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Miles Archer

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Mon Jan 19, 2026, 02:15 PM Monday

KISS ASS & MAKE UP WITH TRUMP: Musk donates $10 million to a pro-Trump candidate hoping to succeed retiring McConnell

Elon Musk has pumped millions of dollars into a Republican Senate hopeful’s campaign after previously vowing to disrupt the GOP and Donald Trump following their major bust-up.

The world’s richest man has donated $10 million to Kentucky’s Nate Morris, a pro-Trump candidate hoping to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell, Axios reported.

The mega-sum given to the Fight for Kentucky super PAC is the largest contribution the tech billionaire has ever given to a Senate candidate and a major sign that Musk wants to return to having an influential role in Republican politics.

The reversal marks an embarrassing climbdown for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who last year vowed to support challengers to Republican incumbents in the midterms and promised to donate to the re-election campaign of Trump’s longtime nemesis, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, after his spectacular falling out with Trump.

Shortly after Musk left his role at the failed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) program, Trump and Musk began exchanging verbal blows over the president’s “big, beautiful” spending bill. The back-and-forth escalated to Musk claiming that the reason the government had not released files linked to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is that Trump appears in them.

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