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🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | Two years ago in the final stretch of the 2022 midterm elections, a flood of |
0:10.9 | mysterious ads started showing up on TV's, radios, and billboards across the U.S. |
0:16.2 | And it wasn't clear who was behind them. |
0:19.2 | Joe Biden and his soft on crime policies are setting predators free in our communities. |
0:24.0 | A lot of the ads centered around anti-immigration, anti-woke policies. |
0:29.0 | That's our colleague Dana Matioli. |
0:31.0 | They're very critical of gender affirming care for children and teenagers. |
0:35.0 | Biden and progressive leaders promote puberty blockers to keep kids from developing to normal men and women. |
0:42.0 | And these ads ran in battleground states just days |
0:44.8 | before the midterm elections and really |
0:46.5 | attacked the Democratic Party. |
0:48.5 | Raphael Warnock and Joe Biden believe |
0:51.0 | men can get pregnant. They believe a boy can become a girl. |
0:55.8 | These attack ads were traced back to a conservative nonprofit group called Citizens for Sanity. |
1:00.9 | And it ran $90 dollars of ads in battleground states, and no one really knew who |
1:07.5 | funded it. It was this mystery. And you solved that mystery? |
1:13.2 | Yes, we were able to learn that Elon Musk gave more than 50 million dollars to funding those ads |
1:21.2 | that were very explosive. |
1:23.0 | Elon Musk, the richest man in the world. |
1:27.0 | It's hard to pin down an exact amount of money |
1:30.0 | that Elon has contributed to Republican causes because he's gone to |
1:34.8 | great pains to keep much of it secret. |
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