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But Trump did not take the bait when Musk tried to goad him into attacking Brussels over its stance on misinformation.
Referring to an open letter addressed to Musk from the European Union’s digital enforcer Thierry Breton, revealed forward of the interview and reminding the X proprietor of the EU’s guidelines on selling hate speech, Musk informed Trump: “There’s plenty of makes an attempt to do censorship and to drive censorship, even on Americans from different international locations. What do you consider that?”
But Trump did not chunk, as an alternative launching right into a diatribe concerning the U.S. commerce deficit with the EU, saying “they take nice benefit of the United States in commerce,” and “they’re not as powerful as China, however they’re dangerous.”
Trump then revisited a popular speaking level concerning the quantity the EU spends serving to Ukraine vs. U.S. spending — however somewhat than promising to chop America’s support, he appeared to counsel he needed the EU to extend its personal.
“I say, ‘why aren’t you going to equalize?’ Why aren’t they paying what we’re paying?” Trump informed Musk. “Why is the United States paying disproportionately extra to defend Europe than Europe? That does not make sense. That’s unfair, and that’s an applicable factor to handle.”
The former president then appeared to flirt with promising to chop support to Kyiv — earlier than going off-piste and as an alternative praising Zelenskyy for his dealing with of a telephone name that led to Trump’s first impeachment in December 2019, after he was accused of searching for to affect the 2020 election by leaning on the Ukrainian chief to analyze present President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
