{"id":29396,"date":"2024-12-30T19:37:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T19:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/30\/republican-governor-criticized-for-saying-musk-is-too-rich-to-be-corrupted\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T19:37:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T19:37:47","slug":"republican-governor-criticized-for-saying-musk-is-too-rich-to-be-corrupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/30\/republican-governor-criticized-for-saying-musk-is-too-rich-to-be-corrupted\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican governor criticized for saying Musk is too rich to be corrupted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire\u2019s Chris Sununu said of Musk \u2018he\u2019s, in a way, so rich he\u2019s removed from the potential financial influence\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Republican New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu was caught in a riptide of criticism for a comment that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> \u2013 the world\u2019s richest man and close ally of US president-elect Donald Trump \u2013 was too wealthy to be corrupted or influenced.<\/p>\n<p>Sununu was asked on CNN\u2019s State of the Union on Sunday if he thought Musk had a conflict of interest in owning companies, including SpaceX, that have held billions of dollars in government contracts while also leading an unofficial agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/06\/musk-ramaswamy-doge-efficiency\">to slash public spending<\/a> in Trump\u2019s second presidency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/30\/chris-sununu-elon-musk-corruption\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire\u2019s Chris Sununu said of Musk \u2018he\u2019s, in a way, so rich he\u2019s removed from the potential financial influence\u2019 The Republican New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu was caught in a riptide of criticism for a comment that Elon Musk \u2013 the world\u2019s richest man and close ally of US president-elect Donald Trump \u2013 was &#8230; <a title=\"Republican governor criticized for saying Musk is too rich to be corrupted\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/30\/republican-governor-criticized-for-saying-musk-is-too-rich-to-be-corrupted\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republican governor criticized for saying Musk is too rich to be corrupted\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}