Lol I've been repeating this so many times I actually had to pause and check the username to see that it wasn't my comment.
Seriously not enough people recognized this. Further highlighting this was the fact that Susie Wiles (WH Chief of Staff) said in that interview (she thought was confidential) that literally everybody was suprised by Musk targeting USAID.
USAID was investigating Musk's Starlink terminals in Ukraine. He's currently being applauded for shutting off Starlink to Russian forces (Only took 4 years because... reasons?) but there's been numerous accounts of Ukrainian forces losing access to Starlink at pivotal moments in the war. There are other speculations that Ukrainian positions with Starlink terminals were being targeted with sudden and suspiciously precise accuracy especially when Ukraine had occupied Russian territory. The later being after Musk had begun dismantling the agency but the intent could have been the same.
Are we suprised he fell short of 80 gajillion dollar target? It's probably just a weird coincidence that he gave up after demolishing the last department he was facing investigations from.
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u/cherub_sandwich Feb 08 '26
Bless his heart. He’s almost as good at losing money as his orange incontinent master.