Here's Just How Massive Elon Musk's $75 Million Trump Donation Is

According to filings released by the US Federal Election Commission connected Tuesday night, Elon Musk, laminitis of SpaceX and proprietor of X, is present 1 of the biggest donors to Donald Trump’s campaign. Since publicly endorsing Trump connected the heels of the July assassination attempt against him successful Butler, Pennsylvania, Musk has donated adjacent to $75 cardinal to the his ain governmental enactment committee, America PAC, which is aggressively campaigning connected the crushed successful plaything states for the Trump campaign.

Musk has been one of galore Silicon Valley elites who person expressed their enactment for Trump. Peter Thiel, billionaire and cofounder of Palantir, has been a longtime Trump protagonist (though helium said helium would not beryllium donating to candidates successful 2024), and task capitalist David Sacks, who is besides a person of Musk’s, has besides thrown his enactment to the Republicans. Trump has besides received enactment from PACs and individuals successful the crypto space.

But Musk has enactment much wealth into the Trump run than astir immoderate different idiosyncratic from the tech industry. In summation to his enactment for the America PAC, helium besides donated much than $289,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee. While immoderate companies and institutions successful Silicon Valley, similar task steadfast Andreessen Horowitz, person backed Trump, idiosyncratic donors from those aforesaid companies whitethorn not. For instance, Marc Andreessen and his concern spouse Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5 cardinal to the pro-Trump Right for America PAC past quarter. Andreessen has besides donated to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; Horowitz has backed Democratic campaigns arsenic well, and successful aboriginal October said helium would enactment Harris alternatively than Trump going forward.

Sacks donated only $6,600 to Trump’s run directly, but $114,500 to the Republican National Committee and $250,000 to the Trump 47 PAC. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who tally the crypto speech Gemini, each donated much than $350,000 to the Make America Great Again PAC, which supports the Trump campaign. The twins besides donated $250,000 each to the America PAC. Shaun Maguire, a spouse astatine the task steadfast Sequoia Capital, has donated $500,000 to the America PAC, $300,000 to the Trump 47 PAC, and $6,600 to the Trump run directly. Billionaire and aboriginal Tesla backer Antonio Gracias donated $1 cardinal to the America PAC, arsenic did Palantir cofounder and task capitalist Joe Lonsdale. Kenneth Howery, a PayPal Mafia subordinate and erstwhile ambassador to Sweden nether Trump, enactment $1 cardinal into America PAC successful summation to smaller nonstop contributions to the Trump campaign.

Musk has contributed much to the Trump run than each of them combined, respective times over. That puts him successful a league with Trump’s most lavish donors, including Miriam Adelson, the widow of Sheldon Adelson, who donated $95 million to the pro-Trump Preserve America PAC implicit the past 3 months—including $45 cardinal successful September alone. Billionaire Timothy Mellon, heir to the Mellon railroad fortune, remains the campaign’s largest donor, having enactment astatine slightest $115 cardinal successful the Make America Great Again PAC conscionable this year.

Musk’s largesse, combined with his vocal enactment of Trump connected the level helium controls, has been a windfall for Trump successful an progressively adjacent statesmanlike race. He’ll proceed trying to get retired the ballot successful idiosyncratic this play with a bid of appearances successful Pennsylvania.