[mannanj]

Does it have anything to do with his statements about firing and enacting severe penalties, federal investigations in, and changes around the censorship requirements that many of these corporations engaged in with government agencies? He promised retraction of billions in federal funding- and many of these corporations are implicated.

[lesuorac]

No, it has much more to do with he changed his tone on EVs after Musk started to publicly supported him and pretty much said the phrase "I had to, he's helping me".

Or all the people he pardon'd in exchange for indirect money.

It's literally transactional.