Elon Musk donated $15 million to Donald Trump’s Tremendous PAC MAGA Inc., in addition to to the Congressional Management Fund and the Senate Management Fund, in response to Federal Election Fee filings printed on Thursday. Each funds serve to help Home and Senate Republicans.
Musk spent practically $300 million to help Trump and Republicans of their election bids in 2024 and, a lot to the then-delight of Trump, overtly sported a “darkish MAGA” black hat forward of the president’s re-election. He was introduced onboard to go the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) in November.
However the chummy relationship started to point out indicators of cracking quickly after Musk’s appointment, and the frenemies exchanged a sequence of written insults throughout social media in June. Musk accused Trump of being within the Epstein recordsdata — some extent of competition that also canine the administration — and two days later the president retaliated by accusing Musk of being a “big-time drug addict.”
Although Musk has since walked again a lot of his accusations and insults, the duo haven’t overtly resumed the kind of working relationship they as soon as loved. That coupled with Musk’s personal insistence he would type his personal political social gathering (he introduced the America Occasion on X on July 7) makes the sizable donations one thing of a shock.
CNN reported Musk can also be the biggest particular person contributor to the congressional PACs, and has additionally poured an extra $45 million into America PAC (the tremendous PAC he supervises). Notably, the FEC filings launched final week solely cowl his monetary exercise by means of the tip of June, and it’s not implausible he has continued to donate to the identical efforts.
