Musk Secretly Spent $20M On Pro-Trump Abortion Ads

The Washington Post reports:

Elon Musk bankrolled a mysterious campaign group that sought to convince voters in the final days of the presidential election that Donald Trump would refuse to sign a national ban on abortion, according to Federal Election Commission filings released late Thursday. The filings for RBG PAC, apparently named in reference to late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, show the Elon Musk Revocable Trust funneled $20.5 million into the group just days before the Nov. 5 election. It was the sole disclosed donor.

Ginsburg was a long-standing supporter of the right to abortion, but her granddaughter, Clara Spera, previously criticized the group, saying in a statement that RBG PAC “has no connection to the Ginsburg family and is an affront to my late grandmother’s legacy.” On YouTube and Facebook, accounts with the same name as the super PAC posted short ads that feature women saying that Trump has promised he will not sign into law a national abortion ban if elected.

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RBC PAC’s $20 million last-minute spending spree boosting Trump on abortion was one of the most brazen stunt campaigns in recent memory, designed to evade basic transparency rules.

Turns out it was fully, 100% financed by Elon Musk.

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