Summary

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt struggled to justify claims of government fraud during a press briefing, despite weeks of investigations by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

Instead of proving fraud, Leavitt pointed to contracts that simply conflicted with Trump’s policies. When pressed by reporters, she claimed wasteful spending was fraudulent without offering evidence.

Meanwhile, Musk’s team has accessed sensitive data from multiple federal agencies, raising concerns about privacy and oversight.

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      3 hours ago

      I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. There’s so many comments on there being like “oooooh they didn’t expect her to have that much evidence. Get WRECKED libs.” How can anyone see that and genuinely think any evidence of any type of fraud was provided in any way? Like the reporter immediately said afterwards, this all just looks like spending that they don’t like and somehow that proves it as fraudulent.

      Somebody make it make sense. How are these adults.

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        In answer to your last question it is an unfortunate, but incontrovertible, truth that the only single qualification for becoming an adult is staying alive long enough. That’s it.

        I’ve been adulting for almost three decades. No fucker has ever made me sit an exam. It’s crazy. I wouldn’t trust me to adult, but here I am…

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        Like the demons from Frieren, they found the magic word that lets them do what they want. There is no further thought

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      They use a lot of words that they don’t know the meaning of, like fascism, woke, and Christianity, to name a few.