On October 5, 2024, Elon Musk wore a black ball cap with the words “Make America Great Again” written on it and met with Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump ( Donald Trump attends a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Anna Money Tree | Getty Images
this Ministry of Justice Super PACs have been warned Musk $1 million per day Voter draw A person familiar with the matter told NBC News on Wednesday that this could violate federal election laws.
Letter from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Division to a U.S. political action committee, a group largely funded by Musk that supports Republican presidential candidates Donald Trumpwas revealed as some legal expert Questions were raised about unusual giveaways.
MuskCEO Tesla SpaceX announced on Saturday that he would donate $1 million a day to randomly registered voters in seven key battleground states who signed the PAC petition.
The qualifying states — Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina — are among Trump’s fiercest battlegrounds against Democratic candidates. Kamala Harris.
Federal law prohibits paying people to vote or register to vote. The petition itself does not require signatories to list their political party affiliations, but does ask for personal information, including email addresses and mobile phone numbers.
It was unclear when the Justice Department sent the letter, which was reported earlier Wednesday CNN and election blog 24Sight News. A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Justice declined CNBC’s request for comment.
The letter was reportedly addressed to US PAC lawyer Chris Gober, who did not immediately respond when contacted by CNBC.
Musk is the world’s richest man and one of Trump’s biggest supporters in the White House. U.S. political action committees spent more than $100 million on the presidential election, the vast majority of which came from Musk himself.
— CNBC’s Lora Kolodny contributed reporting.
