Destruction of world’s largest humanitarian programme was done without formal authority or official oversight, former USAID employees claim
Elon Musk, leader of the Trump administration’s now-disbanded Department of Government Efficiency, must sit for depositions along with senior State Department officials over their role in dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Pointing to findings that Musk had made the decision to break up USAID – one of the world’s largest humanitarian programs – despite lacking formal authority or official approval – District Judge Theodore Chuang wrote that there was “no alternative” than for Musk and other officials to provide testimony regarding their decision-making process.
The ruling represents a win for a group of anonymous former USAID employees who are suing Musk, DOGE and State Department officials over the closure.
Freeze his assets. He needs to fund the rebuilding of our national security infrastructure
Not just freeze them but nationalize them along with all his companies (except for Twatter and Grok, put them out of their misery) and, as @Gammelfisch@lemmy.world said, throw him into prison. But before we do that, we have to “get rid” of Der Orange Führer.
all his companies are slowly becoming one - spacex is taking over xa"i" which already owns shitter
maybe starlink is somewhere in the middle or just separately owned by spacex
means you can’t get one without all, but there is a bright side of shitter and the elon regurgitater can just be shut off once it’s taken over
Starlink is just a shittier corrupt nasa. Just give the company to NASA
…and toss his neo-Nazi ass into prison.
France is definitely going to issue an arrest warrant before we do
For what? All that damage and it’s extremely unlikely he committed a crime. He held no official cabinet position and had no official authority. Probably didn’t even do much of anything himself. US isn’t capable of holding a billionaire accountable.
He’s committed countless crimes. Unfortunately he was able to shutdown several investigations into him and his companies from various agencies during the Dodge fiasco. He basically Elizabeth Holmes on a massive scale. I agree that it doesn’t seem we have laws for the wealthy but people are getting pissed so I have some hope m.
What crimes? Name them. And how they would be proven beyond a reasonable doubt? Remember, all he has to do is create reasonable doubt. These guys have staff who will literally do nothing much make sure that doubt exists. Name one specific order he gave ar DOGE that is verifiable - one order that he definitely gave, that a specific person definitely followed. You can’t do it. Prosecutors won’t be able to either.
If anything there will be more of a case against government workers for following instructions from people who had no legal authority to give them.
This is why granting someone power completely outside of legal bounds - outside of any laws that govern the cabinet - is a really really bad idea.
Look dude I get it you really like Elon but he’s a criminal and deserves to go to jail or hang for the thousands of people who died due to his USAID cuts. Dodge shut down several investigations into him and his company’s crimes. I’m done with this conversation and you
0/10 reading comprehension.
Agreed.
Cool but what I was saying is that you’ll never pin any of this on him because he managed to do all the damage he did without committing a crime. The fact that this was possible is itself the problem . You haven’t even engaged with what the actual problem is, you’re just reacting emotionally.
The administration doesn’t want our security rebuilt, if we did that Russia, China and other foreign and domestic agents trying to get their capital-seeking tentacles into our every-day lives, extracting our every last cent, won’t have a back-door into your personal information and shopping habits and profiles of your specific emotional vulnerabilities so the algorithm can feed you just news stories that validate and reinforce your feelings towards their specific agendas.
Who cares what this corrupt administration wants we should arrest them with a second amendment mob and all the Israeli backed politicians too
Unfortunately we broadly allowed the bulk of our population to check out and the 2024 exit polling confirms it, they voted for all this because they had no idea what they were doing, and now this group of jackasses controls the military and we can’t really directly assault them unless we can radicalize a LOT more comfortable liberal middle-class people.
Besides, we can still turn this around. Mussolini (and a number of other dictators) were not defeated by a plucky band of armed rebels who stormed the capital, he was arrested by his own government and handed over to the opposition who executed him. Even the most corrupt systems can break if we apply enough pressure.