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- He claimed the US funded bio-weapons when they found payments for gain of function research.

- Calling payments to non-profit organizations fraudulent on a whim.

- The sweeping condemnation of what USAID was doing.

- His call for a blanket drop of regulations.

Either he knows better or he is totally lost in his sauce. Hard to say what's worse for where he is right now.

I believe, he does not care. He only cares about his conception of the world and how AI and Mars are more important than those tiny tiny human problems. Society has to serve him and his god complex. He was told to find his subsidies and tax cuts by himself. That's what he is doing.

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>- He claimed the US funded bio-weapons when they found payments for gain of function research.

This is factual though.

The previous NIH director Dr. Hugh Auchincloss and current deputy director Dr. Lawrence Tabak agree that the definition of "gain of function" as was listed on the NIH website applies to engineering a biological agent to infect something it normally wouldnt be able to.

That coupled with the fact that Dr.Daszak submitted the Year 5 Annual Progress Report Nearly Two Years Late. Said report had the experiment with infected transgenic mice with four different coronaviruses, three of which were chimera or recombinant viruses with different spike proteins.

When confronted in the deposition Daszak said that the reporting system was inaccessible. So they deposed the IT stack of the reporting system, and they showed logs that it was accessible and actually logged into several times during the 2 year period that the report was late.

This is pretty strong circumstantial evidence that they were attempting to hide or delay the experiments from being discovered by the grant review process at the end of the year. The report is pretty damning.

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/12.04...

Evidence is being presented in real-time on X for each of the things you mentioned. Suggest you do some homework instead of gleaning headlines from old media, who btw, was getting money from USAID - the latest series of evidence coming out on X today.

You really need to take a hard look at who is gullible here.

Can you point me to some of the evidence being presented? I know elon's been posting claims of fraud and abuse, but I'm only seen his claims, without any evidence.

way too many to list:

Govt money going to NYTimes, AP, Reuters, Politico: https://x.com/stillgray/status/1887191056074350690 https://x.com/Austen/status/1887179699874304210 https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1887179349440290883 https://x.com/stillgray/status/1887184877197410455 https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1887147866688213254

This guy has been providing evidence for a decade: https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber

Long list of questionable funding by USAID: https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1887151291895267553

...

Thanks for the info, I'll read into it more.

EDIT to make my current position clear, I do think there is probably waste in various government agencies. My objection with the current approach is mainly 2 folds:

1. The lack of transparency and accountability

2. Some of the statements from the administration that are false or misleading. e.g. the 50 million on condoms.

The 2 combined makes it difficult to have trust on what's happening.

There is ZERO context in those Tweets. Only showing a line item, with a dense description is NOT evidence for fraud. Its like if I were looking at your bank transactions and assuming the worst.

Don't get me wrong. There is certainly fraud and overpayment happening in government operations. But just looking at receipts is not the smoking gun. If anyone suspects fraud, there are a processes. Inspectors Generals are (were) one way to have those payments investigated, DOJ and FBI would be another step. The IGs were fired last week. I wonder why...

Also, this "Ian Miles Cheong" guy is literally a Kremlin operative - really someone worth blocking. So that's important to know about his motivations to sow doubt in US Democracy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/business/trump-politico-u...

There is no fraud that can be proven!

NIH Official account is saying last year $9B of the $35B in grant money was for "administrative overhead". Not fraud. But does that sound reasonable to you??

https://x.com/NIH/status/1888004759396958263

Fraud can be proven. But its a process and its not as easy than just claiming something to be fraud. We (hopefully still) have a justice system, with due process for the same reason.

That $9B is just a number. Whether it is reasonable or not can only be determined by looking into the details:

- What accounts as overhead?

- What were decisions that lead to that overhead?

- Were there alternatives that would have costs less?

- Why and how were those decisions made?

- Can we learn for future decisions?

- Was there actual fraud?

- When there was fraud, why wasn't it referred to DOJ to be investigated properly?

"Administrative overhead" is not bad by itself. Outside government, its simply called "Operating Expense" and "Cost of Revenue" (not a concern of government luckily). I am certain, if you look into SpaceX' or Tesla's expenses, you would find fraud too.

Because Musk and his brainwashed followers can claim stuff on Twitter doesn't make it true. And it certainly MUST NOT be basis to destroy Democracy and democratic processes.

and what basis are you claiming destruction of democracy on? And why don't you sit down to answer your own questions?

Because hes not arguing in good faith for the truth of the matter. Even if you posted that someone was getting all 9billion of that administrative budget as salary; the next argument would be " ah that employee is worth 9billion no fraud here". The standard of proof hes looking for is likely a direct admission of guilt and intent lol.

Dig through these: https://www.doge-tracker.com/

They're lying. its a propagandist

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/usaid-payments-to-politico...

> The above claim was false. Publicly available records showed that in 2023 and 2024, the USAID paid a total of $44,000 — not $8 million — to Politico, and the payments were earmarked for institutional subscriptions to E&E News, a Politico publication. No other transactions between USAID and Politico were listed for the entire previous decade.

Nice, how much are you getting to propagandize?

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/12.04...

Bro gets his news from X. hahahahaha. Adorable.

where do you get your "curated" news sir?

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