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Letter: Musk, Trump cannot be trusted

By Michael Seitzinger, Vancouver
Published: February 27, 2025, 6:00am

If you are one of those people who accepts everything Elon Musk or Donald Trump say, you might want to take a look at the sample of errors:

  1. The “$50 million for condoms in Gaza” was to help stop AIDS in the Mozambique state of Gaza, not Palestinians. 2. Claiming to have found millions of people 150 years old in the Social Security database when it was default code for people who died before there were computer records. 3. Not checking to see if the Reuters news agency was in fact the recipient of a $9 million contract, (it was a cybersecurity firm by the same name), and then falsely labeling it “large scale social deception.” 4. Claiming $8 billion was saved in one contract when it was actually $8 million. 5. Some of the nation’s top nuclear specialists were fired when staffers apparently did not realize that the agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons stockpile.

Errors like this in the private sector would have probably gotten them fired.

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