Billionaire Elon Musk plans to give about $45 million a month to an organization supporting Donald Trump’s campaign to return to the White House, which other tech entrepreneurs are already funding, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

The “America PAC” organization, which was founded in late May, as certified by documents it filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), is among the so-called “super PACs” (“political action committees”), legal entities that do not are associated with party organizations or campaigns.

They cannot directly fund a candidate, but the law allows them to engage in support activities such as advertising campaigns, organizing events, etc.

According to the Journal’s report, America PAC is devoting its resources to trying to encourage Republican sympathizers in states likely to switch sides to Mr. Trump to register.

As for registered voters, the organization urges them to vote by mail, or take advantage of the opportunity to vote at special polling stations in advance.

According to documents released by the FEC, America PAC’s donors include brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, known for feuding with Mark Zuckerberg when what would become Facebook was founded and, more recently, for their cryptocurrency investments.

The list also includes Douglas Leon, of the capital management and investment company Sequoia Capital – one of the best known in the so-called Silicon Valley – and Antonio Gracias, who was a leading executive of Tesla from 2007 to 2021.

Mr. Musk’s name does not appear on the list of donors to the PAC, which had raised $8.75 million as of the end of June, according to FEC filings. The WSJ explains that the reason is that the richest man in the world will start funding it this month.

If his intentions as described by the financial newspaper are confirmed, it will be one of the largest individual donations ever made to a US election campaign.

The largest donation offered ahead of this year’s elections, according to the data that has been made public to date, it’s Tim Mellon’s, of the Mellon bank heir: allocated $50 million to another “super PAC” supporting the candidate of the American right.

In total, since the start of the campaign, the 78-year-old candidate is estimated to have secured more than $100 million in donations and spent more than $80 million.

In March, Elon Musk, whose fortune is estimated to reach 252 billion dollars, according to the digital edition of Forbes magazine, assured that he would not finance any candidate. But on Saturday, shortly after Mr Trump’s assassination attempt, he publicly expressed his “total support” for the Republican.