Issues want to get fascinating as we speak as President Trump vows to choose up Washington by the collar and shake them round a bit bit.
The President is ready to publicly disclose the names of people and organizations he alleges have benefited from huge authorities waste and fraud, as uncovered by DOGE.
The President contends that Elon Musk and his Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) have already found “super fraud” simply weeks into his administration. We’ve seen several examples already.
And he’s about to again that up with receipts. Trump additionally took a hilarious jab at a reporter who questioned his claims.
“What we’re going to do is tomorrow [Thursday], I’m having a information convention,” mentioned Trump.
“I’m going to learn to you a number of the names that lots of of tens of millions and even billions of {dollars} have been given to, and should you inform me that we needs to be giving cash to these issues, these entities, I feel you’ll most likely have to go away as a reporter since you’re not very proficient.”
🚨‼️JUST IN: President Trump commends Elon, pronounces a information convention set for TOMORROW —
— will learn listing of names of recipients of waste, fraud and abuse.
“I’ll learn to you a number of the names that lots of of tens of millions and even billions of {dollars} have been given to.”… pic.twitter.com/6QzXTAPFtA
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 12, 2025
Trump About To Unleash Listing Of Fraud
President Trump delivering the fraud receipts to a media that usually fails to ship their very own is a factor of magnificence. The forthcoming press convention goals to name out what he describes as billions of {dollars} in questionable federal spending, spotlighting the recipients of this largesse.
Nonetheless, in actuality, fraud and waste are extra seemingly within the trillions at this level. Contemplate the federal authorities spent $6.75 trillion final 12 months.
“Whenever you take a look at the form of cash, billions and billions of {dollars} being thrown away illegally, and there’s no there’s no probability, I imply I say in entrance of our legal professional normal [Pam Bondi], there’s no probability that there’s not kickbacks or one thing occurring,” Trump mentioned.
“The most important factor is what they do to our nation, they’re taking huge quantities of cash and spending it on objects. I went via a listing of 200 expenditures that have been made, and I discovered three that seemed like they have been cheap,” he added. “Okay, three.”
“And we’ll be speaking about that tomorrow.”
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Praises Elon’s Efforts
Throughout the identical interplay with a reporter, President Trump praised Elon Musk’s efforts even because the media tried—ineffectively—to drive a wedge between them.
Musk’s objectives for the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) have been fairly simple. He goals to deal with wasteful spending and remove pointless rules.
Trump is on board with that, irrespective of what number of occasions the left calls him “President Musk” in an try to rock the boat.
🚨President Trump on Elon Musk:
“I wish to commend Elon Musk as a result of he is achieved a unbelievable job. He discovered extra issues than anyone might discover. He is obtained the credibility to do it. It is his group of individuals, they began off with 12, went to 20-25 and now nearly 100 folks.” pic.twitter.com/yF9cakJytN
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) February 12, 2025
“We now have a number of stuff, and I wish to commend Elon as a result of he’s achieved a unbelievable job,” the President mentioned.
“He doesn’t want this, you realize. He’s abused by you folks day by day. He’s discovered extra issues than anyone might discover. I feel he’s obtained the credibility to do it. I do know he does.”
Trump and Musk teaming as much as identify names are obligatory for accountability, particularly in mild of the administration’s latest successes in figuring out wasteful spending throughout numerous departments like USAID, the Training Division, and FEMA.
