Elon Musk will not face charges for promising to give $1 million to voters in a 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election because no jury would find that constituted election bribery, a state prosecutor said Tuesday.

Musk, the founder of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla, was deeply involved in the effort to flip majority control of the highest court in battleground Wisconsin last year. But the candidate he and Republicans backed lost to Democratic-supported Susan Crawford, whose victory preserved liberals’ majority on the court.

The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission in July referred two complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office for possible charges, saying Musk likely broke the law. La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke was later appointed as a special prosecutor because of a conflict of interest.

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    La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke, a Democrat, announced on Tuesday that he didn’t think he could convince a jury that Musk had made a bribe with the posts.

    Gonna write this guy a nice letter…

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      This is why even if Dems take the house and Senate, and the POTUS, nothing will be done to prosecute any of these criminals. They’ll do the same shit that Biden did and drag their feet.

      Still would rather they be running the show, but fucking hell…someone giving up because they don’t think they could convince a jury…has he been paying attention in MN?