OPINION:
Although billionaire Elon Musk says that the Biden administration’s reckless border policy is laying the groundwork for “something far worse than 9/11,” he recently made a point of his political neutrality by saying he will not contribute to the presidential campaign of either President Biden or former President Donald Trump (“Musk says he won’t donate to Biden or Trump,” web, March 7).
I’m calling Mr. Musk out on this. He’s one of the world’s richest people, with a net worth that hovers around $200 billion. If he truly believes the current president is “laying the groundwork” for a mass-casualty terrorist attack that could cripple this country forever, doesn’t he have a moral obligation to do everything in his power to try to stop it? Shouldn’t that include offering Donald Trump — the most anti-illegal-immigration president of all time, who abhors the idea of open borders — a blank check for the Trump presidential campaign? How would Mr. Musk live with himself if the Democrats got another term in office and allowed the travesty at our southern border to continue?
Perhaps the most baffling question about Mr. Biden — one on which the mainstream media has totally whiffed — has been that when he was a senator in 2002, he voted for preemptive war with Iraq on the belief that it would spare us a future terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Yet in his first days as president, he opened the border and rolled out the red carpet for terrorists to come in.
Was Mr. Biden paid for this national security flip-flop, and if so, how much and by whom?
EUGENE R. DUNN
Medford, New York
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