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Leah Feiger: Well, I mean, because the safer option. This is the richest person in the world and the president of the United States. I want to believe that there is a thought behind any one.

Zoë Schiffer: 100%.

Leah Feiger: This is exactly what these conspiracy theorists have been saying for the past 24 hours. Senior journalist David Gilbert today posted a story about how the entire conspiracy world thinks Musk-Trump breakup is PSYOP, which is 5D chess. It’s messy, messy, messy. We’re talking about people’s posts, like “No, no, no, this is their plan. Democrats all post Epstein archives.” Honestly, it’s a little crazy, but I think we’re going to see the rift of Republican politics for the first time in about eight months, nine months, and they’re doing well.

Zoë Schiffer: OK, I think we need to take a few steps back and just talk about how we got here?

Leah Feiger: Is their relationship still useful to each other? Elon Musk is still the richest man in the world, just as troubled as Trump is now, and they still have a lot of very common vested interests. Musk has many contracts with the U.S. government and he may not want to take risks. They have some Katari interests. There is a lot of business there, but the bill seems to be becoming an incredible point. We have to take a look.

Zoë Schiffer: Correct. I think this is one of Musk’s main main, at least public dissatisfaction, that it increases the debt deficit, but one of the provisions in the bill is that it reduces the credit of electric vehicles. Obviously, this is a problem for Elon Musk and Tesla. So, how much do you think influences his point of view?

Leah Feiger: Again, I can’t get completely caught in his mind, but as Elon Musk put it: “Reduce the deficit, reduce the deficit, that’s Doge’s goal, we’re going to cut $2 million,” and that doesn’t even really exist in the U.S. federal spending. So, when it comes to reducing the deficit, it’s hard for me to really attribute his motivation there. Does he care? I’m not 100% convinced. Does he care about Tesla? Absolutely, you are exactly the money you provide with your electric car credit. I mean, I think this is something last year, and Tesla spent at least a quarter of the lobbying on behalf of the electric vehicle tax credit cuts in the bill. That’s a lot of money, it’s a lot of time. Musk also reportedly did a lot of advocacy behind the scenes, so I can see this kind of a bit of a string, “twist you. Like what you say about yourself, I can really see it in many ways, and I have to mention it, because that has also been going on, obviously, the White House time has not been super smooth in the past few months, and in the past few days, the White House has not reached its voyage time, and in the past few days, Musk has indeed appeared in certain government positions. A few days ago, I believe it was on the weekend, the man named Jared Isaacman, who is a Musk ally, was nominated as a NASA administrator, and Trump has removed it. Musk has had these problems with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Sean Duffy of Transportation Company. Duffy). So it’s hard to say exactly what one thing is, but all of this, namely the EV tax credit, can’t really say who will be responsible, I can see that it’s not pleasant for him, please say.