Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk defended embattled former representative Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, in the face of scrutiny from Republicans over a House sexual misconduct probe that threatens to upend his confirmation.
“Matt Gaetz has three critical assets that are needed for the AG role: a big brain, a spine of steel and an axe to grind,” Mr Musk, the world’s richest person and a prominent Trump backer, wrote in a post on his social-media platform X early on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT).
