• Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Tuesday, “During the darkest days of the Model 3 program, I reached out to Tim Cook to discuss the possibility of Apple acquiring Tesla (for 1/10 of our current value). He refused to take the meeting.”
  
• Musk and Tesla have not discussed considering selling the company in any financial filings.
  
• The news comes one day after Reuters reports that Apple is once again getting serious about getting into the automotive industry, a persistent rumor since 2015.
  

(CNN)President Donald Trump has turned to a fringe group of advisers peddling increasingly dubious tactics to overturn the results of the election, creating a dire situation that multiple senior officials and people close to the President say has led to new levels of uncertainty at how Trump will resist the coming end to his tenure.

"No one is sure where this is heading," one official said on Monday. "He's still the President for another month."

Conspiracist lawyer Sidney Powell, disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn, onetime chief strategist Steve Bannon, hawkish trade adviser Peter Navarro and the eccentric founder of the retail website Overstock have all recently found themselves in the Oval Office or on the telephone advising Trump on new last-ditch efforts to reverse his loss.

That's in addition to Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who has been feeding the President's conspiracy theories for weeks and who, along with Powell, was seen again at the White House on Monday.

In the process, Trump has mostly shunned those working inside the government, leading to growing fears of how he may lash out in the four weeks he has remaining in the White House -- or at how he may resist leaving the building come Inauguration Day.

Through it all, Trump has mostly abandoned the day-to-day running of government. At a Cabinet meeting last week, he spent much of the time complaining about his suspicions of voter fraud, according to a person familiar with the matter, leaving some attendees puzzled at the point of the gathering.


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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 22 ― Former attorney-general Tan Sri Tommy Thomas and Malaysian Bar ex-president Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan have been appointed to lead the legal battle for Muda’s registration, Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman said.

The Malaysian Insight reported the Muar MP as saying yesterday that his party was prepared to fight it out in court should the Registrar of Societies fail to register the newly-formed outfit.

“If the approval is not given, we will bring the matter to court,” said Syed Saddiq, who is the party’s protem president.

“We are disappointed with the delay.”


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PETALING JAYA: Amanah vice-president Mujahid Yusof Rawa today said that the party stands by Anwar Ibrahim’s leadership of Pakatan Harapan because of his proven commitment towards reforms in Malaysia.

Mujahid said it is not the time to put pressure on the coalition. Instead, they need to support Anwar.

“I am confident that we will stand by him, not just because he is Anwar Ibrahim but because of the institutional reforms that he has been defending, and for which he was jailed for defending,” he said in a statement today.

Mujahid said that PH had been “betrayed” by PPBM when the party was part of the ruling federal coalition.

“Anyone who leads PH must have an unwavering commitment to the great agenda of institutional reforms,” he said. Anwar had led this great agenda and remained steadfast in defending the principles of reform along with Amanah president Mohamad Sabu and DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng.

“When Tun (Dr Mahathir Mohamad) chaired PH, many of his own party, PPBM, failed to understand this big agenda and the result was a betrayal, to the great reform agenda and to the meaning of loyalty.

“It was they who chose to betray us, not us who drove them away!,” he said.


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PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Harapan (PH) should forget about trying to wrest back the government and instead plan for the next general election and convince the voters to return their mandate, a former deputy minister said.

Echoing the call for a political “reset”, but without changing the leadership, Bangi MP Ong Kian Ming said there was a need for a change in direction and focus by the PH leadership, and it should start with a consolidation of the opposition bloc.

The DAP leader outlined key areas that PH needed to look at, including integrating the 108 opposition MPs as one united front.

He said this would form the strongest opposition bench in Malaysian history. He, however, brushed off ideas of establishing a new government through a non-electoral manner, saying that would further destabilise the political landscape.

“We should let the voters decide in the next general election (GE15). Let the voters judge between the 22 months of the PH government and the governing record of the current government at the polls.

“We should spend the time from now until GE15 to consolidate the opposition and play an effective role of check and balance,” said the former deputy international trade and industry minister.


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