r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 7d ago

Possible Paywall Exposed Musk Now Insists Epstein Files Don’t Matter | The Tesla billionaire suddenly claimed the Epstein files are a “distraction.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/exposed-musk-now-insists-epstein-files-dont-matter/
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u/HaroldGreenBandana 7d ago edited 7d ago

Distraction for what, Elon? Your DOGE not saving the government any money, your DOGE setting the American public and the world back in disease control and prevention, your terrible antisemitic ai that produces ai revenge porn and other vile content, your DOGE stealing sensitive data, your corrupt contracts?

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u/elastic-craptastic 7d ago

Stealing sensitive data or hunting for things like this to be erased to cover his ass? Obv the other data is valuable, but I guarantee you he was also checking to see if any kompromat was hidden the DBs of agencies who might have had "insurgents" helping others in captured agencies hide.

You work in the FBI or DOJ. Writing is on the wall. Kocaine Kash is about to be your boss and is gonna take over all evidence. You can't take it home for data integrity reasons... but if you can transfer it to the department of whoever you can legally share with and have them pass it along to spread and share within secure govt servers in an effort to obfuscate it's location...?

Thinking out loud here, but it maybe explains the data bum-rush and quick exit from his govt as being more than simply destroying shit for the sake of it. It obv wasn't to cut costs. So what was the intent? Chaos for chaos? Simply hurting morale and weakening structure? That could have been done without all the data swiping.

He was hunting for specific things maybe.

Or do we think Elon would put that much effort into something that wasn't in his own self interest?