Rosie O’Donnell Questions ‘Why’ Donald Trump Won Every Swing State Considering He Is ‘Best Friends’ With a ‘Man Who Owns and Runs the Internet’: ‘I Would Hope that Would be Investigated’

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Jack Dunn Rosie O’Donnell is questioning how Donald Trump won every swing state in the 2024 presidential election considering his biggest supporter.

During an interview with RTÉ One’s “The Late Late Show,” O’Donnell said she questions “why” Trump “won every single swing state” during his reelection campaign considering one of his “best friends” and “biggest donors” was “a man who owns and runs the internet.” While never mentioned by name, O’Donnell is most likely referring to X owner Elon Musk. “I would hope that would be investigated and that we would see whether or not it was an anomaly or something else that happened on election night in America when Kamala Harris was filling up stadiums with people who supported her and Donald Trump was not able to do that,” O’Donnell said. “So it’s curious to me, and as an American and a believer in democracy, I would hope that we would be able to look at all of the reasons why this happened in our country.” Musk’s final tally toward the Trump campaign added up to more than $280 million.

According to FEC filings, Musk was the biggest donor in the 2024 presidential race. O’Donnell, who recently moved to Ireland to escape the current American political climate, said she stayed in the U.S.

for Trump’s first term but decided to leave ahead of his reelection fearing his “ultimate power” with the Supreme Court on his side. “He disbanded the Department of Education, and I have a child who has autism and that child will be denied services and many, many autistic children because the funding for these programs for special needs children comes from the federal government as well as the states,” O’Donnell said. “And it’s going to be disastrous for children on the spectrum.