{"id":134161,"date":"2024-12-07T01:12:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T18:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134161"},"modified":"2024-12-07T01:12:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T18:12:46","slug":"elon-musk-revealed-as-sole-funder-of-rbg-pac-that-claimed-trump-and-ginsburg-were-aligned-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134161","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk revealed as sole funder of RBG Pac that claimed Trump and Ginsburg were aligned | Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Elon Musk<\/a> has emerged as the sole financial architect behind a provocative political action committee that appropriated the name of late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-supreme-court\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">US supreme court<\/a> justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ruth-bader-ginsberg\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Ruth Bader Ginsburg<\/a> to bolster Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00891291\/1858227\/sa\/ALL\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">federal campaign finance reports<\/a> released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The RBG Pac, funded entirely by the world\u2019s richest man with a $20.5m donation in the final two weeks of the campaign, ran advertisements and mailers suggesting an ideological alignment between Trump and Ginsburg on abortion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">That\u2019s a narrative that Clara Spera, the justice\u2019s granddaughter, denounced as fundamentally misleading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cThe use of her name and image to support Donald Trump\u2019s re-election campaign, and specifically to suggest that she would approve of his position on abortion, is nothing short of appalling,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/25\/us\/politics\/trump-ruth-bader-ginsburg-abortion-ad.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">she told the New York Times<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u200b\u200bThe RBG Pac\u2019s strategic advertising push arrived at a critical political moment, following months of Democratic attacks on Trump\u2019s abortion stance. Its website featured a photo of Trump and Ginsburg with the caption \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbgpac.com\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Great Minds Think Alike\u201d<\/a> \u2013 a claim that directly contradicts Ginsburg\u2019s well-documented judicial philosophy and her personal opposition to Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cWhy did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ruth-bader-ginsberg\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Ruth Bader Ginsburg<\/a> agree with Donald Trump\u2019s position on abortion?\u201d the website asked. \u201cBecause RBG believed that the federal government shouldn\u2019t dictate our abortion laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The Pac claimed that Trump doesn\u2019t support a federal abortion ban \u2013 something Trump himself said on the campaign trail \u2013 although he will face pressure from Republicans and opponents of abortion to enact one once he takes office anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Spera has shared in the past that Ginsburg\u2019s dying wish in September 2020 had been that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/09\/18\/ginsburg-rbg-dying-wish-418108\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">she was not replaced<\/a> on the court until a new president was sworn in. That request was ignored by Trump when he appointed Amy Coney Barrett, who would later be part of the conservative majority overturning Roe v Wade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Musk\u2019s political spending far exceeded this single Pac, ballooning to more than $260m in the 2024 election cycle. His primary vehicle was America Pac, <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00879510\/1858330\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">which raised about $252m<\/a>, with Musk making high-profile campaign appearances and conducting voter outreach initiatives that included controversial $1m giveaways in swing states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The billionaire\u2019s political donations also extended to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/harris-trump-election-10-24-2024\/card\/musk-drops-3-million-on-rfk-jr-trump-super-pac-BnaQ6g9aL4jcZ1eo5F6E\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">a $3m contribution<\/a> to a Super Pac linked to Robert F Kennedy Jr and nearly $1m directly to Trump\u2019s campaign committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Now with the Trump win, Musk is positioned to play a significant role in the incoming administration. He\u2019s set to co-lead a new \u201cDepartment of Government Efficiency\u201d alongside biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/musk-and-ramaswamy-the-doge-plan-to-reform-government-supreme-court-guidance-end-executive-power-grab-fa51c020\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">pledging to dramatically reduce<\/a> federal bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/dec\/06\/elon-musk-rbg-pac-abortion\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has emerged as the sole financial architect behind a provocative political action committee that appropriated the name of late US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to bolster &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134161\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}