Musk Denies Report Of Massive Donation To Trump

The Guardian reports:

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has denied reports that emerged last week that he was planning to donate $45 million a month to a Super PAC focused on getting Trump elected. On Tuesday, Musk appeared on Jordan Peterson’s show, where he said the claim was “simply not true”. “I am not donating $45m a month to Trump,” he said.

“Now what I have done is that I have created a PAC or Super PAC or whatever you want to call it,” he said. It is called the America PAC.”

The denial comes days after Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, endorsing his vice-president Kamala Harris, who now has enough delegates to claim the Democratic nomination in August.

The New York Times reports:

Two Republican operatives who played senior roles helping the presidential campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida have taken on leadership roles in a new pro-Trump super PAC that could spend tens of millions of dollars in the presidential race and has ties to Elon Musk.

The aides, Generra Peck, who initially managed the DeSantis campaign, and Phil Cox, a former head of the Republican Governors Association who ran the DeSantis political operation in the years before his run, are quietly guiding the group, America PAC, according to three people briefed on the matter who were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

Musk’s tweet below is in reply to far-right Malaysian Gamergate super-troll Ian Miles Cheong, who blocked me years ago when I pointed out that he’s never even been to the US.

Yeah, it’s ridiculous.

I am making some donations to America PAC, but at a much lower level and the key values of the PAC are supporting a meritocracy & individual freedom.

Republicans are mostly, but not entirely, on the side of merit & freedom.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 24, 2024