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.

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    13 hours ago

    Russia must be loving this. Now nobody is talking about a third of their air force being wiped out by toy drones.

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    If Musk actually does go to Russia, then I think any of his American investments will be up for grabs. That would be quite entertaining.

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    23 hours ago

    I seriously applaud whoever managed to push that through.

    I don’t support anything they do, but that is top tier comedy.

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      The dude with access to all of the federal government data gets offered asylum and you wonder how that happens?

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      Well both Trump and Elon have Russian ties. Right now Trump is the bigger asset to them. So if they publicly offer asylum to Musk, it makes Elon look like the worse bad guy and make Trump less bad and possibly slow any attempts to having him removed by the Senate.

      So Russia can get Elons money being spent there, and Trump’s dumbassery trying to reduce and remove sanctions against Russia.

      In their eyes it’s a win win.

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      Yes, very publicly, but remember that they lie about everything anyway. So it’s not like the world is a better place because two pieces of s*** are insulting each other in front of the world. They could fight today and work together next week if they think it’ll get them more power and money, because that’s all they live for.

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      16 hours ago

      Exactly what everyone expected would happen is happening.

      The 2 egomaniacs are sick of each other and lashing out.

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    “Elon has too much government information to go to Russia!”

    Y’all, please, listen, Russia already has our government information. The important thing to note here is that whether Elon runs off to Moscow or not, Russia making the offer may well drive a wedge between Russia and Trump. That, in and of itself, is good news. Trump has very few political allies at this point, with most of the world turning against him and trusting the US less. If he is even further alienated, there’s a decent chance his party loses reelection or refuses to go along with his insane 3rd term plans. It’ll take us a long time to rebuild international goodwill, but alienating Trump is a good thing.

    Happy to proven wrong is there’s an aspect I’m not considering here, but in my mind when the fascist fight each other it’s good for the rest of us. Makes them easier to tackle, especially if the nonfash (and specifically the left) can unify.

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      Do we really want the guy who just made off with a large portion of government sensitive data to go to Russia?

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        Do you think physical distance is keeping the data safely within our borders?

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          Physical distance of his testicles and some pliers might be the deciding factor between giving all the data and ALL the data.

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            Russia already has all the data, silly. It would be fun if they try to confirm that Elmo’s not holding some out, with a pair of pliers though…:)

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            If I may put on my conspiracy theory hat:

            With all the DOGE-starlink-russia shit I’ve been reading about, I wouldn’t be surprised if Russia has a data pipeline directly to the US government, no Musk required. I would guess it would be more of a “he might tell the US government what/how we know” which would require coming up with a new golden pipeline.

            Kinda like how the Cheeto Taco unwittingly showed the world the US satellite capabilities in his first term by showing a picture. There’s a lot of information Musk could tell the US about his visits with Putin, where if he was in Russia, the US is stuck guessing what made it out and what Russia has access to.

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        Between Agent Krasnov and Agent Muskovite I’m sure they already have full access, this is just their way of getting a dig in at everyone who already knows this is the case. The Kremlin is basically rubbing it in our faces to tell us they own all these guys and they know there’s nothing we can do about it.

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    Of course he can, he’s earned it several time over. He’s done more damage to the US on Russia’s behalf than 50 years of Cold War ever did.

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    So it is all theatre.

    Because Russia is now involved in the “fued.” Orchastraited by the Kremlin no doubt. Is it to set up reasoning to help Elon avoid legal consequences in exchange for money? Data? Is it to distract from the funding bill and policies being enacted to kill 258,000,000 Americans?

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      Wait, what about “killing 258 million americans”? What did I miss? That’s a larger portion than I’d suspected they were aiming for…

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        its the amount of fentanyl, bondi claimed to have prevented that much deaths like last month.

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        The numbers floated around were a healthy population of “around 100m” and Bondi stated something about saving 75% of Americans.

        They lie, but they certainly can’t come up with numbers for a lie.