Article 6SRCY Elon Musk revealed as sole funder of RBG Pac that claimed Trump and Ginsburg were aligned

Elon Musk revealed as sole funder of RBG Pac that claimed Trump and Ginsburg were aligned

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Joseph Gedeon in Washington
from Technology | The Guardian on (#6SRCY)

Musk bolstered Pac with $20.5m ahead of election while late supreme court justice's family denounced it as appalling'

Elon Musk has emerged as the sole financial architect behind a provocative political action committee that appropriated the name of late US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to bolster Donald Trump's presidential campaign, according to federal campaign finance reports released on Thursday.

The RBG Pac, funded entirely by the world's richest man with a $20.5m donation in the final two weeks of the campaign, ran advertisements and mailers suggesting an ideological alignment between Trump and Ginsburg on abortion.

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