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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NEW: Elon Musk gave $1 million to the PAC of QAnon promoter who allegedly photographed sex in GOP office. https://t.co/ngwZcfv1Ox
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) November 1, 2024
Scott Pressler devised a scheme to jam up the PA polling places via having republican “jammers” pick up a paper absentee application, that they could have ordered online…that app slows down the line THUS (hoping) the mostly democrats online, leave the line. This is INTERFERENCE pic.twitter.com/vVbk5XC8gh
— KamallaDreams (@KamalaDreams) November 2, 2024
Scott Presler is an openly gay, MAGA activist who works with the anti-gay Christian Right. He facilitates school board takeovers, and promotes “ballot harvesting,” collecting and casting mail ballots on behalf of other voters. pic.twitter.com/hSDoXeuIKi
— Outspoken™️ (@Out5p0ken) March 15, 2024
The Southern Poverty Law Center has dubbed Scott Presler the lead strategist for the hate group ACT for America.
Scott Preslers events attracted various factions of the radical right, including white nationalists, neo-Nazis and anti-government extremists pic.twitter.com/coxVEK9ury
— KeithA/little2TheLeft (@KeithWunderlich) September 9, 2024
Lara Trump brings January 6 participant Scott Presler on stage, who has promoted QAnon conspiracy theories, worked with neo-Nazis, and defended an accused child molestor pic.twitter.com/mGuchqe4N3
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) October 5, 2024