'There's A Lot Of Strangely Wealthy Members Of Congress...': Elon Musk Questioned About Corruption

2 days ago

At his town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Sunday night, Elon Musk was asked about possible corruption in Washington, D.C.

Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:

https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript

Stay Connected
Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes
Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes
Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes
More From Forbes: http://forbes.com

Transcript

00:00goes to work. It's peaceful discourse.

00:07My question is about USAID. Has the DOJ team found any evidence that any of the radical

00:15left Democrats, like Maxine Waters, Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, have received money directly

00:22from USAID? And if so, will we be hearing about that evidence anytime soon?

00:28Yeah. So, there is a massive amount of corruption, but it is circuitous. So what happens is there's

00:41money that, obviously it's your taxpayer money, that is then sent to various government organizations

00:47who then send it to NGOs. An NGO is a non-governmental organization, but obviously if it's a government

00:54funded non-governmental organization, it's just an organization, it's just a government.

00:59And effectively there's a giant fraud loophole, which is that the government can send money

01:04to an NGO that is then no longer governed by the laws of the United States. So they'll

01:10send the money overseas to one NGO, then they'll go through a bunch of them, and then I'm highly

01:16confident that a bunch of that money then comes back to the United States and lands

01:20in the pockets of the people you just mentioned. But it is a circuitous route. It's not like

01:25it, it doesn't go directly, but let's just say that there's a lot of strangely wealthy

01:32members of Congress, where I'm, I just can't, I'm trying to connect the dots of how do they

01:40become rich while earning, how do they get 20 million if they're earning 200,000 a year?

01:47It sounds, that sounds, how do, I just, nobody can explain that. So something's, yeah, we're

01:55going to try to figure it out, and certainly stop it from happening. So, yeah. I mean just

02:11in general, the whole NGO scam is just crazy, and yeah, it's blown my mind really. So, yeah.

'There's A Lot Of Strangely Wealthy Members Of Congress...': Elon Musk Questioned About Corruption

Category

Transcript

Recommended