Paying people for votes is very much against the law. And Trump’s shitty behavior doesn’t really mean Elon’s bullshit shouldn’t be reported. You think Trump’s going to pardon these morons for their participation? He pardoned two cabinet/campaign members from his original bid for office rather than the reelection debacle, both of which were from the Mueller investigation. He pardoned none of the co-conspirators for his 2020 re-election antics. Trump only does favors for people that are valuable to him, and Elon’s worthless for anything but his money and his access to the raw twitter firehose.