Kara Swisher: Trump Can Do Damage on Elon Musk, ‘It’s Like a Break Up’

‘He used to threaten Jeff Bezos’

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SWISHER: "I mean, it hit the stock. Wall Street certainly believes it, because the stock got hit today, both Tesla and — you know, SpaceX is not public, but it‘s got to have hurt its value. Yeah, sure. He can do — he can do damage to Elon. He used to threaten Jeff Bezos, if you recall, in the last administration all the time with space contracts and things like that. But it‘s critical to Elon‘s future for SpaceX to go public. And so, yeah, I think he could follow through. The fact that he‘s doing it is horrible. The president shouldn‘t be able to do this, threaten individuals he doesn‘t like in this manner, or else not do it quite so publicly. The eating part I don‘t even begin to understand, it's just weird, honestly. It‘s like a breakup. It‘s weird."

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