Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his America PAC are supporting Republican nominee Donald Trump over Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the presidential election.
  • Elon Musk must attend an emergency court hearing in Philadelphia on Thursday to address a bid by the city’s top prosecutor to stop the Tesla CEO and his political action committee from continuing to award $1 million prizes to registered voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
  • Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner revealed his lawsuit against Musk and the America PAC “triggered an avalanche of [social media] posts from Musk’s followers,” many of whom “made antisemitic attacks on Krasner.”
  • Krasner’s lawsuit accuses Musk and the PAC of operating an illegal lottery and trying to influence voters in the presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
    • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      7 hours ago

      Too late, damage is done, if Trump wins he’s guaranteed a federal pardon.

      This is why they always win, because he wasn’t put in jail after the first 9000 felonies.

        • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          20·
          5 hours ago

          This is not a prosecution, this is a lawsuit for an order to desist, basically a temporary restraining order.

          The potential crime would be against federal election laws, which could be either civil or criminal federal prosecutions.

          • Bumblefumble@lemm.ee
            8·
            4 hours ago

            To be fair, he’s also breaking Pennsylvanian lottery laws which he could be prosecuted for on a state level.

      • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
        35·
        6 hours ago

        After a remarkably short court hearing, Elon Musk has found the presiding judge in his own case guilty of “the woke mind virus” and sentenced him to 47 years in jail. The jury watched the ruling read in Musk’s own halting and strange speech, collectively shrugged their shoulders, and went home. “Well he has all that money,” said Anne Sodding, one of the jurors on the case. “He must be right, I guess.” Mr. Musk has declined to comment and was last seen driving his Tesla Cyber Truck the wrong way down a one way street exiting the courthouse.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    37·
    7 hours ago

    I’ll bet my life savings that he doesn’t show up, and that he doesn’t do any jail time because of that.

    I say this in jest, but,

    Eat your heart out Martha Stewart.

    • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
      15·
      6 hours ago

      Normally I would agree with you, but a Philadelphia DA doesn’t order Musk to appear in person without knowing what he’ll do. It’s warrant bait, pure and simple.

  • GrymEdm@lemmy.world
    65·
    7 hours ago

    Looking at that 2nd point: it’s so odd that Trump’s Republicans include hardcore Netanyahu-style Zionists AND unrepentant antisemites. It’s like they want to cover all possible approaches to the wrong side of history.

    As to the meat of the story, Legal Eagle made a video about the legality of the Musk lottery. It seems pretty clearly forbidden, but we’ve been down this road with rich Conservatives many times before…

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      2·
      38 minutes ago

      it’s so odd that Trump’s Republicans include hardcore Netanyahu-style Zionists AND unrepentant antisemites.

      Not as odd as you think, especially if those unrepentant antisemites are also evangelicals. They believe that all the Jews have to return to Israel, by force if necessary, for Jesus to return. Plenty of others also want to force all the Jews to live in Israel because they want rigidly-enforced ethnostates. Either way, they don’t like Jews, they just find them useful. In fact, the evangelicals expect them all to be thrown into Hell by Jesus when he returns.

    • masterofn001
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Can’t usher in the messiah and Armageddon without both.

      Gotta kill lots of people first.