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Elon Musk spoke at GOP leader Kevin McCarthy's Wyoming retreat on same day Liz Cheney lost primary
Fox News ^ | August 17, 2022 7:09am EDT | By Kelly Phares , Lawrence Richard

Posted on 08/18/2022 4:45:37 AM PDT by SmokingJoe

Morgan Ortagus @MorganOrtagus · Follow Bucket list #selfie Thank you @elonmusk ❤️

Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, attended a fundraiser retreat in Wyoming that was hosted by Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy, Fox News has learned.

The event was held at a resort in Teton Village, near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and happened on the same day Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney lost a primary election to Trump-backed Republican nominee Harriet Hageman.

A source told Fox News that McCarthy and Musk led a fireside chat with supporters, House members and Republican candidates.

The event was closed to the press.

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Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during a press conference at SpaceX's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on February 10, 2022. Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during a press conference at SpaceX's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on February 10, 2022. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The National Republican Congressional Committee fundraising event was hosted "practically in Cheney's backyard," Business Insider reported.

The event comes as Musk has embraced the Republican Party in recent months and has become more politically vocal over Twitter. Musk is currently embroiled in a legal battle over his $44 billion deal to purchase the social media giant.

Publicly, McCarthy refused to confirm or deny Musk’s attendance at the event. The Republican leader clarified that the event was open for "members, donors and candidates."

Musk and McCarthy share a unique relationship as SpaceX conducts operations in Bakersfield, California, which falls within the district McCarthy represents.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Wyoming
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To: SmokingJoe

Oh for Gawds sake. WTH is wrong with you?

He is a people too stuff. Good grief . You are worse than my neurotic neighbor.


21 posted on 08/18/2022 5:43:33 AM PDT by dforest
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To: 9YearLurker
Do you know what all your ancestors did and do you take responsibility for all their acts?
22 posted on 08/18/2022 5:44:33 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: dforest
I don't have “neurotic neighbors”.
And don't fire missiles if you don't want to take returning incoming fire.
23 posted on 08/18/2022 5:47:32 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: 9YearLurker

To many people anymore, a person is either all bad or all good. Any criticism is not allowed. The idea that even good people have some bad qualities and vice versa is not considered.

Truth is Musk doesn’t care what I think and I don’t care what he thinks unless he wants to rule over me or influence those who rule over me.


24 posted on 08/18/2022 5:48:53 AM PDT by dforest
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To: SmokingJoe

Hah hah, You call that “incoming fire”?

You don’t have neurotic neighbors because other neurotic people don’t want to live by you and compete over who is nuttier. You might win that one hands down though.

I agree, jokes can be missiles and I was right over the target and exposed your hidden Musk-rat Love.

Top of the mornin’ to you.


25 posted on 08/18/2022 5:59:57 AM PDT by dforest
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To: ground_fog
Rooting for Cheney??

THERE'S a real loser for you! How did she get ANY votes at all?

I mean .... what she did to her constituents is the political equivalent of ‘date rape’!!!!!!!!!!

26 posted on 08/18/2022 6:00:05 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: dforest

Have you cared what the Koch brothers, Peter Thiel, and other designated “GOP” billionaire funders think—and do?


27 posted on 08/18/2022 6:03:19 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Yes, but we aren’t talking about them on this thread, are we?


28 posted on 08/18/2022 6:06:20 AM PDT by dforest
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To: SmokingJoe

Tennessee dodged one, there...


29 posted on 08/18/2022 6:06:39 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: SmokingJoe
The event was closed to the press.

As all of these should be. The media is corrupt and they had better screen attendees as well.

30 posted on 08/18/2022 6:07:06 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: dforest
Like I first suggested, just go take your meds and go to sleep. So humanity doesn't have to take any more of your nonsense. For a while anyway.
31 posted on 08/18/2022 6:08:07 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: 1Old Pro

Yes.


32 posted on 08/18/2022 6:11:28 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

I’m no fan of McCarthy, but holding a fundraiser in Wyoming the same day that Cheney loses there is HYSTERICAL!!!


33 posted on 08/18/2022 6:14:20 AM PDT by BobL (The Globalists/Neocons desperately want Ukraine to win...makes it easy for me to choose a side)
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To: BobL
I’m no fan of McCarthy, but holding a fundraiser in Wyoming the same day that Cheney loses there is HYSTERICAL!!!

It would have been better if it was held adjacent and within sight of her Lincoln speech.

34 posted on 08/18/2022 6:15:38 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Tetons ? I’m sure he noticed hers.


35 posted on 08/18/2022 6:16:02 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: 1Old Pro

“It would have been better if it was held adjacent and within sight of her Lincoln speech.”

True, but close enough for me. And I do think he did it in the same town (Jackson Hole).


36 posted on 08/18/2022 6:19:52 AM PDT by BobL (The Globalists/Neocons desperately want Ukraine to win...makes it easy for me to choose a side)
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To: BobL
Yes it is.
Plus having Musk there will drive Cheney and the Dems mad.
Chuckle.
37 posted on 08/18/2022 6:21:32 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: dforest

Maybe you are not especially good at pattern recognition...


38 posted on 08/18/2022 6:29:12 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Dixie Yooper

Likely true


39 posted on 08/18/2022 6:45:49 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: dforest

I hear he told the Republicans to be nicer more compassionate. What the hell? Who is warring against us and throwing accusations. Telling their people to get into our faces protest Supreme Court justices, bailing out antifa who are burning down cities, BLM raiding stores and stealing everything insight with a slap on the wrist and bail money when caught.... And for no reason at all only because of pure hatred raiding a president’s home! Compassionate? ...compassionate? We don’t need no stinking compassionate when you’re in the thick of a war! Get real you POS! And get the hell out of our party! SO put down the crack pipe Mr. musk step back and go screw yourself!!


40 posted on 08/18/2022 6:49:16 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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