The Left’s War on Elon Musk: A Campaign of Smears and Slander By Liz Peek
https://lizpeek.com/daily-rant/the-lefts-war-on-elon-musk-a-campaign-of-smears-and-slander/
Elon Musk is apparently now fair game, open to any kind of vicious accusations and ad hominem attacks. ALWAYS described as “the world’s richest man”, as though that’s a bad thing instead of an extraordinary achievement, the Left goes after Musk because they’re afraid of slamming Trump.
Last week Jamie Raskin, a senior Democrat congressman from Maryland posted this on X (owned by Musk!):
“This ketamine, ecstasy and mushroom-using government contractor, the richest person in the world, sacked thousands of excellent government workers, caused the deaths of thousands of poor children in foreign lands, stole Americans’ data and destroyed government services but he did pick up billions more in government contracts while he was in town!”
Ignore the preposterous notion that Musk’s businesses need more government contracts and the drug-use issue, which surfaced in a hit piece by the NY Times using – guess what – anonymous sources!!! (I know you’re shocked). It’s the accusation that Musk “caused the deaths of thousands of poor children in foreign lands” that is appalling, as it is almost certainly not true.
Incredibly, David Brooks, a respected writer at the NY Times, echoed what I would consider a slanderous remark in an interview on PBS, naturally, saying “So far, 55,000 adults have died of AIDS in the four months since Trump was elected; 6,000 children are dead because of what DOGE did. That’s just PEPFAR, the HIV. You add them all up, that’s 300,000 dead, and we’re four months in. You add that all up and accumulate that over four years the number of dead grows very high.”
What did Musk and DOGE do? They uncovered shocking amounts of corruption and wasteful spending at USAID, and cut some programs. Reports of children dying almost immediately followed, though if you read those accounts carefully you will find the accusations mostly made by people who have lost their jobs and their funding. They are angry, and working to convince the gullible anti-Musk press that he is evil incarnate.
Musk needs to fight back. He has denied the excessive drug use that the Times hints at but he needs to confront these stories about dead children. Noone wants children dying because the U.S. has carelessly abandoned them, of course. But considering how recently the changes at USAID went into effect, it is hard to imagine that funding shortfalls have had such a draconian impact. Musk should investigate, and tell the world what is actually happening with relief organizations in Africa and elsewhere. Once cannot help but think about Haiti, where billions of collars contributed by soft-hearted Americans disappeared, and the country remained in crisis.
The Left hates Musk not only because he shelled out a fortune to help Trump get elected, but because he has exposed Dem-favoring corruption at agencies like USAID and highlighted the likelihood that many NGOs, or non-governmental agencies are illicitly funneling money to Democrats. He has called these NGOs a “scam” and we know he is right – consider the $ 2 billion directed to a Stacey Abrams-linked organization purportedly for climate change. The group, Power Forward Communities, was a brand new start-up connected to the Democrat activist, and had recorded in its brief history $1 in revenue. Yes, a scam indeed.
Meanwhile, Musk says he gets constant death threats. I’m not surprised; there are probably loons out there who take seriously the Left’s depiction of his as a Nazi, etc. The horrid sliming of this man by Democrats puts his life at risk. It needs to stop.
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