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Funding the far right
Funding far-right parties, movements or campaigns (for Donald Trump, after January 6, 2021).
10 documented facts
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) said in a video posted before his trial at Westminster Magistrates' Court, for refusing to give police his phone PIN when stopped under counter-terrorism powers, that Musk had paid for his defence.
“picked up the legal bill for this absolute state persecution”
Response: The claim rests on Robinson's own statement; the sources report no confirmation or comment from Musk.
While serving as the White House adviser on AI and crypto policy, was the featured special guest at the "Crypto & AI Innovators Dinner", a $1.5 million-per-plate fundraiser for MAGA Inc., the super PAC supporting President Trump. Trump spoke at the dinner, held at the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia.
FEC filings showed he spent more than $277 million in the 2024 election backing Donald Trump and other Republicans, making him the cycle's largest donor, including $239 million to his America PAC and $20.5 million to RBG PAC, whose ads suggested Ruth Bader Ginsburg's abortion views resembled Trump's.
Federal Election Commission filings showed that he donated $2.5 million to Right for America, a pro-Donald Trump super PAC, plus $844,600, the federal limit, to Trump's campaign and the Republican Party, after he and Ben Horowitz endorsed Trump in July 2024 citing their "little tech agenda".
L'Humanité revealed the "Périclès" plan backed by Stérin: about €150 million over ten years, naming "socialism, wokism, Islamism, immigration" as enemies, aiming to help the Rassemblement National win 300 towns in 2026 and to build a reserve of 1,000 people for government posts ahead of 2027, and claiming a "relationship of trust" with Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen.
Response: Stérin's teams confirmed the plan to Le Journal du Dimanche, describing the document as "un peu daté".
Donated $2.5 million to Right for America, a pro-Donald Trump super PAC, within days of Kamala Harris replacing Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket in July 2024, after he and Marc Andreessen announced their support for Trump. The donation was disclosed in Federal Election Commission filings reported in October 2024.
“So here we are, and for little tech, we think Donald Trump is actually the right choice.”
Response: In October 2024 Horowitz told his firm he would also make a "significant" donation to Kamala Harris's campaign, without endorsing her policies.
Co-hosted with David Sacks a fundraiser for Donald Trump at Sacks's San Francisco home, a week after Trump's conviction on 34 felony counts. Tickets sold for $50,000, with a $300,000 tier; the sold-out event was expected to raise $12 million.
Response: Palihapitiya did not return CNBC's requests for comment.
Hosted a fundraiser for Donald Trump at his San Francisco home, co-hosted with Chamath Palihapitiya, a week after Trump's conviction on 34 felony counts. Tickets sold for $50,000, with a $300,000 tier; the sold-out event was expected to raise $12 million.
Response: Sacks declined to comment to CNBC.
Through his Périclès project, which he said would invest €20 million a year, supported at least 24 think tanks, associations, media outlets and training institutes in 2024, according to La Lettre as reported by Politis. Politis grouped several beneficiaries as "islamophobes ou sécuritaires" and listed LÉA, an association created to fight "racisme anti-blanc". On 28 May 2026, Périclès director Arnaud Rérolle told a Senate inquiry committee that Périclès had given three to four million euros to associations in each of 2025 and 2026, citing the Observatoire de l'immigration et de la démocratie among the beneficiaries.
Response: Arnaud Rérolle told senators that Périclès defends right-wing ideas "peu représentées dans ce débat public" by legal means and has never received public funding.
Was one of the private lenders, according to Le Monde and BFMTV, behind about €1.8 million in personal loans that financed Rassemblement National campaigns in the 2020 municipal elections in Marseille, Nice and Lyon and the 2021 regional elections in PACA, Normandy, Occitanie and Centre-Val de Loire; beneficiaries included Stéphane Ravier, Philippe Vardon and Thierry Mariani. A preliminary investigation by the Marseille prosecutor, stemming from facts that emerged in a procedure opened in Alençon on 18 January 2021 and later extended to money laundering and the illegal exercise of the banking profession, examines how the loans were granted; Stérin was questioned as a suspect on 11 June 2024 and has not been charged.
Response: Stérin confirmed he was questioned, said the loans were "effectués à titre personnel" and declared, and that he "n'a jamais participé, directement ou indirectement, à un quelconque financement illégal de campagne".