Popular tech billionaire, Elon Musk spent a total of more than $290 million on the recent US 2024 election. New federal filings show that he financially helped Donald Trump and Republicans to regain power, and the world has been reacting.
Trump’s old campaign committee, despite being term-limited, hauled in nearly $21 million in the period, meanwhile, a top allied super PAC received several million-dollar contributions, including $1 million from the administration’s nominee for ambassador to the UK, on the day he was tapped to serve.
Reports added that the Democratic National Committee spent heavily in the weeks following the party’s losses in 2024, dropping more than $56 million settling headquarters expenses, paying legal fees, and soliciting its voters’ feedback and funds.
Recall that Musk’s end-of-the-year contributions were earmarked for petition incentives, related to the million-dollar giveaways that he organized through the super PAC in the home stretch of the race, and the giveaways aimed at encouraging voter registration.
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Elon Musk FRS is a business magnate, industrial designer and engineer. He is the founder, CEO, CTO and chief designer of SpaceX; early investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. Also that year, he was ranked 25th on the Forbes list of The World’s Most Powerful People, and was ranked joint-first on the Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders of 2019. A centi-billionaire, Musk became the richest person in the world in January 2021.
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. His mother is Maye Musk (née Haldeman), a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, but raised in South Africa.
His father is Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer.
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