South African immigrant Elon Musk continues to be criticizing immigrants from Black majority nations, this time accusing them of coming to america to vote for Democrats.
Musk made his racist commentary throughout a Wednesday interview with Katie Miller, spouse of bigoted Trump administration official Stephen Miller. The multibillionaire Republican donor reiterated a false conspiracy idea he’s beforehand touted, alleging that immigrants had been paid to maneuver to america to vote for Democrats.
“We’re paying individuals to return right here from some place else in huge numbers, together with flying them in—it’s not such as you want a border wall for those who’re flying them in—then fast-tracking them to citizenship,” Musk mentioned.
He additionally argued that this elaborate scheme results in immigrant communities voting “arduous left,” and described the thought as “voter importation.”
The idea is a long-standing white supremacist conspiracy referred to as “nice substitute,” touted as a solution to exchange white voters with foreign-born, nonwhite voters.
Musk mentioned this creates a “cash magnet” and cited Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, an immigrant from Somalia. In response to Musk, Omar was “voted into energy by a big group of individuals from Somalia who’re in Minnesota, which is de facto removed from Somalia.”
He additionally known as into query the current election of New York Metropolis’s Zohran Mamdani “by a majority of people who find themselves not born in America.”
Musk’s bigoted remarks echo President Donald Trump, who has spent the final two weeks denigrating Omar and Minnesota’s Somali communities
However Musk’s feedback show much more racist as a result of he himself is an immigrant from South Africa—the one distinction being that he’s white. Musk moved to america and obtained hundreds of thousands in authorities help to assist launch his firms, with hundreds of thousands in authorities contracts persevering with to return in.
Regardless of his repeated failures to ship on his grandiose tech-centric guarantees, Musk has earned billions due to U.S. taxpayers. These funds have been used to again racist U.S. candidates—most notably Trump—as nicely as racist political events in Europe.
Musk additionally successfully admitted in his interview with Miller that his so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity was a failure, saying that, if he might return in time, he wouldn’t do it once more. He additionally complained that his actions at DOGE led to individuals “burning the vehicles”—a reference to intensive protests at numerous Tesla amenities throughout the nation.
DOGE continues to be underneath hearth for ending life-saving packages the world over, violating People’ privateness, and costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands—all after promising that the shoddy group would save the federal government billions.
