Elon Musk funded and promoted a $1 million sweepstakes tied to signing an America PAC petition, encouraging political participation linked to Donald Trump's campaign. Entrants provided names, phone numbers, emails, and other personal data to America PAC. Jacqueline McAferty filed a class-action suit alleging the contest was rigged because winners were pre-selected, denying entrants a genuine random chance at the prize. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman allowed the lawsuit to proceed, finding a plausible argument that plaintiffs did not receive the bargain of a random chance. Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner previously sued and lost a related challenge to the sweepstakes.
While Trump was complaining about a rigged election, his boy Elon Musk was running a rigged sweepstakes for $1 million that people who entered could not actually win, and now he's facing a class action lawsuit over it. A year ago this time at the height of the 2024 Presidential Election campaign, Elon Musk was throwing around hundreds of millions of dollars to get Donald Trump elected. Then of course Trump won, but had a public falling out with Musk, and Elon claimed he was starting a new political party because he didn't want to be a Republican anymore.
Bloomberg reports an Arizona woman is suing Musk because his $1 million sweepstakes to sign Musk's America PAC petition, and presumably then vote for Trump, was a completely rigged contest that people could not actually win. The case is brought by a woman named Jacqueline McAferty, and US District Judge Robert Pitman ruled on Wednesday that her class action lawsuit can indeed proceed.
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