Following the extraordinary joint press conference by President Trump and Elon Musk from the Oval Office (see Elon Musk Goes on the Offensive From the Oval Office, and His Kid Steals the Show – RedState), the press went on the offensive against Musk’s claims of transparency and finding billions of dollars in fraudulent or erroneous payments by the US Treasury.
The New York Times led the pack with a story headlined, “At Oval Office, Musk Makes Broad Claims of Federal Fraud Without Proof.” What’s notable about the story is that it makes that claim, as they say, without proof.
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…
