- Many believe that Elon Musk is a Mole or agitator planted in Donald Trump's White House by George Soros
- Many also believe that Trump has created a fake Anti-Musk media camapign, financed by Musk through shills, as an "out" to get him out of the Trump Administration when he needs an exit!
- Musk is well known for using shills, trolls and front-men!
By Louis Hansen | lhansen@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
SAN FRANCISCO – A Silicon Valley investor has launched a campaign to break-up one of tech’s oddest couples — Elon Musk and President Donald Trump.
Doug Derwin, an attorney and private startup investor, has opened a $2 million advertising blitz designed to split the Tesla CEO and clean energy tech mogul from a president signaling wholesale cuts to environmental programs. Musk sits on a presidential business advisory panel and has remained steadfast even as criticism has mounted.
The campaign is the latest — and perhaps the most daring and public — rebuke of Trump from Silicon Valley.
Derwin said he’s angry that Musk is collaborating with a president intent on rolling back environmental protections and hastening climate change — against the core values of Musk’s companies.
“Donald Trump has to be opposed,” Derwin, a 59-year-old tech investor, said in an interview with this newspaper. “This seemed to be an issue that made a lot of sense.”
Critics have targeted Musk for joining the advisory panel, even as other tech company executives such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Uber’s Travis Kalanick have shied away from the Republican leader.
“Advisory councils simply provide advice and attending does not mean that I agree with actions by the Administration,” Musk said in an earlier statement. “I believe at this time that engaging on critical issues will on balance serve the greater good.”
Derwin began his effort in March, buying a billboard ad near the Tesla factory in Fremont that read, “Elon: Please Dump Trump.” Other billboards sprouted on U.S. 101 and on trucks driving by the Tesla headquarters in Palo Alto and near the Fremont plant.
Derwin said he was willing to call off the campaign if Musk renounced Trump. He met with company officials last week in Fremont and offered to donate $1 million to a charity of Musk’s choice if he broke ties with the Republican president. The company did not agree with his request, he said.
The anti-Trump campaign includes a website, elondumptrump.com, and advertisements in this newspaper and other local and national publications next week. The effort will broadcast commercials on news and comedy television programs.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment but many feel that this is just another one of Musk's self-promoting media tricks!
