We know the play the Democrats will run. They’ll lock arms with each other and the corporate media and accuse Elon Musk, and to a lesser extent, President Donald Trump, of being a “nut or a slut.”
When reports started to come out in 1998 that President Bill Clinton had an inappropriate (illegal?) sexual relationship with a 22-year-old intern, Monica Lewinsky, the Clinton inner circle of Hillary, George Stephanopoulos, and James Carville circled the wagons and set out to label Lewinsky a liar and worse. In 2015, Ms. Lewinsky summed up the Democrat attack on her credibility when she said, ‘I was branded a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo.’
By discrediting her, the Democrats assumed they could draw attention away from the details of the scandal and survive barely affected by the revelations of cigars, gross conversations while the commander-in-chief talked by phone to a general officer, and furtive moments in a tiny off office bathroom. The media played their role dutifully. It looked like Bill and Hill were going to get away with making the White House a hostile work environment on the back of sexual harassment. There was no #metoo movement to cajole or payoff.
And then, the blue dress appeared. Suddenly, an obscure “he said, she said” turned graphically into an obvious “he did.” The DNA was conclusive.
What are we seeing now? With Elon Musk emptying out the closets of USAID, the Democrats have gone back to the Clinton playbook. The attacks are that Musk is a nut and a money whore. The corporate media has locked arms and the effort to discredit Musk is well underway. The new tool in the arsenal is rapid polling, which is working to freeze the public’s perception as anti-Musk.
If this were 1998, the public relations offensive by the Democrat/Media Complex would do damage to the efforts to expose misuse of taxpayer funds. But Musk is in a more favorable position. Monica only had Linda Tripp and the blue dress in her corner.
Elon will find — and has found — examples of waste and probable fraud to include buying favorable press from mouthpieces like Politico. A sampler includes over $34.3 million to Politico and more:
- $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities.”
- $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
- $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
- $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
- $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
- “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
- Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban.
The Trump effort will have advantages that Lewinsky did not.
First, they’ll have the bully pulpit. Instead of denying his actions, there will be a president who is on offense with a megaphone. The corporate media is viewed as a partisan, biased news source by the American public, unlike the venerated perception of the 1990s. Corporate media has been overtaken in influence by alternative media such as podcasts and blogs circulated by X.
When the focus is brought to bear, the American public will see the obviously partisan and fraudulent behavior of USAID and other federal agencies to come.
The blue Democrat leadership defending USAID will be made to wear the blue dresses being brought from the closet.
