{"id":54547,"date":"2024-07-16T15:41:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T05:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54547"},"modified":"2024-07-16T15:41:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T05:41:50","slug":"elon-musk-pledges-45-million-a-month-to-electing-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54547","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk pledges $45 million a month to electing Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tech billionaire Elon Musk said he plans to commit roughly $45 million each month to a new fund backing Donald Trump for US president, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Musk&#8217;s donations will go to a political group dubbed America PAC, which will focus on promoting voter registration, early voting and mail-in ballots among residents in swing states ahead of the November general election, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is one of several major backers of the new fund, with others reportedly including Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, former US ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft and cryptocurrency investors Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss.<\/p>\n<p>The Tesla founder formally endorsed Trump&#8217;s candidacy for US president on Saturday after the former president survived a shooting at a political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery,&#8221; Musk wrote on the social media platform X, which he acquired in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, the wealthiest man in the world with an estimated net worth of $250 billion, has grown increasingly friendly with Trump over the course of the 2024 US election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech billionaire Elon Musk said he plans to commit roughly $45 million each month to a new fund backing Donald Trump for US president, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Musk&#8217;s donations will go to a political group dubbed America PAC, which will focus on promoting voter registration, early voting and mail-in ballots among residents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1995],"class_list":["post-54547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-elon-musk-pledges-45-million-a-month-to-electing-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}