Musk PAC Admits $1M Winners Not Randomly Chosen

The Guardian reports:

Elon Musk’s pro-Trump group does not choose the winners of its $1m-a-day giveaway to registered voters at random, but instead picks people who would be good spokespeople for its agenda, an attorney for the billionaire said on Monday.

Musk lawyer Chris Gober was trying to persuade a Pennsylvania judge that the giveaway was not an “illegal lottery”, as the Philadelphia district attorney, Lawrence Krasner, alleged in a lawsuit seeking to block the contest in advance of Tuesday’s US presidential election.

“There is no prize to be won, instead recipients must fulfill contractual obligations to serve as a spokesperson for the Pac,” Gober said in the hearing before Judge Angelo Foglietta.

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