The style “ shoot first, Aim later ” of Elon Musk requires a verification of the facts

As it is very noble of Elon Musk to admit that he makes mistakes.

Tuesday, the man to whom President Trump apparently gave the presidency in exchange for $ 250 million in political contributionsconduit A bizarre press conference of the oval office where he admitted, in a way, that he is fallible.

Musk stood in front of journalists when Trump was sitting almost silent behind his office, sidelined after a few opening remarks.

Musk was accompanied by X, the 4 year old son whom he shares with the musician Grimes. As children often do, the little boy stole the show. But he was hardly a charming John-John Kennedy style display. It was totally unpleasant.

X sat on Musk’s shoulders, searched his fingers in the ears of his dad, chose her nose, wiped his finger on the desk resolved and told the president to “leave”.

A journalist asked Musk to explain why he allowed the Trump administration to wrongly accuse the American agency for international development to send $ 50 million to Gaza for condoms.

“Some of the things I say will be incorrect and should be corrected,” said the unleashed bureaucrat who likes to rail against non -elected bureaucrats. “So nobody beats a thousand. I mean … You know, we will make mistakes, but we will act quickly to correct the mistakes. »»

His nonchalant response immediately mentioned the emblematic scene in “Dr. Stangelove “ Where the general of war “Buck” Turgidson – played by George C. Scott – suggests dropping a nuclear bomb on Russia.

“You are talking about mass murder, general, no war!” Exclaims President Merkin Muffley, played by the Great Peter Sellers.

“Mr. President,” replied Turgidson, “I’m not saying that we would not be disaggregated.”

How does the blatant lie about sending condoms to Gaza is settling?

January 28, during His first official briefing, The white house press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced to journalists that “there were $ 50 million dollars for taxpayers who came out to finance condoms in Gaza” before the Ministry of Efficiency Government of Trump and Musk did not intervene to prevent “absurd waste of taxpayers’ money money from taxpayers. . “”

A week later, Trump inflated the amount to $ 100 million And said that the condoms went to Hamas, an indefensible perversion of an already indefensible lie.

On the basis of government reports, Daniel Dale de CNN reported During the year 2023, “the help of the condom” of the USAID totaled around 8 million dollars worldwide. According to the agency, discovered that Dale, Mozambique, which has a province called Gaza, received “around 5.4 million dollars in non -condoms”. Despite the extremely high HIV infection rate of Mozambique – it ranks eighth in the world – the report did not include any mention of an allowance for condoms.

You can call the accusation an error, or you can call it more precisely a lie designed to generate the indignation and distrust of the many foreign aid programs that save lives administered by the USAID.

This is the Doge approach: shoot first, aim later, if necessary.

Stay the lie that musk has spread to X on federal emergency funds used to house migrants in luxury hotels in New York.

“THE @DOGE The team has just discovered that FEMA sent $ 59 million last week to luxury hotels in New York to host illegal migrants, “said Musk on X.” The sending of this money violated the law and is in raw insubordination at the president’s decree. This money is intended for help in the event of an American disaster and is in the place spent in high -end hotels for the illegals! »»

And yet, the Doge team had not discovered anything like this.

Factcheck.orgTHE New York Times And AP Everyone checked the luxury -hotel -for migrant and discovered – surprise, surprise – complaint that it was a lie.

No money for repair in the event of a poorly allocated disaster, no money went to fancy hotels. The federal funds administered by FEMA – and not dollars in disaster – were sent to the city of New York, which spent an average $ 156 per night on hotels for migrants, barely a luxury rate. Nevertheless, FEMA has unilaterally recovered 80 million dollars used to host migrants in New York and has dismissed four federal employees To do their job.

Why let the facts hinder a story that can prepare the anger against the government and the support of the Dugieux Doge of Musk?

Musk’s biggest lie is that he and his “Nerd army” of young technical technologies work with transparency.

“I am fully expecting to be examined and to pass, you know, a daily examination of proctology, essentially,” said the billionaire of sophomoric who embodies my conviction that large fortunes can infantilize their owners. “It’s not like I thought I can get away with something.”

His boost with humility could be reassuring if something in the real file supported him.

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