The previous two administrations (Trump I and Biden) being somewhat anti-Tesla or anti-Musk was some part of what prompted Musk to get into politics in the first place. Given the Biden admin's hostility, I would have expected the SEC and FTC to have been directed to do all they could against him within bounds, and so my first guess would be that they did, in fact, do everything justifiable.

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MangoToupe 5 days ago | parent [-]

> anti-Tesla

I'm curious why you think this. I would be pretty shocked if, despite Musk's disgusting personality, they weren't also bought in.

	▲	randallsquared 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		From 2022, a contemporaneous account of the Biden antipathy: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2022/02/03/... While I didn't look long for a more neutral source, Teslarati has a good list of the prompts of the shift from Musk being anti-Trump and pro-Biden, to giving up on Biden, to supporting Trump: https://www.teslarati.com/former-tesla-exec-confirms-wsj-rep... There were apparently also other considerations not associated with Tesla for his turn (transgender child, etc), but my read on all this is that Musk saw staying out of politics didn't mean politics would stay away from him. Given that Trump II is also now somewhat anti-Musk, it's not clear to me that he succeeded in avoiding a longer-term axe for Tesla (Neuralink/Solarcity/SpaceX/Boring...) from politicians. We'll see.