Report: Elon Musk has been funding Trump’s anti-immigrant mastermind
Report: Elon Musk has been funding Trump’s anti-immigrant mastermind
Donations uncovered by the Wall Street Journal reveal that Musk has spent millions to back anti-immigrant and anti-transgender initiatives.
Long gone are the innocent days when media outlets claimed the independence and nuance of the politics of Elon Musk. Now, amid myriad X posts spreading far-right propaganda on immigrants, trans people, and, well, just about any other topic, it has become obvious where one of the richest men in the world stands.
This week, there was more proof that Musk has put his money where his mouth has been. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Musk poured tens of millions of dollars into Republican campaigns and conservative groups even before he publicly endorsedDonald Trump in July. Conservatives helped conceal Musk’s contributions through so-called social welfare or “dark money” groups that do not have to disclose their donors and can raise unlimited funds. (Musk did not respond to the Journal’s request for comment.)
One piece of reporting stood out. The newspaper found that the tech billionaire donated more than $50 million in 2022 for campaign advertisements by Citizens for Sanity, a group connected to former Trump aide Stephen Miller and his non-profit America First Legal, which bills itself as “the long-awaited answer to the ACLU.”
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Again, let’s all take note on how quickly nothing is done about this.
What are you expecting to be done? None of that was illegal?
Did you miss this part?
“Conservatives helped conceal Musk’s contributions through so-called social welfare or “dark money” groups that do not have to disclose their donors and can raise unlimited funds.”
Do you honestly think he’s on the level here? Especially since the fucknut was promised a government job if Trump gets elected?
One of those morality Vs legality thing.
For it to be illegal it seems like the system needs to changeI think he's an insufferable cunt but it's not obvious to me that he's broken any laws. Those dark money groups are presumably a shitty but legal aspect of the US's shitty political system?
I presume you're a lawyer.
Are you?
No, but I'm not making legal claims.
Neither am I
There are laws around what dark money groups can and can't do, but the only people to whom it would be obvious whether or not those laws were broken would be either lawyers or people who had a good amount of knowledge about the law in the area.
Cool. And that's why I was questioning why the op was so sure that there was something obvious that 'something needs to be done about'
"Not illegal" is not equivalent to "legal."
So?