When billionaire Elon Musk isn’t on stage with Trump and—in the already-immortal words of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz—“jumpin’ around, skipping like a dipshit,” he’s busy running a pro-Donald Trump election scheme that is almost certainly illegal. Recently, he announced he’ll hand out $1 million a day to randomly selected voters who sign a petition put out by his super PAC. And even though the Justice Department has reportedly sent his PAC a warning on Monday, Musk only paused the giveaway before appearing to resume on Thursday night.
And while the sheer scope of Musk’s power and wealth makes him uniquely dangerous, the Trump era has proven especially favorable to a certain type of GOP political operative, those so cynical that engaging in large-scale election interference is just part and parcel of their electoral strategy. To be fair to the GOP, though, they were doing this before Trump.
