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Elon Musk may be at fault for Trump’s Epstein coverup catastrophe

On 19 December, the Trump administration released a tranche of heavily redacted files relating to the dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. As we reported, the level of redactions was almost certainly at odds with the law (specifically the Epstein Files Transparency Act). This suspicion was seemingly confirmed when it was revealed that it was possible to un-redact these documents:

So, how did this monumental cock up occur?

Reportedly, it may have all been down to Elon Musk and his disastrous DOGE initiative:

The ghost of Epstein

Earlier this year, Musk joined the Trump administration as the leader of its brand new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). People suspected DOGE would be a disaster from the start; not least because the government already had an efficiency department. Regardless of whether you support Musk or not, you have to acknowledge it’s probably not efficient to have multiple departments of efficiency.

Here is what was revealed by one of the young men Musk employed:

I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was. This isn’t to say that it can’t be made more efficient — elimination of paper, elimination of faxing — but these aren’t necessarily fraud, waste and abuse.

DOGE fired the guy for making these comments. This was despite Musk’s promise to be “maximally transparent” about DOGE’s activities.

As people have discovered, the ‘savings’ DOGE made included cancelling subscriptions for Adobe Acrobat:

Some people think all government spending is bad and wasteful because it’s the government spending the money. As is now obvious, however; most spending has some sort of purpose.

The unredacted files revealed that the justice department covered up information relating to potential criminal activity. This is a problem, because the Epstein Files Transparency Act only sanctioned redactions to protect victims:

The musk of success

There is another conspiracy going around, and it’s that Musk masterminded this chain of events on purpose. He did warn us that Trump was in the Epstein Files back in June, after all:

Of course, there are also those who think Musk couldn’t mastermind a pissup in a brewery (and we’re among them):

Either way, it’s obvious Musk has quietened on all the Epstein stuff since worming his way back into Trump’s orbit:

We wonder what Trump thinks of this situation if it was indeed Musk who created it? Given that the president has no ability to keep his thoughts to himself, we may not have long to wait before we find out:

Featured image via the Canary and US Justice Department

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.