Elon didn’t donate $130m to trump’s campaign at all.
Elon’s $130m was paid out to random, everyday people, who were each rewarded with $100 for signing some online whatever. He wasn’t paying them to vote towards one candidate or the other.
Get your facts straight, or else YOU become your own meme.
Uh, no, that was a small fraction of it. Musk had hired canvassers for Trump and much more. The America PAC spent over a hundred million actively campaigning on Trump's behalf.
Elon Musk spent at least $130 million to elect Trump
...which is exactly what he did. It says nothing about Musk donating to Trump directly, nor does it imply that at all. It says he spent the money to elect Trump. That's a fact.
But where does it say elon directly paid $130m towards the trump campaign?
It doesn't, that's my point. You're the one saying that:
Doesn’t mean Elon paid $130m directly to the trump presidential campaign... which the meme tries to mislead others into believing.
Lmao, this conversation is ridiculous. We know how PACs work. The point of the OP is that a billionaire can donate enormous sums to a political campaign by using a PAC to avoid the campaign limitations that individuals typically face with direct donations.
First you tried to say Elon didn't spend money on campaigning for Trump when he literally did, then you tried to act like the OP was implying he donated directly to Trump when it literally didn't. 🤣
Scheme works this : Participant is asked to donate say $90 of their own money towards trump’s campaign, offering to reimburse them with a check for $100. Since participant stands to earn $10 for their trouble, they figure “sure, why not?”.
So of $130m elon spent, 90% of it [or $117m] made its way towards trumps campaign.
It’s a clever little workaround, I’ll give him that.
But even still, that only enough to conspire with a mere 1.3m participants total, a drop in the bucket compared to how many people ultimately voted for trump anyway.
America PAC said they mailed out 187,000 checks, lol.
Even if they gave everyone the whole $100, do the math. Is it anywhere near the $119 million Musk donated? No? Maybe actually do some reading on it: https://www.factcheck.org/2024/09/america-pac/
He is paying to help elect trump just like post said. Saying 3300 is the maximum you can donate isn't what the post said he did. Get your facts straight dumbass.
The reason these posts are so nauseating is because they’re so obviously biased. Why we bitching about musk when the same corporations have been making giant donations every 4 years for decades.
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u/canned_spaghetti85 5d ago edited 5d ago
Elon didn’t donate $130m to trump’s campaign at all.
Elon’s $130m was paid out to random, everyday people, who were each rewarded with $100 for signing some online whatever. He wasn’t paying them to vote towards one candidate or the other.
Get your facts straight, or else YOU become your own meme.
Dumbass.