— Elon Musk’s Billion-Dollar Bargain: Buying the White House, One Regulation at a Time. Elon Musk’s purchase of the government is already starting to pay returns. The largest part of the Muskrat’s fortune comes from Tesla, which he bought from its inventors years ago and was turned into a major enterprise by Barack Obama. (You may remember the headline from 2009: “The Obama Administration will lend Tesla Motors $465 million to build an electric sedan and the battery packs needed to propel it....