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Michael Steele nails the naivete of journalists covering the Trump-Musk saga. [1]
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Date: 2025-06-01
Journalists are missing the real story on Musk’s failed DOGE project. Michael Steele points out it’s about the servers stealing your data and Musk’s contracts.
Michael Steele nails the naivete of journalists.
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Michael Steele exposes how corporate media fawns over the Trump–Musk spectacle and ignores the real story: Musk’s federally funded data-harvesting empire and Trump’s willingness to enable it for political gain.
The host notes that reporters lobbed “Mars vs. government” puffballs instead of asking how Musk’s firms burrowed into federal IT systems and siphoned sensitive data.
The press missed that Musk left the White House with a richer portfolio of classified Pentagon and intelligence contracts, including SpaceX’s covert spy-satellite network.
Dogecoin hype shows the pattern: Musk drives headlines, extracts billions, and leaves retail investors holding the bag—yet journalists still treat him as a visionary.
While cameras fixate on Trump’s theatrics, Musk’s servers remain inside multiple agencies, vacuuming personnel data and strengthening his leverage over policymakers.
Outside the Beltway, communities like Memphis already feel the costs of Musk’s tax-sweetened super-projects—higher pollution, fragile grids, and scant accountability.
Independent media must keep centering material realities—labor rights, data privacy, and public dollars—because corporate outlets would rather chase Musk’s memes than expose how billionaire capture undermines democracy.
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