The Wall Street Journal has published a lengthy report about the ways that Trump-backing billionaire Elon Musk manages the multiple children he has sired with several different women.
Although Musk is known to be the father of 14 different children, sources who spoke to the Journal believe that the number could be significantly higher given that he often pays the mothers of his children in exchange for their silence.
For example, Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Musk's children who has been publicly feuding with him in recent weeks, was offered a flat sum of $15 million and then an additional $100,000 in monthly support if she kept her silence about their child, according to other reporting.
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As for why Musk is determined to father so many children, sources tell the Journal that he is concerned about declining population growth in developed countries and that he wants to "correct the historic moment by helping seed the earth with more human beings of high intelligence."
What's more, Musk refers to his children collectively as a "legion" that he believes will be crucial in the future of humanity.
To this end, Musk even asked St. Clair to help him recruit more mothers for this project because his goal is to, as he himself put it in a text message reviewed by the Journal, "to reach legion-level before the apocalypse."