Elon Musk has officially left DOGE but that hasn't stopped those on the left and their fellow travelers from trying to attack him.
Perhaps the most despicable attack came from NY Times columnist and PBS News Hour contributor David Brooks. Remember this when they tell you PBS is a completely unbiased news outlet.
🚨NYT/PBS “conservative” David Brooks likens Elon Musk to Pol Pot, Mao and Stalin:
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 1, 2025
“At least semi-responsible for the deaths of probably by the end of this, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people. That's Elon Musk’s legacy."
“The people who work at Tesla and SpaceX… pic.twitter.com/Eo22DYMZVF
Brooks said there are "folks at Boston University who count."
"How many people have died because of what DOGE did at USAID?" Brooks asked.
He admitted it was "ill-managed," which is putting it lightly. But then he claimed that 300,000 had died because of cuts, and we're "four months in." He said if you extrapolate that over four years, the "number of dead grows very high."
He said there were "mass murderers in the world like Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, and Stalin.
"We don't have any on the list for America, and I don't think it's the same as committing the kind of genocide they did. But by taking away that agency and at least semi-responsible for the deaths of probably by the end of this of hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, that's Elon Musk's legacy. And the people at Tesla and Space X may want to think about that."
Wow, Brooks is disgraceful. Not only did he compare Musk to mass murderers, but he was pointedly trying to influence Tesla and SpaceX with this disgusting call to take action against Musk.
Then let's talk about that number he's throwing out there that he calls a "count" -- that's based on a projection, a model by Boston University researcher Brooke Nichols, not a count of actual numbers of dead.
“The biggest uncertainties in all of these estimates are: 1) the extent to which countries and organizations have pivoted to mitigate this disaster (likely highly variable), and 2) which programs are actually still funded with funding actually flowing — and which aren’t,” Nichols said.
So they did this without knowing which programs are still funded or what other responses there are to the situation that might change projections? Translation: then what is this worth?
Sorry, but I'm not buying it. To try to spin that into "Pol Pot" is disgraceful on the part of David Brooks. And he's the guy they sometimes refer to as the "conservative" - which is kind of like referring to Jen Rubin as a conservative.
This number is now being spread everywhere by the left, without questioning. Even U2's Bono was spreading it during an appearance with Joe Rogan, although he acknowledged it was "not proven." So if it's not proven, why are you even talking about it? We can stop in the first six seconds of this clip.
Warning for graphic language:
We have our new Russia collision hoax!
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) June 1, 2025
Listen to this clown, Bono claiming that 300,000 people have already died because President Trump closed down the USAID ponzi scheme 😂 pic.twitter.com/Y3s0c8b7Cu
Joe Rogan responded that USAID was a money laundering operation.
Elon Musk referred to Bono as a "liar/idiot," and said zero people had died.
He’s such a liar/idiot 🤦♂️
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 31, 2025
Zero people have died!
This comes even as DOGE is sending its USAID cuts to Congress to be codified.
READ MORE: Finally: The White House Is Sending the DOGE Cuts to Congress
The left doesn't want to talk about the corruption and the fraud in USAID, or who may have been hurt by that.
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