[UnwashedPeasant]

Article summary by Claude.AI:

• Elon Musk's social media platform X (formerly Twitter) will host town hall events with former President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who are both running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
• Trump, who was convicted on charges related to the Stormy Daniels NDA case, will answer questions submitted by X users during a livestreamed town hall that will also be broadcast on NewsNation cable channel.
• President Joe Biden was invited by X to participate in a town hall or debate but declined the offer.
• The town halls are the idea of X CEO Linda Yaccarino, who pitched it to NewsNation's parent company Nexstar Media Group. Moderators have not been announced yet.
• The events come amid reports that Musk and Trump have grown closer recently, meeting to discuss issues like cryptocurrency policy and a potential speaking role for Musk at the Republican convention.
• Musk has been vocal in criticizing Biden's policies and attended a dinner with tech leaders aiming to prevent Biden's re-election.
• Trump's active use of Twitter helped fuel his 2016 presidential campaign success before he was banned after the Jan 6 Capitol riots. He has barely used X/Twitter since Musk reinstated his account.

[nikos1121]

When

[MtnClimber]

Elon is standing up to the tyranny. I hope he has a great security detail. The democRATs are ruthless, just ask JFK.

[Reno89519]

When? Will it be any more successful than Musk's X kick-off for DeSantis?

Maybe Musk will skip the hosts and be the moderator, taking the audience questions, picking from them, to carryon a town hall with Trump? That'd be better than some media hosts.

[Reno89519]

And, yes, hopefully this will signal Trump’s return to X.

[GulliverSwift]

Hopefully it won’t crash like it did last time Musk hosted a Twitter space with Ron DeSantis.

Trump should be careful of this though because Musk is mostly out for himself. His purchase of Twitter harmed DJT because he’s been trying to compete with Truth Social for conservative viewers.

Elon also is in bed with the Chicoms so this is another reason for Trump to be wary. But maybe Twitter won’t be able to influence the content.

[Lucky2]

Elon has done a 180 which is great. I admire him more and more.

[wastedyears]

[matt04]

Do a fly on the wall in the warehouse/Biden camp would be amazing. They were confident they would get through to heavily coordinated/control debates, now this throws a giant wrench in the works.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Let’s see Biden do this, never in a million years unless the questions are pre-approved and the answers pre-written