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highplainsdem

(56,619 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 11:57 AM Wednesday

Some Trump Officials Now Fear Elon's 'Burn Book'

Source: Rolling Stone

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In the days since the MAGA melodrama erupted, six Trump advisers, senior administration officials, and others close to the president have told Rolling Stone that an anxiety shared among some of the Trump brass is that Musk may know too much — and that it could come back to bite them considering his bitter, explosive exit. One Trump adviser wondered aloud what might be in “Elon’s burn book,” and if the Tesla chief would ever feel compelled to deploy its contents if the name-calling between Trump and Musk, or potential retribution from the administration against Musk, ever got truly out of hand.

It is unclear how many senior Trump officials actively considered the implications of inviting Musk into the fold five months ago, given that Musk is a notably mercurial man who has switched political allegiances before, and maintains a very public track record of aggressively and abruptly turning on people over real or perceived slights. It apparently didn’t matter to the Republican Party or Team Trump, who granted Musk an unprecedented level of access.

The sources note that in the brazenly authoritarian opening months of Trump’s second term, Musk was given a front row seat to much of what unfolded behind the scenes, both in and out of the White House. He was often in the room when the TV cameras were off — with the president, with Cabinet members, with other GOP bigwigs and policymakers, and with some of the people now expressing their concerns about it to Rolling Stone.

On a whole host of policy, personnel, and other issues, Musk was allowed such a high level of access to sensitive information, and nearly unfettered proximity to executive power, that it is unclear even to several top Trump advisers the precise extent of what he does and does not know about the administration. As one Trump administration official rhetorically asks: “What does he have on us?”

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Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/elon-musk-burn-book-anxiety-trump-officials-1235361614/



The people in the Trump regime are all idiots, with Trump the Idiot-in-Chief.

Even if they at some time appeared to have a capacity to think, their brains had to have been shut off at crucial times for them to believe what they believe, accept the lies they swallowed, and follow the leader they stupidly and cravenly follow.

They deserve whatever bad karma they get for what they've done. But because they are harming others, it's important that the damage they're doing be opposed and limited as much as possible, and that they be removed from power asap.
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Some Trump Officials Now Fear Elon's 'Burn Book' (Original Post) highplainsdem Wednesday OP
Musk's recent quiet makes me suspicious that he's not going to actually do anything. Scrivener7 Wednesday #1
I do think he's a wuss. Otoh, wusses can often be vengeful, and if he's plotting something he will highplainsdem Wednesday #4
He's waiting for his son to pull a plan out of his nose. Scrivener7 Wednesday #5
LOL! No. But he's almost certainly considering how soon Trump might go full dictator, where he would highplainsdem Wednesday #7
Yes a MACO and a TACO... EastBayGuy Wednesday #13
Ball is in tRump's court. He is extremely unlikely to forget the "in the Epstein files" remark. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Wednesday #8
He tweeted he regrets "some" of his posts about the convicted felon 10 hours ago. Justice matters. Wednesday #16
Any animal can be dangerous when cornered SSJVegeta Wednesday #21
Traitors are always looking over their shoulder. hay rick Wednesday #2
People who ask "What does he have on us" have things they desperately want to hide. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Wednesday #3
Kinda like 'Big Tony' musing on what 'Mikey the Horse' Strelnikov_ Wednesday #29
Leon doesn't want to go to Guantanamo. 50 Shades Of Blue Wednesday #6
Good. Let them know what it feels like to be scared. eppur_se_muova Wednesday #9
This is all bullshit. Musk has already dropped his pants around his ankles and bent over for Trump! Ray Bruns Wednesday #10
At this point, there will never be enough Karma for Dump to pay back in his not so much left lifetime. mdbl Wednesday #11
"Musk may know too much" - Oh Noes!!111 Mike 03 Wednesday #12
The Real Coup: being masterminded by PeterTheil delisen Wednesday #14
Thank you for letting us know that you are unfit for the job and that you have secrets that could be used against you chowder66 Wednesday #15
Won't happen until after Trump is gone. Nt Quixote1818 Wednesday #17
Whatever their downfall is, may it happen soon Hekate Wednesday #18
Nonthing about Trump is not known but it is not ever delivered to our country through the media. efhmc Wednesday #19
Make the deal! Dan Wednesday #20
Absof***inlutely not! Crowman2009 Wednesday #23
Even though Elon is going after Trump.... Crowman2009 Wednesday #22
And he's got receipts ToxMarz Wednesday #24
A Brief History of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton's Friendship multigraincracker Wednesday #25
Anyone who's been watching Trump's clown show... GiqueCee Wednesday #26
I guess they don't realize there is no honor among thieves SheltieLover Wednesday #27
Musk v. F47 turned out to be pure kayfabe but Musk likely does have kompromat on several underlings 0rganism Wednesday #28
I would bet the farm that MUSK had video, auditory and has photocopied everything he saw and or heard riversedge Wednesday #30
Did musk Scat say he was writing a Cha Wednesday #31

highplainsdem

(56,619 posts)
4. I do think he's a wuss. Otoh, wusses can often be vengeful, and if he's plotting something he will
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:03 PM
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not advertise it first.

highplainsdem

(56,619 posts)
7. LOL! No. But he's almost certainly considering how soon Trump might go full dictator, where he would
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:15 PM
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have to be physically to be safe from Trump, how many assets he might be able to keep (Texas might not be as Elon-friendly in the future, other states might not want him, and he's persona non grata in Canada and South Africa despite having triple citizenship). And I'd bet he's also wondering if Putin, whom he's been close to but who does have assassins who can strike outside Russia, would side with Trump.

Bernardo de La Paz

(56,338 posts)
8. Ball is in tRump's court. He is extremely unlikely to forget the "in the Epstein files" remark. . . . . nt
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:16 PM
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Justice matters.

(8,421 posts)
16. He tweeted he regrets "some" of his posts about the convicted felon 10 hours ago.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 01:44 PM
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Elon Musk

@elonmusk
I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far.
3:04 AM · Jun 11, 2025 · 52.8M Views


Methinks he is scared shitless about some interns being tasked at investigating his immigration status...

BTW, the buffoon on ketamine does not regret causing hundreds of thousands children and people to starve to death or to die from un-controlled AIDS yet.

SSJVegeta

(667 posts)
21. Any animal can be dangerous when cornered
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 02:48 PM
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If Trump laid off him, I'm sure he will stay quiet. If not, welll... we know the kind of chaos these kinds of people can wield

Strelnikov_

(7,985 posts)
29. Kinda like 'Big Tony' musing on what 'Mikey the Horse'
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 05:56 PM
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knows about their ‘business’ dealings.

Ray Bruns

(5,271 posts)
10. This is all bullshit. Musk has already dropped his pants around his ankles and bent over for Trump!
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:30 PM
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MACO!

mdbl

(6,662 posts)
11. At this point, there will never be enough Karma for Dump to pay back in his not so much left lifetime.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:30 PM
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Mike 03

(18,484 posts)
12. "Musk may know too much" - Oh Noes!!111
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:31 PM
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1) Thanks to these idiots, Musk knows "too much" about every one of us.
2) I'm almost positive good advice about not divulging everything to anyone goes back at least 3,000 to 5,000 years. Confucius maybe? Lao Tzu? Sun Tzu? Since so many close and dear friendships or (more properly in this context) business relationship of convenience and a transactional nature end exactly like this Trump/Musk relationship ended--as a train wreck--you never, ever divulge every single thing that if used against you could destroy you. Why on earth would you ever give another person that much power over you in the event things don't work out?

Having said that, of course I hope Elon Musk leaks everything, but I don't anticipate he will because he too has so much to lose. But as far as the private information about American citizens is concerned, we're all victims now thanks to DOGE. It's an almost unimaginable stupidity on their parts.

delisen

(7,039 posts)
14. The Real Coup: being masterminded by PeterTheil
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:47 PM
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Last edited Wed Jun 11, 2025, 02:04 PM - Edit history (1)

I believe the coup is being planned right under Trump’s nose. His vanity does not allow him to see it as he marches along, slashing and burning, creating chaos and feeding his frenzied ego in between golf games, nighttime tv and tweets, retribution fantasies, and kingly meetings with heads of state he can both bully and berate (while they expertly manage him).

Theil, Vance and their cabal will let Trump run amok and when the time ripe, they will strike . I t may be done legally through succession law, or by some other means. They will try to blame Dems for driving Trump over the edge-but that will only be to keep the MAGA culture war going until they no longer need it.

With Vance as president, Theil and his cabal will run the government like a private plantation or feudal empire. Citizens will be serfs or sharecroppers.

In the short term they may see some of us as useful but in the long term the plan is a complete AI takeover.

We may be in for a decade-long battle to save Democracy. I think we can win but we need to understand that the data collectors are a much greater danger than any debt collectors and any culture bullies.

chowder66

(10,704 posts)
15. Thank you for letting us know that you are unfit for the job and that you have secrets that could be used against you
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 01:44 PM
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and endanger the nation since you could be turned to spy on your own damn country.

Traitors.

efhmc

(15,526 posts)
19. Nonthing about Trump is not known but it is not ever delivered to our country through the media.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 02:41 PM
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Dan

(4,724 posts)
20. Make the deal!
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 02:41 PM
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If the Democrats ever get back into power - whenever, offer Musk immunity for his truthful, open to the public, testimony into the Trump/GOP party. Providing he sings like a bird, including the election of 2024 - the best disinfectant is transparency to the nation.

Crowman2009

(3,116 posts)
23. Absof***inlutely not!
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 02:56 PM
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He is a known serial liar, deadbeat dad, and a Nazi. So that is a big NO!

Crowman2009

(3,116 posts)
22. Even though Elon is going after Trump....
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 02:54 PM
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...the boycotts will continue! Because the white South African space clown is still a Nazi piece of shit.

ToxMarz

(2,453 posts)
24. And he's got receipts
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 03:03 PM
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You gave him download access to virtually every piece of data the government has AND geniuses hooked their white house communication through his Starlink service.

DOH!

China probably has it too.

multigraincracker

(35,820 posts)
25. A Brief History of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton's Friendship
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 03:15 PM
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https://www.newsweek.com/history-donald-trump-bill-clinton-friendship-464360

I'm old enough to remember when tfg donated tons of money to the Clintons and the were all best of friends. I never see much talk about this anymore.

The article is not very hard hitting, but both sides keep pretty quite about it now.

GiqueCee

(2,341 posts)
26. Anyone who's been watching Trump's clown show...
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 03:22 PM
Wednesday

... knows that he has always fancied himself to be on a par – whether deservedly or not – with Mafia dons. He could never have done business in New York real estate without knowing some thoroughly unsavory people, many of whom likely know a guy who can take care of your problem. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
The smart money bets that Epstein failed to take this seriously, and look where it got him. Musk may very well have been made an offer he couldn't refuse: Take it... or else. Hence his uncharacteristic capitulation.
If you know nothing else, know this: there is NO bottom to Trump's cesspool of malice and depravity; that's already been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt. For Christ's sake, he brags about it! And disclosing someone's darkest secrets, threatening their business, or family, or even having some poor schmuck share Epstein's fate, is just another day at the office for him.
Doubt it at your peril. How do you think he's gotten away with so much for so long?
And never dismiss the savagery of a certain friend whose instructions are always written in the Cyrillic alphabet... before they self-destruct.

0rganism

(25,145 posts)
28. Musk v. F47 turned out to be pure kayfabe but Musk likely does have kompromat on several underlings
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 03:26 PM
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Any time F47 wants to throw one of his ministers under the bus, it will now be even simpler to do so. Musk just dumps a folder full of decontextualized evidence on x.com et voila, reputation destroyed and immediate firing justified. F47 and musk consolidated F47's hold on power through fear. There will be zero opposition to F47 from within the administration. I wonder how much dirt Musk's got on Sens. Paul, Collins, and Murkowski.

riversedge

(75,983 posts)
30. I would bet the farm that MUSK had video, auditory and has photocopied everything he saw and or heard
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 06:28 PM
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or had access to--which is about everything!!

Cha

(311,776 posts)
31. Did musk Scat say he was writing a
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 06:36 PM
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Book?

TY.. Sorry I’m out on my phone and don’t have time to read the whole thing.

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