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Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk donated nearly $75 million since July to his pro-Trump America PAC, Federal Election Commission filings show.
Mr. Musk has come out as a top supporter of Mr. Trump, and after saying he wouldn’t be donating money to either presidential candidate, he has gone all in for MAGA.
He started American PAC in May, and it focuses on voter turnout in battleground states. Mr. Musk joined Mr. Trump in one key swing state — Pennsylvania — earlier this month, where the former president embraced Mr. Musk’s endorsement.
The filing shows that Mr. Musk has upped his donations since July, with $14.95 million given in July, $30 million in August and $30 million in September.
The super PAC had a little less than $4 million in cash on hand as of Sept. 30, the filing showed.
Mr. Musk will be hitting the road in Pennsylvania on Wednesday through Monday to give “a series of talks.”
“If you’d like to attend one of my talks, there’s no attendance fee. You just need to have signed our petition supporting free speech & right to bear arms & have voted in this election,” Mr. Musk posted on X.
At the campaign event in Butler earlier this month, Mr. Musk told the crowd that “this will be the last election” if Mr. Trump doesn’t win the November election. He donned a black MAGA hat while at the rally.
“As you can see, I am not just MAGA — I am Dark MAGA,” he said.
Mr. Trump said over the weekend that he would create a new position for Mr. Musk in his potential second administration.
“I’m going to have Elon Musk — he is dying to do this. You know, he’s a great business guy, actually. You think of him for science and rockets,” Mr. Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“But you know what? He’s a great business guy, and he’s a great cost-cutter. You’ve seen that. And he said, ‘I could cut costs without affecting anybody,’” he said.
When asked if Mr. Musk would have a Cabinet position, Mr. Trump said the Tesla CEO doesn’t want to be in the Cabinet.
“He just wants to be in charge of cost-cutting. We’ll have a new position — secretary of cost-cutting, OK? Elon wants to do that,” he said.
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