{"id":1732632,"date":"2022-11-09T19:39:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T00:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1732632"},"modified":"2022-11-09T19:47:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T00:47:51","slug":"biden-says-elon-musk-is-worthy-of-being-looked-at-as-potential-national-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-elon-musk-is-worthy-of-being-looked-at-as-potential-national-security-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says Elon Musk Is &#8220;Worthy of Being Looked at&#8221; as Potential National Security Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-says-elon-musk-is-worthy-of-being-looked-at-as-potential-national-security-threat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1732632&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_Biden_Musk.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>                On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-preliminary-cbs-exit-polls-show-voters-pessimistic-about-everything-under-biden\">President Biden<\/a> was asked during a press conference about <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-elon-musk-announces-twitter-usage-at-all-time-high\">Elon Musk<\/a> and his acquisition of Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>In his response, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/biden-awarded-bottomless-pinocchio-by-washington-post-for-false-and-misleading-statements-ahead-of-midterms\">Biden<\/a>\u00a0suggested that the billionaire\u00a0was &#8220;worthy of being looked at&#8221; as a national security risk.<\/p>\n<p>Following two pointed questions about Biden&#8217;s upcoming trip to Asia, Bloomberg reporter Jenny Leonard shifted her focus to Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. President do you think Elon Musk is a threat to national security?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;And should the US, with the tools you have, investigate his joint acquisition of Twitter with foreign governments, which include the Saudis?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden paused for a few seconds and chuckled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that Elon Musk&#8217;s cooperation and or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Whether or not he is doing inappropriate, I&#8217;m not suggesting that, I&#8217;m suggesting it&#8217;s worth being looked at, and that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ll say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time such a question has been raised. Many questioned whether Musk&#8217;s list of fellow investors, which includes Saudis and Qataris, could potentially pose a threat to national security given their respective regimes&#8217; history of limiting freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-11-01\/musk-s-twitter-investors-include-saudi-prince-dorsey-and-qatar\">Bloomberg<\/a>, Musk&#8217;s acquitision of Twitter was financed in part by coffers controlled by the Saudi and Qatari governments, as well as the private office of Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Dear friend &#8216;Chief Twit&#8217;,&#8221; Talal said to Musk on Twitter. &#8220;Together all the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an attached press release, the partial funding of Musk&#8217;s Twitter acquisition was noted to be &#8220;in line with the long-term investment strategy for which Kingdom Holding Company is known for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking story and will be updated.<\/em><br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, President Biden was asked during a press conference about Elon Musk and his acquisition of Twitter.In his response, Biden\u00a0suggested that the billionaire\u00a0was &#8220;worthy of being looked at&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1732635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1732635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}