We’ve shown how Newsmax wavered on Elon Musk but eventually fell into line as he helped Donald Trump get elected (with hundreds of millions of dollars and making X a pro-Trump outlet). After that, Newsmax started portray Musk as a victim — just because he was being held accountable for his actions. Solange Reyner served as stenographer for a biased pro-Trump official in a Nov. 14 article:
Federal Elections Committee Chair Sean Cooksey said the Department of Justice attempted “to intimidate and chill private citizens and organizations from campaigning on behalf of President Trump” when it sent a letter to billionaire Elon Musk in late October warning him that the $1 million giveaways he offered to voters in battleground states ahead of the election could be illegal.
Cooksey also compared the “misuse of government power against President Trump’s campaign” to the DOJ’s abuses during Watergate.
“The underlying motivation behind this stunt is obvious,” Cooksey wrote Wednesday in a letter to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz pressing for an investigation into the matter, The Washington Free Beacon reported.
“Employees of President Biden’s Department of Justice wanted to stop an independent political committee from campaigning for President Trump in crucial swing states just prior to Election Day.”
Cooksey also accused the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section of leaking the letter to The New York Times, which he said, “also violates the department’s long-standing policy against the identification of uncharged parties and the disclosure of prejudicial information.”
Reyner didn’t mention any of the criticism of the giveaway which prompted the inquiry — that it’s effectively somewhere between a lottery and outright bribery of voters, and that it was not a random giveaway at all but, rather, a targeted distribution whose “winners” were chosen beforehand and selected on the basis of how effective of a spokesperson they are.
An unbylined Dec. 2 article was full of pro-Musk rah-rah under the highly misleading headline “Delaware Confiscates $100 Billion of Musk’s Wealth”:
A Delaware judge moved Monday to confirm its confiscation of Elon Musk’s wealth that he created at Tesla — denying him a compensation package that would be worth over $100 billion in value today.
Musk has paid a heavy price for countering woke politics, making X a neutral platform, and backing Donald Trump for president.
Delaware Chancellor Judge Kathaleen McCormick on Monday ruled to confirm her January ruling that found Musk was not eligible for a 2018 compensation package then valued at $56 billion.
Musk said he properly received board approval and later hit financial targets to earn the compensation, including benchmarks based on stock value, profitability, and revenue.
At one point, visionary Musk had driven the value of Tesla to close a trillion dollars during the compensation period. Today, Tesla holds a market cap of over $1.1 trillion.
[…]McCormick saw little contradiction, however, in penalizing Musk for the wealth he created, while granting the lawyers who sued him on behalf of shareholders an incredible $345 million in attorney fees for their legal filings.
The anonymous Newsmax writer, however, refused to explain exactly why Musk’s pay package was rejected. but as a more fair and balanced outlet reported, there are reasons why:
As with her earlier ruling, McCormick again expressed concern about Musk’s control and influence over the company, including its board.
“There were undoubtedly a range of healthy amounts that the Board could have decided to pay Musk,” McCormick wrote, but she said the board instead “capitulated to Musk’s terms and then failed to prove that those terms were entirely fair.”
McCormick also said no Delaware court had ever reversed its judgment based on a stockholder vote that took place after a trial and noted that if companies could “create” new facts after a judgment was reached that “lawsuits would become interminable.”
But rather than tell reader the full truth, our anonymous Newsmax writer played stenographer and cheerleader for Musk’s petulant rage:
Since the court’s first ruling, Musk has been on the warpath with Delaware.
This year he moved both Tesla and SpaceX’s incorporation from Delaware to Texas. He also moved Neuralink to Nevada.
Musk has also urged other companies to quit Delaware as well.
On X, Musk has stated bluntly, “Never incorporate your company in the state of Delaware.”
The home state of President Joe Biden, Delaware has come under criticism for its close ties to the Biden family and its political agenda.
Last year, The Wall Street Journal published an article, co-authored by former Attorney General William Barr, lambasting Delaware for embracing far-left Environmental, Social, and Governance policies and attempting to push them on corporations.
And The Hill reported that major corporations are fleeing Delaware as a result of its highly politicized agenda.
Newsmax didn’t allow anyone to respond to Musk’s attacks.