Gavin Newsom and leading Democrats have spent the last few days fulminating about “authoritarianism” by Donald Trump for sending National Guard and Marine units to protect federal law enforcement agents and sites. What will they have to say when they discover that the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice spied on an industrialist supporter of the opposition party?
Oh, wait, Trump didn’t do that. Joe Biden did that. For two years, according to the Wall Street Journal, Merrick Garland and Alejandro Mayorkas surveilled Elon Musk and his contacts to check out “influence.” This seems to have started around the time that Musk bought Twitter and refused to participate in the Biden administration’s Big Tech-Big Government Censorship Complex:
Several U.S. government agencies in 2022 and 2023 tracked foreign nationals coming and going to Elon Musk’s properties, according to people familiar with the matter.
The investigation included the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department. It focused on people visiting the tech billionaire, from countries in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, who might have been trying to influence him. Until last week, Musk was one of President Trump’s closest advisers. …
The probe, predating the current Trump administration, highlights concerns about the number of foreign nationals in Musk’s orbit. Musk runs five companies, including SpaceX, with sensitive government contracts, and has had unprecedented access to top government officials.
Yeah, horse puckey. Musk founded SpaceX twenty years prior to that surveillance, and has developed his private space-flight company with NASA ever since. Musk has had high-level contacts with government officials all along, not just through SpaceX but also Tesla, which made Musk the darling of progressives at the time. By 2021, Musk was practically ubiquitous among the cognoscenti, especially on the Left. Through both companies, Musk wielded plenty of influence with administrations of both parties.
So what changed in 2022 that suddenly made Musk a security risk? Musk bought Twitter and took it private, removing the Twitter board and executives that had proven so compliant with Biden’s Big Brother censorship project. Readers may recall that the Protection Racket Media freaked out over Musk’s “free-speech absolutism” at the time of the purchase agreement, likely stoked by their partners in Biden’s corrupt censorship program, at places like Health and Human Services and Homeland Security, where Biden had tried to set up Nina Jankowicz as a speech-police chief.
It might have been more specifically political than that. Musk’s criticism of Twitter’s ban on Trump and his pledge to reinstate his account could certainly have had the White House worried about the return of Biden’s bete noire on the platform, not to mention the Trump-supporting accounts that their Big Brother operations had successfully suppressed. But even that might have been secondary to the threat of exposing the Big Brother censorship complex created by Biden and his team, which included a strangely significant number of former FBI agents patrolling the content.
This wasn’t about Musk’s influence abroad, which was none of the government’s business anyway. This was about attempting to stop Musk from exposing an assault on the Constitution by Joe Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas, Merrick Garland, Xavier Becerra, Anthony Fauci, et al by stopping Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. Failing that, it looks very much like an attempt to get dirt on Musk to extort him into cooperation with Biden’s Big Brother regime.
This was nothing less than the weaponization of government against the political opponents of Biden Regency. Congress needs to issue subpoenas to everyone in that chain of command to explain the espionage directed at Musk, the timing of when it began, and what they were trying to do with it. House Oversight chair James Comer had better launch that ASAP, and demand testimony under oath from Garland, Mayorkas, and Becerra at the very least. It is an utter disgrace.
Finally, it might remind Elon Musk that while he may have differences with Trump at times, the two of them have far more in common than those differences. That includes political opponents who have no scruples at all about leveraging power to ruin those they see as enemies.
