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milestogo

(22,597 posts)
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 05:35 PM Jun 2025

So is Musk going to divulge that he helped steal the 2024 election for Trump?

And if he does, what will happen?

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So is Musk going to divulge that he helped steal the 2024 election for Trump? (Original Post) milestogo Jun 2025 OP
Even better Hope22 Jun 2025 #1
Atty Gen Barbie doll Bondi will not prosecute djt. magicarpet Jun 2025 #2
IANAL, but states run their own elections, even presidential ones. (States elect electors and congresspersons) usonian Jun 2025 #4
Musk did look like a tweaking cat in search of a laser in the Oval Office SomedayKindaLove Jun 2025 #3
Like TSF, he thinks he can buy his way out of anything. milestogo Jun 2025 #5
Just a scenario where this might come to fruition. magicarpet Jun 2025 #8
Nothing will happen... Fiendish Thingy Jun 2025 #6
Well, he can pardon everybody involved and himself. Kid Berwyn Jun 2025 #7
Wondering the same. Amaryllis Jun 2025 #9
No, because he didn't n/t Polybius Jun 2025 #10
I think he is hinting at it already. yellow dahlia Jun 2025 #11
I'm sure Musk is just itching to confess to a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States. LudwigPastorius Jun 2025 #12

magicarpet

(18,457 posts)
2. Atty Gen Barbie doll Bondi will not prosecute djt.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 05:41 PM
Jun 2025

Is there a chance in hell states atty Gens can prosecute trDUMP for anything done in their specific state to illegally toss the 2024 election ?

Wouldn't that be just dandy ? But holding your breath is ill advised.

usonian

(23,605 posts)
4. IANAL, but states run their own elections, even presidential ones. (States elect electors and congresspersons)
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 05:53 PM
Jun 2025

These are state crimes, pardonable only by governors and constrained by state laws.

Federal election laws, based on civil rights laws, set standards but they have been under nuclear attack for years, leading to a near Jim-Crow situation in some states. ("Voter Verification" and so on.)

I defer to more knowledgeable folks in this matter.

SomedayKindaLove

(1,175 posts)
3. Musk did look like a tweaking cat in search of a laser in the Oval Office
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 05:48 PM
Jun 2025

And currently seems to have anxious tapping-fingers on the Twitter-X pulse, but he’d really have to be out of his freaking mind to confess to election fraud.

magicarpet

(18,457 posts)
8. Just a scenario where this might come to fruition.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 06:30 PM
Jun 2025

Musk approaches the law man/woman and says Ì have evidence (recordings/videos/witnesses) of trDUMP discussing tossing the 2024 election so he was guaranteed to win.

1.) If Musk and his hi-tech teens could make this happen and put djt back in the Oval Office,... trDUMP promised to use the power of the Presidency to award multi billion dollar contracts to Musk's companies.

2.) If trDUMP got back in the White House all his legal issues would poof just disappear with jail time no longer hanging over djt's head.

In return if Musk fixed the election for trDUMP, he would arrange to make Musk's 40 or 50 investigations into Musk's companies just poof go away.

Musk was willing to blow the whistle on trDUMP about these illegal quid pro quo arrangement,...

BUT MUSK WANTS TOTAL, COMPLETE, AND IRREVOCABLE IMMUNITY - unless Musk purgers himself pertaining to these trDUMP illegalities. Looking for both federal and state blanket immunity for Musk.

A special prosecutor would be assigned to handle such a convoluted case against a sitting US President. Immunity for Musk could break this thing wide open.

Wouldn't that be delicious ?

Fiendish Thingy

(22,072 posts)
6. Nothing will happen...
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 06:28 PM
Jun 2025

Unless Musk can prove he actually stole the election for Trump.

A social media confession might generate headlines, but without evidence…nothing.

Since there has been no evidence of election theft/rigging/tampering introduced in any court so far, I don’t expect anything new to emerge.

LudwigPastorius

(14,198 posts)
12. I'm sure Musk is just itching to confess to a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 11:54 PM
Jun 2025


...especially since there is no evidence that he did.
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