WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would move to "protect" Elon Musk and would consider issuing preemptive pardons to aides and allies if Democrats win control of Congress in Tuesday's midterm elections and pursue investigations against them.

Trump made the comments in a pretaped interview on the New York Post's "Pod Force One" podcast, published Monday, the day before voters head to the polls.

'We'll have to protect them'

Host Miranda Devine asked Trump about talk among some on the left of arresting Musk, seizing his factories and nationalizing his rocket company, SpaceX.

Trump dismissed the idea. "It won't happen. It's talk. But if it is talk, we'll have to protect them," he said, according to Yahoo News.

Devine also raised Edward Coristine, a former staffer at the Department of Government Efficiency, the cost-cutting effort Musk led early in Trump's second term, who is known by the nickname "Big Balls."

"We just have to protect those people," Trump said, according to The Epoch Times.

Asked whether he would preemptively pardon........

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