In an interview last week on WFIR radio, Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline continued his rave review of the Musk-Trump administration.
Cline conceded that the start of the new administration has been “chaotic.” He said Trump is “pushing the boundaries of what our norms are in our institutions.”
Some– including federal court judges appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents– would say that Trump pushed through and far beyond those boundaries weeks ago.
Reminder
- Cline says he welcomes feedback from his Sixth District constituents– even if he is “fed up” with it. You can provide that feedback by calling his Washington office at (202) 225-5431.
Cline insisted that Elon Musk “still has to follow all the privacy laws and all the laws that are on the books regarding personal data so he’s not going to be taking the data of Americans and doing anything with it. He’s trying to cut out the waste, cut out the stupid woke programs that people have been furious about for so long. And he’s doing a good job from the get-go.”
These reports, among many others, do not reassure.
The interviewer pointed out to Cline that Musk has contracts with the government and asked if there are sufficient guardrails.
Cline assured us: “The President was asked about conflicts of interest and he said there won’t be any and he’ll make sure of it. Now the President’s job is not to insure that his government employees avoid conflict of interest laws. But there are agencies and employees and people there to make sure those laws against conflict of interest are followed.”
If you can’t trust someone who made 30,573 false and misleading claims during his first Presidential term alone, who can… never mind.
And yes, there are people in the government who are supposed to watch out for conflicts of interest. They are– or were— independent inspectors general. You know, the ones Trump fired as soon as he could.
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Gene Zitver is the editor of ClineWatch.
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