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Elon Musk’s private security detail gets deputized by US Marshals Service
The US Marshals Service has deputized members of Elon Musk’s private security detail, giving them certain rights and protections of federal law enforcement agents, three law enforcement officials familiar with the matter told CNN.
It was not immediately clear how many members of Musk’s security team were made special deputies.
Musk, the tech billionaire and ally of President Donald Trump, does not currently have a US Secret Service detail – meaning members of his personal security detail were limited in what they could do in Washington, DC.
Now that members have been deputized, they have more rights and could be authorized to carry weapons on federal grounds. It also means that if something went awry with the detail, the Marshals Service could be held legally liable, one law enforcement source said.
CNN has reached out to the Justice Department and the US Marshals Service for comment.
Some people close to Trump’s White House have been taken aback by the scale of security that has surrounded Musk since he became a regular presence in Trump’s orbit last year. The detail rivaled only that of the president himself, the sources observed.
Musk, who is running the new Department of Government Efficiency, has become increasingly concerned with his security since Trump took office a month ago and has told those around him that the level of death threats against him has increased, according to a person with direct knowledge of his comments.
He hinted at those concerns during an interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, saying on stage: “I don’t actually have a death wish.”
“It’s not enormous,” Musk said of his security detail. “Maybe it should be bigger.”
The Marshals Service has the power deputize a wide swath of people at their own discretion, including Justice Department employees, law enforcement officials and employees of private security companies. The deputization, which typically comes from the deputy attorney general, lasts for one year, according to a Justice Department manual.
The Marshals Service has deputized security details before, including that of Dr. Anthony Fauci. The Marshals deputized officers from the office of the inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services to serve as Fauci’s security because of an increase in threats to his personal safety.
But law enforcement sources told CNN that deputizing private security is unusual, particularly because those individuals are not current members of law enforcement. One source described the move as “rare.”
Elon Musk’s private security detail gets deputized by US Marshals Service | CNN Politics
The US Marshals Service has deputized members of Elon Musk’s private security detail, giving them certain rights and protections of federal law enforcement agents, three law enforcement officials familiar with the matter told CNN.
Trump warns Elon Musk building a Tesla factory in India would be ‘very unfair’ to his administration
India is a tough market to crack: Foreign brands compete for about a third of overall demand, and total EV sales remain vestigial.
Elon Musk Sued by Ashley St. Clair For Sole Custody of Their Alleged Son
The baby mama drama for Elon Musk continues to heat up ... as the billionaire was just sued by the woman who claims she had his most recent child.
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Elon Musk's 'baby mama' Ashley St. Clair sues him for custody of son
In a petition filed with the New York Supreme Court on Friday, St Clair, 26, says the Tesla CEO and DOGE Chief has had no involvement in the upbringing of their son.
Grimes sends panicked message to chainsaw-wielding ex Elon Musk
Singer Grimes sent out a panicked message on social media to Elon Musk about their child's 'medical crisis' as the 'First Buddy' wielded a chainsaw onstage at CPAC with Javier Millei.
In the land of the blind...the genius !
Elon Musk Sued by Ashley St. Clair For Sole Custody of Their Alleged Son
The baby mama drama for Elon Musk continues to heat up ... as the billionaire was just sued by the woman who claims she had his most recent child.
Elon Musk hits back as he shares baby mama's 'pregnancy plot'
MAGA influencer Isabella Moody has shared a series of text messages purportedly between she and St. Clair in which Musk's new baby mama appears to discuss seducing the billionaire.
How tf Elon get those texts? Duke is diabolicalElon Musk hits back as he shares baby mama's 'pregnancy plot'
MAGA influencer Isabella Moody has shared a series of text messages purportedly between she and St. Clair in which Musk's new baby mama appears to discuss seducing the billionaire.www.dailymail.co.uk
I told y'all grok was gonna be dangerous.
Trump (President Musk) holds 1st Cabinet meeting; Elon Musk is there, too
Musk created tensions with members over his federal worker "termination" threat.
ByAlexandra Hutzler
February 26, 2025
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President Musk Holds First Cabinet Meeting With Trump In Attendance
Musk created tensions with members over his federal worker "termination" threat.
ByAlexandra Hutzler
February 26, 2025
Key takeaways from Trump's 1st Cabinet meeting -- with Elon Musk
President Donald Trump hheld the first Cabinet meeting of his second term on Wednesday. In attendance was Elon Musk.
President Musk Holds First Cabinet Meeting With Trump In Attendance
Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.
By Desmond Butler, Trisha Thadani, Emmanuel Martinez, Aaron Gregg, Luis Melgar, Jonathan O'Connell and Dan Keating
February 26, 2025
Elon Musk and his cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service team have been on a mission to trim government largesse. Yet Musk is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the taxpayers’ coffers.
Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, a Washington Post analysis has found, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person.
The payments stretch back more than 20 years. Shortly after becoming CEO of a cash-strapped Tesla in 2008, Musk fought hard to secure a low-interest loan from the Energy Department, according to two people directly involved with the process, holding daily briefings with company executives about the paperwork and spending hours with a government loan officer.
When Tesla soon after realized it was missing a crucial Environmental Protection Agency certification it needed to qualify for the loan days before Christmas, Musk went straight to the top, urging then-EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to intervene, according to one of the people. Both people spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
Nearly two-thirds of the $38 billion in funds have been promised to Musk’s businesses in the past five years.
In 2024 alone, federal and local governments committed at least $6.3 billion to Musk’s companies, the highest total to date.
The total amount is probably larger: This analysis includes only publicly available contracts, omitting classified defense and intelligence work for the federal government. SpaceX has been developing spy satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office, the Pentagon’s spy satellite division, according to the Reuters news agency. The Wall Street Journal reported that contract was worth $1.8 billion, citing company documents.
The Post found nearly a dozen other local grants, reimbursements and tax credits where the specific amount of money is not public.
An additional 52 ongoing contracts with seven government agencies — including NASA, the Defense Department and the General Services Administration — are on track to potentially pay Musk’s companies an additional $11.8 billion over the next few years, according to The Post’s analysis.
Government contracts to SpaceX from NASA and the Defense Department make up the majority of funds. Tesla has earned $11.4 billion in regulatory credits from federal and state programs aimed at boosting the electric-car industry, and experts say its sales have been bolstered by a federal $7,500 electric-vehicle tax credit for consumers. Musk has called for an end to that consumer credit, arguing his competitors need the incentive more than Tesla.
DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, has sought to cut staff, slash budgets or cut contracts at all seven of the agencies where Musk’s companies have ongoing contracts. That includes the General Services Administration, Defense Department and Transportation Department.
Musk’s relationships with government agencies have at times been mutually beneficial: His ventures have pioneered new markets that have advanced U.S. government goals, including space exploration and the expansion of electric vehicles. And while many of the government programs Musk has benefited from are open to others in the electric-vehicle industry, no other company has gone on to achieve Tesla’s market dominance.
“Not every entrepreneur at this scale has been this dependent on federal money — certainly not Nvidia, not Microsoft, nor Amazon, nor Meta,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, professor at the Yale School of Management, who noted that much of the funding has come during Democratic administrations. “With DOGE, there does seem to be a paradox there. He has been a big beneficiary of national industrial policy, especially Democrat industrial policy, through government funding.”
Government funding also provided key early infusions to Musk’s ventures. NASA and the Defense Department nurtured SpaceX in its earliest years with contracts that helped it build infrastructure, while the agency tolerated the company’s failure to meet required milestones on time, according to congressional investigators.
The $465 million Energy Department loan, which arrived in 2010, helped fuel Tesla’s meteoric rise: With that money, the company engineered and assembled its luxury electric sedan — the Model S — and bought a factory in Fremont, California, according to the agency. Tesla went public six months later.
“Tesla would not have survived without the loan,” said a former high-level Tesla employee familiar with the company’s finances, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. “It was a critical loan at a critical time.”
Musk himself noted the challenges facing the company at the time, according to emails published by the Free Beacon, imploring Jackson, then the EPA chief, to help. “Tesla struggled for its life over the past year and then, just when we thought things would be alright, this issue came to light,” he wrote. “I am at your disposal 24/7,” Musk added, including his cellphone number.
Jackson declined to comment through a representative at Apple, where she now works. SpaceX, Musk and Tesla did not respond to requests for comment.
NASA spokeswoman Cheryl Warner said the agency has invested more than $15 billion in SpaceX for its work on numerous space programs.
“NASA is working with partners like SpaceX to build an economy in low Earth orbit and take our next giant leaps in exploration at the Moon and Mars for the benefit of all,” Warner said in an email.
White House spokesman Harrison Fields said that Musk’s business interests would not conflict with his work at DOGE. “Any contracts connected to Elon Musk’s very successful companies will comply with every government ethics rule as it pertains to potential conflicts of interests,” Fields said in an email.
As much as Tesla executives valued the government support, Musk paid off the 2010 low-interest loan within a matter of years. In a 2013 news release announcing that he had done so, Musk thanked the Energy Department and Congress, and “particularly the American taxpayer from whom these funds originate.”
“I hope we did you proud,” he said.
Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.
By Desmond Butler, Trisha Thadani, Emmanuel Martinez, Aaron Gregg, Luis Melgar, Jonathan O'Connell and Dan Keating
February 26, 2025
Elon Musk and his cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service team have been on a mission to trim government largesse. Yet Musk is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the taxpayers’ coffers.
Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, a Washington Post analysis has found, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person.
The payments stretch back more than 20 years. Shortly after becoming CEO of a cash-strapped Tesla in 2008, Musk fought hard to secure a low-interest loan from the Energy Department, according to two people directly involved with the process, holding daily briefings with company executives about the paperwork and spending hours with a government loan officer.
When Tesla soon after realized it was missing a crucial Environmental Protection Agency certification it needed to qualify for the loan days before Christmas, Musk went straight to the top, urging then-EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to intervene, according to one of the people. Both people spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
Nearly two-thirds of the $38 billion in funds have been promised to Musk’s businesses in the past five years.
In 2024 alone, federal and local governments committed at least $6.3 billion to Musk’s companies, the highest total to date.
The total amount is probably larger: This analysis includes only publicly available contracts, omitting classified defense and intelligence work for the federal government. SpaceX has been developing spy satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office, the Pentagon’s spy satellite division, according to the Reuters news agency. The Wall Street Journal reported that contract was worth $1.8 billion, citing company documents.
The Post found nearly a dozen other local grants, reimbursements and tax credits where the specific amount of money is not public.
An additional 52 ongoing contracts with seven government agencies — including NASA, the Defense Department and the General Services Administration — are on track to potentially pay Musk’s companies an additional $11.8 billion over the next few years, according to The Post’s analysis.
Government contracts to SpaceX from NASA and the Defense Department make up the majority of funds. Tesla has earned $11.4 billion in regulatory credits from federal and state programs aimed at boosting the electric-car industry, and experts say its sales have been bolstered by a federal $7,500 electric-vehicle tax credit for consumers. Musk has called for an end to that consumer credit, arguing his competitors need the incentive more than Tesla.
DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, has sought to cut staff, slash budgets or cut contracts at all seven of the agencies where Musk’s companies have ongoing contracts. That includes the General Services Administration, Defense Department and Transportation Department.
Musk’s relationships with government agencies have at times been mutually beneficial: His ventures have pioneered new markets that have advanced U.S. government goals, including space exploration and the expansion of electric vehicles. And while many of the government programs Musk has benefited from are open to others in the electric-vehicle industry, no other company has gone on to achieve Tesla’s market dominance.
“Not every entrepreneur at this scale has been this dependent on federal money — certainly not Nvidia, not Microsoft, nor Amazon, nor Meta,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, professor at the Yale School of Management, who noted that much of the funding has come during Democratic administrations. “With DOGE, there does seem to be a paradox there. He has been a big beneficiary of national industrial policy, especially Democrat industrial policy, through government funding.”
Government funding also provided key early infusions to Musk’s ventures. NASA and the Defense Department nurtured SpaceX in its earliest years with contracts that helped it build infrastructure, while the agency tolerated the company’s failure to meet required milestones on time, according to congressional investigators.
The $465 million Energy Department loan, which arrived in 2010, helped fuel Tesla’s meteoric rise: With that money, the company engineered and assembled its luxury electric sedan — the Model S — and bought a factory in Fremont, California, according to the agency. Tesla went public six months later.
“Tesla would not have survived without the loan,” said a former high-level Tesla employee familiar with the company’s finances, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. “It was a critical loan at a critical time.”
Musk himself noted the challenges facing the company at the time, according to emails published by the Free Beacon, imploring Jackson, then the EPA chief, to help. “Tesla struggled for its life over the past year and then, just when we thought things would be alright, this issue came to light,” he wrote. “I am at your disposal 24/7,” Musk added, including his cellphone number.
Jackson declined to comment through a representative at Apple, where she now works. SpaceX, Musk and Tesla did not respond to requests for comment.
NASA spokeswoman Cheryl Warner said the agency has invested more than $15 billion in SpaceX for its work on numerous space programs.
“NASA is working with partners like SpaceX to build an economy in low Earth orbit and take our next giant leaps in exploration at the Moon and Mars for the benefit of all,” Warner said in an email.
White House spokesman Harrison Fields said that Musk’s business interests would not conflict with his work at DOGE. “Any contracts connected to Elon Musk’s very successful companies will comply with every government ethics rule as it pertains to potential conflicts of interests,” Fields said in an email.
As much as Tesla executives valued the government support, Musk paid off the 2010 low-interest loan within a matter of years. In a 2013 news release announcing that he had done so, Musk thanked the Energy Department and Congress, and “particularly the American taxpayer from whom these funds originate.”
“I hope we did you proud,” he said.
This might be the endgame with what he is doing with these Federal Workers.
We will wait and see…
Elon Musk predicts universal basic income will take off once AI replaces workers. Read his 8 best quotes about UBI.
Elon Musk sees universal basic income as a necessary response to automation eliminating human jobs. The Tesla chief predicts there will be "universal high income" that will give people more free time. Here are Musk's eight best UBI quotes, including that people should spend the cash as they wish.
Theron Mohamed
Jun 22, 2024
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Elon Musk
We will wait and see…
Elon Musk predicts universal basic income will take off once AI replaces workers. Read his 8 best quotes about UBI.
Elon Musk sees universal basic income as a necessary response to automation eliminating human jobs. The Tesla chief predicts there will be "universal high income" that will give people more free time. Here are Musk's eight best UBI quotes, including that people should spend the cash as they wish.
Theron Mohamed
Jun 22, 2024
Elon Musk predicts universal basic income will take off once AI replaces workers. Read his 8 best quotes about UBI.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief predicts a "universal high income" as AI replaces workers, giving them more freedom in how they spend time and money.
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Elon Musk
This's fascinating reading. Dude is virtually batshit crazy, but focused on being the richest, most powerful man in the world
Certainly, no Musk enterprise is about rule of law. For did I mention that it was illegal for Elon to be working on Zip2 at all, just as it was illegal for him to be in America at all for much of the 1990s? Did I mention that he and his brother both knew this, but also had that casual sense of entitlement rich young white men from South Africa have when they believe they are operating in a post-Reagan American culture tailored to their needs, and a subculture in that culture (Silicon Valley) easily suckered by two right-wing, apartheid-born kids willing to unctuously pretend they’re progressives?
Why pay bench riders when you can take them out of the game permanently. UBI is a bait and switch that will lead us all to a "Logan's Run" type of world in no time. These psychotic millionaires and billionaires want a world where most of us are gone.This might be the endgame with what he is doing with these Federal Workers.
We will wait and see…
Elon Musk predicts universal basic income will take off once AI replaces workers. Read his 8 best quotes about UBI.
Elon Musk sees universal basic income as a necessary response to automation eliminating human jobs. The Tesla chief predicts there will be "universal high income" that will give people more free time. Here are Musk's eight best UBI quotes, including that people should spend the cash as they wish.
Theron Mohamed
Jun 22, 2024
Elon Musk predicts universal basic income will take off once AI replaces workers. Read his 8 best quotes about UBI.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief predicts a "universal high income" as AI replaces workers, giving them more freedom in how they spend time and money.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk falsely accuses Verizon of putting US air safety at 'serious risk'
On social media, Starlink owner Elon Musk mistakenly accused Verizon of putting US flyers at a safety risk.
www.usatoday.com
If that was the end goal, then they would just turn those workers' salaries into universal basic income payments every month instead of calling paying them waste fraud and abuse.This might be the endgame with what he is doing with these Federal Workers.
We will wait and see…
Elon Musk predicts universal basic income will take off once AI replaces workers. Read his 8 best quotes about UBI.
Elon Musk sees universal basic income as a necessary response to automation eliminating human jobs. The Tesla chief predicts there will be "universal high income" that will give people more free time. Here are Musk's eight best UBI quotes, including that people should spend the cash as they wish.
Theron Mohamed
Jun 22, 2024
Elon Musk predicts universal basic income will take off once AI replaces workers. Read his 8 best quotes about UBI.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief predicts a "universal high income" as AI replaces workers, giving them more freedom in how they spend time and money.
Elon Musk
