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Trump’s Return Was Just the Beginning. Elon Musk Has Darker Plans for America.

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Elon Musk is constitutionally barred from running for the U.S. presidency.

The world's richest man purchased a controlling stake in a broke, scandal-ridden former president.

The question looms: What price will Musk exact for his investment? Frida Ghitis : What could be worse than an incompetent, narcissistic, megalomaniac billionaire taking control.

Musk and his co-investors paid $44 billion for Twitter ; one recent accounting puts the company’s value at less than $10 billion .

Yet, in the 2024 election, Twitter seemed every bit as indispensable to the political conversation as it was in 2020 and 2016 .