US Senators demand investigation into Elon Musk’s alleged contact with Putin

The lawmakers person urged the Pentagon and the Justice Department to look into the relations of the world’s richest idiosyncratic with US’ adversary Russia arsenic Musk holds large authorities contracts and helium could beryllium putting nationalist information astatine risk.

I’m going to find retired who’s making these accusations and nuke them

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 16, 2024

Musk reacted to the quality and posted connected X, “I’m going to find retired who’s making these accusations and nuke them.”

The Wall Street Journal successful a study past period stated that Musk has been successful interaction with Putin since 2022 and had “multiple, precocious level conversations” which the Kremlin has categorically denied.

US Senator Jack Reed and Senator Jeanne Shaheen wrote the missive to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Robert P. Storch, Defence Department Inspector raising “serious questions regarding Mr Musk’s reliability arsenic a authorities contractor and a [security] clearance holder”, reported BBC.

“Russia’s ambitions successful the abstraction domain airs a nonstop menace to U.S. nationalist security. In May of this year, the Pentagon confirmed Russia’s deployment of a counter-space weapon, presumably susceptible of attacking different satellites successful low-earth orbit,” wrote the senators successful the letter.

The senators alleged that Musk has had respective precocious level talks with Putin’s lawman main of staff, Sergei Kiriyenko. The Justice Department has said that Kiriyenko and different Russian officials were progressive successful moving a Russian propaganda connected societal media, including Musk owned X, to trim planetary enactment for Ukraine during the US statesmanlike election.