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submitted 2 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

The billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X has ramped up his support of his conservative super PAC and Trump.

Billionaire Elon Musk promoted debunked conspiracy theories about election fraud Thursday at the first of a series of planned campaign events across Pennsylvania meant to rally support for former President Donald Trump’s campaign. 

At a town hall hosted at a high school outside Philadelphia, Musk referred to the false conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems was part of a plot to rig U.S. elections in recent years.

The company has broadly rejected any claims that it has participated in efforts to manipulate elections. Last year, it struck a $787.5 million settlement with Fox News in its defamation lawsuit against the media outlet over such claims.


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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago

Buy Dominion stock! I see a future multi-million dollar influx of income in the not too distant future from a yet-to-be-filed slander/libel verdict.

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

It looks like it's owned by private equity. It also looks like the private equity firm got review bombed by Maga since almost all the google reviews came around the same time, and a couple mention lawsuits if anything at all. I don't think they care though. Their both rich. Let them fight

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago
[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

The fine is less than a billion so he can do it over 300 times. It's a law he clearly doesn't care about.

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago

What's the phrase? "If a crime's only punishment is a fine, then that crime is legal for a fee".

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

That was for Fox News which is part of an entity that is worth $21 billion. The punitive damages would be much higher for someone worth $264 billion.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago

Sue the mother fucker

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

This guy loves getting sued.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

If Kamala wins I'd buy something like an expensive steak and candy and ice-cream and I'll just zone out for the rest of the week.

It's so exhausting, and I'm just a European...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

If Kamala wins, Trump will never concede.

[-] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

That sounds exhausting for him. He can barely deal with meetings right now, can you imagine!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Yes, but he knows it's the only way to stay out of prison.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

On his way to prison.

That's when we Europeans make popcorn (it's your first round of this stuff, I'm quite sure you'll be fine, historically speaking).

But if he wins, well that would be a first for you too, but instead if popcorn we'll build nuke safe bunkers I guess.

So yeah, please go out and vote 🙂

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Way ahead of you. I already voted. 😀

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[-] stoly@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I think he’s thrown in the towel. Look how exhausted and disinterested he looks.

[-] DokPsy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

He still hasn't conceded from the last one he lost

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Dude has like 5 minutes left

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wait for her to actually be sworn in on January 20th.

The terrorists may try things.....

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 days ago

We're just going to normalize how a billionaire can just dump millions of dollars to political campaigns and tell people who to vote for?

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

That's been normalized for ages. It's just that before Musk, the billionaires didn't advertise their ineptitude like this.

[-] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Oh nice! He's gonna get sued.

[-] Magister@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

He doesn't care, even if he loses, 1 billion fine is a peanut for him

[-] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

His wealth is largely tied up in assets. A billion would hurt a great deal

[-] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Someone bout to get sued lol

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