We’ve demonstrated how WorldNetDaily’s Bob Unruh is more about pro-Trump stenography than actual reporting, and he used a March 17 article to do even more stenography on behalf of Elon Musk:
Democrats and other leftists hate what Elon Musk is doing with President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency because they fear losing, essentially, a gravy train.
That’s what Musk has explained on “The Verdict” podcast with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Ben Ferguson.
“The single biggest thing that they’re worried about is that DOGE is going to turn off fraudulent payments of entitlements. I mean, everything from Social Security, Medicare, you know, unemployment, disability, Small Business Administration loans, turn them off to illegals. This is the crux of the matter. Okay, this is the thing, why they really hate my guts and want me to die,” he said.
He said the cost to American taxpayers could be estimated at $200 billion – all to pay off immigrants to vote for Democrats.
“By using entitlement fraud, the Democrats have been able to attract and retain vast numbers of illegal immigrants,” said Musk.
He explained that Democrats and other leftists have used the federal tax money to provide benefits that attract and keep illegals in the United States.
As an actual news operation found, Musk provided absolutely no evidence to back up the claim — something Unruh failed to mention.
Unruh served up even more stenography in a March 28 article that simply and uncritically repeated claims by Musk via a right-wing pro-Trump website:
Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla, Space X and X, has a fourth job as the chief of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, tasked with finding corruption, fraud, waste and criminal behavior in the federal government’s spending programs and eliminating it.
He and his team members were interviewed by Bret Baier on Fox News, and he revealed that he believes the effort will be able to save taxpayers $1 trillion within the first 130 days of its work.
At the Federalist, a summary of the interview explained he revealed the “6 unbelievably scammy federal practices” that have been uncovered so far.
The report, from Joy Pullman, executive editor of the publication, explained Musk said if a commercial company operated the way the federal government has been spending money, it would go bankrupt, and “the officers would be arrested.”
Among the revelations was that the federal government was paying nearly $1 billion for an “online national parks survey.”
The problem? It “resulted in no changes or other outcomes as a result of giving the survey.”
Musk said a realistic charge for such a result would be $10,000.
That claim appears to be false. As another more credible news operation found, there are only five contracts close to that amount listed on the DOGE website, and none are with the Department of the Interior, which operates the National Park Service. Nevertheless, Unruh continued:
Also uncovered have been more than 15 million Social Security numbers for people older than 120.
Those all are fraud, according to DOGE’s Steve Davis, since the oldest American is now 114.
As we pointed out the last time Musk made this claim, that count reflects he number of Social Security numbers issued minus the number of deaths recorded by the Social Security Administration, not the number of people collecting benefits. Unruh continued:
Joe Gebbia, team member, who launched AirBnB, condemned the process required by the government in order for federal employees to retire.
He said the paperwork involved is stored in 22,000 filing cabinets – a total of 400 million pieces of paper – in a “giant cave.”
As we pointed out when the Media Research Center groused about it, there are reasons for this — the cave is highly secure, basically fireproof and protected from natural disasters, while digitization of records has been ongoing for years.
Unruh didn’t tell his readers about any of this information, of course — narrative is more important than the truth at WND.