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Elon Musk has exposed some of the biggest bombshells in this administration, and his latest comes at probably the worst time possible for Donald Trump. His administration is in complete collapse mode right now. He and his own staff are speaking out against him. Members of Congress are announcing their retirement and resignation every single day. The economy is in shape, and Donald Trump just got another bombshell from Elon Musk to make that look even worse.
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Now, Donald Trump is, of course, panicking as this bombshell goes public. But it is not just this individual piece of news that Elon Musk is exposing that has Trump so deranged about our economy. It's also just every other statistic imaginable, which Jasmine Crockett was breaking down and calling out right here. I think that people are understanding that it's not good to have a con man, um, as the commander-in-chief, and people are frustrated because they know that the cost of everything is going up. Not to mention, we have people like the secretary of education that wants to downgrade certain degrees and make it more difficult for those that have certain degrees that they've earned to be able to make the living that they need or to be able to, um, support themselves. So, it's just right now, he's just compounding issues. And I know that you mentioned the Great Depression, and yeah, we're not there yet, but there are estimates from experts that think that we are on track. I mean, we've lost 1.1 million jobs since he swore in just in January. It has not been a full year. And when we look at these elections that have taken place, whether we're looking at November 4th or whether we're looking at these special elections, I think what you're seeing is people are signaling that they are not happy with anything that is going on. Whether it's the tariffs or the other policies that are making it more difficult for our economy to sustain itself.
This next year is going to be an interesting one in Congress for for for a bunch of reasons. One, it will be officially an election year, too. Um, there was a plan hatched by Donald Trump and Mike Johnson and a bunch of Republicans in the state houses to sort of, um, you know, voter-proof the Republican majority by using aggressive gerrymandering to make it so that, you know, Democrats could not win back the House, that voters couldn't reject Republican rule. That's in much worse shape after, uh, you know, after California passed, uh, its its, uh, redistricting effort. What do you think? How early do you think the cracks are going to show in the House leadership when Congress is back in session? They were already starting to show at the beginning of the year, but what, what do you think about how much more pressure Johnson will be under when, when you guys are back in session?
Yeah, I think it's looking really bad for him. Um, but listen, I didn't expect him to last this long. So, kudos to him. Um, you know, he's lasted longer, definitely than the last speaker that they had. So, I mean, that's something to be, uh, proud of. But I really don't know. I mean, from, you know, the frustration over the Epstein files and the cracks that we've seen there to the number of people that have just decided that they want to retire because, um, as it's been noted, this has actually been the most unproductive Congress that we've had in decades. And that is saying a lot because the last Congress was the most unproductive in quite some time. But it really means that much more when you're talking about the fact that the Republicans control both chambers as well as the White House, and they still can't get things done. And so, um, obviously the things that they have gotten done, they are disastrous from the big ugly bill, um, in which we will feel the full effects of that, you know, coming up right until the midterms. And then the fact that when we go back in, you know, we're facing another shutdown come January 31st. Every time I'm flying, I'm talking to TSA workers and I'm telling them, please put something back. Please be prepared because I don't believe that these people are actually going to govern. So, you know, I think that that's another thing that may end up hitting them really hard, and depending on how Johnson handles this pending shutdown, I think that this may be, um, the final nail in his coffin.
If you are not a billionaire, and not even like, not a billionaire, if you are not one of the 8 to 10 billionaires that Donald Trump really likes, or a MAGA grifter, or in his family exploding your wealth, you are losing in this economy, right? Of course, the wealthy are are stealing more wealth than ever, and it's being concentrated at the top in ways unimaginable and truly morally reprehensible. But, but seriously, the people who have benefited the most are those close to Trump. Everyone else has gotten completely screwed in this economy. And Donald Trump, for the longest time, had, of all of his issues, the the most trust from voters when it came to that, his ability to put money in your pocket. Now, he never actually did that. Uh, he has lost significant jobs both in both his administrations. Always talked about not wanting to be Herbert Hoover. We've seen significant job loss. We've seen the economy tumble. Prices are exploding. But Donald Trump has one job figure that he actually seems to like, and it has to do with all the success of Doge, and it comes in this clip in which Chris Hayes exposes the bombshell of Elon's failure that coincides with Donald Trump's little tantrum.
This morning, the president of the United States posted this chart showing federal employment down by more than a quarter of a million jobs since January, writing, "Big news for the USA." However you feel about the size of the federal government, this is the president taking the Christmas holiday weekend to celebrate putting hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work. And despite all of Trump and Elon Musk's work to tear down federal programs in almost every sense, I think in every sense, the Doge project was just an abject failure. First of all, government spending, which was the putative reason for Doge, is up this year by more than $450 billion. Money that went towards ripping apart programs people need. Now, Doge has gone out with a whimper, dissolved sometime in the fall, according to the White House. So, Musk and his Doge team kind of slink away from the disastrous project as Americans and people around the world suffer the consequences.
So, Trump is bragging about firing federal workers, um, disproportionately he was firing veterans, as this way to say, "Oh, look at us. You know, we're we're cutting the fat. We're we're, you know, we're getting rid of the waste in government." Okay, you spent more. You spent almost half a trillion more, and you're bragging. Like Doge was the biggest failure. And the report of it of it kind of dissipating is also funny considering, you know, the the post that Trump is making there. We're not doing more government jobs. We're firing more people. You shouldn't be talking about how you're not creating jobs when you're not creating jobs because you're not creating jobs, and it's just not a good look for your administration. But this comes as Elon has screwed Donald Trump in so many ways. We covered last night that the the canceling of Adobe through Doge. The $4 million saved there are the reason that people have been able to copy and paste what was viewed as redacted text from the Epstein files. So everywhere you look, Elon has screwed Donald Trump. And this comes as XAI, one of his companies that literally only exists because of the federal government, just won a huge defense contract. So Elon is still getting rich even though he screws over Donald Trump, which is pretty funny, which should tell you how Donald Trump really just will do anything for billionaires, even those who hurt him. Like, like Elon, I guess, is just going to be giving him more money, which will ultimately hurt him in these midterms because getting a couple million dollars from Elon Musk, sure, you can put more ads on TV, but then you've got the Elon Musk stain on you. So things just aren't good for this administration. I know it's a pretty basic summary, but yeah, there's not a single case that they can make that doesn't immediately blow up in their face, and that's what this Elon story is. Doge now gone, more money spent, jobs lost. I'd say his performance is an F. Like, I'd say it's pretty not good. And then add that on top of the Epstein issue that Elon, I, I really think is, is without him wouldn't have been so highly covered because we were pushing through the beginning of this administration when there was this refusal from Pam Bondi to move with any real pace. So we in the independent media were talking about it, but it's not till Elon Musk said, here's the real big bombshell, that this really picked up. So honestly, Elon, he screwed Donald Trump. Maybe that F-grade can be like a D minus. I don't know. He's hurt Donald Trump pretty badly. And it only continues to get worse.
As Chris Hayes was breaking down, talking about the Epstein files right here.
Good evening from New York. I'm Chris Hayes. The Epstein files are still rolling in. At midnight last night, the DOJ decided to upload their third big collection of documents, flouting, we should note, the deadline of last Friday under the law. There wasn't like a, you know, window period where they could upload the files. They had a deadline, but this now brings the total number of files released to over 30,000. And the main impression as folks try to make sense of it all, including in our newsroom, is that it feels like once again we're being kind of sprayed with a fire hose, fire hose of sewage. I mean, there's it's full of mistakes and omissions, questionable redactions, even salacious allegations from a tip line. Some documents have been disappearing from the DOJ's web page after they were published. And Trump's people seem to be happy to make a mess of it all. In fact, that sort of seems like the point. I mean, keep in mind the context here, right? They hate the law that Congress passed, forcing them to release the files. They fought it tooth and nail. They hate the concept of transparency. And Trump, Trump has been very clear that he would prefer to protect people. Well, some and not others.
I don't like the pictures of Bill Clinton being shown. I don't like the pictures of other people being shown. I think it's a terrible thing. I think, uh, Bill Clinton's a a big boy. He can handle it. But you probably have pictures being exposed of other people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago, many years ago, and they're, you know, highly respected bankers and lawyers and others. Won't someone think of the bankers and lawyers? As Congress people from both sides have been saying, protecting a bunch of bankers or lawyers because they're highly respected is violating both the spirit and the letter of the law. Again, you could disagree with the law, but Donald Trump slammed that into law. And despite all that, there are some really valuable pieces of information the public is learning from the files once we kind of separate the wheat from the chaff. Today, for instance, we learned that during Trump's first term, this is back in January 2020, an assistant US attorney wrote an internal email about a review of flight records as part of the government's case against Epstein accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who has subsequently been transferred to a low-security prison after talking to Trump's attorney, Don Blagojevich. And this is what the email says. For your situational awareness, wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported or that we were aware, including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case, the email states. In other words, during a period in which crimes were being committed. The email added that Trump had been on at least eight Epstein flights. On one flight in 1993, he and Epstein are the only two listed passengers. On another, the only three passengers are Epstein, Trump, and then 20-year-old redacted. That seems like a justified redaction there. Remember what Trump said last year on social media? Quote, "I was never on Epstein's plane or at his stupid island." That appears to be patently false, right? We also learned over the weekend that Epstein had 10 alleged co-conspirators. This is probably the biggest piece of news to come out of these documents today. So, in another email, this one from 2019, the day after Jeffrey Epstein was charged with child sex trafficking by the feds, an FBI employee asked a colleague for quote, "An update on the status of the 10 co-conspirators." Now, this email also shows the incompetent or possibly malign nature of DOJ's redaction efforts, or at least as yet unexplained. Some of the co-conspirator names were redacted, and that would appear to be a violation of the law under almost all circumstances. You can't redact someone's name just because they might suffer embarrassment or reputational harm, even though Donald Trump thinks you should. The law explicitly says you can't. But then in the same document, some names aren't redacted at all. Shambles. That is what Donald Trump's administration is in. It's not hyperbole. They are in shambles. Everything is falling apart, and he knows it. And it is why he is, you know, climbing back in his little little hiding place in Mar-a-Lago, wanting to get a little golf in because he doesn't want to go back to Washington. It's humiliation after humiliation on the way, and I can't wait to cover them. We're going to on this show. If you want to support that, as always, you can hit that subscribe button, leave a like on this video if you stuck around to the end, drop a blue heart in the comments. Keep on fighting, y'all. Don't let them silence you. Until next time, I'll see you.