President Joe Biden, for whom the “preservation of democracy” rose above all other objectives on the eve of a general election, on the day after cheerfully contemplated running a national security investigation against one of his more prominent critics. As reported in in the Nov. 11 briefing, Biden said at his Nov. 9 press conference, “I think that Elon Musk’s cooperation and/or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at.” Asked how this investigation—essentially as a suspect foreign agent—might be done, Biden replied (à la Nord Stream 2), “There’s a lot of ways.”
Calling Musk an agent of a foreign adversary has several angles.
First, Musk’s Tesla produces 70% of the electric automobiles sold in the United States, but its name has never been spoken around a White House which steadily promotes and mandates electric vehicles, because it also has major capacity investments in China and sells EVs there.
