Musk ready to shell out $100 million to trump PAC's

"Elon Musk has signaled to President Trump’s advisers in recent days that he wants to put $100 million into groups controlled by the Trump political operation, according to three people with knowledge of the matter."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0...-trump-donation.html

so, good to know -- now do soros buying all the radio stations and pumping money into the other side --

NOT supporting trump, just pointing out that both sides do it

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Originally posted by jeffeosso:
so, good to know -- now do soros buying all the radio stations and pumping money into the other side --

NOT supporting trump, just pointing out that both sides do it

Totally agree. We need election donation reform. Letting these super-rich assholes influence US elections via millions of dollars of donations is a plague. We ought to put a stop to it. On both sides.

The government should finance POTUS elections. Each side gets a set amount and no more. Spend it as they see fit. Government finances a set number of debates.

Get money out of it.

Never happen. I know. But, one can hope.

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Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
The government should finance POTUS elections. Each side gets a set amount and no more. Spend it as they see fit. Government finances a set number of debates.

Get money out of it.

Never happen. I know. But, one can hope.

effectively it should be $1 million (adjusted) - to both -- nothing more -- no PACs, and ALL NAMES must be publicly available -

It seems to me we once had laws that limited campaign donations and a Supreme Court majority, all of whom were appointed by Republican Presidents, decided that money equals speech and threw them out...

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Originally posted by jeffeosso:
so, good to know -- now do soros buying all the radio stations and pumping money into the other side --

NOT supporting trump, just pointing out that both sides do it

Soros is not an employee of the federal government.

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Originally posted by LHeym500:

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Originally posted by jeffeosso:
so, good to know -- now do soros buying all the radio stations and pumping money into the other side --

NOT supporting trump, just pointing out that both sides do it

Soros is not an employee of the federal government.

well, he hasn't quite been a federal employee long enough to amass enough funds to spend $100M from those earning sources -- I think he's have to run for congress and subscribe to aunt nancy's stock tips, but might take him a bit long than 60 days

hmm, and in his role as a private citizen, he can invest however he likes --

Now, back to soros