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Musk spent more than a quarter-billion dollars to elect Trump, including funding a mysterious super PAC, new filings showCNN
Elon Musk plowed at least $260 million into efforts to send Donald Trump back to the White House, new filings show a massive infusion that makes him one of the largest single political underwriters of a presidential campaign and underscores the outsized influence of the worlds wealthiest person on this years election.
Thursdays filings with the Federal Election Commission show that the Tesla and SpaceX executive gave a total of $238 million to a super PAC that he founded this year, America PAC, which worked to turn out voters on Trumps behalf in key states.
But he also was the financial backer of other groups that cropped up in the final days of the election to support Trump, including one that spent millions on advertising to defend his record on abortion. It had sought to link Trumps views on abortion to those of late Supreme Court Justice and liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Musk, through a trust that bears his name, donated $20.5 million to the group, named RBG PAC, on October 24, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. He was the sole donor to the group, which was formed in mid-October. The donations timing meant that Musks involvement was not disclosed until Thursdays post-election filings with the federal regulators.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/politics/elon-musk-trump-campaign-finance-filings/index.html
Timeflyer
(2,722 posts)littlemissmartypants
(25,906 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(10,647 posts)feed was at minimum as influential as the dough spent.
Welcome to the Age of Oligarchs.
uponit7771
(91,998 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,559 posts)Citizens United drowned the Republic and now we have lost a chance of getting balance back for a generation.
The oligarchs bought the Supreme Court first and the rest followed.
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uponit7771
(91,998 posts)paparush
(7,989 posts)to get Trump re-elected.
Uncle Joe
(60,265 posts)and it's dead end impact on human society, so now they've come out from behind the curtain to dominate humanity in any way they can so as to "nip it in the bud" as Barney Fife would say.
Thanks for the thread spanone.
NotHardly
(1,370 posts)dchill
(40,768 posts)SCantiGOP
(14,302 posts)That would be like most of us spending $500 or $5,000 a lot of money, but a real bargain if I could use it to buy house. If I could use it to buy a country, even better.
CaptainTruth
(7,271 posts)Kid Berwyn
(18,351 posts)Who wants to vote for someone giving free health care and transgender surgery to public school kids, convicts and illegal immigrants?
Botany
(72,662 posts)He and Putin were into the voting data big time. He should be picked up and
questioned about what exactly he did in the election such as compiling voter
data base list in order to have his own trove of votes ready to go in order to
flip the election.
Trump knew the fix was in and so he masturbated a mic stand, then gave a
blow job to a microphone, talked about Arnold Palmers penis in his hometown,
had 1/2 empty rallies where people were walking out before it was over, and
bragged about not really needing votes on September 4th, 24.
Blue Full Moon
(1,326 posts)He will plunder Social Security and all the rest of of our money because he needs more.
talking-liberally
(49 posts)Enough with the policies and platitudes. Make it personal and make it hurt, in unison.
Fuck the bastards.
Also, fear the immigrants: not the ones wearing sandals and carrying babies who pick our vegtables and shingle our roofs, the ones who have an insatiable desire for power to control people and destroy democracy and people's lives.
malaise
(278,804 posts)Sickening
Orrex
(64,328 posts)Im sure that his genius and expertise would do well in that role, and I hear that theres an opening!