Washington Post contrasts the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration views

Elon Musk briefly worked illegally in the US after abandoning a graduate studies program in California, according to a Washington Post report that contrasted the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration views.

The boss of Tesla and SpaceX, who has in recent weeks supported Donald Trump’s campaign for a second presidency while promoting the Republican White House nominee’s opposition to “open borders” on his X social media site, has previously maintained that his transition from student to entrepreneur was a “legal grey area”.

But the Washington Post reported Saturday that the world’s wealthiest individual was almost certainly working in the US without correct authorization for a period in 1995 after he dropped out of Stanford University to work on his debut company, Zip2, which sold for about $300m four years later.

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        27 days ago

        Born here but brown while my wife is blond but Swedish.

        Fucking southerners, if Jesus came back right then they’d be less shocked. It’s like it’s impossible for me to have a more American accent than her or them (northeast/Californian), it just makes no sense.

  • bamfic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    28 days ago

    Now the wapo starts doing journalism that exposes the crimes a billionaire, after getting pressured by the rival billionaire who owns them not to endorse a non-criminal and non-rapist for president? Trying to win back the people who cancelled their subscriptions?

    • vxx@lemmy.world
      3·
      27 days ago

      Nah, Bezos would take every chance to shit on competing billionaires. He wants to be number one.

      Bezos wants his dick rockets to succeed or something, and his ego is bigger than trump and tax credits.

      I wonder how Bezos isn’t staunchly anti trump since musk got offered a job that takes control over bezos companies.

  • SeattleRain@lemmy.worldEnglish
    154·
    28 days ago

    It’s okay for whites to do it. We are a white supremacist country after all. Before a bunch of liberal get their panties in a bunch we literally jail the most people on the planet. We practice de facto Jim Crow but just call it drug enforcement and other flimsy pretextes.