Donald Trump’s cruel and confusing second terminology is just beginning. In his first month back in the office, Trump and his lucky Elon Musk (or is that the other way around?) proved that they were not safe from unidentified power and sacrifices at the altar of wealth.
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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Cowl announcement On Friday afternoon, he will take legal action to prevent billionaire Elon Musk from giving Wisconsin voters a $1 million check at an event scheduled for two days before the April 1 Supreme Court election.
“The Wisconsin Department of Justice is committed to ensuring that elections in Wisconsin are safe, safe, free and fair. I know of the offer Elon Musk recently posted to award two people $1 million at a Wisconsin event,” Kaul said. “Based on an understanding of applicable Wisconsin law, we intend to take legal action today to seek a court order to prevent this from happening.”
The Democratic Attorney General’s intervention is the latest response to the overreach of the world’s wealthiest people to buy the path to Wisconsin contests. Musk has been pumped up At least $20 million He will join the Political Action Committee and the Republican Party in the April 1st contest to boost the outlook for his favourable candidate, veteran Republican politician Brad Simel.
Millionaire announcement Early Friday morning he planned to fire a jet into Wisconsin for Sunday’s event, where he signed a petition “opposes an activist judge” and presented a million-dollar check to Wisconsinite, who voted early in the state’s Hiking Stakes Supreme Court election.
Musk indicated that the Political Action Committee has already given Wisconsin petitioner signatories. Million dollar checkI had now promised to hand over the next check. “I personally appreciate the two checks being voted for $1 million,” the Trump-lined billionaire announced on his X (Twitter) social media platform.
Musk It has been deleted The posts until noon on Friday amid a surge of criticism from legal experts. Politics “We raised concerns that providing Sunday giveaways only to those who have already voted could violate Wisconsin’s election bribery laws. It makes a crime Provide “valuable” to “induce” potential voters and vote or not vote in the election.
Brendan Fisher, one of the national campaign finance lawyers with Wisconsin roots I explained, “In fact, I’m amazed that Musk is so clear about voting for this million-dollar payment in the election. His tweet makes it very clear that you can only participate in this event.
After deleting the first post, Musk returned with a new post trying to skirt the issue by suggesting that “spokesmen” of the petition campaign against the “activist judge” be given a check. “To clarify previous posts, admission is limited to those who signed the petition against an activist judge.” I wrote it Musk. “I will also hand over a million dollar check to two people to become spokesmen for the petition.”
It didn’t satisfy the cowl, Those who responded on Friday Three Watchdog groups urge what the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, the State Democracy Advocates Fund, and the Legal Futures Legal Group wanted. “Immediate investigation” Musk’s actions, including an offer to pay voters $100 to sign a petition by the billionaire US PAC “opposed to activist judges”;
The billionaire’s latest gambit attention further highlights the fact that the world’s wealthiest man continues to bolster his bids to buy the court elections of Brad Simel, the former attorney general who tied the campaign to President Donald Trump, and the current judge. Trump approved Shimmel this week. But it’s Musk that won the headlines in Wisconsin, with the presence of unprecedented spending that has boosted the billionaire’s uninspired campaign of Simel’s uninspired campaign with large donations to the Political Action Commission and the state Republican Party.
Funding for Schimel’s Mobilization Drive, attack ads and mail targeting Schimel’s progressive rival, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Susan Crawford, Musk had already spent about $20 million by this week.
The mask intervention – the most expensive of this kind in the history of national judicial contests in the United States – will shock any national system. However, despite recent experience on the heavily contested political battlefields, voters have historically demanded reasonable measures of politeness and ethical rigor in regards to judicial elections and general elections. Wisconsin is a proud Midwest state that doesn’t kindly make the oligarchs who imagine voters can buy elections with campaign flashy spending. Certainly, this is a situation in which a free spending billionaire (who spent a lot of time before the election at a Connecticut mansion) refused to challenge serious Democratic governor Tony Evers, and in 2024 he refused to challenge even more free spending Republican billionaires ( His (time before the election at his California mansion) to Sen. Tammy Baldwin, an even more serious Democrat.
Therefore, running a mask doesn’t seem to seem too ignorant to make him harm rather than good to Shimel. The problem isn’t just the legal issues that arise with his check gift, but the outcome appears to be the outcome.
It is also the appearance of the object. “What the heck is going on when people get millions of dollars (checks) through musk in Green Bay?” asked evers.
He is a rural Northeast Wisconsin native who taught at schools across the state, and won three statewide elections for public leadership oversight, defeating right-wing Republican Governor Scott Walker in 2018, Evers tells many people in Wisconsin who have noticed that Musk doesn’t seem to understand his state very much.
It started in January when billionaires became interested in Supreme Court contests, but it was difficult to understand how judges are chosen in the state.
The appeal of Shimmel for masks was well-defined. Judicial candidates talk about the need to establish “Support Network” For the Trump administration. That’s the result for the mask. Because in his oversized role in slashing out “special government officials” as Trump’s federal agency, he became the definition of the administration he introduced last fall with a $270 million campaign spending.
But Musk’s early foray into Wisconsin politics saw him give bad advice to Shimel’s supporters. In his first social media post of the campaign, The billionaire wrote: “It’s very important to vote Republicans on the Wisconsin Supreme Court…” He apparently didn’t know that Wisconsin court races were officially nonpartisan and didn’t feature Republican or democratic voting lines. In other words, Shimmel is a Republican and supported by Republicans, but it is impossible to vote Republicans in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
February, Wisconsin Public Radio Report: “A week after booking a seven-figure TV ad purchase in Wisconsin’s High Stakes Supreme Court election, the political action group tied to Elon Musk has cancelled one social media ad featuring the wrong person. America’s future attack Dane County Judge Susan Crawford, liberal candidate Susan Crawford featured the face of the attack court’s attack judge in April’s race. The ad image featured the author, climate change columnist and former Harvard Law School Professor Susan P. Crawford.”
Wisconsin’s Susan Crawford said, “I’m just saying the amount of stuff about them trying to recharge a Wisconsin race without even knowing who the candidate is.”
