The multimillionaire Elon Musk, a close advisor to Donald Trump, promised on his social network X to give two million dollars to two voters who participated in a particularly scrutive election in the state of Wisconsin, before removing and “clarifying” his message deemed illegal by the Democrats.
“Sunday evening I will speak in Wisconsin. The entry will be reserved for those who participated in the election for the Supreme Court. I will also personally give two checks of a million dollars each to thank you for taking the time to vote,” wrote Elon Musk in a message published on the night of Thursday to Friday on Friday on Friday.
Friday morning, this message was deleted, before the boss of Tesla and SpaceX came to “clarify”. “The entry will be reserved for those who have signed the petition for opposition to militant judges,” wrote in a new post the multimillionaire, who supports the republican candidate. Via his political organization, Elon Musk had already promised last week to offer 100 dollars to the signatories of a petition in Wisconsin against “militant judges”.
In this state of the Great Lakes region, a law forbidden to give money to a person so that they will vote. The Wisconsin Democratic Party estimated in a statement that Elon Musk’s first announcement was “glaringly an illegal voice buying program”.
“Corrupt”
On Tuesday, an election for a siege at the Supreme Court of Wisconsin will oppose Susan Crawford to Brad Schimel, the candidate supported by the Republicans, whose victory would tip the high instance on the conservative side.
The ballot represents one of the first electoral tests of importance of the second presidential mandate of Donald Trump – with two by -elections in Florida on the same day for seats in the Congress. “Brad Schimel and Elon Musk are corrupt,” Judge Susan Crawford reacted Friday morning after the first post of the richest man in the world.
During the launch of the petition, the Susan Crawford campaign team had already accused the multimillionaire of “buying a seat at the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in order to obtain a favorable decision in the proceedings undertaken by his company against the State”.
Tesla, the manufacturer of electric vehicles held by Elon Musk, challenges the Wisconsin’s decision in court not to give it an exception to the rule according to which car manufacturers do not have the right to also hold concession stores. And the case may well end up to the Supreme Court of this State.
Elon Musk launched last year, during the White House race, a lottery consisting in offering a million dollars every day to an voter registered in one of the seven decisive states for the victory and which had signed a conservative petition. The United States Ministry of Justice then reminded the Donald Trump team that it was illegal to offer a value award to a citizen to vote or to register on the electoral lists.