
Elon Musk's 'shoot first, aim later' style requires a fact check
LA TimesElon Musk speaks to reporters as President Trump and Musk’s son listen, in the Oval Office. X sat on Musk’s shoulders, poked his fingers into his daddy’s ears, picked his nose, wiped his finger on the Resolute Desk and told the president to “go away.” A reporter asked Musk to explain why he allowed the Trump administration to wrongly accuse the U.S. Agency for International Development of sending $50 million to Gaza for condoms. On Jan. 28, during her first official briefing, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced to reporters that “there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza” before Trump and Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency stepped in to prevent “a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.” A week or so later, Trump inflated the amount to $100 million and said the condoms were going to Hamas, an indefensible perversion of an already indefensible lie. According to the agency, Dale found, Mozambique, which has a province called Gaza, received “about $5.4 million worth of non-condom contraceptives.” Despite Mozambique’s extremely high HIV infection rate — it ranks eighth in the world — the report included no mention of an allocation for condoms. “The @DOGE team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants,” Musk posted on X.
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