Trump Frees Musk From 32 Federal Investigations For Fraud

The Trump-Musk administration is accusing civil servants of fraud without any evidence, while simultaneously allowing corporations to pay off foreign officials, dropping bribery charges against Mayor Eric Adams, pardoning a former Illinois governor who attempted to sell his Senate seat, and halting inquiries into foreign influence-peddling in the U.S.

Musk claimed that drastic reductions in the federal workforce were justified because it was rife with fraud. I Photo: Elon Musk X

In doing so, Trump and Musk have effectively declared open season on real fraud and bribery, Robert Reich wrote in his Substack.

Recently, Trump signed an executive order halting investigations and prosecutions of corporate corruption in foreign countries under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) of 1977.

The following day, Musk spoke from the Oval Office, claiming that drastic reductions in the federal workforce were justified because it was rife with fraud.

“I’ve spent more than a dozen years in the federal government, and I can tell you that the vast majority of civil servants I’ve had the honor of working with are dedicated and hardworking. They are delivering critical services to Americans and protecting them from corporate malfeasance,” Reich argued.

For the world’s richest person to be given a platform in the Oval Office to attack their integrity is beyond shameful. “Musk has the integrity of a slug,” Reich wrote.

Since Trump’s election, Musk’s fortune has grown by $270 billion. If you think that’s a coincidence, you haven’t been paying attention. When Trump was sworn into office, Musk’s six corporations were under more than 32 ongoing investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies, according to a review by The New York Times. 

Most of these cases have now been closed or are expected to be closed soon, while the agencies that initiated them are being weakened by Trump and Musk.

As a result, Musk’s corporations are now worth significantly more, freed from government oversight. And as their largest shareholder, Musk is the biggest beneficiary. The biggest loser? The United States of America.