{"id":19067,"date":"2025-06-08T10:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T08:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/trump-musk-feud-shows-what-happens-when-unregulated-money-floods-politics\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T10:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T08:37:58","slug":"trump-musk-feud-shows-what-happens-when-unregulated-money-floods-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/trump-musk-feud-shows-what-happens-when-unregulated-money-floods-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Musk feud shows what happens when unregulated money floods politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musk isn\u2019t the first \u2013 or last \u2013 billionaire to pour big money into US elections<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk said, very loudly and very publicly, what is usually the quiet part of the role of money in US politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate. Such ingratitude,\u201d he wrote on his X social media platform amid an ongoing feud with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jun\/08\/trump-musk-feud-money-politics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/286cb78ea85b2e226432c74f66b59eebb192ac1d\/0_0_4707_3768\/master\/4707.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=99cc2c525c2e7802107bf06624e6810c\" title=\"Trump-Musk feud shows what happens when unregulated money floods politics\" \/>Musk isn\u2019t the first \u2013 or last \u2013 billionaire to pour big money into US elections<br \/>\nElon Musk said, very loudly and very publicly, what is usually the quiet part of the role of money in US politics.<br \/>\n\u201cWithout me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate. Such ingratitude,\u201d he wrote on his X social media platform amid an ongoing feud with Donald Trump. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk isn\u2019t the first \u2013 or last \u2013 billionaire to pour big money into US elections Elon Musk said, very loudly and very publicly, what is usually the quiet part of the role of money in US politics. \u201cWithout me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/trump-musk-feud-shows-what-happens-when-unregulated-money-floods-politics\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump-Musk feud shows what happens when unregulated money floods politics<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}