Elon Musk, the world’s richest man who is now central to Donald Trump’s election campaign, has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin for the past two years, according to a report in the US.

The Wall Street Journal, citing several in-post and former US, European and Russian officials, reported that the conversations between the two men ranged from the personal to the geopolitical and included a request from the Russian leader not to activate his Starlink ​​satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favour to the Chinese leader and Putin ally, Xi Jinping.

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    30 days ago

    Is t there a law that says private citizens shouldn’t be representing the US with foreign leaders?

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      Why yes there is, from the 19th century. But it’s not about abortion, so surely is unenforceable.

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      If he wasn’t the richest being in the known universe, he’d be fighting an indictment right now.