Musk To Pay Legal Fees For Jailed British Extremist

Politico Europe reports:

Elon Musk has agreed to pay legal fees racked up by jailed British far-right agitator Tommy Robinson, Robinson’s representatives have claimed. In a message posted to supporters on Telegram Monday, Robinson’s team said it was “grateful to Elon Musk and his team at X for agreeing to provide support to Tommy Robinson for two specific legal cases.”

Robinson, who co-founded the race-baiting and now-defunct English Defense League party, was jailed in 2024 after breaching a court order imposed over his repeated libeling of a Syrian refugee schoolboy. The 41-year-old, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has also been charged with a terrorism offense after refusing to surrender his phone to police.

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