Vice President JD Vance used his first major international speech at the Munich Security Conference on Friday to defend Elon Musk—whose support for Germany's far-right AfD party has rattled European leaders as AfD officials have suggested migrants could be "gassed."
"Speaking up and expressing opinions isn't election interference, even when people express views outside your own country, and even when those people are very influential. And trust me, I say this with all humor, if American democracy can survive ten years of Greta Thunberg scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk," Vance said.
