The richest man in the world has a lot of money to spend, and he uses it explicitly to wake controversy.
During a town hall style event in the Wisconsin on Sunday evening, Elon Musk said as much as he had given a million dollars to two voters who had signed the petition of his Super Pac opposing the “militant judges”.
“I must say that the reason … For checks, it’s really just to attract attention,” said the chief of the facto doge to the crowd to Green Bay. “It’s like, we have to draw attention.”
Before a breed of the Supreme Court for High issues in Wisconsin, Musk resumed a tactic that he used in the 2024 presidential election, where he spent hundreds of millions of dollars to support President Donald Trump and other GOP candidates.
Wisconsin voters receive $ 100 for signing Musk’s petition, and a little lucky among them won checks of $ 1 million, all paid by Musk himself.
It is one of the most daring uses of money in recent political memory policy, which has led to prosecution and controversy along the way. It is illegal to pay people to register to vote, and the prosecutors argued that the Musk program breaks this law.
As Musk says, checks are essentially an investment in free media coverage, even if this coverage is often negative.
“A little inevitably, when I do these things, that makes the inherited media lost their heads, then they will broadcast it on each news channel,” Musk told the crowd. “And I am, as, I could not pay them – it would cost, like 10 times more to get the type of coverage we get.”
Later in the event, a present woman specifically thanked Musk for having “drawn attention to what is happening with our Supreme Court here”.
“It is very important, and I think that would not have drawn attention, not even half of what it gets now, if you had not intervened. For good or bad, a negative press and a good press,” said the participant.
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