Elon Musk will be kept away from government decisions involving space, President Donald Trump said on Feb. 18.
“I will not let there be any conflict of interest,” Trump told reporters at the White House in Washington.
He said later: “I told Elon, any conflicts you can’t have anything to do with that. So, anything to do with possibly even space, we won’t let Elon partake in that.”
Musk added during an evening appearance on Fox News, “I’ll recuse myself if it is a conflict.”
Musk owns several companies that have contracts with the U.S. government including SpaceX, which manufactures spacecraft, and Tesla, which produces electric vehicles….