Walz goes after Elon Musk’s financial support of Trump

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz accused former President Donald Trump of "promising corruption" if he is elected once again to the White House, citing support the Republican nominee has received from Elon Musk.

"That guy is literally the richest man in the world, spending millions of dollars to help Donald Trump buy an election," Walz said of Musk, who cofounded Tesla Motors and SpaceX and owns the social media platform X. According to Forbes, Musk is currently the richest person in the world with a net worth of more than $240 billion.

He also criticized Musk's support of Trump. Last weekend, during events in Pennsylvania, Musk promised to hand out $1 million per day for people in election battleground states who sign a petition started by his political action committee to pledge support for the First and Second Amendments.

According to at least one election law expert, Rick Hasen of UCLA Law School, Musk's action is "clearly illegal" because federal law prohibits paying people to vote or register to vote. “If all he was doing was paying people to sign the petition, that might be a waste of money. But there’s nothing illegal about it,” Hasen told The Associated Press. “The problem is that the only people eligible to participate in this giveaway are the people who are registered to vote. And that makes it illegal.”

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