March 5 (Reuters) - Donald Trump met with Tesla CEO Elon

Musk, one of the world's richest individuals, in Florida over

the weekend as the former Republican president seeks a major

cash infusion for his latest re-election campaign, The New York

Times reported on Tuesday.

The Times cited three people briefed on Sunday's private

meeting in Palm Beach but who spoke to the newspaper on

condition of anonymity.

According to the Times, Trump met with Musk and a few

wealthy Republican donors on Sunday and hopes to have a

one-on-one discussion soon with Musk, the CEO of both Tesla Inc ( TSLA )

and SpaceX, and the owner-executive chairman of X, the

social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

Neither Musk nor Trump's campaign immediately responded to

Reuters' requests for comment.

Trump, whose own personal fortune took recent hits from

judgments against him in a New York civil fraud case and a

separate defamation trial, is aiming to line up additional major

contributors to his campaign for president, the Times said.

Musk has not said whether he plans to back Trump's White

House bid financially. But the South African-born billionaire

entrepreneur has suggested in social media posts that he is

opposed to incumbent President Joe Biden, the Democrat who

defeated Trump in 2020, winning a second term in November.

With a net worth that Forbes magazine has put at around $200

billion, Musk has the resources to almost single-handedly offset

the huge financial advantage that Biden and his supporters are

otherwise expected to wield over Trump in the 2024 general

election campaign.

Musk has long sought to cast himself as politically

independent, and according to the Times has not spent heavily on

presidential races in the past, while splitting donations fairly

evenly between Democrats and Republicans.

(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Lincoln

Feast.)