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Speaker 1: We're in the middle of a truly wild presidential race,

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Speaker 1: pitting a Democrat who wasn't on the ballot until this

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Speaker 1: summer against a Republican who was convicted on thirty four

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Speaker 1: felony counts just before receiving his party's nomination for president.

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Speaker 1: But the wildest thing might be this guy. And you know, Elon.

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Speaker 1: I love Elon Musk Do I love him a life?

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk Green capitalist, world's richest man, and also one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest political contributors in American history. Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: and Elon are close these days, which might seem strange

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Speaker 1: since just a couple of years ago, Trump was saying

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Speaker 1: stuff like since I started working on this podcast, the

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Speaker 1: relationship between the two men has only strengthened. To start

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Speaker 1: Elon's tweets, They've gone from I fully endorse Trump to

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Speaker 1: saying that there won't be in America if Trump loses,

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Speaker 1: to saying that humanity will never reach the stars without

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Speaker 1: having a president Donald Trump a second time. Then there

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Speaker 1: was Elon's two hour live interview of Trump on X.

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Speaker 1: You have definitely got a fertile mind. We can talk

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Speaker 1: about cuddles and rockets, so many things. Then the ads

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Speaker 1: paid for by Elon's pack. Trump is the American badass.

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Speaker 1: Will stop this nonsense. When Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: where the Summer's assassination attempt happened, Elon went there too.

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Speaker 1: He jumped up and down like a kid in a

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Speaker 1: bouncy castle and then delivered this kind of halting speech

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Speaker 1: with sentences like fight, fight, and blood coming down the face.

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Speaker 1: From Bloomberg Podcasts, This is Citizen Elon. I'm Max Chafkin.

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Speaker 1: In this three part series, we investigate someone who might

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Speaker 1: be the deciding factor in the twenty twenty four election.

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Speaker 1: Why is Elon Musk suddenly so dead set on Trump winning?

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Speaker 1: And if it works, he successfully gets Trump elected? What happens? Then?

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