Donald Trump on Saturday said there would be “serious consequences” if tech mogul Elon Musk funds Democratic candidates to run against Republicans who vote in favor of the GOP’s sweeping budget bill.

“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview, but declined to share what those consequences would be.

“He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” he added.

Trump also said he has no desire to repair his relationship with Musk after a feud between the two men erupted into public view earlier this week.

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    I would have a very difficult time voting for someone who received funding from musk.

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        Do you have no principles? Like look what Musk has done. And you want democratic candidates in debt and aligned with him? He’s just going to continue what he started, he’s not going to do an about face.

        We should be incriminating millionaires putting money into campaigns, not accepting them

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          Liberals will never admit that their lack of principals is a large part of why the USA is what it is right now.

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            Taking Musk’s money and influence to make the world a better place isn’t a problem.

            Letting him pick a direction for the party or make policies would be my red line.

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                There’s so much wrong with your little thought terminating sentence there.

                Taking Musk’s money to get power isn’t siding with Nazis.

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              People don’t give money without expecting something in return. And these spineless democrats will 100% let him run circles around them if he promised to keep them in office.

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      You got a lot of angsty democrats responding here with basically “c’mon bro, please, bro, you don’t understand, if we don’t take the money to do the Hitler, then the Republicans will do it completely for free, please, bro, be reasonable!”

      Fuck that. I’m normally a pretty practical person, but if the dude who’s directly financing neo-nazism parties around the world like a one man CIA starts dumping cash into the democrats, it’s because he means to turn them into the neo neo Nazis, and they will not be getting my vote. Will the country burn? Yeah, but it’s going to do that because the democrats think fundraising is more important than having literally any principles or strong policy positions at all, regardless of whether I vote for them or not.

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        Exactly. American liberals have lost their fucking minds already sticking up for this guy after what he’s been doing.

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      I would rather vote for someone who got spite funding by a nazi than to vote for an anti-America, nazi/terrorist. And that’s anyone supporting the current regime.

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        I would too, but I’d rather vote for people willing to tell them both to go fuck themselves

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          Vote for that person in the primary and hope he musk money person loses there.

          But if they don’t, little choice after that.