Now that Donald Trump has won the White House, the American oligarchs who helped facilitate his return to power are waiting with open hands for payoff. Elon Musk is already getting his. The billionaire owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter) poured millions into Trump’s reelection effort, campaigned on …
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It happened, again: Democrats lost a winnable election to a racist, orange-makeup-wearing carnival barker, despite his odiousness, immorality, and unbridled corruption. This time, Donald Trump campaigned on an even darker agenda — the mass deportation of migrants, calls for more violent policing, and demands of retribution against his enemies — …
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Republicans won big up and down the ballot in the 2024 election, and so did a key group of supporters: billionaire oligarchs who invested their immense wealth and resources in a red wave. No one, of course, gloated more than Elon Musk, a top surrogate for president-elect Donald Trump and …
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Pole for poll? As Americans logged onto X on Election Day to get the latest update on the presidential race, Johnny McCarty, or @____JBravo0, was promising his Twitter followers that he’d post a nude picture to celebrate if Kamala Harris won the election. He hasn’t been the only one. “It’s …
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Yet another virtual political event on Elon Musk‘s X, once known as Twitter, has gone down in flames. On Monday evening, the night before Election Day, the tech billionaire had hoped to host a virtual town hall for America PAC, the Super PAC he created this year to support the …
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Throughout the 2024 campaign, federal law enforcement and election officials from both sides of the aisle have consistently sounded the alarm about the cascade of right-wing, Donald Trump-inspired threats that election workers are facing as they attempt to perform the basic, essential task of administering America’s democratic elections. Now, Election …
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It was barely the afternoon of Election Day on the East Coast when Elon Musk decided, based on vague claims of high male turnout he saw online, that men would deliver Donald Trump a decisive victory in a close presidential race. The MAGA billionaire — who has poured at least …
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On Tuesday, Elon Musk and America PAC — a Super PAC the billionaire founded to support Donald Trump‘s 2024 presidential run — were hit with a second lawsuit over allegedly deceptive advertising practices related to its daily $1 million lottery. From Oct. 19 through Election Day, America PAC awarded $1 …
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This article was copublished with The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. At 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, with the sky still pitch black, the parking lot of the Executive Education Academy in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was unusually active. The …
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Elon Musk, the most important mega-donor of the 2024 presidential election, has spent the final stretch of the campaign awarding $1 million from his Super PAC to a different swing state voters daily in order to boost his favored candidate, Donald Trump. Such a giveaway is unprecedented in American politics, …
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