“I have a good relationship with him, I think he’s a nice guy,” Trump said of Musk during a call-in interview on Fox News.
“Somebody
told me he was going to give me 45 million [dollars] a month. I said,
‘That sounds like a lot, even for Elon, that’s a lot,’” the Republican
presidential nominee said.
But Musk “never told me he was giving [$45 million],” he said.
“But
he did say, ‘I strongly endorse you,’ despite the fact that I’m against
the electric car mandate,” Trump said, referring to the Biden
administration’s policies aimed at prioritizing electric vehicles over gas-powered vehicles. ...
But Musk, in an interview with conservative public figure Jordan
Peterson, said the figure reported by the Journal was “simply not true.”
“I’m not donating $45 million a month to Trump,” Musk said in that
interview, which was posted Monday on X, the social media site he owns. ...
In an X post Tuesday night, Musk wrote, “I am making some donations
to America PAC, but at a much lower level.” He asserted that most
Republicans align with the PAC’s key values of “supporting a meritocracy
& individual freedom.”
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