Musk has spent at least $120 million to get Donald Trump elected.
Elon Musk jumps awkwardly at an event to promote neo-fascist presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pennsylvania, on October 18, 2024.Elon Musk’s social media platform X has been an important vehicle for spreading countless lies this election season, including fake stories about Haitian immigrants, just to name a few.
One example of a tweet that’s been shared and amplified by the so-called Election Integrity Community was from an account called MJTruthUltra which alleges someone was “dropping off an obscene amount of ballots” at a location in Pennsylvania. The account tried to suggest there was something suspicious about the video, which has been shared over 7 million times.
NPR also notes that it appears establishing this community of “fact-checkers” on X is an attempt to lay the groundwork for any future lawsuits challenging the validity of the election results. And it’s already taken as a given that Trump will claim any result in which he didn’t win is rigged. Obviously, he does that on a daily basis and has falsely said that fraud is already occurring in Pennsylvania, a crucial battleground state.
Trump’s wealthy allies are doing everything they can to get him back into office. Musk, a billionaire right-wing extremist, has poured at least $120 million into getting Trump elected, according to the latest reporting from the. And Musk’s America PAC is giving out $1 million a day to people who sign his “petition” in support of the First and Second Amendments.
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