Less than a month before the election, a super PAC was established with Elon Musk as its only financier. Its advertisement aimed to persuade voters that Donald Trump’s views on abortion were similar to those of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
According to federal campaign finance reports submitted this week, a week after it was established, an organization called Elon Musk Revocable Trust gave a single $20.5 million donation to a group called RBG PAC. Musk’s association with the nonprofit, which he did not discuss publicly, was not made public until the forms were made public due to the short time between the donation and Thursday’s reporting deadline.
The RBG PAC group ran a television commercial in the final weeks before the election on November 5th, highlighting Trump’s claims that he would not sign a national abortion ban as president. The narrator of the commercial stated that he does favor appropriate exceptions for rape, incest, and the mother’s life.
Although Ginsburg thought that a woman’s right to an abortion was guaranteed by the Constitution, she stated in 2012 that the historic Roe v. Wade ruling went too far too quickly, potentially altering the course of the abortion rights debate in the decades that followed.
Three of the Supreme Court judges who voted to overturn Roe in 2022 were nominated by Trump. This made it possible for numerous conservative-led states to restrict or outright prohibit access to abortion.
A report submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Thursday claims that the Musk organization used almost all of its funds for text messages, mailers, and digital advertisements.
The cash for that group is a tiny portion of the more than $200 million Musk spent during the 2024 election cycle, the majority of which went to his super PAC, which was created to help elect Trump. This shows how powerful the affluent are hoping to be in American politics and Trump’s new government.
Musk, the richest man in the world, invested millions of dollars in a campaign to help the former president win back the presidency. He gained political notoriety for converting Twitter into X, a website that Trump supporters who support the Make America Great Again movement use.
America PAC, Musk’s super PAC, sponsored advertisements warning that Kamala and the nuts would win if voters did not cast ballots. The PAC started a $1 million-per-day voter prize, which led to legal action before a judge ruled that it could proceed.
The filing was made on Thursday while Musk and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy were meeting behind closed doors with senators on Capitol Hill to discuss Trump’s DOGE plan to abolish portions of the federal government.
As part of his Save America agenda for a second term in office, Trump appointed the two titans of business to lead his Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a nonpartisan task force tasked with identifying ways to reduce federal regulations, cut programs, and fire federal employees.
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