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Elon Musk and tech elite back a pro-Trump super PAC


The pac has raised more than $8.7 million since June.

Several close friends of Elon Musk, including Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, venture capitalist Doug Leone, and investor and podcast host David Sacks, have donated lavishly to a super PAC backing former President Donald Trump — and the Wall Street Journal reports that Musk plans on donating as much as $45 million a month to America PAC. Founded in May by prominent Republican campaign finance lawyer Chris Gober, the PAC is focused on registering voters and encouraging early and mail-in voting in swing states, one source told the Journal. “We believe that four more years of Joe Biden is a grave threat to the financial and physical safety of the United States,” an unnamed America PAC spokesperson said in a statement to the New York Times.

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