Game-Changer? Multi-Billionaire Elon Musk Steps off the Sidelines, Donates 'Sizable Amount' to Trump PAC

Although Twitter/X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken strong stances in favor of free speech and against censorship—which somehow have become Republican causes instead of American ones—he has avoided declaring his allegiance to either the Democrats or GOP.

But that may have all changed, as reports indicate that he donated a "sizable amount" to America PAC, “a super political action committee working to elect former President Trump.” The PAC is required to disclose its list of donors on July 15, Bloomberg reports.

If Musk has decided it’s time to put his gargantuan fortune to work for Trump, it could have major ramifications in the '24 presidential election:

The move highlights the growing influence of a technology mogul who tops the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with a net worth of $263.6 billion and his shift from a self-described political independent — who said he preferred to stay out of politics — into a figure who regularly uses his X social-media platform to espouse right-leaning views and assail Democrats.

The money injection from Musk comes at a time when Trump has overtaken his rival, President Joe Biden, in fundraising with the help of deep-pocketed Wall Street and corporate donors. Biden’s own money raising has dropped off following a calamitous debate that led prominent Democratic donors to put away their checkbooks.

Meanwhile, Biden’s donations are drying up like flowers in the desert.

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Musk has not formally endorsed a candidate, but he has become an increasingly vocal critic of Biden on his social media platform—especially regarding the president’s dereliction of duty on crime and the border.

He's also defended Trump. Here he claps back at one of the endless "Trump is Hitler" posts:

The South African native's voice has become increasingly prominent since he took over Twitter, and he’s racked up over 189 million followers who want to know what he has to say. He has plenty of opinions:

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Musk and Trump haven’t always gotten along, but their relationship appears to have warmed. “He does call me out of the blue for no reason,” Musk said in June. The multi-billionaire also says the former president is a huge fan of the Tesla Cybertruck.

Musk’s donation is sure to be welcomed by the Trump team, which has been busy watching the Biden campaign implode after the Debate Heard 'Round the World. The question remains, however, is this a one-off, or is Elon indicating he’s fully ready to use his considerable influence and massive bank account to back Trump? If so, that would be yet another large nail in the Biden campaign’s coffin.

 

Here are the Four Republicans Who Saved Merrick Garland From Inherent Contempt Resolution

Four Republicans saved U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland from being held in contempt over his refusal to provide an audio recording of President Joe Biden’s taped interview with special counsel Robert Hur. 

GOP Reps. John Duarte (CA),  

 David Joyce (OH),

Michael Turner (OH),

 and Tom McClintock (CA)

 all voted against Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s (R-FL) measure in a 204 to 210 vote. 

The resolution was introduced on the House floor on Wednesday in an effort to fine Garland $10,000 a day until he cooperated with a congressional subpoena. House Republicans reportedly urged Luna during meetings this week to not bring the measure to a vote.

The recording reportedly reveals how the classified documents came to be placed in the garage of Biden’s Delaware home while serving as vice president. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) supported the vote, but if two or more Republicans voted against it, the plan would be killed. 

The Biden Justice Department refused to prosecute Garland for contempt of Congress, citing a “longstanding policy” that protects an attorney general. 

“This is unconstitutional. We are confident our arguments would prevail in court,” DOJ said in a statement. 

Just a month earlier, House GOP members voted to hold Garland in contempt of Congress over the Biden-Hur audio recordings, with only one Republican, Rep. David Joyce (OH), voting against it. 

On July 1, the House Judiciary sued the Biden DOJ for refusing to provide the audio recordings. 

Luna vowed to bring Garland contempt vote to the House floor again next week, confident she can persuade her colleagues to vote in favor of holding the Biden official responsible. 

The last time inherent contempt was used was when House Democrats threatened to hold the Trump Administration officials accountable for withholding the former president’s tax records. 

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Here's the Latest Plot to Get Biden to Drop Out

It’s entertaining as anything watching Democrats plot to oust Joe Biden, but reality must be settling in by now—the Big Guy is here to stay in 2024. Yes, large swaths of the party want Joe to go, but the planning phase has been disastrous. Operation Market Garden succeeded more than this plot to boot the president following his disastrous debate on June 27. At least in 1944, Allied forces could take some of the bridges in Holland during that failed operation to end the war by Christmas. 

In this saga, everyone seems to agree Joe should go. Still, no one wants to fire the first shot, not even Barack Obama, who reportedly works behind the scenes to relay the electoral concerns facing his former vice president. Politico mentioned that this gathering of “super friends,” including some heavyweight names, will make a last push to get Biden to drop out. This development comes after the president’s NATO presser, which was a trainwreck but whose damage wasn’t significant enough to make the case for Biden’s immediate departure ironclad, much to the frustration of the party, especially swing state Democrats: 

Some Democrats we spoke with dreaded the likelihood that Biden aides would spin the night as a big win that showed a president in full command of his faculties. And so, the Biden detractors will regroup. Many lawmakers had drafted statements and were waiting to release them after the NATO summit and press conference wrapped up. Will they release them today? 

What’s more, Democratic leaders at some point will also have to speak to Biden about the situation. How frank will they be? 

“The Super Friends are assembling,” said a House Democrat who did not believe Biden's performance yesterday changed anything. “There’s a group of people who are going to go make their case to whomever they can get to at the White House that he needs to step aside and we’re going to get our asses kicked if he doesn’t.” 

In an “ideal world,” this “Super Friends” delegation, the member said, would be Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER, President Pro Tempore PATTY MURRAY, House Minority Leader HAKEEM JEFFRIES, speaker emerita NANCY PELOSI and JIM CLYBURN. 

Some of these people have expressed their support for the president, especially Clyburn. Schumer’s office had to do some damage control regarding being content with a replacement candidate, which leaked earlier this week. Still, there is no doubt he has concerns, especially with New York now reportedly veering into battleground state territory during this cycle. 

Unless someone does something to move the needle, like providing the data showing Biden can’t win, nothing is going to change. Also, the president says he disregards polling, which partially explains this poll denialism that’s also given Democrats heartburn.

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Democrat Party Donors Freeze $90M To Biden Super PAC

U.S. President Joe Biden returns to the White House with first lady Jill Biden on July 7, 2024 in Washington, DC. Members of Congress return to Washington this week as pressure for Biden to withdraw as the Democratic nominee for the presidency continues to mount.

Joe Biden’s crumbling support has reached his campaign’s pocketbook.

A group of Democrat donors are now withholding $90 million in pledges from Biden’s main super-PAC, Future Forward.

The New York Times reported on Friday that wealthy donors have frozen donations to the PAC as long as Biden remains on the Democrat ticket.

The report did not name the specific donors withholding cash from the campaign.

However, several of Biden’s wealthiest supporters have urged him to drop out since the debate including Netflix’s Reed Hastings and IAC Chair Barry Diller.

Mark Cuban said Democrats need to consider someone else.

The plunge in financial support comes just hours after Biden bragged about his large campaign at the NATO press conference.

Biden’s advisers are reportedly trying to figure out how to convince Biden to get out of the race.

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Meta (Facebook) Removes Trump Account Restrictions With 2024 Election Looming

Meta, formerly Facebook, announced on Friday that the platform would be taking away restrictions from former President Donald Trump’s Meta and Instagram accounts in the next few weeks. 

The company said it was making the change in order to ensure equality among presidential candidates leading up to the 2024 election. 

Since the 45^th president’s accounts were reinstated in January 2023, Trump’s accounts have been subject to much stricter penalties than other famous Meta users, which includes account suspensions and advertising restrictions if he violated the company’s policies. 

“With the party conventions taking place shortly, including the Republican convention next week, the candidates for President of the United States will soon be formally nominated,” Meta wrote in an update. 

“In assessing our responsibility to allow political expression, we believe that the American people should be able to hear from the nominees for President on the same basis,” it continued. 

Additionally, Meta said on Friday that the former president’s accounts will no longer be subject to additional penalties, while adding that this was in response to “extreme and extraordinary circumstances” and “have not had to be deployed.”

“All US Presidential candidates remain subject to the same Community Standards as all Facebook and Instagram users, including those policies designed to prevent hate speech and incitement to violence,” the social company added. 

Trump’s social platform bans were put in place after the January 6^th protest, prompting him to create his own network, Truth Social, which he still utilizes as a public method of communication to express general opinions and to discuss his 2024 presidential campaign.

Meanwhile, Meta will now review heightened suspension penalties that remain appropriate in order to “ensure people can hear from political candidates on our platforms,” the company said.

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Biden Confuses Harris, Trump in Inauspicious Start to High-Stakes News Conference

President Joe Biden mixed up the name of his vice president, Kamala Harris, and his Republican rival, Donald Trump, on Thursday at a news conference where the 81-year-old aims to quell concerns that he is too old to run for re-election.

"Look, I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president if she was not qualified to be president. So start there," Biden said in an inauspicious beginning to the high-profile presser as he responded to a question from Reuters about his confidence in Harris.

The flub quickly drew a cutting response from Trump via his social media platform, Truth Social, where the former president posted video of the "big boy press conference," Biden's first since November.

Wrote Trump: "Crooked Joe begins his 'Big Boy' Press Conference with, 'I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, though I think she was not qualified to be president.' Great job, Joe!"

That came just a few hours after Biden mistakenly referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as "President Putin."

"And now I want to hand it over to the president of Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination, ladies and gentlemen, President Putin," Biden said at the NATO summit in Washington, drawing gasps from those in the room.

"Going to beat President Putin, President Zelenskiy. I am so focused on beating Putin," Biden said while correcting himself.

Biden faces growing doubts from donors, supporters and fellow Democrats, who fear that at age 81, his fitness for office has declined. They also fear he no longer has the ability to beat Republican Donald Trump in the November election, or to lead the country for another four-year term.

Biden's campaign has been on the ropes for two weeks, since his poor debate performance against Donald Trump, his 78-year-old Republican rival.

So far, 13 of the 213 Democrats in the House and one of the Senate's 51 Democrats have appealed publicly to the president to withdraw from the race. More could make their concerns public if he fares poorly in his press conference.

United Auto Workers union officials met on Thursday to discuss their concerns with his candidacy, three sources familiar with the matter said, after endorsing Biden in January. The 400,000-member union has a big presence in industrial states like Michigan that Biden will need to carry to win re-election.

Biden advisers met with Senate Democrats to try to quell further defections. His campaign argued that the debate has not dramatically shifted the race, even as it laid out a narrow path to re-election that acknowledged that it faced an uphill climb in many states he won in 2020.

That did not stop four more Democrats in the House of Representatives called on Biden to end his campaign: Brad Schneider of Illinois, Greg Stanton of Arizona, Ed Case of Hawaii, and Hillary Scholten of Michigan.

"For our country's sake, it is time for the President to pass the torch to a new generation of leaders," Stanton said in a prepared statement.

'I DOUBT THE PRESIDENT'S JUDGMENT'

Others stopped short of calling for Biden to drop out, even as they questioned his ability to lead the country. "I doubt the President’s judgment about his health, his fitness to do the job, and whether he is the one making important decisions about our country, rather than unelected advisors," Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez said in a statement.

None of the party's leaders in Congress have called for Biden to end his candidacy, though former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday declined to say he should stay in the race.

The campaign has commissioned a survey to test how Vice President Kamala Harris would fare if she were to replace Biden at the top of the ticket, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released last week found Harris would fare no better than Biden if she were the Democratic nominee, as both were statistically tied with Trump.

Prominent donors like actor George Clooney have called on Biden to drop out, and there were signs that concerns are growing within Biden's campaign operation as well.

The New York Times reported that some longtime advisers were considering ways to convince him to drop his reelection bid, while NBC News reported that some campaign staffers thought he stood no chance of winning the election.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll released last week found Biden and Trump tied at 40% each. Other opinion polls have found Trump widening his lead over Biden, and some strategists have warned that Trump stood a chance of winning reliably Democratic states like New Hampshire and Minnesota.

In their strategy memo, the campaign argued that it has always expected a close election and could win by focusing on three battleground states: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

If he won those states, along with others considered to be reliably Democratic, he would win 270 electoral votes -- the bare minimum needed to secure the presidency. Biden won 306 electoral votes in 2020.

The campaign characterized other battleground states he won in 2020 as "not out of reach."

Newsmax contributed to this story.

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They Tried to Cancel a Father for Standing Against the Trans Agenda, but He's Going to Get the Last Laugh

The greatest enemy the LGBT activists have isn't Christians like they like to say, it's parents. Plain and simple. 

Parents all over the world have been rising up in order to keep indoctrination of their children by radical activists in the transgender community from encroaching on their children's entertainment, education, and activities. This is often met with pushback from politicians, corporations, and activist groups, but regardless of the pressure, parents continue to push forward, undaunted. 

And why not? Their children's lives are on the line, and while these activists and politicians might only see a tool, parents see the most important part of their lives. 

The more in the public spotlight you are, the harder they come down on you. One father, in particular, is a public-facing man and has been for some time. Now, after merely siding with another public-facing individual who openly resists the transgender agenda, this father is being punished by corporations who once supported him. 

Australian father Ilir Pali is a former professional soccer player turned streamer going by the name IP Impact. Pali is popular enough that he scored a brand deal with Logitech, a lucrative opportunity for him and one that many streamers work toward. When it comes to streaming, brand deals are one of the big goals. 

However, one day, Pali came to the defense of a streamer that I've reported about here on RedState before. 

Nick Kolcheff, known popularly as "Nickmercs," fired a shot at the transgender activist community when he commented on a video of parents in Glendale, CA, having to brawl LGBT activists in front of their children's school while protesting the activists' attempts to indoctrinate their children. This prompted Kolcheff to say that these activists needed to leave the kids alone, sparking what would swiftly develop into a controversy that ended with Activision removing Kolcheff's likeness from their game "Call of Duty: Warzone." This prompted other famous streamers to side with Kolcheff and resulting in a mass boycott of the game. 

(READ: Gamers Big and Small are Standing up Against Activist Attempts to Indoctrinate Children)

Kolcheff recently reentered the news for his use of the word "tranny" earning him a week-long ban from Twitch, which I covered here, Pali commented that he never removed the Nickmercs skin in the game, consistently using it as he loved the symbol it had become. This prompted the brass at Logitech to terminate their deal with Pali, simply for siding with Kolcheff on the idea that political activists should leave children alone. 

But while this was definitely a blow to Pali, it's only reinforced his belief that what he's doing is right. He uploaded a video to X detailing his situation and why, as a father, he's not backing down. 

I reached out to Pali wanting to know more, and he filled me in on his stance, and not only that, how he's using his own company "Toddler Tough" to help deal with softening of children, especially young boys. 

Pali told me that while the loss of the brand deal hit him financially and likely cost him some opportunities, he's okay with it as he doesn't want to associate with a company that doesn't align with him on this subject anyway. 

"As a father of two boys, it's clear that there is this agenda being pushed onto our kids and the majority of the people understand it's disgusting and unacceptable," said Pali. "I say majority, because truthfully, most people understand and agree with this but not enough are vocal about it because of this cancel culture. It's this vocal minority that's causing the silent majority to self-censor. People lose jobs, contracts terminated, face cancellation etc." 

Pali's belief translated to action. He started "Toddler Tough," a company that creates toys that gets young children active and encourages play.

"Something I found very frustrating with today was this 'participation trophy' mentality. The lessons in losing and winning are vital," Pali told me. "So a friend of mine and myself decided to start Toddler Tough. A brand focused on bringing products to parents that help them raise kids through sport, rough play etc." 

Looking at what Pali created in the "Sports Arena Playpen," you can see what he means. The playpen is a mini field that can be used to teach toddlers how to kick a ball into a goal. There are even attachments that allow toddlers to learn how to throw balls into a basket, a la basketball. 

However, the most standout addition you can get is a punching bag and boxing gloves, which I'm sure in this day and age could send more than a few participation trophy parents reeling. 

"We started with our flagship product, The Sports Arena Playpen, which is a playpen featuring a soccer goal and a basketball hoop," said Pali. "This was great for toddlers in their motor skill development, understanding how to aim for a target, resilience in standing straight back up after falling over, enjoyment with physical activity etc. We introduced our mini punch bag, gloves, ball set and now are about to release our MMA Arena Playpen, boxing mount attachments, play mats and more. All products that align with our mission statement of "raising the champions of tomorrow." 

Pali and his business partner are just getting the business off the ground, and they're always improving and coming up with new ideas. 

In an age where we're constantly inundated with pressure to make softer children and forced "acceptance" of lifestyles that are ultimately harmful for them by political-driven activists, stories like Pali's are a breath of fresh air. His company deserves to succeed, not only because his products encourage a healthy mentality for children to have, but because finding people who truly stand up for good values in an environment where this could result in social and financial destruction should be rewarded. 

Kolcheff's refusal to back down may have very well triggered something of a revolution, encouraging others to do the same. Pali is definitely one of those people, and he deserves our support. More than that, our children deserve our support, and that means supporting those who would support them.