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.
If he ever faces justice for the hundreds of thousands needlessly dead because of him I hope it a fine based on net worth like the Nordic countries do, and then death.
Spoiler Alert: It was a grift at the expense of the American tax payer. Like literally everything the Republican party does.
Elect criminals, get robbed.
Ten’s of thousands of people have already died at the hands of Elon Musk destroying USAID. It was all part of their plan. Then Elon got hundreds of billions in welfare from trump for helping do the dirty work.
And America just sat by and watched.
We truly are a weak nation.
Okay, but they’re going to depose him, so that’ll balance the scales.
And what will that do?
At worst? Ever so slightly stoke voter outrage at this whole fiasco and increase awareness of the oligarch class.
At best? Fines, jail time, reinstatement of disbanded agencies.
Nothing in the at best camp is likely to happen, but making a spectacle out of it and potentially getting someone to admit something they don’t mean to will likely help nudge some voters. Even if they’re mostly left leaning getting more people to turn out will help.
Freeze his assets. He needs to fund the rebuilding of our national security infrastructure
…and toss his neo-Nazi ass into prison.
France is definitely going to issue an arrest warrant before we do
He needs to fund the rebuilding of our national security infrastructure
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.
Oh no. A deposition. Questions will be asked. He’s in big trouble.
He might even get a finger wagged at him!
Christ, can they seize all of his assets?
Also, will this be recorded and shown to the public?
DEPORT THIS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT!
But he’s the “right kind” of African!
/S (in case this is needed)
Ok, and then what?
Dems will hound him doggedly for donations next election cycle.
For just a moment I thought it said ‘deported’. For just that moment, I felt elation like I haven’t known in years.
I’m still hopeful.
Honestly most people don’t even know what “deposed” means and figure it means something bad is going to happen to literally the richest person on Earth and I can’t stop rubbing my temples and letting out beleaguered sighs.
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