A little less than two weeks ago, Musk posted on X that USAID was a “criminal organization,” and that the people who worked there were “a ball of worms.” His followers then piled on, accusing USAID of being in cahoots with Hamas and other terrorist groups, after which, the complaint notes, Musk appeared at a joint press conference with Trump, during which he claimed USAID employees were “getting wealthy at taxpayer expense.” For his part, Trump chimed in to add, “USAID is really corrupt.
The hurried, slipshod hatchet that Musk and the band of young sidekicks he hired for the task — one of them, a recent high school graduate who goes by the nickname “Big Balls” — have taken to USAID, in particular, has not only put crucial foreign aid initiatives and the lives of the less fortunate in jeopardy, it has put people’s careers, as well as their personal safety, at risk, according to the complaint.
“If there is an emergency, J. Doe 9 hopes they will be able to get out and be taken care of by USAID, but there is no guarantee as over the last few weeks, nothing done within USAID by Defendants has been according to protocol or implemented in a methodical, safe manner,” the complaint states.
Musk, who has amplified a host of outlandish conspiracy theories about USAID on X, the social media platform he owns alongside his various other business interests, has also weaponized the former Twitter against its employees and contractors, according to the complaint.
When they lost access to their email “without explanation” in early February, the complaint says “they also lost the ability to finalize a report on USAID's counter trafficking efforts.”.
