Trump & Musk: Seems Musk Violated FEC Finance Law for Offering Big Money to Trump

Elon Musk Offers Huge Amount of Dough to Trump

(Seems he may have violated FEC Campaign Law) 

Breaking news from THE NEW REPUBLIC that nails both Trump and Musk for possible FEC campaign financing law with this headline story:

“Trump’$ Train-wreck Elon Mu$k Interview May Have Broken the Law”

The dumpster fire of a conversation between Donald Trump and Elon Musk just became a huge legal headache.

Trump’s lengthy interview with Elon Musk earlier this month may have violated FEC regulations, at least according to one Democratic-aligned political action committee that has already filed an FEC complaint over the issue.

The complaint, filed by “End Citizens United,” argued that the unfettered “conversation on X, Musk’s $12.5 billion company, amounted to a virtual campaign event financed by the social media platform.”

Per the FEC’s website, a contribution is “Anything of value given, loaned, or advanced to influence a federal election.”

“End Citizens United” also claimed that the event did not fall under press exemptions set forth by the election commission on the basis that X is not a traditional news outlet.

And, that the company devoted “considerable resources to host the interview, including dedicating real time staff to fix numerous technical glitches;” and (perhaps most significantly) that “Musk has repeatedly voiced his support for Trump in the 2024 race, and launched the talk with the intention to platform Trump’s personal beliefs.”

The complaint alleged: “Because X spent considerable resources to host an event to expressly advocate for Trump and was not entitled to the press exemption for that event, Respondents have violated the ban on giving and receiving corporation contributions.”

The group called for the FEC to “immediately investigate the violations and to take appropriate remedial action against the brazen corporate contribution.”

Unfortunately for “End Citizens United,” such high-profile complaints can take months or even years for the ideologically gridlocked six-commissioner panel at the FEC to investigate, making it highly unlikely for the group to reach a consensus before the November election.

“End Citizens United” president Tiffany Muller said in a statement: “The Donald Trump-Elon Musk campaign rally hosted on X wasn’t just an incoherent diatribe of lies marred by technical difficulties — it was a blatantly illegal corporate contribution to Donald Trump’s campaign. This brazen corporate contribution undermines campaign finance laws and would set a dangerous precedent for unfettered, direct corporate engagement in campaigns.”

My 2 Cents: I often hope for equal justice under law to be applied to every person the country and to this mess that Trump and Musk have created as discussed above.

I hope the FEC (it will take time and challenges BTW) will nail Musk with a very hefty fine and shut him and Trump up forever. They earned whatever follows.

After all, NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW, right? Damn right. Especially those two.

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