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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump and Elon Musk get Sean Hannity’s primetime propaganda for their constitutional wrecking ball

Elon Musk doesn’t have any authority to make any kind of government decisions. He’s not even technically part of a so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

That clarification was filed in a court document, in which the White House had to spell out for a judge that Musk has “no actual authority to make government decisions himself” while he is accused of amassing unchecked power under a president who is giving him permission to do so.

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