The most recent interview of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro on NBC’s Meet the Press makes crystal clear that the Regime’s mouthpieces believe that additional lawfare against Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is in order, in retaliation for his having the temerity to endorse Donald Trump for the presidency of the United States.
Watch as host Kristen Welker closes out her interview with Gov. Shapiro with request for an enabling legal opinion, disguised as a question:
NBC MEET THE PRESS
10/20/24
10:28 AM
KRISTEN WELKER: Governor, let me ask you about a development we learned about overnight. Elon Musk says he will be giving away a million dollars every day to random voters who signed his Super PAC’s petition. You are a former attorney general. Is this legal?
JOSH SHAPIRO: I think there are real questions with how he is spending money in this race, how the dark money is flowing not just into Pennsylvania, but apparently now into the pockets of Pennsylvanians- that is deeply concerning. Look. Musk, obviously, has a right to be able to express his views. He's made it very, very clear that he supports Donald Trump. I don’t- obviously, we have a difference of opinion. I don't deny him that right, but when you start flowing this kind of money into politics, I think it raises serious questions that folks may want to take a look at.
WELKER: So you think it might not be legal? Yes or no?
SHAPIRO: I think it's something that law enforcement can take a look at.
WELKER: Right.
SHAPIRO: I'm not the Attorney General of Pennsylvania anymore, I'm the Governor, but it does raise some serious questions.
WELKER: All right. Well, I have to end the interview by saying from one Pennsylvanian to another: Go Birds. We'll be watching the game today. Yes.
SHAPIRO: Go. Birds. All right, Kristen, thank you.
WELKER: Governor- Governor Shapiro, thank you so much for joining the program. We really appreciate it.
The record reflects that Elon Musk is the victim of retaliatory lawfare and had been so well before his decision to publicly endorse Donald Trump. The primary driver behind this lawfare is his decision to purchase the social media outlet formerly known as Twitter.
Recall this harrowing exchange from President Joe Biden’s press conference the day after the 2022 midterms:
Reminder that Biden signaled that @elonmusk would be a USG target the day after the 2022 midterms pic.twitter.com/GVkDOPXmgo
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 18, 2023
A brief lawfare summary, via Sam Ashworth-Hayes of The Telegraph (via Yahoo Finance):
There was the Delaware case that cost him $55bn; having accepted an all-or-nothing compensation package at Tesla in 2018, and achieved targets described at the time as “laughably impossible”, a judge promptly found that the scale of his reward was “unfathomable” and should be cancelled. Shareholders, in turn, voted to restore it, kicking off an entirely new legal battle.
Then there were the investigations into Tesla’s vehicle range and the benefits provided to Musk by the company, a lawsuit over whether SpaceX had discriminated by failing to hire refugees and asylees – actually a dispute over whether SpaceX erred in applying export-control laws related to “US persons” – a Federal Trade Commission investigation into his running of X (formerly Twitter), an inquiry into Tesla’s self-driving features, the Federal Aviation Authority fining SpaceX for breaches of licence requirements, the Fish and Wildlife Service examining environmental damage from launches delaying further progress, the cancellation of an FCC grant, the California Coastal Commission rejecting US Air Force proposals to give SpaceX permission to launch from an Air Force Base – the list goes on.
Welker now calls for a fresh round of lawfare because of Musk’s political activities. Although Shapiro refuses to provide a direct answer to Welker’s calls for inquisition, he does tacitly approve this lawfare by suggesting that Musk’s activities “raise questions” and are something that “law enforcement can take a look at.” These “questions” are due to the fact that Musk is spending his own money on a Super PAC, with some of these expenditures going towards giveaways incentivizing voter registration.
Shapiro’s concerns about the influence of "dark money" in our politics might be taken more seriously had he not posed next to Grand Dauphin Alex Soros in a manner reminiscent of a 12-point buck laying, tongue out and arrow still protruding from his belly, next to the hunter that bagged him.
Great catching up with @JoshShapiroPA in Chicago, complimented him on his jump shot! 🏀 pic.twitter.com/2WrfAgrkvp
— Alex Soros (@AlexanderSoros) August 24, 2024
The message Welker and Shapiro convey here is that billionaire expenditures are perfectly acceptable so long as they are in service of the Regime. Anything else must be buried underneath an avalanche of investigations: por auger les autres. The Regime Media are only interested in defending free speech for themselves, while dissidents get persecuted for exercising those same rights.
As the old saying goes: For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.
