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 Elons 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 didnt 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 Trumps 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.

Scrivener7
(55,967 posts)highplainsdem
(56,619 posts)not advertise it first.
Scrivener7
(55,967 posts)highplainsdem
(56,619 posts)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.
EastBayGuy
(146 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(56,338 posts)Justice matters.
(8,421 posts)Elon Musk
@elonmusk
I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far.
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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)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
hay rick
(8,770 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(56,338 posts)Strelnikov_
(7,985 posts)knows about their business dealings.
50 Shades Of Blue
(11,157 posts)eppur_se_muova
(39,122 posts)Karma, karma, karma.
Ray Bruns
(5,271 posts)MACO!
mdbl
(6,662 posts)Mike 03
(18,484 posts)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
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I believe the coup is being planned right under Trumps 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)and endanger the nation since you could be turned to spy on your own damn country.
Traitors.
Quixote1818
(30,985 posts)Hekate
(98,094 posts)efhmc
(15,526 posts)Dan
(4,724 posts)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)He is a known serial liar, deadbeat dad, and a Nazi. So that is a big NO!
Crowman2009
(3,116 posts)...the boycotts will continue! Because the white South African space clown is still a Nazi piece of shit.
ToxMarz
(2,453 posts)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)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)... 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.
SheltieLover
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0rganism
(25,145 posts)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)or had access to--which is about everything!!
Cha
(311,776 posts)Book?
TY.. Sorry Im out on my phone and dont have time to read the whole thing.
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