Elon MuskĀ is notĀ spending $45 million a month to elect former President Donald Trump, though he has created a new super political action committee (PAC) to fund the Republican candidate, the billionaireĀ toldĀ conservative commentator Jordan Peterson during an interview Monday evening.
During the interview, which was hosted on Muskās platform,Ā X, Peterson asked Musk if he had āshockedā himself by donating a substantial amount of money to Trumpās campaign. Musk ā who has previously criticized Trump, calling him a ābullĀ in a china shopā ā paused to correct the āmedia.ā
āWhatās been reported in the media is simply not true,ā Musk said. āI am not donating $45 million a month to Trump.ā
I thought so too, but I just went searching for the source and it appears that everyone gives attribution for this as āaccording to the WSJā, and the WSJ attributes it to āpeople familiar with the matterā. So, no actual statement from Musk that I could find.
That said, I still think heās likely contributing to a PAC (which makes it technically true that isnāt directly giving to Trumpā¦). I also suspect that itās very likely he has an agreement with the PAC that they will then spend this money on ads at Twitter, though I have no evidence to back that up.