Don't say "donated". These are not donations. He's buying politicians, plain and simple.

Sham democracy.

Man he's real scared that he won't be able to blow up rockets over Texas

A small price to pay to avoid paying taxes.

I hope it backfires wildly, even if it is only the equivalent of a small pinch to his finances.

I wonder what the George Soros fearing folk will have to say about this...

Campaign Finance Reform is the issue from which ALL other issues flow.

Take all money out of politics. A qualifying candidate will get a modest war chest from the Federal government, and may not take a single penny from anyone else. Violations include mandatory prison time for both the donor and candidate.

Presidential campaigns are only 90 days long, and include mandatory background checks, ability to pass a security clearance, full medical disclosure, and the release of all tax records. If you object to any of these, you are hiding something significant, and you can't be a candidate.

All political speech by candidates will be tightly controlled, and demonstrable lies will result in the candidate's campaign being cancelled, and the candidate being declared ineligible to hold office for life, essentially forfeiting the race.

You will run for office honorably, with respect for the Constitution and our system of government, or not at all.

Can you imagine how much dirt an fbi under direct control of Trump must have on him? He knows how fucked he is when accountability comes knocking.

This guy needs to be socialized, split up between everybody. And his fortune too

God this just pisses me off, soo much money wasted and for what?

I hope to see polling numbers of before and after his last push. There's no way this has been beneficial for Republicans. I can't imagine they are earning any new voters at this stage.

that "graph" is the worst data visualization i have ever seen

After all that spending, Elon’s wealth went from one trillion dollars down to one trillion dollars.

I thought it would break down the spending by state or to which PACs it went but, uh, that was not helpful.

Musk's net worth is hovering around $924bn – meaning that his $445.77m in political donations account for less than 0.05% of his total wealth.