On Wednesday, during a gathering at Mar-a-Lago attended by some of Donald Trump’s closest associates, a speaker demanded, “Where is the George Soros of the right?” In a scene that an attendee captured on video, Elon Musk, the fifty-three-year-old South African-born billionaire who reportedly spent about a hundred and thirty million dollars to aid Trump’s campaign and support other Republicans in competitive races, raised his arm. Amid loud cheers, the speaker declared, “God bless you, […]
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