Musk’s support for the AfD becomes a coincidence

A post by Elon Musk on its platform Magdeburg.

The billionaire, set to play a key role in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration as “efficiency czar”, posted the message over a video of commentary on the leader of the German centre-right CDU party Friedrich Merz.

Il Merz critical video – who polls suggest is on track to become the next chancellor after February’s elections – for his refusal to work with the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, currently in second place in the polls.

Following the deadly car attack that hit a Christmas market last Friday in the eastern city of Magdeburg – blamed on a Saudi man – Musk called the attack a “DIRECT RESULT of uncontrolled mass immigration”.

The German government avoided comment, but lawmakers from all mainstream parties, who have all ruled out collaboration with the AfD, reacted with outrage to Musk’s comment about the party. Later in the day, Musk doubled down, saying that the AfD “Obviously is not ‘far right’! Only common sense policies.”

The same Scholz he held back when asked to comment on the billionaire’s sentences, observing that: “We have freedom of expression, which also applies to multibillionaires” and added that this does not “mean that you can say things that are not right and they do not contain good political advice.”

In the last few hours, in a new post, Musk returned to polemics: “Yes, he was obviously a madman who should never have been allowed to enter Germany and who should have been extradited when Saudi Arabia requested it. Suicidal empathy from the German government “.