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The Michael Steele Podcast

How the Hell Is It Legal for Elon to Buy an Election? (Quick Take)

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele speaks with Jim Acosta about Elon Musk's attempt to win the Supreme Court Wisconsin election and the terrible consequences we must face if Ukraine falls.

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0:00.0

So here's one for you. Riddle me this. How the hell did we wind up with Elon?

0:07.1

Couldn't get his ass in South Africa and he could live in his little apartheid bubble and

0:13.2

even South Africa doesn't want that anymore. No, we don't. That's the hard one time ago.

0:20.7

Yeah, thanks. We're not importing apartheid into America. That's the hard. A long time ago. Yeah, thanks.

0:21.6

We're not importing apartheid into America.

0:24.4

That's not happening.

0:25.3

Sorry.

0:26.3

You know, Michael, it goes back to that Citizens United decision.

0:30.3

I hate to say, I talk about this on my show.

0:32.8

When the Supreme Court cited the way it did in the Citizens United case and open up the floodgates

0:40.8

of dark money, corporate money, super rich, wealthy guy money into the system, I think that

0:47.4

really impacted our democracy in a way that we're still feeling now.

0:51.8

When Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, can dump $290 million into Donald Trump's race back in 2024.

0:59.0

$26 million into the special election.

1:01.2

The Wisconsin thing.

1:02.2

State Supreme Court in Wisconsin, yeah.

1:05.4

And Michael, how in the hell is it legal?

1:07.3

You know this stuff back and forth and up and down. How is it legal

1:11.6

that you hand out million-dollar checks to people? It doesn't sound legal to me. It's not.

1:16.1

And the long of Democrats, remember, this is, this, this, this is the same Republican Party

1:22.0

that, that pitched a bitch when, when you had states saying, okay, you can hand out water to people standing in line.

1:31.2

You couldn't do cookies. Remember in Georgia, you couldn't do cookies. You couldn't bring

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