Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it

I'm still convinced that it being called "full self driving" is misleading marketing and really needs to stop, since it isn't according to Tesla

Why do you think Musk put so much money into helping Trump win? Tesla was under multiple investigations for safety and unkept promises, and he knew that he would not have leverage to halt those under a Harris administration.

I'm absolutely not a fan of Trump, but this is a highly questionable assumption.

The much more likely hypothesis in my view is that he was helping Trump because of personal conviction (only in small parts motivated by naked self-interest).

You should expect rational billionaires to tend politically right out of pure self-interest and distorted perspective alone; because the universal thing that such parties reliably do when in power is cutting tax burden on the top end.

Musk is on record saying to Tucker Carlson that “If [Trump] loses, I’m fucked.”

So this isn't so much of an assumption, as taking him at his word.

All the context I have for this is that he was grandstanding in front of a rightwing audience (after Trump was shot at, notably) and playing the "surely I would get unjustly prosecuted for my political incorrectness under the democrats".

What is your actual point? What would he stand in front of a judge for, right now, if Harris had won?

My actual point is that when someone tells you who they are, you should consider believing them.

You'd have to ask Musk what he feels so guilty about that he had to buy an election.