Co -chairman of the US Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) Billions Ilon Musk during the pre -election campaign Donald Trump spent $ 288 million. In fact, he became the largest donor in the elections.
This is stated in the publication of the publication The Washington Post. Yes, on the eve of the election, Musk helped to form a America Pac to support Trump. America PAC and other external groups were able to closely coordinate their messages and plans for agitation with the main lieutenants of the Trump campaign.
The group was founded thanks to the donations of not only the general director of SpaceX, but also many of his close allies, including the Tesla board member Antonio Gracias, the co -founder of Palantir and the technological investor from Austin Joe Lonsdale and the Sequoia Capital investor, Sean Maguire.
In the report, following the results of the year, covering the period from November 26 to the last day of December, Musk said that on December 31 he made 11.2 million dollars in kind in a natural form in American Pac for what was described as “stimulation of petitions”.
At the end of October, Musk said that daily would distribute $ 1 million in a lottery for registered voters in the interchangeable states who signed the petition as part of the recruitment of voters in its super Pac. Then he said that American Pac will give "
The FEC preliminary application showed that on November 25, Musk contributed in a kind of almost 40.5 million US dollars to stimulate petitions, that is, last year it spent at least 52.7 million US dollars on payments to the petition signatures. Payments were processed through United States of America Inc.
The program was limited by registered voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina. The signed the petition encouraged to transfer the uniform to other voters voting in the variable states. Persons could receive 47 US dollars for each actual appeal to the registered voter in a changing staff, and in some states, such as retirement, incentives were higher.
" The wealth of the mask is largely associated with Tesla shares, the cost of which has increased significantly after the election, ”the publication says.