‘Transparently Political’: Jonathan Turley Says Soros-Backed DA Trying To Pull Elon Musk Off Campaign Trail

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Thursday that Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s suit against Tesla CEO Elon Musk was “transparently political.”

Krasner, who has been backed by left-wing billionaire George Soros, sued Musk Monday over a giveaway that allowed one signatory of a petition to win $1 million daily. Turley told “America’s Newsroom” co-hosts Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer that Krasner was trying to “drag” Musk into a courtroom and off the campaign trail.

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“He has always been known to have a very strong political edge as a district attorney. I think the filings his office has made are transparently political,” Turley said. “They want to pull Musk off the campaign and into a Philadelphia courtroom. Musk’s argument and his company’s argument is look, it is not illegal to have a lottery to sign a petition in favor of the constitution, we only want registered voters to do that. If you are going to be competing in this lottery, you have to be participating in the political process. The other side is saying it’s illegal to pay people to register or to vote.”

Musk, who funds America PAC, a super-PAC that is seeking to boost former President Donald Trump in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, announced Oct. 20 he would give $1 million each day to a random signatory to a petition