Musk's support for AfD has helped what was once a fringe political party enter the mainstream, lifting it up in front of a global audience.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham tells CNN’s Dana Bash that Elon Musk’s comments about Germans moving beyond “past guilt” bother him and that he’s worried that 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz,

"Children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great grandparents," Musk said, apparently referring to Germany's Nazi past.