X owner has spent tens of millions to fund conservative causes including anti-immigrant and anti-transgender ads
Elon Musk has given tens of millions of dollars to rightwing groups in recent years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, revealing his backing for Republican groups began earlier than was previously known.
Musk endorsed Trump earlier this year and has been a prolific booster of misinformation in support of the president’s re-election bid on X, the website he owns. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that Musk had said he planned to donate $45m each month to a Super Pac backing Trump (Musk has denied the report).
But the Wall Street Journal’s reporting on Thursday revealed that Musk has already been spending tens of millions of dollars to back conservative causes. In 2022, he spent more than $50m to fund anti-immigrant and anti-transgender advertisements by a group called Citizens for Sanity. The group’s officers are employees of America First Legal, a non-profit led by Stephen Miller, a close former Trump aide.
Musk also has donated millions to another rightwing group, Building America’s Future, Reuters reported on Thursday. The outlet reported the timeline and exact amount he has given were not clear.
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So he was a cunt all along and not just lately? Impossible
I hear he was very kind to the black indentured servant nannies he had and hardly ever called them bigoted names.
SUCH a class act. I know I can’t hold back talking shit to my various nannies who’s names I can’t recall.
This isn’t surprising news. He’s always been an asshole but it seems pretty widely agreed that he lost his filter somewhere around COVID so the reporting of 2022 isn’t a shock at all. In fact I’m shocked to find out it’s only since 2022?!
Non-paywall link to original WSJ article mentioned here: https://archive.ph/iiUj7
