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Green Bay, Wisconsin – 30 March 2025
1. Billionaire and head of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, arriving at town hall wearing cheesehead hat and jumping
2. Mid of Musk on stage, UPSOUND (English) "What do you think about my hat? All right, I’m going to sign the hat. And I’ll throw it out."
3. Musk on stage
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Elon Musk, head of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE):
"I mean, isn’t it shocking how much violence and hatred is coming from the left? I mean, isn’t it supposed to be the party that – they claim to be the party of empathy? And yet they’re burning Teslas and shooting up dealerships and calling for the death of the president (US President Donald Trump) and me. I’m like, guys, you know, this is insane. Like, they’re totally gone psycho. I mean, it’s really like, I totally understand if somebody doesn’t want to buy our product. Yeah, it’s up to you, it’s a free country, you know, but you don’t have to burn it down, okay? It’s a bit much, that somebody else’s car. Leave it alone."
5. Musk on stage speaking
6. Musk holding giant check, UPSOUND (English) Musk: "I should say that the the reason, you know, the reason for the check is that it’s really just to get attention. It’s like, we need to get attention. And it’s somewhat, inevitably, when I do these things, the, you know, the sort of – it causes the legacy media to like, kind of lose their minds. And then they’ll, they’ll run it on every news channel. And I’m like, I couldn’t pay them, it would cost like ten times more, you know."
7. Musk on stage
8. Musk handing $1 million check to voter Nicholas Jacobs
9. Musk speaking on stage
10. Musk handing $1 million check to voter Ekaterina Diestler
11. Musk on stage speaking
STORYLINE:
Elon Musk gave out $1 million checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group, ahead of a Wisconsin Supreme Court election that the tech billionaire cast as critical to President Donald Trump’s agenda and “the future of civilization.”
He took the stage in a yellow cheesehead hat in front of a a roughly 2,000-person crowd in Green Bay on Sunday night.
Musk and groups he supports have spent more than $20 million to help conservative favorite Brad Schimel in Tuesday’s race, which will determine the ideological makeup of a court likely to decide key issues in a perennial battleground state.
Musk has increasingly become the center of the contest, with liberal favorite Susan Crawford and her allies protesting Musk and what they say is the influence he wants to have on the court.
Musk noted that the state high court may well take up redistricting of congressional districts, which could ultimately affect which party controls the U.S. House.
A unanimous state Supreme Court on Sunday refused to hear a last-minute attempt by the state’s Democratic attorney general to stop Musk from handing over the checks to two voters, a ruling that came just minutes before the planned start of the rally.
Two lower courts had already rejected the legal challenge by Democrat Josh Kaul, who argues that Musk’s offer violates a state law.
But the state Supreme Court, which is currently controlled 4-3 by liberal justices, declined to take the case as an original action. The court gave no rationale for its decision.
Musk’s attorneys argued in filings with the court that Musk was exercising his free speech rights with the giveaways and any attempt to restrict that would violate both the Wisconsin and U.S. constitutions.
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