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Musk, who spent many millions on Trump’s attempt to return to the White House, is poised to play a leading role in reshaping the U. S. government.
Elon Musk has a German political party, the latest in a series of multimillion-dollar messages to draw accusations of recovery from anti-Semites.
Musk, one of the world’s richest people and an influential adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, shared a post on his social network, X, on Friday morning by a right-wing German influencer commenting on the recent collapse of Germany’s government. The post excoriated the leader of the Christian Democratic Union, a Conservative party, for saying he would not form a coalition with the far-right Alternative for Germany, known as AfD.
“Only the AfD can save Germany,” Musk wrote.
Musk, who spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to support Trump’s successful bid to return to the White House, is poised to take a leading role in reshaping the U.S. government under the president-elect’s administration. His public comments this week played a key role in tanking a bipartisan deal to avert a government shutdown, and he has been appointed to co-lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, planning massive cuts to federal spending.
AFD, which higher its percentage of votes to the elections of the European Union at the beginning of this year, is known in Germany for its adoption of an extreme right policy, adding anti-musulman rhetoric and a Russian and anti-UU postposition . Some of their politicians have also minimized the holocaust. A German Jewish leader said that the good fortune of the party in the June elections “should take a break from all democratic forces. “
German courts have fined one of its leaders, Björn Höcke, multiple times for using the Nazi era phrase, “Alles für Deutschland,” or Everything for Germany.
In the video Musk quoted, the influencer, Naomi Seibt, said that the Christian Democratic Union’s Friedrich Merz had rejected the far-reaching government spending cuts favored by AfD, as well as Argentine President Javier Milei and Musk himself.
Bill Kristol, the anti-Trump Jewish curator, wrote in response, “Musk approves of the German neo-Nazi party. “Nadav Pollak, a former inventory market at the Washington Near East Institute of Politics, wrote: “The AfD is one of the maximum excessive parties in Europe, with many German political figures indicating that it has ties to Nazism. This is meat.
Since Musk bought social network X, formerly Twitter, in 2022, his statements and associations with concepts and figures peddling anti-Semitic rhetoric have rattled communal Jewish watchdogs. to the platform. He spoke out for Israel and said he regretted amplifying anti-Semitic posts, but also threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League for following extremist rhetoric in X.
More recently, Musk approved an interview through Tucker Carlson of economist Jeffrey Sachs, in which Sachs said “Israel has led so many American wars” and that the U. S. “gave a foreign policy in the Middle East to Israel a long time ago, a long time ago, in the U. S. , however, in Israel’s interest.
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