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Elon Musk Was Behind Effort To Gaslight Americans Into Believing Donald Trump Supports Reproductive Rights

And he dragged Ruth Bader Ginsburg's name into the effort.

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In the waning days of the 2024 presidential election, a curious political action committee, named after the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ran ads in support of Donald Trump, and, bizarrely, claimed that RBG and Trump were of “one mind” on abortion rights. Of course, that’s far from accurate. The PAC misconstrued Trump’s position on reproductive freedom, twisting the Trump assertion that he didn’t support a “federal abortion ban,” and willfully ignoring the other words his campaign used to amount to the same thing. To say nothing of the Project 2025 plan to use the Comstock Act of 1973 to severely limit access to abortion care in this country.

The effort to conflate RBG and Trump’s records on reproductive rights was derided as “nothing short of appalling” by RBG’s granddaughter, Clara Spera. A sentiment shared by pretty much everyone horrified by the Supreme Court’s overturning the right to reproductive freedom, ushering in a new American era of increased infant deaths and a spike in maternal mortality rates.

The RBG PAC was created right at the FEC deadline for the election cycle, with $20 million in secret donations. But now we know who has the deep pockets behind the misleading message.

It’s Elon Musk, because of course it is.

The sum he spent on the RBG PAC was just a drop in the bucket of the total amount Musk spent to back Trump. All in, Musk threw down $250 million in support of Trump. No wonder he’s got a fancy new title in the Trump administration.

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