Trump's DOJ Losing Court Fights to Protect DOGE, Musk Secrecy

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8. Let's be blunt here

Musk came into this with likely several motives:

1. Eliminate as much evidence concerning misdeeds as possible within his various companies in the US.
2. Grab as much personal and corporate data as they could in the process that they could mine for blackmail and corporate espionage
3. Leave the various agencies unable to prosecute him in the future.
4. Lay coding land mines and trapdoors that gives them hacking access.

Ideology likely played a part - there was more than a bit of revenge at work as well - but there's no question that this was intended as a payoff to Musk for his help in "winning" the 2024 election, both through a barrage of misinformation and (perhaps) direct control of some election processing.