Elon Musk “censors” JD Vance leak and goes all out for Donald Trump

Elon Musk’s social media platform X has reportedly worked with Donald Trump’s campaign to censor material that could harm the former president’s chances in the White House.

Accordingly The New York TimesTrump told an aide that Musk had poured $500 million into his campaign. The two men are said to have spoken to each other “several times a week”.

The times reported that the Trump campaign “with

X, formerly known as Twitter, then suspended the account of the journalist who posted the leak and blocked links to the material, two people quoted as having knowledge of the situation said.

Despite insisting in a 2022 post that the platform he bought for $44 billion “must be politically neutral,” the world’s richest man has thrown his considerable weight behind Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.

Musk has reportedly posted about Trump and the election at least 109 times since endorsing the Republican candidate in July. That includes a now-deleted post from last month in which he said “no one is even trying” to assassinate President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris.

He has also accused Democrats of trying to fast-track immigration to manipulate the electoral landscape in their favor and spreading baseless conspiracy theories about Trump’s opponents.

The times says Musk is even considering taking a bus tour and knocking on doors himself in Pennsylvania, considered a crucial swing state, after moving his operations there to focus on Trump’s chances in the run-up to November 5 to increase.

The tech billionaire’s “frenzied commitment” to the race is cited by the Just to express his determination to secure a Trump victory. His millions are funneled through a super PAC and he has assembled a team of top advisers in a war room in Pittsburgh.

According to federal filings, America PAC has spent $80 million promoting the Trump campaign so far, much of it going to voter canvassing programs.

“I’m not sure there’s a precedent in modern history for how Musk wormed his way into the presidential race,” said historian Benjamin Soskis Just.