What began as a spectacle worthy of late-night satire and reality television, the very public and increasingly vicious breakup of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk has revealed something far more troubling. The spat between the former allies, once bound by political convenience and a torrent of money flowing between them in the form of campaign donations and government contracts, has escalated into an alarming case study in how personal vendettas, when wielded from the seat of power, can become tools of state corruption.

The unraveling of the Trump-Musk alliance has produced no shortage of drama. Their dueling posts on Truth Social and X have been petty, performative and, at times, almost comically absurd. But behind the entertainment value lies a dangerous erosion of public trust, one

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