On 2/12/2025, the visuals of the President sitting at his desk with Musk holding forth with his young son, acting like a typical 4-year-old perched on Musk's MAGA hat-covered head and shoulders, should be more than noticing Trump was repelled by this kid while doting on every word of Musk. It was a graphic display of what was happening unspoken. As Trump signed another one of his executive orders, this one giving DOGE and Musk even more power to take a wrecking ball to government services on some pretext of rumors and unevidenced sign of "waste and fraud", it became more obvious that Musk was Trump's fall guy.
The blame must be where the buck stops on Trump's desk. He appointed Musk to be his hit man, heard the immediate roar of pushback and judge denials of Musk's actions and appeals (all that got to a judge's courtroom going against the administration), and then doubled down with giving Musk the mike and more authority.
At the same time, Trump has fired any government watchdog person in the executive branch, so he could destroy independent agents empowered to investigate and expose facts, waste, fraud, and abuse, What is left is to take the word of the president or Musk as torrents of false claims are coming out of the mouths of the president or Trump. Only the free press is left to blow any whistles. as Musk calls for the impeachment of judges who rule against the White House. The free press whistle-blowing is at the mercy of MAGA-friendly media to inform their loyal audience of any lies or misinformation that would make Trump look bad. Hear no evil ,speak no evil Trump-friendly media policies about Trump or his minions. Leave the MAGA base only getting the side of the story they want to hear.
Timing is everything and diverting attention from bad news about bad news on the economy coming down the next day (as it is as I am posting this), is classic Trump. Whenever bad news happens, he. attempts to control the news cycle, give talking TV heads other matters to talk about, while avoiding responsibility for what Musk did that so upset the financial markets the next morning.
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The agents in the government independent of the President were, until a couple of weeks ago, the inspector generals who look for waste, fraud, and abuse. They were all fired and then also fired was the director of the whistleblower office. This means the only source of reports of waste, fraud, and abuse was the very fox guarding the hen house door. There is no one but what is left of free media to check for lies and evidence of whatever comes from Musk's mouth, or the President's, for that matter Usually, Congressional oversight committees are the backstop to the system, but MAGA controls Congress by a hair, but enough to defang any power for Congress to ask what the heck is going on here. Trump fired the head of the whistleblower agency, who in turn sued Trump, and the court ordered his reinstatement. We will see if this is another court order the Trump regime will defy. In the meantime, naive and fooled, the MAGA base swallows every lie or line delivered by Musk and Trump.
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