Trillionaire Elon Musk has already spent more than $276 million on races in the November midterm elections since July alone, according to federal election filings and numbers reported Monday by The New York Times, making the Tesla CEO the biggest midterms donor thus far as he works to prop up Republicans across the country—and attracts controversy.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/10/12/musk-bankrolls-republicans-in-midterms-as-biggest-donor-while-attacking-talarico/
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They could just pay their fair share of taxes … Oh! That’s a little more. Awwwww.
This is great news! Thank you “Trillionair” Forbes Leftist Leaning Editors. You guys are sickening and you know damn well we would have lost the country if Musk did not step up.
No matter how much this dude spend, it won’t stop the Dems from winning which means his chances of going to prison has just gone up drastically
Wow, Elon. That’s very Soros of you. Smh.
Should be deported
This is nothing new, really. Billionaires, banks and big corporations have been buying politicians for quite a while.