A star is born | Elon's Spies Ep4

The Walkers: The real Salt Path | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

When Donald Trump declared victory in the US presidential election, he told an adoring crowd that "a star is born". He was referring to Elon Musk.

After months of reporting on the billionaire's use of private investigators, Alexi asks whether the insights he gained from that investigation reveal how Musk will operate in his new political era, and what that means for everything in his orbit.

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Reported and produced by: Alexi Mostrous, Gary Marshall, Matt Russell & Patricia Clarke

Sound design: Bart Warshaw

Original Music: Tom Kinsella

Podcast artwork: Jon Hill

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1:47.0	And so that became kind of a game of like trying to figure out where he was. It's the evening of Tuesday, the 5th of November.
1:52.0	Millions of Americans have voted in the US presidential election, and Donald Trump is awaiting the result.
1:59.0	He's assembled a select group of supporters at his Mar-a-Lago
2:02.4	resort in Florida. It's the inner circle, family members, senior campaign staff, a handful
2:09.5	of donors. Vice-Presidential candidate J.D. Vance is there, along with his wife, Usher.
2:16.3	It's the cast list of people likely to dominate the next four years of American government.
2:22.4	But one very influential person is missing.
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