UK Anti-Islam Activist: Musk Paid for My Defense
13th October 2025
British anti-Islam activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson, went on trial on Monday accused of refusing to give police his phone PIN when stopped under counter-terrorism laws, and said billionaire Elon Musk was funding his defense.
Yaxley-Lennon, better known by his pseudonym Tommy Robinson, has become a flag-bearer for some British nationalists and one of Britain’s most high-profile anti-migration campaigners, recently organizing a large rally in London attended by about 150,000 people.
He said in a video posted on social media before his trial at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court that Musk, who often reposts his messages on X and appeared at the rally by videolink, had “picked up the legal bill for this absolute state persecution.”
Musk keeps doing things that I would do if I had his money. (He also keeps doing things that I wouldn’t do if I had his money, but there it is.)