'You Are So Influenced': Fox News Host Confronts GOP Senator Over Elon Musk
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) attacked Hunter Biden when asked about billionaire Elon Musk's outsized role in influencing President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Mullin touted Musk as the solution to government spending after the billionaire temporarily derailed a bill to prevent a government shutdown.
"We're going to bring in Elon Musk and allow him to help us see what we aren't being able to see," Mullin told host Shannon Bream, referring to the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). "And so this is a perfect approach and this is why the people elected President Trump to come in and be the 47th president of the United States."
Bream noted that Democrats had suggested Musk killed the bill because it limited his ability to invest in China.
"The Shanghai plant in Tesla is its largest car manufacturing facility," the Fox News host explained. "Number of lawmakers, including our next guest, Senator Ben Cardin, your colleague, have expressed concerns about connections, about businesses where he has benefited on a foreign level, but also here at home, the U.S. contracts, the government contracts that he has."
"What do you say about that potential conflict of interest or appearance of it?" she asked.