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Musk calls GOP senator [Todd Young] a ‘great ally’ after previously blasting him over Gabbard nomination
The Hill ^ | 02/02/25 4:34 PM ET | by Lauren Irwin

Posted on 02/02/2025 10:05:08 PM PST by RandFan

Tech billionaire Elon Musk called GOP Sen. Todd Young (Ind.) a “great ally” after he previously criticized the lawmaker over Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to become director of national intelligence.

“Just had an excellent conversation with @SenToddYoung. I stand corrected,” Musk posted to his social media platform X. “Senator Young will be a great ally in restoring power to the people from the vast, unelected bureaucracy.”

Musk, who has been tapped to lead President Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” previously slammed Young over his indecision in confirming Gabbard. In a separate post, Musk called Young a “deep state puppet.”

Young, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is a key vote in confirming Gabbard to the position. The senator grilled Gabbard during her hearing last week, expressing concern that she refused to label Edward Snowden as a traitor.

He’s one of a few lawmakers who could help push her toward securing the position.

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I wonder why he posted that. Maybe Gabbard is safe
1 posted on 02/02/2025 10:05:08 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

I hope so. I just don’t trust Young, he has shown his RINO credentials too often during the Biden years, and his refusal to endorse Trump was just plain disgusting!


2 posted on 02/02/2025 10:10:23 PM PST by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: RandFan

The Todd-Young-is-no-vote story was never anything but clickbait.


3 posted on 02/02/2025 10:11:59 PM PST by Owen
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To: RandFan

Lankford’s vote is not certain. He needs some of Musk’s attention.


4 posted on 02/02/2025 10:13:49 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: RandFan

I actually sent an email to Young today. With my Kentucky address and retired status, I threatened to come to Madison and make trouble for him next primary. I’m not saying my contact did it but between Elon and I, we showed him what for.


5 posted on 02/02/2025 10:34:15 PM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: RandFan
The senator grilled Gabbard during her hearing last week, expressing concern that she refused to label Edward Snowden as a traitor.

Well, it's because he is not a traitor, he made a bad decision, but for the right reason Senator Young, Just as you are making the wrong decision, for the wrong reason. Tulsi Gabbard's qualifications do not lie with your opinion..

Are you, Senator Young ,prepared to make the right decision and say that we had traitors in the Bush, Obama, Biden Administrations, and that it is necessary that we investigate & uncover these traitors and try then for what they are?

If not, then you have no business being a leader of this nation. You are unqualified in my opinion for not making the right choice to find & try the traitors of this nation. You know darn well, that she is noy unfit for the job.

6 posted on 02/02/2025 10:53:04 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: RandFan

From what I’ve been reading, Elon found out that Young was on a USAID board that looks pretty fishy for him. Maybe Elon called him to tell Young he knows about it and sure would appreciate his vote for Tulsi…


7 posted on 02/02/2025 11:08:34 PM PST by tinamina (Remember when Biden said “we have developed the most sophisticated voting fraud system ever”)
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To: tinamina

Ya know there’s an old saying. I can’t remember it exactly but it something like. “you lay around in the mud with the hogs long enough, you might as well admit it, you are one”. That ain’t the way it goes exactly but you get the drift. Maybe Elon mentioned where he’s been laying. Hope so.


8 posted on 02/02/2025 11:32:38 PM PST by Equine1952
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To: tinamina

Trump-uncooperative pubbie senators deserve unapologetic full-court pressure, from every well-placed righteous source, short of actionable blackmail, to bring about the delivery of Kennedy, Gabbard and Patel to Trump’s cabinet.


9 posted on 02/02/2025 11:34:52 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: RandFan

Todd Young is a backstabbing POS - we have trying to find a real conservative to Primary him.


10 posted on 02/03/2025 1:10:43 AM PST by EC Washington
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To: EC Washington

He’s The Turtles buttboy

Glitch sabotaged Marlin Stutzman to get Young in there


11 posted on 02/03/2025 3:18:03 AM PST by digger48
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To: digger48

He’s not as bad as Mike Braun.


12 posted on 02/03/2025 3:24:51 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: volare737

Young is indeed a RINO thru and thru. He’s molded in the image of Richard Lugar and he needs to be primaried next election cycle.


13 posted on 02/03/2025 5:43:38 AM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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