Elon Musk has met with politicians from at least 13 countries. Some US officials are wary

 Over the past three years, Elon Musk has met dozens of times with presidents, prime ministers, lawmakers, government officials and political candidates from around the world.

The meetings show how Musk has been courted for his ability to impact the course of wars through his Starlink satellite service; his opinion on artificial intelligence, the next major wave of technology development; and his role in swaying public opinion through his platform, X.

Read more about Elon’s powerful foreign relationships here.

Musk has also become a political power player in the United States. He held livestream campaign events on X for presidential hopefuls and has since thrown tens of millions of dollars behind former President Donald Trump, attending and hosting his rallies and criticizing (and, in some cases, spreading false information about) his competitor, Vice President Kamala Harris, on X.

But Musk’s transnational conferencing has drawn concern from some US officials. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Friday called for an investigation into a Wall Street Journal report that Musk and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been in “regular contact” since late 2022.

”If the story is true … then I think that would be concerning, particularly for NASA, for the Department of Defense, for some of the intelligence agencies,” Nelson told Semafor’s Burgess Everett.

Other US officials have raised counterintelligence concerns in the last year about Musk’s interactions with US adversaries like Russia, but the intelligence community is wary of looking into those interactions because Musk is an American citizen, an official familiar with the matter told CNN.