Critics referred to as out New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) this weekend for his view on the controversy surrounding high Donald Trump ally Elon Musk’s function within the president-elect’s second time period.
CNN’s Dana Bash requested Sununu ― whose earlier flip-flopping on Trump now seems to have morphed into full-blown sycophancy — if he believed there was any battle of curiosity with tech billionaire Musk’s proximity to Trump, provided that Musk has “billions of {dollars} tied up in authorities contracts.” Trump desires Musk to guide a non-official company that can goal to slash public spending.
Sununu didn’t see one.
“The man’s value $450 billion as of right now on this month so I don’t suppose he’s doing it for the cash,” the GOP governor continued. “He’s doing it for the larger venture and the larger imaginative and prescient of America. He doesn’t want the {dollars}. He actually doesn’t. So it’s not about, ‘if I become involved on this, I’ll get one other little contract right here or there.’ That’s nothing to him. So, I like the truth that he’s, in a method, he’s so wealthy, he’s so faraway from the potential monetary affect of it.”
Critics, although, disagreed.
Former White Home lawyer Richard Painter, the chief ethics lawyer beneath President George W. Bush, responded: “Is that this the brand new regular? Billionaires are too wealthy to have conflicts of curiosity. Bull.”
