{"id":1460516,"date":"2026-11-02T15:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/trump-promised-to-protect-musk-from-possible-investigations-by-democrats\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T15:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:27:19","slug":"trump-promised-to-protect-musk-from-possible-investigations-by-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/trump-promised-to-protect-musk-from-possible-investigations-by-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump promised to protect Musk from possible investigations by Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US President Donald Trump said he is ready to preemptively pardon Elon Musk and his close associates if Democrats gain control of Congress after the midterm elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-11-02\/trump-says-he-would-offer-pardons-to-musk-aides-if-necessary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> Bloomberg, citing Trump&#8217;s interview with conservative commentator Miranda Devine for the podcast &#8220;Pod Force One.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> During the call, the president dismissed suggestions that Democrats might nationalize SpaceX, but he promised to protect Musk and his aides if they become the subject of congressional investigations.<\/p>\n<p> Among them, Trump mentioned Edward Coristin, who participated in Musk&#8217;s DOGE project aimed at cutting government programs.<\/p>\n<p> When asked whether this protection could include a preventive pardon, the president replied: \u201cIf necessary, of course. I wouldn\u2019t even think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Trump cited the example of his predecessor Joe Biden, who preemptively pardoned his son Hunter and a number of officials who could become targets of prosecution by the new administration.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThat\u2019s exactly what Biden did. He pardoned everyone,\u201d Trump said, also mentioning the participants in the investigation into the January 6 Capitol storming.<\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, Elon Musk has spent hundreds of millions of dollars supporting Republicans ahead of the midterm elections. On Friday, he said on social media that maintaining a Republican majority in the Senate was necessary to prevent permanent one-party rule by Democrats.<\/p>\n<p> As previously reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/demokraty-ssha-hotuiut-masshtabni-rozsliduvannia-shchodo-trampa-chy-ie-zahroza-impichmentu\/\">US Democrats are preparing large-scale investigations into Donald Trump<\/a> if they win a majority in the House of Representatives. Potential targets for the inspections include Elon Musk&#8217;s companies, including Tesla.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said he is ready to preemptively pardon Elon Musk and his close associates if Democrats gain control of Congress after the midterm elections. This is reported by Bloomberg, citing Trump&#8217;s interview with conservative commentator Miranda Devine for the podcast &#8220;Pod Force One.&#8221; During the call, the president dismissed suggestions that Democrats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1239042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76875,76870,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1460516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1239042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}