Cuomo Accuses Elon of Rigging Election artwork

Cuomo Accuses Elon of Rigging Election

Hammer + Nigel Show Podcast

August 4, 2026

Chris Cuomo speaks with commentator Michael Knowles and accused Elon Musk of "RIGGING THE ELECTION" due to his money.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Speakers: Nigel, Hammer, Michael Knowles, Chris Cuomo
**Nigel** (0:00)
We might as well come right out with it.

**Hammer** (0:02)
These people are crazy.

**Michael Knowles** (0:04)
I'm telling you, they're crazy.

**Chris Cuomo** (0:06)
We're here, get used to it.

**Nigel** (0:07)
You're listening to The Hammer and Nigel Show. Depending on who you are, Hammer, it's okay to be an election denier. So if you are Hillary Clinton or Hakeem Jeffries, then yeah, it's okay to question the results of the elections that you were beat in. But if you were Donald Trump and you happen to question the results of the election in like, say, 2020, then you're an election denier.

**Hammer** (0:36)
And you should probably be in prison then too, right?

**Nigel** (0:38)
Sure. Oh yeah, of course. I guess it's okay to be an election denier for certain members of the political left.

**Hammer** (0:44)
Which brings us to Fredo. Chris Cuomo, who is on News Nation now, he was speaking with conservative commentator Michael Knowles, popular on social media.
And Chris Cuomo accusing Elon Musk of rigging the past election because of all of his money that he threw into the election, his big time money. Now, thankfully, Michael Knowles wasn't there to put up with Fredo's crap.

**Michael Knowles** (1:15)
But this guy just rigged the elections. He worked the immigration system. That's why he got through it, because he fraudulently got his way through.
Chris, how did he rig the elections? I thought we were not election deniers. So the Wisconsin election board, you don't believe them?

**Chris Cuomo** (1:32)
Yeah, I haven't seen any federal cases against Elon Musk for election rigging. I've seen it spending on far below Mike Bloomberg's, below Tom Steyer's, both Democrat donors. So Elon Musk has donated a lot to elections. That's great. But don't forget this idea that Elon Musk has made money on politics. Elon Musk got decimated in his businesses because he got involved with Doge in the campaign. The National Bureau of Economic Research says Tesla sales were down by 83% because he got involved. That was tens of billions of dollars. We know that his ex-contribution to preserve free speech, he lost 75% of them.

**Michael Knowles** (2:03)
It's also a crappy car.

**Chris Cuomo** (2:04)
He's lost a lot of money in politics.

**Michael Knowles** (2:06)
It's also a crappy car. I had one.
Okay, I think that's part of what's hurting Tesla also.

**Chris Cuomo** (2:13)
I can't help but notice a lot of people loved buying those cars until he got into politics.

**Michael Knowles** (2:16)
This guy got through an immigration system that if he weren't a rich white guy from South Africa, he may be getting dragged out of his car at a traffic stop and getting his ass beat with people like you applauding.

**Hammer** (2:28)
All right, there's a lot to unpack there now.
A lot of generalizations from Fredo there. But I'll start with the one that's stuck in your crawl more than anything else. The fact that he said Teslas were a crappy car. You recently bought one to drive your drunk ass home at night.

**Chris Cuomo** (2:46)
Is it a crappy car?

**Nigel** (2:48)
No, it's it's top of the line. I got a Model Y at 2026 It's surprisingly affordable. Great.
You know, took out a loan. It's a great percentage rate.

**Hammer** (3:02)
Where do you charge it?

**Nigel** (3:03)
Point in my house, I had my cousin Jason come over. They're the crazy Steelers fans. Jason and Cory and that come over.

**Hammer** (3:12)
I somehow you're going to have to be more specific on the crazy Steelers fan.

**Nigel** (3:16)
They're my cousins, they wear their jerseys to church. But no, he came over and put a charging station in my. It wasn't that expensive at all.
And I love it. No, I drive it back and forth to work. Basically, I it's never been below. Yeah, we drove it to the drove it to the outlet malls on Saturday. I got down to like 15 percent because I hadn't charged it in a couple of days. But it's not a crappy car by any stretch of the imagination. They're all over the place. They are literally all over the place. Boy, there was generalization after generalization in that little exchange with with Fredo and Michael Knowles there.

**Hammer** (3:55)
And it was only after Michael Knowles brought statistics and facts to the argument.

**Nigel** (4:00)
Oh, yeah.

**Hammer** (4:00)
That's when Fredo was like, Well, the car sucks and you cheer if he got beaten up. OK.
Yeah.

**Nigel** (4:06)
What was that last part? You would cheer if he got his ass drug out of the car and got beaten up. What does that mean?

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