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Fortune
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Anthony Scaramucci

Tech billionaires’ Trump-Vance dance is missing the point: You can’t always get what you want

(Credit: Win McNamee - Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s swift endorsement of President Trump following a failed assassination attempt on Saturday captured plenty of headlines. A recent story by the Wall Street Journal suggests that Musk is doubling down on his commitment to Trump with sizeable contributions to a Trump-aligned super PAC. In standard fashion, Musk labeled the story “fake gnus,” leaving only a meme in the comments of the WSJ’s post on his social media site, X.

As typical with Musk, his actions have reverberated across the media, fueling over-hyped speculation about the former president’s inroads with what has historically been a formidable group of supporters for Democrats: tech titans and venture capitalists.

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