Elon Musk spent more than $250 million to help elect Donald Trump, including a late $20 million addition to a super PAC that subpoenaed the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, according to a campaign finance report released Thursday. It also includes doing.
Federal filings detail how Musk, the world’s richest man, spent vast sums to support Trump’s successful bid for the White House. Most of that money went to his pro-Trump super PAC, America PAC, which received a total of $238 million. But Musk also spent more than $40 million on checks to voters in swing states as part of a controversial $1 million giveaway, the New York Times reported.
One of the most revealing filings shows how the billionaire donated $20.5 million to a group called RBG PAC on October 24, just weeks before the November election. The group runs a web page honoring Ginsburg, a leading judicial advocate for abortion protections, and has spent millions of dollars to run ads to reassure voters about Trump’s pledge to oppose a federal abortion ban if elected. I spent it.
The website reads “Great Minds Think Alike” and features photos of Trump and Ginsburg.
The group’s donors were unknown until Thursday’s filing with the FEC.
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At the time, the judge’s granddaughter criticized the PAC, telling the New York Times that it had nothing to do with her family and calling it “an affront to her late grandmother’s legacy.”
“The use of her name and image to support Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, especially to imply that she supports his stance on abortion, is absolutely appalling,” Clara Spera said in a statement to the newspaper.
The Times noted that the full amount Musk spent in the 2024 campaign cycle may never be known and that he may also have funded dark money groups that are not required to disclose their donors.
Musk has become one of the most visible members of Trump’s inner circle as he moves to fill his upcoming cabinet with loyalists and attack dogs. Along with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Musk will lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
Both men promised to cut government bureaucracy, calling the large federal workforce “the fourth most unelected branch of government.”
