Elon Musk’s father Errol has revealed that his son’s true political leanings are at a “dead end” despite him backing Trump.
The Tesla CEO’s father said that neither Musk nor Donald Trump are part of the far right. “Elon is at the center,” said Errol, 78. radio times.
He added that he and his son don’t talk about American politics all the time, but that he was trying to “support him in any way I could,” and that Musk was “doing the right thing.”
Despite Errol’s claim that Musk, 53, is in the “dead center,” the tech mogul attended several Trump rallies and expressed his support for the former president, even hosting a $1 million lottery for voters that is now being investigated by the Philadelphia district attorney.
Musk, the richest man in the world, would have donated at least $118 million to his political action committee America PAC, an organization that raises funds for the elections and that Musk has used to support Trump.
The Tesla CEO’s father said that neither Elon Musk (right) nor Donald Trump (left) are part of the far right. “Elon is at the center,” Errol, 78, told Times radio.
Elon Musk’s father Errol (pictured) has revealed that his son’s true political leanings are “dead center” despite him backing Trump.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gestures as he takes the stage during a rally for former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York on October 27, 2024.
According to the America PAC website, 16 people, including four in Pennsylvania, have received $1 million awards. The winners were reportedly selected at random from those who signed a petition pledging support for free speech and the right to bear arms.
The offer was limited to voters registered in one of seven states likely to decide the outcome of the Nov. 5 election: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Musk gave away the first million dollars at a US PAC rally on October 19 in Harrisburg, the state capital of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a Democrat, sued Musk and his pro-Trump political action committee, America PAC, last week, calling the $1 million awards to registered voters in battleground states ” an illegal lottery scheme.
Krasner had called for the daily giveaways to be shut down, but Pennsylvania Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo Foglietta refused to do so after a day-long hearing Monday involving Musk’s attorneys and prosecutors.
Musk repeatedly expressed his support for Trump. During a rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden, he said, “As you can see, I’m not just a MAGA, I’m a dark goth MAGA.”
‘Let’s get the government off our backs and out of our pockets. The future is going to be amazing.”
And he added: “This is a real battle, it is a real electoral battle.” So you need to get your friends and family to vote. Make sure they vote early, this is important. Make the margin of victory so large that “you know what” can’t happen.
Musk has donated more than $70 million to Trump’s campaign and echoed the former president’s concerns about mail-in voting, saying that mail-in votes should not be accepted in the future.
He also addressed the January 6, 2021 insurrection during a town hall event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, saying that Trump was not responsible for the violence since he “actually told people not to be violent” and that Instead, he would protest “peacefully and patriotically.” .
But in 2016, when Trump ran for the first time, Musk said Trump was “not the right guy” to be president because he “doesn’t seem to have the kind of character that reflects well on America.”
Musk and his father Errol, a mining magnate and former politician, have repaired their relationship in recent years, after Musk called his father a “terrible human being” and capable of “evil” in 2017.
But now Errol praised his son for being “smarter than anyone he’s ever met” and for being “sensitive.”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk jumps on stage as he joins former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, on May 5. October 2024.
Errol Musk, 78, is pictured above holding his son Elon when he was a baby.
Musk’s difficult relationship with his father is detailed in the biography of SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Musk moved in with him when he was 10 for seven years, a decision he later regretted: it had a huge influence on his life.
Growing up in South Africa, Musk says his father’s guilt led him to leave his brother Kimbal and sister Tosca to keep him company.
Musk calls his father a “volatile fabulist” who had a Jekyll and Hyde personality. As Musk says: “It was mental torture.” He sure knew how to do anything terrible.
After Musk was abandoned in the hospital after a beating by some kids at his school, Errol took the side of the boy who punched Musk in the face.
Errol allegedly said, “That kid had just lost his father to suicide and Elon called him stupid.” How could I blame that child?
After arriving home from the hospital, Musk had to stand for an hour while his father yelled at him that he was an “idiot” and “useless.”
Errol had a relationship with Musk’s mother that was “full of drama.” He repeatedly proposed to her, but she “didn’t trust him” and later found out he was cheating on her.
When she found out, she allegedly cried for a week and didn’t eat, causing her to lose 10 pounds, Isaacson claims.
During a 2022 interview with an Australian radio station, Errol said he was not proud of his son and would rather drive a Bentley or a Rolls Royce than a Tesla.
But just a year later, she defended her son’s controversial appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast in which he smoked marijuana with the comedian.
Errol’s comments about the election come after Musk’s mother, Maye, spoke out about “malicious and dishonest” Democrats after leaving the party to join her son in supporting the Republican Party and Trump.
The 76-year-old model, who has recently become more outspoken about the problems in America, says the party’s treatment of her son made Maye reconsider how she felt about them.
Elon Musk’s mother Maye speaks out about the “malicious and dishonest” Democratic party after leaving to join her son in supporting the Republican Party and Donald Trump.
Kimbal Musk (right) cut off all contact with his father. Kimbal is pictured above with Elon and his mother Maye.
Her news diet when she became an American citizen was filled with typically liberal networks like MSNBC and CNN. “But they also said Elon is terrible, and I was like, why are they lying about Elon?” he said.
Maye continued: “They really made me think that they just didn’t know what they were doing,” she said.
Now he believes the party could be lying mostly to hurt the US.
“Then when I resigned from the Democrats, I felt great relief not to be part of the party that is now malicious and dishonest. And my biggest fear is the fraud they are committing in the voting booths,” he said. fox business.
It’s a far cry from when she became a citizen in 1996 and joined the left.
“When I became an American citizen, of course, I was a Democrat because they give you that option and because they are good, kind people who care about America,” Maye said.
She is worried about her son now that he has joined forces with Trump, funding a PAC that supports the former president and running many of his GOTV operations.