Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk has claimed that celebrity philanthropist Mackenzie Scott is donating to anti-Amazon founder Jeff Bezos organizations, including Democrats. The ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has donated an estimated amount of $12 billion across the U.S., helping women, children, minorities, and refugees and supporting rural health access. In her 2019 pledge, she promised to give away most of her fortune after a mutual divorce.
Musk voiced commemoration of those who fell to protect the light of freedom in his Memorial Day tweet. To this, a Twitter user commented that he did not value liberty as he said he would be supporting Donald Trump. The billionaire responded that given the unjustified attacks on him by major Democrats and a cold shoulder toward SpaceX and Tesla, he would cast his vote for Republican in November.
He identified Scott as the source of the recent conflicts. According to him, the Democrats have gone negative in the last year, and the reason is partly because of Mackenzie’s contributions to the political action committee (PACs) “posing as charities.”
He maintained that Scott would give her money to NGOs that attack her ex-husband, Jeff Bezos, in order to exact revenge on Musk. Musk also indicated that he and some other billionaires were the casualties of Scott’s hostility toward Bezos.
The progressive wing of the Democratic Party portrays Musk and Bezos, the world’s first and second richest men, as emblems of economic and social inequality.
Musk defined himself as “half Democrat, half Republican” and socially liberal and financially conservative in 2014. In 2018, he declared that he was not a conservative, but an independent and “politically moderate.” Recently, expressing his discontent with Democrats and progressives, revealed that he would be voting for the Republican party in the November elections. It is highly possible that his dissatisfaction with President Biden and the Democrats is troubling the billionaire.
Meanwhile, Scott, the author of two novels, practices “no strings attached” giving, in which the NGOs to which she donates have complete authority over how the new monies are spent.
After 25 years of marriage, celebrity Scott and Bezos split in 2019 and she received one-fourth ownership of Amazon. Scott said, via The Giving Pledge, that she will donate her fortune. She ardently believes that wealth is not disproportionately concentrated in the hands of a few.
