Both laws in this case being related to business relationships with potential adversaries of the United States, with the Executive branch straddling arguably opposing public positions. But you already understood that and you’re pretending that the irony isn’t there because you don’t like Musk, right?
No I really don’t see any conflict between “don’t collaborate with officials of a foreign government” and “don’t discourage foreign-born people from applying for jobs that you offer.”
I was noting the irony of it all. If a billionaire gets publicly called out by the president to be investigated for potential foreign influence during his acquisition of low-stakes social media Company X, one typically wouldn’t expect the DoJ to charge them for NOT hiring non-citizens in their high-stakes state of the art rocket Company Y less than a year later. That sequence of events can be ironic without technically being legally contradictory.
But again, you already understood all that. You’re just being a pedantic little geek because you don’t like Musk.
