Elon Musk
now denies he's donating $45 million a month to help Trump
The acerbic
tech billionaire said he is donating at a "much lower level" to a
pro-Trump PAC — without going into specifics.
July 24,
2024, 7:00 PM GMT+2
By
Clarissa-Jan Lim
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/elon-musk-trump-donation-45-million-pac-rcna163404
Elon Musk
has denied that he is contributing $45 million a month to a pro-Donald Trump
political action committee, saying he is instead donating "at a much lower
level” than was initially reported.
“What’s been
reported in the media is simply not true. I’m not donating $45 million a month
to Trump,” Musk said in an interview with Jordan Peterson, a conservative
Canadian pop psychologist and YouTube personality, posted Monday on X, the
social media site that Musk owns.
Musk said he
created the America PAC not as a “hyper-partisan” group but to “promote the
principles that make America great in the first place.” Those principles, he
said, include meritocracy and freedom, which he defined as “the least amount of
government intervention possible,” a condition without which “everything
becomes illegal.”
The Wall
Street Journal reported last week that Musk was planning to donate around $45
million a month to America PAC. In response to the reporting, Musk appeared at
the time to give mixed signals. He responded to the WSJ article on X with a
picture of gnus with human legs and the caption, “FAKE GNUS.” But he also
replied to a post claiming he is “pledging $180 million” to re-elect Trump —
the equivalent of $45 million a month from July until November — writing,
“Yeah.”
Later on
Tuesday, Musk posted on X that he is “making some donations to America PAC, but
at a much lower level.”
The acerbic
Silicon Valley billionaire had publicly thrown his support behind Trump after
the attempt on the former president’s life at a campaign rally July 13. The
Journal's report about Musk's monthly contributions to the super PAC
underscored the financial heft behind the efforts by Silicon Valley's
increasingly right-leaning factions to shore up their candidate of choice.
At a rally
in Michigan this week, Trump himself vowed “to make life good” for people like
Musk. (Read more from my colleague Ja’han Jones about Trump’s overtures to
Musk.)
He also
boasted about the tech billionaire’s donations to him. “Elon endorsed me the
other day, and I read — I didn’t even know this, he didn’t even tell me about
it,” Trump said, “but he gives me $45 million a month.”
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