Tesla CEO, Spacex Elusk with his son x æ a-xii and President Trump at the Oval Office on February 11. Musk was exploited by President Trump to lead efforts to reduce federal costs.
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President Trump said that Elon Musk is paying 10 million dollars to settle a lawsuit filed by the president against the social networking site Moscow now “a great opponent.”
Speaking to the Fox News Sean Hanity host in a pre -interview on Tuesday night, Trump said he hoped to obtain greater compensation.
“It is very low. I was looking forward to getting more money,” said Trump, sitting next to the musk sitting on the comments.
“I left it for the lawyers and the team that runs Twitter,” said Musk, who had a mortal expression of confusion when he asked Hanity about the settlement.
Twitter, now X, Trump Days, banned days of riots on January 6 on Capitol, pointing to the possibility of more violence increases. Trump responded by prosecuting the platform for alleged control.
These legal arguments were losing in court. American boycott judge in California extrusion The case, which ruled that only governments, not private companies, can violate the rights of a person’s first amendment. The Trump team has appealed the Federal Appeal Court, which also back Talk to Trump’s allegations.
But Trump’s lawyers continued to fight to keep the lawsuit alive after billionaire billionaires in 2022, and increasedly approached Trump’s orbit over the next two years, and reached its peak that musk becomes the largest donor for Trump’s successful campaign in November the past.
Despite working together at the White House, Musk’s lawyers negotiated a $ 10 million payment for Trump to end the suspended litigation. Earlier this month, Musk’s lawyers wrote in a court file that the case would be voluntarily rejected. Wall Street Magazine Firstly I mentioned On the payment.
It is Trump’s second technology company because of its boot from social media. Last month, Meta agreed to increase $ 25 million to resolve the litigation about Trump’s comment from Meta’s Facebook and Instagram.
Trump also filed a law against Google for his ban from YouTube, but this case is still pending.
The agreement between Musk’s X and Trump, which was discussed on Tuesday, is amazing, given the role of Musk as a senior White House official.
Trump, who was leading an effort known as the Ministry of Governmental efficiency, was granted broad powers by Trump to reduce the size of the federal government by strongly reducing costs, and in some cases, in an attempt to dismantle the entire agencies, prompting a large group of legal challenges on the borders of the executive authority.
X did not respond to the NPR request for comment.
Soon after purchasing Musk Twitter in October 2022, Trump’s account was re -account.
In the same year, the American boycott judge James Donato threw the case of freedom of expression in Trump against Twitter.
“The amended complaint filed merely holding the allegations that some members of the Democratic Congress wanted Mr. Trump, and“ the opinions it adopted, ”is banned from Twitter because such“ content and opinions ”were“ contrary to opinions ”and the views of these legislators,” Donato He wrote. “But a handful of elected officials are far from” the rule of decision that the state is responsible for. “The legislators are completely free to express opinions without considering the official voice of the” state “.