The relationship between Elon Musk and Donald Trump has exploded in a series of fiery exchanges.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30917902

A Russian official said the American billionaire Elon Musk could be offered political asylum in Russia over his fierce dispute with Donald Trump

Dmitry Novikov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, made the comments to Russian state news outlet TASS.

“I think that Musk has a completely different game, [so] he will not need any political asylum, although if he did, Russia, of course, could provide it,” Novikov said, in remarks translated from Russian.

Musk and Trump, ostensibly political allies over cuts to federal spending, publicly clashed on June 5 in a series of exchanges across social media and in comments to reporters.

  • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Edward Snowden got asylum there, if you have value and fame they’ll treat you a lot better

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I just wonder if he knows how thin is the rope he’s walking since then. Or if he realizes that asylum in Russia is not very different from asylum in China or in Thailand or in Emirates or Saudia or … Point being, that despite all the European-looking people around, nobody will hear him cry if at some point somebody important decides to silence him just in case.

      Or maybe he knows and feels just fine having joined the privileged caste here. Those people who generally don’t live in Russia at all, just visit it from time to time. I guess it’d be hard to blame him anyway, looking at Assange, who’ve spend a kinda big part of his life in the same small space slowly losing his mind.

      • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I don’t think he likes being there, but probably does feel safer there then in a western country or a state allied to US.