Elon Musk became the latest billionaire to jump to Donald Trump’s defense on Friday following the former president’s conviction of falsifying business records in relation to hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
The Tesla CEO fired off a post on X early Friday morning, calling the decision “motivated by politics, rather than justice,” and warning that a conviction over “such a trivial matter” did serious damage to the public's faith in the American legal system.
