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Fortune
Eva Roytburg

Elon Musk could spend $180 million on EV-hater Trump - and it could backfire

Trump advisor Steve Bannon (L) watches as US President Donald Trump greets Elon Musk, SpaceX and Tesla CEO, before a policy and strategy forum with executives in the State Dining Room of the White House February 3, 2017


Former President Donald Trump is not shy about his contempt for electric vehicles. 

The Republican nominee’s choice words for the industry are often extremely hyperbolic: He has said that electric cars will “kill” America’s auto industry, and lead to an “assassination” of jobs.  Electric car supporters are “thugs,” Trump declared in a post on Truth Social last Christmas. (“May they rot in hell,” he wrote. “Again, Merry Christmas!”) 

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