‘Musk’ Director Alex Gibney Wants to Know if Democrats Can Now Hold Elon Musk Accountable
On Tuesday, Gibney pointed to the more than $474 million Musk has donated to Republican political groups this election cycle, adding that, “Last I looked, things weren’t going Elon’s way, particularly in Texas.”
Not long after those remarks, James Talrico was declared the winner of his Senate race and Gina Hinojosa was elected the state’s governor, some of the first Democrats to win a Texas statewide election in more than three decades. Musk, who has enjoyed close relationships with Texas bigwigs for years, donated at least $158 million to super PACs supporting Talrico’s opponent, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton.
Musk “now has such an extraordinary amount of money that dropping $500 million on an election means nothing to him,” Gibney says. However, much of that money is tied up in his companies’ stock. “The question is: What if that stock begins to fall?”
While making Musk, Gibney spoke with...
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