Vance Shares Musk’s Op-Ed Praising Germany’s AfD

The Hill reports:

Vice President-elect JD Vance took to the social platform X on Thursday to share an op-ed by Elon Musk in which the tech mogul expressed support for the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany, or AfD.

Quoting Musk’s English version of the opinion piece, Vance said it was an “interesting piece.” The paper’s commentary editor resigned in protest of the op-ed, and the German government on Monday accused Musk of trying to influence its February election.

Musk, who first backed the AfD in December last year, defended his efforts to get involved in Germany’s politics, saying he has the “right” to do so because he has “made significant investments” in the country’s technological and industrial sectors.

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