Elon Musk breaks his promise not to donate to campaigns and opens the checkbook in favor of Trump

With the aim of clarifying which vision of the country best suits its innovation projects for the future, Elon Musk, One of the richest men in the world, decided to break the commitment he had previously made not to make donations to presidential campaigns and, surprisingly, made a significant contribution to Donald Trump.

In March, the South African tycoon and other billionaires met with the 78-year-old Republican to discuss how he intended to govern the country. If he defeats Joe Biden in the November election,

What was striking about the meeting were the comments made later by Elon Musk, where he ruled out any possibility of allocating any kind of resources to support the presidential candidates, as he had done in other electoral contests.

“To be very clear, I will not be donating money to any of the candidates for the presidency of the United States,” he said.

The owner of Tesla and the “X” platform, formerly known as Twitter, later also rejected the option of joining Trump’s group of advisors as the former president himself had suggested.

However, seems to have studied the best moment to bury Joe Biden’s campaign in revenge for the rejection he showed for Tesla by leaving her out of a summit on electric vehicles organized by the country’s ruling Democrat in 2021.

“Let us not forget that the White House treated Tesla with indifference and excluded us from the EV summit,” Musk said in December.

In a surprising way and Without revealing the exact amount of its contribution, the group called America PAC, whose mission is to promote the return of Donald Trump, received a generous donation from Elon Musk And although he did not reveal the amount, he will have to do so on Monday, as stipulated by the electoral rules.

The interesting thing about this is that Trump has repeatedly stated that he is committed to abandoning the push for the manufacture of electric vehicles by removing any type of incentives for the companies that manufacture them and for citizens interested in purchasing them.

This raises the question of what benefit Elon Musk will get from seeing the Republican candidate win on the November ballot.

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