Billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday (March 30) handed out million-dollar checks to two voters in Wisconsin and promised smaller payments to others who help elect a conservative candidate to the state's top court in a closely watched election. - REUTERS
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00:00Let me first hand out two $1,000,000 checks in appreciation.
00:04APPLAUSE
00:12Thank you. Congratulations.
00:18The reason for the checks is that it's really just to get attention.
00:22It's like, we need to get attention, and it's somewhat inevitably,
00:27when I do these things, it causes the legacy media to kind of lose their minds.
00:35LAUGHTER
00:37And then they'll run it on every news channel, and I'm like,
00:41I couldn't pay them, it would cost like ten times more,
00:45you know, to get the kind of coverage that we get.