Change of Heart
Remember when Donald Trump said to "Lock Her Up" about Hillary Clinton and her email server?
For years, Donald Trump insisted that Hillary Clinton needed to be sent to prison over what she did with State Department emails that she held on a private server. A claim he now proceeded to deny.
It’s kind of amusing to consider what Trump claimed considering what his administration is doing now.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to the federal payment system late on Friday, according to five people familiar with the change, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
The world’s richest man may now have access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States. According to the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, Treasury secretary Scott Bessent on Friday granted Elon Musk and his minions at the faux agency DOGE full access to the Treasury’s massive federal payment system. As with the rest of Musk’s wide-reaching project within the U.S. government under Donald Trump, it’s not at all clear what he plans to do with this unprecedented access.
Also on Friday, the top civil servant at the Treasury Department, David Lebryk, was apparently ousted after he refused to give Department of Government Efficiency officials access to the system — or rather, per the Times, he “was put on leave and then suddenly retired on Friday after the dispute, according to people familiar with his exit.”
To be clear, an unelected private citizen in Elon Musk has direct access with private servers plugged into the computers that have the Social Security Number of every single American, the Bank Account information for those Americans who receive direct deposits from taxes, Social Security benefits, etc. and access to every contract the Department of Treasury
Elon Musk is making what Hillary Clinton did look like finger painting. And Musk is making George Soros and his alleged capture of the U.S. government look like a failed lemonade stand. Yet Trump is allowing it to happen unchecked. And Trump voters are cheering it all the.
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