Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
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Democrats are fighting back against Donald Trump and Elon Musk's corruption. Leading the way is Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman from New York. He's been outspoken in the halls of Congress, on the floor of Congress, outside of Congress, and on social media. He posted the following. Elon Musk gave Trump $250 million, so Trump handed him control of America's checkbook. Musk and his 20-something Doge cadre can now access your social security number, home address, and more. Elon Musk then tried to attack Congressmember Goldman by saying, corrupt politician says what, to which Congressmember Dan Goldman, a former top federal prosecutor says, actually, former federal prosecutor says, you are breaking the law on a daily basis, so you can use our government's checkbook and Americans personal information
for your own corrupt grifting he went back and forth with elon musk elon musk then said we don't have any personal data of americans you corrupt moron to which congress member dan goldman says tell it to the judge under oath we've got congress member dan goldman here right now congressman welcome what do you make of all of this
Look, I think it's kind of the typical Donald Trump playbook at this point, which is childish insults, all sorts of allegations which are designed to distract from the dismantling of our federal government that Elon Musk is trying to do. It's somewhat laughable for him to refer to all Democrats as corrupt, when this is a guy who has taken over control of government contracts when he himself receives billions of dollars of government contracts. But because he's not an official government employee, he can evade the standard conflicts of interest rules that apply to all other government employees. And so it is the ultimate corruption where he is essentially getting access to the federal budget and getting to make recommendations or even decisions about what contracts should continue and what contracts should not. Do you think he's going to say, you know what, my contract is a little excessive. It's wasteful. Let's cancel that.
Of course not. It's absurd. There's part of that distraction effort where they try to do the kind of comical trolling, but they're saying very kind of dark and, you know, problematic things is, you know, he changed his name on Twitter or X. Now he calls himself Harry Balls and he goes, you know, he's billionaire oligarch who's going around and has access to all this information. His screen name is Harry Balls. That's where we've become as a country apparently under the trump administration and goes democracy in america is being destroyed by a judicial coup an activist judge is not a real judge and we've been seeing musk and trump and jd vance and all of them attacking these judicial rulings even judicial rulings from trump appointed judges republican judges democrat judges as all of these lawsuits have been filed what
It seems to be the case, as these judges have ruled against Trump and Musk and others for violating the Constitution, that they're gearing up to defy the orders. And it seems they may be already defying the orders and just ignoring them and ignoring the orders that block their government funding freeze and the freeze on funding to NIH. What are you seeing and what do we do about that? And what's your response to that?
There's no question they're laying the foundation to defy or ignore court orders. And just to be clear, you know, our rule of law, which is the basic foundation of our democracy and our economy and our criminal justice system. I mean, if you do not have the rule of law in control, you are no longer a democracy. And Our rule of law depends on the respect for judicial orders, dating back to Marbury versus Madison, when our separation of powers was clarified to mean that we're co-equal branches of government and the judiciary determines whether or not the laws are being complied with. It's like, for example, you were playing basketball or in any sport. Why do you have a referee? Why do you have an umpire?
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