I’m assuming that the original plan was to excise all mentions of Trump (and possibly of his most loyal cronies), then at least threaten to release everything left (I’m not convinced that Trump really would release it, since it would be more in his nature to hold the threat of releasing it over people’s heads in order to extort submission and/or cash out of them).
But then it fell through, most likely because among the data that Musk stole during his tenure was the originals of everything they intended to release, so his threat to expose Trump is credible enough that Trump decided the better course of action was to tell the faithful that none of it ever existed in the first place in order to head off Musk.
Trump knows that all he has to do is tell his mindless drones something, and then they’ll figure out the necessary details and evasions and lies with which they’ll determinedly pretend it’s true.
Musk is doing a foolish thing not outright releasing them. All that teasing and promising depends on trust into campaign promises, and that has dried out mostly.
He should just let the missiles out. Then still be alive for the aftermath (the next election).
I’m assuming that the original plan was to excise all mentions of Trump (and possibly of his most loyal cronies), then at least threaten to release everything left (I’m not convinced that Trump really would release it, since it would be more in his nature to hold the threat of releasing it over people’s heads in order to extort submission and/or cash out of them).
But then it fell through, most likely because among the data that Musk stole during his tenure was the originals of everything they intended to release, so his threat to expose Trump is credible enough that Trump decided the better course of action was to tell the faithful that none of it ever existed in the first place in order to head off Musk.
And then people can make up bullshit like “it’s AI”.
Exactly.
Trump knows that all he has to do is tell his mindless drones something, and then they’ll figure out the necessary details and evasions and lies with which they’ll determinedly pretend it’s true.
Musk is doing a foolish thing not outright releasing them. All that teasing and promising depends on trust into campaign promises, and that has dried out mostly.
He should just let the missiles out. Then still be alive for the aftermath (the next election).
Could be holding off until closer to the election