Elon Musk, the world’s richest man who is now central to Donald Trump’s election campaign, has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin for the past two years, according to a report in the US.
The implications of a secret channel of communication between Musk and Putin are enormous for western security.
The Tesla tycoon is a key player in the US space programme and has a high-level security clearance.
Furthermore, if Trump is elected on 5 November, Musk could play an important part in a new US administration.
Peskov insisted that neither Putin nor other Kremlin officials were holding regular conversations with Musk.
Musk denied Bremmer’s claim, but Hill, who attended the same elite conference in Aspen, Colorado as Musk a month before, said it was true.
He was just basically channelling the kind of things that Putin had told him. »
