[Applause] billionaire Elon Musk promised to give away $1 million each day until November's election to someone who signs his online petition pledging support for the first and second amendments the first check went to an attendee at musk's America pack event in Harrisburg Pennsylvania on Saturday aimed at rallying supporters behind Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump the winner was a man named John drer according to events staff the first amendment protects free speech and the second amendment protects the right to keep in be arms the money is the latest example of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO using
his extraordinary wealth to influence the tightly contested presidential race between Trump and his Democratic rival vice president kamla Harris but questions about the legality of musk's cash payments abounded over the weekend as election law experts pointed to various Provisions in federal law that prohibited making cash payments to voters it is a federal crime to pay people with the intention of inducing or rewarding them to cast a vote or to get registered an offense punishable by prison time attendees of Saturday's event had to sign the petition which allows America pack to Garner contact details for more
potential voters that it can work to get to the polls for Trump musk ranked by Forbes as the world's richest person so far has supplied at least $75 million to America pack according to Federal disclosures making the group a crucial part of Trump's bid to regain the White House