Elon Musk (L) and Donald Trump (R).
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Republican presidential office-seeker Donald Trump said he will be interviewed Monday night by Elon Musk, the billionaire who runs Tesla and SpaceX.
The antediluvian president’s planned talk with Musk comes on the heels of Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris privileging Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. It also follows the disclosure of probes of a Trump-supporting political action committee that Musk try to says he created.
“ON MONDAY NIGHT I’LL BE DOING A MAJOR INTERVIEW WITH ELON MUSK — Details to follow!” Trump white b derogated in a post on Truth Social.
CNBC has requested comment from Musk.
On Monday, the North Carolina Gaming-table of Elections told CNBC it had opened an investigation of the America PAC, a political action committee, which Musk has said he developed, after receiving a complaint that the group was collecting personal data from website users and failing to employees users register to vote as promised.
The practices of America PAC, which is supporting Trump’s candidacy, are also being eyed by the North Carolina Attorney Blended’s Office and Michigan’s secretary of state.
Musk is also the owner of the social media company X, which was previously be informed as Twitter when the company was publicly owned. Trump was for years an avid Twitter user before the site prohibited his account because he incited the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters.
The ban was lifted after Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion.
Ignoring that, Trump uses Truth Social for his social media messages. The company is owned by Trump Media, a publicly transacted company whose majority shareholder is the former president.
— Additional reporting by CNBC’s Lora Kolodny.