{"id":1860319,"date":"2023-02-25T16:04:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1860319"},"modified":"2023-02-25T16:04:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:04:44","slug":"elon-musk-blasts-ralph-nader-over-claims-about-his-businesses-you-are-lying-shame-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-blasts-ralph-nader-over-claims-about-his-businesses-you-are-lying-shame-on-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Blasts Ralph Nader Over Claims About His Businesses: \u2018You Are Lying \u2013 Shame On You!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Felon-musk-blasts-ralph-nader-over-claims-about-his-businesses-you-are-lying-shame-on-you%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=1860319&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-->\n<p>Twitter CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a> Ralph Nader, the four-time unsuccessful leftist presidential candidate, was attacked on the platform late last week for making claims about Musk\u2019s businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Musk (@elonmusk) started Tesla with a huge U.S. government welfare grant,&#8221; Nader tweets &#8220;He has taken taxpayers to the cleaners for his factories and for Starlink. He is a gigantic corporate welfare king masquerading as a capitalist businessman. -R&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded. &#8220;Ralph Nader, you are lying \u2013 shame on you! I personally provided almost all Tesla funding, based on my proceeds from PayPal, from Series A in 2004 until Series C in 2007.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In late 2008, I gave Tesla the last money I had. It was that or the company would have died,&#8221; Musk did not stop there. &#8220;We closed that funding round at 6pm on Christmas Eve. If we had not closed that round, Tesla would have gone bankrupt 2 days after Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I gave my last money thinking Tesla would probably still die, not thinking that it would be lucrative,&#8221; He concluded. &#8220;The first meaningful government funding Tesla received was in Q2 2010 from a loan under the vehicle efficiency lending program. Tesla paid back that loan early with interest. Taxpayers actually made a profit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ralph Nader, you are lying \u2013 shame on you! Based on my PayPal proceeds, I provided nearly all Tesla funding from Series A in 2004, to Series C in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, I gave Tesla my last cash. The company would not have survived without it. We closed that\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fi2GdWER0d\">https:\/\/t.co\/fi2GdWER0d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1629251610135220226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk was not the one who founded Tesla. The electric car company was. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/06\/tesla-founders-martin-eberhard-marc-tarpenning-on-elon-musk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fondated<\/a> Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard were entrepreneurs in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-torture-myself-elon-musk-sheds-light-on-just-how-enormous-his-workload-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serves<\/a> As the CEO of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/tesla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/spacex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX<\/a>As well as being the leader of many smaller projects such as Neuralink or The Boring Company,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, my workload has recently increased quite a lot,&#8221; Musk spoke after buying Twitter.\u00a0&#8220;I mean, I have too much work on my plate, that is for sure. No doubt about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When asked about business leaders who would like to be the, &#8220;Elon Musk of the East,&#8221; The world&#8217;s wealthiest man said that his lifestyle was not to be desired. &#8220;I&#8217;d be careful what you wish for. I&#8217;m not sure how many people would actually like to be me,&#8221; He said. &#8220;They would like to be what they imagine being me, which is not the same thing as actually being me. The amount that I torture myself is next level, frankly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk made the following statement four years ago during\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/11\/05\/elon-musk-on-working-120-hours-a-week-youll-go-bonkers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interview<\/a>\u00a0Recode says he worked 120 hours per work week. However, he prefers working 80 hours per week. &#8220;pretty sustainable.&#8221; A Harvard Business Review study has shown that the average chief executive is working 62.5 hours per workweek.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were times when, some weeks \u2026 I haven&#8217;t counted exactly, but I would just sort of sleep for a few hours, work, sleep for a few hours, work, seven days a week. Some of those days must have been 120 hours or something nutty,&#8221; He elaborated. &#8220;The pain level for hours increases exponentially. It&#8217;s like nonlinear above 80.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk slammed four-time failed leftist presidential candidate Ralph Nader on the platform late this week over claims that Nader made about some of Musk\u2019s businesses. \u201cMusk (@elonmusk) started Tesla with a huge U.S. government welfare grant,\u201d Nader tweeted. \u201cHe has taken taxpayers to the cleaners for his factories and for Starlink. 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