Demo­c­ra­t­ic PAC files FEC com­plaint against Trump and X over Elon Musk inter­view

A Demo­c­ra­t­ic Polit­i­cal Action Com­mit­tee has filed a com­plaint with the Fed­er­al Elec­tion Com­mis­sion over for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s inter­view with X own­er Elon Musk. The com­mit­tee claimed the inter­view was a “cor­po­rate con­tri­bu­tion.”
Musk tout­ed the inter­view with Trump as an “unscript­ed” dis­cus­sion between the two bil­lion­aires, which was host­ed on X and went on for two hours. End Cit­i­zens Unit­ed, a PAC orga­ni­za­tion, described the live talk as a “cam­paign event” in a press release announc­ing its FEC com­plaint and that the resources Musk used to host this call vio­lat­ed cam­paign finance laws.
“The Don­ald Trump-Elon Musk cam­paign ral­ly host­ed on X wasn’t just an inco­her­ent dia­tribe of lies marred by tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties. It was a bla­tant­ly ille­gal cor­po­rate con­tri­bu­tion to Don­ald Trump …