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A Russian official said the American billionaire Elon Musk could be offered political asylum in Russia over his fierce dispute with Donald Trump

Dmitry Novikov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, made the comments to Russian state news outlet TASS.

"I think that Musk has a completely different game, [so] he will not need any political asylum, although if he did, Russia, of course, could provide it," Novikov said, in remarks translated from Russian.

Musk and Trump, ostensibly political allies over cuts to federal spending, publicly clashed on June 5 in a series of exchanges across social media and in comments to reporters.

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 102 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Do we really want the guy who just made off with a large portion of government sensitive data to go to Russia?

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 163 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Do you think physical distance is keeping the data safely within our borders?

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 17 hours ago

they hacked it the moment doge had access to those databaes.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Physical distance of his testicles and some pliers might be the deciding factor between giving all the data and ALL the data.

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

Russia already has all the data, silly. It would be fun if they try to confirm that Elmo's not holding some out, with a pair of pliers though...:)

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

If I may put on my conspiracy theory hat:

With all the DOGE-starlink-russia shit I've been reading about, I wouldn't be surprised if Russia has a data pipeline directly to the US government, no Musk required. I would guess it would be more of a "he might tell the US government what/how we know" which would require coming up with a new golden pipeline.

Kinda like how the Cheeto Taco unwittingly showed the world the US satellite capabilities in his first term by showing a picture. There's a lot of information Musk could tell the US about his visits with Putin, where if he was in Russia, the US is stuck guessing what made it out and what Russia has access to.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 43 points 1 day ago

Like he hasn't already given Russia the data.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

I'd rather punish him here

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago

Between Agent Krasnov and Agent Muskovite I'm sure they already have full access, this is just their way of getting a dig in at everyone who already knows this is the case. The Kremlin is basically rubbing it in our faces to tell us they own all these guys and they know there's nothing we can do about it.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago

The guy in the White House already gave it to them.

[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 4 points 20 hours ago