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
No, I am saying that when Obama was elected many liberals had an undue sense of euphoria, which led many of them to overlook or even justify his flaws, and just generally assume that he would choose or be able to fix basically anything bad, as opposed to criticizing his flaws and keep up the anti-Bush era enthusiasm to do things like repeal the PATRIOT Act.