Anonymous ID: 4d8c27 May 7, 2023, 4:31 p.m. No.18812766   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2775 >>2787 >>2838 >>2882

Elon Musk Recalls His Childhood and Humble Beginnings: “I Grew Up in a Lower, Transitioning to Upper, Middle Income Situation, But Did Not Have a Happy Childhood”

 

Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Inc. and current owner of Twitter, gave his followers a glimpse into his past on Saturday by telling a story from his youth in an effort to refute claims made by the liberal media that he comes from a privileged background and to discredit his success.

 

Musk tweeted his response to a post that falsely claimed he was from “a wealthy family but had financial difficulties”.

 

Musk claimed he did not have a good childhood due to a lack of financial support.

 

The Street has more details about Musk’s background:

 

Born in South Africa, his story is basically that of a self-made billionaire, who left his birthplace at the age of 17 to follow his mother to Canada. He immigrated to the United States to pursue his college studies in prestigious universities. The entrepreneurial spirit that he had from a very young age was nourished by his curiosity and his experiences, which led him to co-found successful companies. The problem is that this version is regularly contested by press articles or posts on social networks, indicating that he comes from a privileged background, which was an important springboard to become who he is today.

 

One assertion has been circulating: His family owned an emerald mine in Africa. Musk has said more than once that this is false, but it keeps coming back and clearly annoys him. Last month, he offered a $1 million in cryptocurrency Dogecoin to anyone who can prove it.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/elon-musk-recalls-his-childhood-and-humble-beginnings-i-grew-up-in-a-lower-transitioning-to-upper-middle-income-situation-but-did-not-have-a-happy-childhood/

Anonymous ID: 4d8c27 May 7, 2023, 4:33 p.m. No.18812776   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2790 >>2821 >>2965 >>2971

SUV driver hits crowd at Texas bus stop near border; 7 dead

 

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — An SUV slammed into a crowd Sunday, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 10 who were waiting at a bus stop outside a migrant shelter in the border city of Brownsville, Texas, police said.

 

Shelter director Victor Maldonado of the Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center said he reviewed the shelter’s surveillance video on Sunday morning after receiving a call about the crash.

 

“What we see in the video is that this SUV, a Range Rover, just ran the light that was about a 100 feet away and just went through the people who were sitting there in the bus stop,” Maldonado said.

 

The city bus stop is across the street from the shelter and is not marked. There was no bench, and people waiting there were sitting along the curb, Maldonado said. He said most of the victims were Venezuelan men.

 

He said the SUV flipped after running up on the curb and continued moving for about 200 feet (about 60 meters). Some people walking on the sidewalk about 30 feet from the main group were also hit, Maldonado said. Witnesses detained the driver as he tried to run away and held him until police arrived, he said.

 

Brownsville police investigator Martin Sandoval said the crash happened about 8:30 a.m. and police did not know whether the driver intentionally hit people.

 

https://apnews.com/article/bus-stop-crash-migrants-dead-shelter-border-2a84f53e5981fc0d315d290b0961f793