One of the world's best-kept secrets is a gentleman by the name of Elon Musk.

I'm sure some of you may have heard of him. Maybe.

Now, of course I kid about Elon not being well known. He is one of the most recognizable people on the planet and he happens to be a billionaire to boot. You have most likely used one of the products or services that he has been associated with, starting with PayPal and his electric car company Tesla, or perhaps you've watched one of the rocket launches from his SpaceX company.

That should cover most of the bases but possibly you have also heard him on one of his many appearances on "The Joe Rogan Experience," which has been consistently one of the most listened-to podcasts for the past five years. 

Elon is a favorite guest of Joe's.

So now that Elon is Donald Trump's point man in cleaning up the waste in the federal government, the attention on him has become even more intense than it had been before. You see, evidently, when you are doing work to cut out waste in the federal government but you are doing it for new Hitler that's going to make people cranky on the left.

I actually was part of a conversation last Wednesday night about Elon and some of his findings with my compadres Scott and Taylor right here on the RedState VIP Gold Show 

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One of the more fascinating aspects to me, though, is watching how Musk is now viewed by some people who have watched his public career when he didn't have much to do with politics. Now, seeing him aligned with Trump in doing work that everybody on the federal level has at least paid lip service to, they are now trying to figure out if Elon is good or if Elon is bad.

Case in point right HERE

Elon Musk could be either the most dangerous man in America or its savior.  

Having failed to convince voters President Donald Trump is the demon who will destroy democracy, progressives are making Musk the target of their renewed resistance movement. Musk, they warn, is the evil genius guiding Trump’s dark hand.

Their fearmongering portrays the billionaire entrepreneur as a villain in a James Bond movie, out to use his vast wealth, tech savvy and influence over the president to infiltrate the government and make the United States another subsidiary of his X empire.

Of course, the fine folks here at RedState have covered this particular story and Musk for a while now. Former Managing Editor Emeritus Strieff wrote this the other day about Elon right here...  White House Lowers the Boom on the Big Lie Masquerading As a New York Times Headline

Following the extraordinary joint press conference by President Trump and Elon Musk from the Oval Office (see Elon Musk Goes on the Offensive From the Oval Office, and His Kid Steals the Show – RedState), the press went on the offensive against Musk's claims of transparency and finding billions of dollars in fraudulent or erroneous payments by the US Treasury.

The New York Times led the pack with a story headlined, "At Oval Office, Musk Makes Broad Claims of Federal Fraud Without Proof." What's notable about the story is that it makes that claim, as they say, without proof.

The billionaire Elon Musk said in an extraordinary Oval Office appearance on Tuesday that he was providing maximum transparency in his government cost-cutting initiative, but offered no evidence for his sweeping claims that the federal bureaucracy had been corrupted by cheats and officials who had approved money for “fraudsters.”

Wherein lies the problem with me anyway.

Musk, according to all accounts from people who know him and who have interviewed him multiple times, comes across as a genius/nerd. Having watched a number of Bond movies and usually enjoying the villains in the movie, I know there have been a number who were genius/nerds of the Musk genre.

Oh and he is a billionaire to boot, which of course is an absolute requirement to be a Bond villain.

Yet I don't recall anybody in a Bond movie or in any other scenario that I can think of that would spend 40 billion dollars of his own money to purchase a platform that guarantees Free Speech, not only in the United States but the world. Musk 100 percent did that a couple of years ago when he purchased Twitter and changed the direction of how conversations happen, and dragged Facebook and Google to a certain extent along with him.

He has single-handedly demanded transparency while protecting freedom of speech in this country. 

He has pushed the envelope, forcing government officials to not be able to collude to keep stories from getting out like with some of the nonsense during COVID a couple of years back.

So the nonsense that some people are spouting about that he must be working to drain seniors' bank accounts by demanding audits from the Social Security Administration or Medicare/Medicaid accounts is nonsense. The man is already a billionaire a couple of times over, and he doesn't need access to how much money granny is spending on her cookie dough each month.

Plus the man shares a penchant, much like Donald Trump, for having no issue engaging with the press in answering both intelligent and stupid questions from the Fourth Estate. The press conference the president and Musk did last week in the Oval Office was one of the more impressive things that people who are in charge of working for the American people have done in all my years of watching the spectacle that occurs in Washington, DC daily.

I do admit that billionaires can make me nervous, having watched the Soros crowd and the damage they have done to this country and the globe in general. Musk, though, is running a much different path, and we should be thankful for that.

 He very well may end up being Trump's best hire ever.