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BumRushDaShow

(158,634 posts)
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 05:07 AM Aug 1

Elon Musk gives millions to Republican super PACs ahead of the midterms

Source: NBC News

July 31, 2025, 6:01 PM EDT


Billionaire Elon Musk may be gone from President Donald Trump’s White House, but he may not be done with Republican politics.

Musk made a pair of $5 million donations on June 27 to the main super PACs backing House and Senate Republicans. That made Musk the largest individual donor to both groups in the first six months of 2025, according to new campaign finance reports filed Thursday.

The new contributions are further proof of how Musk can make a big splash in politics by putting his signature on just one check. And they raise the question of how much more there might be before the midterms, despite Musk’s messy post-White House breakup with Trump and his statements in July about starting a third party, made after the donations.

Musk’s June 27 donations supporting the Senate Leadership Fund and the Congressional Leadership Fund, the two GOP super PACs, came about a month after leaving his official post as an adviser to Trump and days before he began publicly discussing the idea of starting a new political party.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/elon-musk-gives-millions-republican-super-pacs-ahead-midterms-rcna222114



Yet not a dime for any foundations or charities designed to help people.
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Elon Musk gives millions to Republican super PACs ahead of the midterms (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 1 OP
Hypocrite no_hypocrisy Aug 1 #1
The land of the threat, the home of the bribe Walleye Aug 1 #2
Largest republican donor was an illegal immigrant... JT45242 Aug 1 #3
That's how you get a third party going. Give millions to another party! Midnight Writer Aug 1 #4

no_hypocrisy

(52,740 posts)
1. Hypocrite
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 05:20 AM
Aug 1

Musk said he wanted to initiate a third party to run against TSF. By donating to republican PACs, he's ensuring that Trump's policies continue.

JT45242

(3,578 posts)
3. Largest republican donor was an illegal immigrant...
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 06:26 AM
Aug 1

Overstayed his visa and had a bunch of anchor babies.

South Africa sending their sexual harassers (perhaps, rapists). Not their best people.

Midnight Writer

(24,519 posts)
4. That's how you get a third party going. Give millions to another party!
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 12:59 PM
Aug 1

We cannot fathom the genius of Musk's strategy any more than we can decode a Trump weave.

This guy jumps from one thing to another, "moving fast and breaking shit", and never doubts himself for a second, even when completely over his own head.

"My mind is like a storm."

Indeed.

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