Musk Gave $1M To Far-Right QAnon Homocon’s PAC

Mother Jones reports:

Musk offered people money to register to vote and then subsequently got sued by the Philadelphia district attorney and warned by the Justice Department that the scheme is likely illegal. And in late August, he made a $1 million donation to a political action committee founded by Scott Presler, a man who even the RNC has declined to employ because in 2016 he was allegedly caught having sex in an office the RNC shared with the Virginia GOP and posting photos of the encounter on Craigslist.

Musk appears to be a committed Presler fan. He has amplified Presler’s social media posts, including some that featured conspiracy theories about the election. At an October town hall event in Pennsylvania, an audience member asked Musk if, as an adviser to Trump, he’d hire Presler in the next administration. “Absolutely, yes,” Musk said. In Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Presler can point to at least one specific success: gumming up the works at the local election board.

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