Lemon LIVE at 5 | MAGA Embraces Racist DOGE Staffer - February 7th, 2025
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What happened with the DOGE staffer’s racist tweets and initial resignation?
Yes, that was a giant sigh. And not because I'm exhausted from physically just from being doing work. I am exhausted physically because the folks in Washington are exhausting. I am outraged. And so get ready, guys. Look, I don't know what you think about this. I don't have very nice words to say about too many people, especially in the MAGA movement right now, because they are fucking promoting and condoning racism. And everybody who doesn't believe in that, which I hope is most of America, should push back loudly and strongly. I'm gonna, look, I'm gonna show you what happened. But before I get into this, JD Vance, what is wrong with you? Are you out of your mind? Are you that spineless? Your wife is Indian.
Your children are Indian Americans. And yet you are condoning and I believe promoting racism. In the most vile, deliberate way. And you know better. You know better is the issue. You know better and yet you're doing it. I can't imagine what your wife and your children must feel like. Imagine what your in-laws feel like. I can't imagine. Maybe they're not telling you, but deep down inside they're cringing. They're like, oh my gosh, I can't believe this. It is disgusting. Let me catch you up on this. OK, so remember we told you about the Doge staffer who had to resign because of his racist tweets. He's racist. That's not liable to slanderous because he's admitted to it. He has said that he was racist before it was cool.
He was racist before it was cool. He also said other things like condone Indian hate. He also said, you couldn't pay me to date or marry someone outside of my race. And then he said that Gaza and Israel should be wiped from the face of the earth. This is his story. So yesterday, the Wall Street Journal, of all places, a Rupert Murdoch right wing news publication reported that this Doge staffer had resigned over racist posts. Employee has links to a deleted social media account that advocated for racism and eugenics. Eugenics has something to do. It's with people who promote and believe that there should be a master race that has master race characteristics, the way they look and the way they think.
Good Lord, what have I missed today? You've missed a lot. Please roll up. Do we have the rest of this reporting? So they found and called and asked the folks at Doge and at the White House what happened. What happened? And was this person the person that had this pseudonym on Twitter with all of these racist tweets? I'm just going to give you the backstory. I'm going to tell you, you're not going to believe what happened today. And this is why I cannot believe J.D. Banchu should be embarrassed and ashamed of yourself. A staffer for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, whose access to U.S. Treasury payment system was approved by a federal judge on Thursday. It was approved by a federal judge on Thursday, which was yesterday, has links to a deleted social media account that advocated for racism and eugenics.
He's a 25 year old. His name is Marco Ellis. He resigned on Thursday, the same day that he was approved by a federal judge to have access to all of your information. The Wall Street Journal asked the White House about his connection to the account. The deleted profile associated with L.S. who was embedded in the Treasury Department to carry out efficiency measures advocated for get this repealing the Civil Rights Act and backed a eugenic immigration policy. Scroll down, please, Peter. or up, eugenics, immigration policy. Now this happened in the weeks before Donald Trump was inaugurated. This wasn't something that happened five years ago, two years ago, 10 years ago. It happened in the weeks before Donald Trump was inaugurated.
You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity. Ella has said the account wrote on X in the September posting. That's according to the Wall Street Journal review of archive posts. Normalize Indian hate. Get the quote specifically correct. I may have seen bring back, but normalize Indian hate. The account wrote the same month that was in September in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What happened with the DOGE staffer’s racist tweets and initial resignation?
0:12–9:50
2
Who is Marco Ellis and what access did he have in the Treasury?
9:50–27:58
3
How did Elon Musk’s poll lead to calls to reinstate the staffer?
27:58–32:07
4
Why did Vice President J.D. Vance defend rehiring the racist employee?
32:07–50:21