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The Times cited three people briefed on Sunday's private meeting
in Palm Beach but who spoke to the newspaper on condition of
anonymity.
According to the Times, Trump met with Musk and a few wealthy
Republican donors on Sunday and hopes to have a one-on-one
discussion soon with Musk, the CEO of both Tesla Inc and SpaceX,
and the owner-executive chairman of X, the social media platform
formerly known as Twitter.
Neither Musk nor Trump's campaign immediately responded to
Reuters' requests for comment.
Trump, whose own personal fortune took recent hits from
judgments against him in a New York civil fraud case and a
separate defamation trial, is aiming to line up additional major
contributors to his campaign for president, the Times said.
Musk has not said whether he plans to back Trump's White House
bid financially. But the South African-born billionaire
entrepreneur has suggested in social media posts that he is
opposed to incumbent President Joe Biden, the Democrat who
defeated Trump in 2020, winning a second term in November.
With a net worth that Forbes magazine has put at around $200
billion, Musk has the resources to almost single-handedly offset
the huge financial advantage that Biden and his supporters are
otherwise expected to wield over Trump in the 2024 general
election campaign.
Musk has long sought to cast himself as politically independent,
and according to the Times has not spent heavily on presidential
races in the past, while splitting donations fairly evenly
between Democrats and Republicans.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Lincoln
Feast.)
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