Elon Musk will not face charges for promising to give $1 million to voters in a 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election because no jury would find that constituted election bribery, a state prosecutor said Tuesday.

Musk, the founder of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla, was deeply involved in the effort to flip majority control of the highest court in battleground Wisconsin last year. But the candidate he and Republicans backed lost to Democratic-supported Susan Crawford, whose victory preserved liberals' majority on the court.

The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission in July referred two complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office for possible charges, saying Musk likely broke the law. La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke was later appointed as a special prosecutor because of a conflict of interest.

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[–] 104 points 2 months ago (6 children)

no jury would find that constituted election bribery, a state prosecutor said

Even though the Wisconsin Elections Commission found probable cause that Elon Musk broke the law ?

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  • [–] 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Why don’t they actually ask a jury that, you know, with a trial maybe?

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  • [–] 87 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    no jury would find that constituted election bribery

    Why not? Are they planning to let Elon Musk bribe the jury, as well?

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  • [–] 45 points 2 months ago

    Guess the prosecutor got paid off as well.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke, a Democrat, announced on Tuesday that he didn’t think he could convince a jury that Musk had made a bribe with the posts.

    Gonna write this guy a nice letter...

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    This is why even if Dems take the house and Senate, and the POTUS, nothing will be done to prosecute any of these criminals. They'll do the same shit that Biden did and drag their feet.

    Still would rather they be running the show, but fucking hell...someone giving up because they don't think they could convince a jury....has he been paying attention in MN?

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  • [–] 34 points 2 months ago

    state prosecutors can decide what the jury will say and that's enough to close the case

    USA weird

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago

    By this logic, we should stop arresting people for attempted murder because it didn’t work anyway.

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  • I live in Wisconsin and would have 100% called it election bribery if on the jury, because it was.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    Jury muskification.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    La Crosse's demographics and voting history is just marginally more for Democrats so I wonder what the justification is besides "nah"

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago*

    Pretty sure if Elon goes before a jury, he is getting convicted regardless of what he is charged with cause of how much people don't like him but he'll probably find a way to bribe or blackmail a jury member or two.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    Lol. This shows everyone that even the bluest of the blue states won't stand up to this stuff. CA won't even punish the a-hole sherrif that stole and tainted votes.

    It doesn't matter how hard you "vote blue" ,MAGA IS NOT LEAVING WITHOUT PHYSICALLY BEING REMOVED

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I'm shocked

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Put me on the jury

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I used to like Elon until he started talking.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Because of course he does.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Maybe he bribed the jury…

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