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Presenting a “legit threat” to the status quo, Elon Musk became the target of “elites” when a retired general was rolled out to pose “national security risk” concerns.

Gaslighting and narrative crafting had yet to reach a limit within the circles of power, particularly as control of the reins could prove compromised by the proposed Department of Government Efficiency. Pitting Musk’s designated DOGE co-head Vivek Ramaswamy’s own past remarks against the billionaire, retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré dropped an op-ed fearmongering over a hypothetical Chinese compromise.

Writing for the New York Times on Sunday, Honoré, who was tapped by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to lead the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach, feigned concern over the world’s richest man’s security clearance. He passed the buck to President-elect Donald Trump rather than petitioning incumbent President Joe Biden to act on revoking it.

“According to numerous interviews and remarks, Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency co-leader, Vivek Ramaswamy, once appeared to believe he was,” a risk, the general presented. “In May 2023, Mr. Ramaswamy went so far as to publicly state, ‘I have no reason to think Elon won’t jump like a circus monkey when Xi Jinping calls in the hour of need,’ a reference to China’s leader. In a separate X post targeting Mr. Musk, he wrote, ‘The U.S. needs leaders who aren’t in China’s pocket.”

Noting Ramaswamy had walked back his comments, Honoré turned to federal reviews of SpaceX “from the Air Force, the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General and the undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security for failing to provide details of Mr. Musk’s meetings with foreign leaders and other potential violations of national-security rules.”

Naturally, he drew attention to $1.4 billion borrowed from Chinese government-controlled banks toward the construction of Tesla’s Shanghai gigafactory, stating, “China does not tend to give things away. The country’s laws stipulate that the Communist Party can demand intelligence from any company doing business in China, in exchange for participating in the country’s markets,” the general put the onus on Trump to address his concerns.

“The fact that Mr. Musk spent a quarter of a billion dollars to help re-elect Mr. Trump does not give the incoming White House the license to look the other way at the national security risks he may pose,” continued the op-ed. “If Mr. Trump and his appointees mean what they say about getting tough on America’s adversaries, then they will act on this matter without delay. There is too much at stake to ignore what’s right in front of them.”

It was only after thickly laying on the idea of “risk” that Honoré acknowledged how no federal agency had actually accused Musk of disclosing classified information to the Chinese.

Reacting to the attack on Trump’s adviser, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld summed up the artistry employed by the establishment in confronting the possibility of “real change.”

Earning agreement from users on X, Gutfeld wrote, “disgruntled dems, do you see the pattern? when faced with a legit threat to their managerial incompetence and deceit, the elites galvanize the blob to attack. Whether its 51 intel experts, 13 Nobel laureates, or now — a retired general hired by the NY Times to smear Musk (a patriot trying to help his country) as a national security threat — when ever real change presents itself, the blob reacts to take it out. its amazing how utterly predictable they are, and how gullible they think we are. it no longer works.”

“The Blob” is, as defined by Politico, “a disparate group of elite think-tankers, lawmakers, journalists and others in official Washington — who coalesce around a hawkish foreign policy.”

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