Elon Musk quietly funded a $20.5 million super PAC that ran ads positioning Trump’s abortion stance through an unexpected lens: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
CHAPIN, S.C. — Elon Musk was the sole funder of a super PAC formed less than a month before the election that focused on advertising intended to convince voters that Donald Trump‘s stance on abortion was akin to that of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
A group titled RBG PAC, formed in mid-October, received a single contribution of $20.5 million from an entity entitled “Elon Musk Revocable Trust” a week later, according to federal campaign finance reports filed this week. Because of the short timeline between the donation and Thursday’s reporting deadline, Musk’s affiliation with the group — which he did not talk about publicly — wasn’t revealed until the filings became public.
In the closing weeks before the Nov. 5 election, the RBG PAC group ran a TV ad noting …