US Presidential Election 2024: Elon Musk pledges not to fund any candidate

“Just to be clear, I am not donating money to any of the US presidential candidates.” “To be absolutely clear, I am not giving money to any candidate for President of the United States.” On Wednesday evening, Elon Musk took to his social network X to put an end to the speculation. According to him, he does not finance Joe Biden or Donald Trump. As for the first, the lack of support for it is beyond doubt. As for the second, speculation remains.

Because Elon Musk, the second richest man in the world according to Forbes magazine, posted a tweet shortly after the publication of an article in the New York Times (NYT), questioning the financial windfall the Tesla boss received from Tesla and several other companies could benefit Donald Trump.

The GOP candidate, now the only one running against Democrat Biden, met with Musk on Sunday in Palm Beach, Florida, during a meeting with some prominent wealthy GOP donors, according to the newspaper. Three separate people spoke to the NYT about private discussions in which Trump and his campaign team are seeking sustainable funding that will last until November.

In November 2022, shortly after purchasing Twitter, Musk restored Donald Trump’s account, which the social network had closed two days after the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and also given the president’s allegations of election fraud. the slightest proof.

“America will collapse if it tries to swallow the world”

Musk has long positioned himself as a political independent and, like many business leaders, for about twenty years he has made (moderate) donations to the two major American parties simply to defend the goat and the cabbage. Tesla and SpaceX, in particular, are working with the US federal government and have received subsidies from Washington as part of a plan to expand electric vehicle production. But his recent posts on X show he believes it is vital that Joe Biden does not win a second term in November. At issue is immigration, which Musk views as a huge danger to the United States, regularly criticizing Joe Biden for the record numbers of migrants entering the United States during his presidency.

The pace of his posts on X, which has 175 million followers, is accelerating: On Tuesday he predicted that “America will collapse if it tries to swallow the world.” Hours earlier, he called the Biden administration’s immigration policies a “betrayal.” And on Wednesday, he again suggested that Democrats should “maximize illegal immigration” to build a future electorate once regularization is implemented.