{"id":40366,"date":"2025-03-30T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=40366"},"modified":"2025-03-31T02:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T07:41:43","slug":"musk-says-he-is-giving-out-two-1-million-checks-to-get-attention-from-legacy-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=40366","title":{"rendered":"Musk says he is giving out two $1 million checks to \u2018get attention\u2019 from \u2018legacy media\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tech billionaire Elon Musk\u2002<\/u><\/a>handed out oversized $1 million checks to two attendees of his town hall in Wisconsin on Sunday evening, saying the stunt is cheaper and more effective than paying for the same amount of media coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe reason for the checks is that it\u2019s really just to get attention. It\u2019s like, we need to get attention. And it\u2019s somewhat inevitably, when I do this, these things\u2026 it causes the legacy media to, like, kind of lose their minds, and then they\u2019ll run it on every news channel,\u201d Musk said on stage at the town hall, before giving out the large checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019m like, I couldn\u2019t pay them to, it would cost, like, 10 times more\u2026 to get the kind of coverage that we get\u201d without distributing the checks, Musk said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added, later: \u201cThis is just helpful for getting attention, and then, like, it\u2019s kind of fun to see the legacy media lose their minds over it too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musk appeared to make good on his promise on Sunday to give checks to two members of the audience, all of whom were required to sign his petition against so-called \u201cactivist judges\u201d in order to get a seat at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The town hall was held in advance of Tuesday\u2019s critical Wisconsin Supreme Court race, into which Musk and his America PAC have poured millions of dollars to support the conservative candidate, Judge Brad Schimel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The promise of giving out $2 million caused significant controversy leading up to the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier that day, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul\u2002<\/u><\/a>(D) asked the state\u2019s top court to block Musk from giving away the checks at his town hall, arguing they were \u201cillegal payments\u201d to buy votes. Kaul\u2019s appeal came after lower courts declined to block the giveaways as an illegal bribe to voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musk presented the checks to Nicholas Jacobs and Ekaterina Diestler on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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