Elon Musk warned by Nick Clegg against trying to be ‘political puppet master’ picking US presidents [Video]

Elon Musk was warned against seeking to be a “political puppet master” trying to choose Republican candidates to be US president.

The Tesla boss was already playing an “outsized role in both the election and now the formation of the new US administration,” said former Deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg.

Musk donated more than a quarter of a billion dollars for Trump’s campaign for a White House comeback and his second term as president is due to start in January.

Sir Nick, who quit British politics after the Liberal Democrats were trounced in the 2015 general election and losing his seat in 2017, now works as president for global affairs at Meta in California.

“He can be either an avid and well-heeled supporter which is what he seems at least as far as I can make to be,” Sir Nick told Nick Robinson’s BBC political podcast.

“Or he can try and become a sort of …