Washington Post contrasts the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration views

Elon Musk briefly worked illegally in the US after abandoning a graduate studies program in California, according to a Washington Post report that contrasted the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration views.

The boss of Tesla and SpaceX, who has in recent weeks supported Donald Trump’s campaign for a second presidency while promoting the Republican White House nominee’s opposition to “open borders” on his X social media site, has previously maintained that his transition from student to entrepreneur was a “legal grey area”.

But the Washington Post reported Saturday that the world’s wealthiest individual was almost certainly working in the US without correct authorization for a period in 1995 after he dropped out of Stanford University to work on his debut company, Zip2, which sold for about $300m four years later.

  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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    19 days ago

    What’s absolutely hilarious is that this news made the rounds on twitter 3 years ago.

    This has been known for a long time before that.

    Yet with barely a week left to the election, being a national security issue on many fronts, and a few conversations with Putin later, it is finally being reported.

    Absolute farce.

    Deport or eat the fucker and the billionaire “free press” owners.