Elon Musk Addresses Alleged FEC Filing For Political Party

After Elon Musk announced the formation of the ‘America Party,’ an alleged FEC filing for the party circulated on social media.

The alleged filing listed Vaibhav Taneja as the Custodian of Records and Treasurer.

Musk later confirmed the FEC paperwork is fake.

“This filing is false and has been reported as such to the FEC,” he said.

WION noted:

While there is no clarity on what Musk’s plan is for his party and when he plans to file it officially, the tech giant is busy promoting the party, attacking both Democrats and Republicans.

Elon Musk said that the ‘American Party’ has been formed to challenge the ‘uniparty’ system of Republicans and Democrats, in a post a day after Trump signed ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill’ into law. He wrote on X, “Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.” Slamming the tech billionaire in a lengthy post on Truth Social, Trump dismissed Musk’s American Party as “ridiculous” and said that his former ‘buddy’ has gone “off the rails.” He said that the third party can create complete chaos and disruption in the United States. He further added that the country is already dealing with the chaos created by “Radical left Democrats.” He insisted that Musk’s rebellion stems from Big Beautiful Bill’s elimination of “the ridiculous Electric Vehicle (EV) Mandate”. “It is a Great Bill but, unfortunately for Elon, it eliminates the ridiculous Electric Vehicle (EV) Mandate, which would have forced everyone to buy an Electric Car in a short period of time. I have been strongly opposed to that from the very beginning,” he wrote on Truth Social. In response, Musk asked, “What’s Truth Social?” and declared that he had never heard of it

“I think it’s ridiculous to start a third party. We have a tremendous success with the Republican Party. The Democrats have lost their way. But it’s always been a two-party system. And I think starting a third party just adds to confusion,” Trump said.

“Third parties have never worked. So he can have fun with it, but I think it’s ridiculous,” he added.

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More info from Fox News:

Musk chose to establish a new political party after expressing grave concerns with the president’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which was signed into law on Friday at the White House.

The sweeping $3.3 trillion legislation includes tax cuts, infrastructure spending and stimulus measures and has drawn criticism from fiscal conservatives and libertarians. Though Musk did not reference the bill directly in his America Party posts, the timing suggests rising friction between the billionaire and the president. Musk has previously warned that unchecked spending by both parties threatens the long-term health of the economy.

The new party, according to Musk’s posts, will target a few key seats in Congress. The goal is to create a swing bloc powerful enough to hold the balance of power and block what Musk sees as the worst excesses of both Republicans and Democrats.

Third parties have traditionally had a difficult time gaining ground in American politics as the system is built for two dominant parties. With the Electoral College, winner-take-all elections and strict ballot access laws, outsiders cannot meaningfully compete. Even when a third-party candidate catches fire, it rarely lasts beyond a single election cycle.

One of the biggest third-party efforts in recent history was Ross Perot’s 1992 run.
He earned nearly 19% of the popular vote as an independent but didn’t win a single Electoral College vote. It was the closest a third-party candidate got to the White House after President Teddy Roosevelt’s famed Bull Moose Party run in 1912 against his onetime protégé, William Howard Taft.

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