Elon Musk reported to President Trump’s advisers in recent days that he wanted to put $ 100 million in groups controlled by Trump’s political operation, according to three people knowing the issue.
It is unknown for a member of the White House staff, even part -time status, to make such major political contributions to support the boss’s agenda. But there has never been someone with direct employment of an administration like Mr. Musk, the richest person in the world, who leads Mr. Trump’s aggressive efforts to reduce the federal government, the government’s Ministry of Efficiency.
During the weekend, Mr. Musk went and coming from Florida aboard the Air Force One with Mr. Trump, and posted on his social media website, X, whom he dined with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday evening after a few interactions tense earlier in the week.
And Tuesday, while Mr. Musk’s electric automobile company Tesla faces violent demonstrations worldwide, Trump has shown five teslas brought to the White House in a demonstration for the information media and checked the cars with Mr. Musk by his side. It was an extraordinary promotion of a business by the most powerful person in the federal government.
“I think he was treated very unfairly by a very small group of people,” Trump told journalists, referring to Mr. Musk. “And I just want people to know that he cannot be penalized to be a patriot.”
The officials of Mr. Musk and the White House did not make a request for comments.
The partners of Mr. Musk and Trump have spoke in recent days about Mr. Musk’s planned donation to an entity controlled by Trump. Mr. Musk pointed out that he wanted to make donations not to his own Super PAC, which is called America PAC and spent a lot in Mr. Trump in the past, but to an external entity affiliated with the president.
The groups that direct the external activities of Mr. Trump include Make America Great Again Inc., a Super CAP, and the security of American grandeur, a political non -profit organization. It is not clear if money would go to these groups or to a new entity that the Trump team could create.
Maga Inc. and securing American magnitude were founded by allies close to Mr. Trump, and have a diversified set of main donors aligned with the president.
Mr. Musk is always attached to his own super heat pump, who now has spent $ 6 million to support a conservative candidate in the Supreme Wisconsin Court elections next month. He spent nearly $ 300 million for the last presidential cycle, almost throughout America PAC, which he founded last year.
But Mr. Musk now shows a desire to also finance certain groups which he does not control directly. And his past gifts indicate that he is ready to go beyond the amounts that other donors could consider excessive.
Currently, Mr. Musk can see a political advantage by showing that he is in a way a team player.
Musk was considered by some Trump officials, including by Mr. Trump’s cabinet, as continuing his own program without correctly consulting the rest of the Trump administration. Mr. Musk ostensed some of Mr. Trump’s faithful and faithful groups, rather than his own, could help appease these tensions.
The specification of Mr. Musk’s money, or if he followed with his plans, is not known and may never be. The non -profit political group is not required to disclose its donors.
Mr. Trump is not eligible for re -election, but his external groups continue to ratify the contributions to seven figures of main donors, probably to reward friendly legislators and put pressure on those who oppose his program.