legislators justify their decision by arguing that the platform poses a threat to the national security of the United States due to the possibility that the Chinese government will access user data.
In March, China criticized the “repression” against the application by the United States for being “an intimidating tactic” that will eventually “turn against” the North American country.
Israeli bombings in the north and south of Gaza cause fifty deaths
The latest Israeli attacks and bombings along the Gaza Strip have caused the death of at least 51 people, most of them civilians, both in Gaza City (north) and in the southern area of Rafah.
Israeli fighter planes bombed a house belonging to the Al Shawa family last night, in the Al Rimal neighborhood, in Gaza City, where rescue teams recovered the lifeless bodies of three people, including those of a child and a woman, under the rubble.
As Palestinian sources reported to the WAFA news agency today, the victims and several injuries were transferred to the Al Ahli Arab Hospital, the last hospital in operation in Gaza City after the Israeli military siege left the Al Shifa inoperative in March.
Other bombings in the neighborhoods of Zaytun, south of Gaza City, and against a residential building in the center of the city, caused the death of another Gazan, as well as an indeterminate number of injuries.
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In Rafah, one fisherman died and another was injured, according to Palestinian medical sources, while in the center of the enclave several Gazans were injured in attacks against the refugee camps of Nuseirat and Bureij.
According to the latest figures provided on Thursday by the Ministry of Health of the Government of Hamas, more than 34,300 Palestinians have already died in Gaza, 75% women and children.
One of those little ones is a Gaza baby rescued from her mother’s womb, who died in an Israeli airstrike perpetrated in Rafah last weekend.
After five days of struggle to stay alive, he has finally died, as confirmed this Friday by a family member.
Over the weekend, 16 other children were killed in Rafah, where Israel is expected to start a ground offensive.
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A member of the Hamas political bureau asked the 18 signatory countries yesterday on Friday of a joint statement demanding the Islamists the “immediate” release of the 133 hostages, to also pressure Israel to accept a truce in the Gaza Strip.
Your sons and daughters are no more valuable than our sons and daughters,” the head of political and international relations of the political bureau of Hamas, Basem Naim, to which EFE had access, said today in a message.
Today, a delegation of the Egyptian Intelligence service is scheduled to arrive in Israel, in an attempt to revive the stagnant truce negotiations mediated by Cairo, Qatar and the United States, Egyptian security sources told EFE last night.
From Geneva, UN rapporteurs demanded that Israel allow the arrival in Gaza of the Freedom Flotilla that it plans to sail this Friday from Istanbul with 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid.
Diplomats have warned that the safe transit guarantee of this initiative is part of Israeli international obligations to prevent genocide in Palestinian territory.
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“Israel must comply with international law, including the recent orders of the International Court of Justice, to ensure the unhindered arrival of humanitarian aid,” they said in a statement.
Israel warned on Friday that any arrival of aid to Gaza other than by air, land border crossings or the port of Ashdod will constitute a “provocation,” after being asked by EFE about the administrative blockade that the Freedom Flotilla – a civilian initiative organized by human rights activists – says it is suffering in Istanbul.
