“Trump HUMILIATES USA with Musk OVAL OFFICE PRESSER”
Seems that Elon controls our 5 $Trillion of our Social Security & Medicare while Trump controls foreign policy. Which is building Trump resorts in foreign countries. The foreign countries don’t want them so Trump might invade with U.S. troops:
From the New York Times:
“The billionaire Elon Musk said in an extraordinary Oval Office appearance on Tuesday that he was providing maximum transparency in his government cost-cutting initiative, but offered no evidence for his sweeping claims that the federal bureaucracy had been corrupted by cheats and officials who had approved money for “fraudsters.”
Answering questions from the media for the first time since his arrival in Washington to run the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, Mr. Musk stood next to the Resolute Desk and asserted that his work was in the interest of the public and democracy. President Trump sat behind the desk, chiming in with approval as he let the world’s richest man expound for roughly 30 minutes on the rationale for the drastic overhaul of the federal bureaucracy…
Among Mr. Musk’s claims, which he offered without providing evidence, was that some officials at the now-gutted U.S. Agency for International Development had been taking “kickbacks.” He said that “quite a few people” in the bureaucracy somehow had “managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position,” without explaining how he had made that assessment. He later claimed that some recipients of Social Security checks were as old as 150…
He continued, “I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.”
In reality, Mr. Musk’s team is operating in deep secrecy: surprising federal employees by descending upon agencies and gaining access to sensitive data systems. Mr. Musk himself is a “special government employee,” which, the White House has said, means his financial disclosure filing will not be made public.
Mr. Musk’s appearance came at what was billed a presidential signing of new executive orders related to his cost-cutting initiative. The text of the executive order, which was made public after the event ended, ordered agency heads to pursue “large-scale” workforce reductions and gave Mr. Musk’s team an expanded role in overseeing any subsequent hiring at certain agencies…
Mr. Trump said Tuesday that with Mr. Musk’s team, he was simply following through with what he promised in his campaign: a radical overhaul of the federal government. Indeed, he pledged repeatedly on the campaign trail to root out what he called “the deep state” and to make it easier to fire civil servants — promises that drew robust backing from his supporters.
But less central to his core pitch in 2024 was a plan he announced in September to have Mr. Musk lead a commission to audit the government and recommend broad changes. The effort was also described initially as operating “outside of government” in Mr. Trump’s statement about it. But after Mr. Trump won the presidency, Mr. Musk’s vision for the initiative expanded, and he allowed Mr. Musk to embed inside government by taking over a one-time White House technology office."
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Feb. 11, 2025
Musk makes sweeping claims about federal corruption, without providing evidence.
Maggie Haberman Theodore Schleifer and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Reporting from Washington
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