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Donald Trump reportedly meets with Elon Musk amid fundraising push

File photo: Donald Trump and Elon Musk at a SpaceX launch.
Former president Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk at a SpaceX launch. Financial disclosures filed last month showed Trump’s cash holdings had fallen to just over $30m. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Donald Trump met with billionaire Elon Musk in Florida over the weekend as the former Republican president seeks a major cash infusion for his re-election campaign, The New York Times reported.

According to the Times, Trump met with Musk – one of the world’s richest people – and a number of wealthy Republican donors on Sunday and hopes to have a one-on-one discussion soon with Musk, the CEO of both Tesla Inc and SpaceX, and the owner-executive chairman of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

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