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State Department Contract Document Edited to Remove 'Tesla' After Media Scrutiny.

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State Department Contract Document Edited to Remove 'Tesla' After Media Scrutiny | Common Dreams

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Musk claimed to be unaware of the contract, writing on his social media platform that "no one mentioned it to me, at least."
Tesla is one of several Musk-led companies that have benefited from around $13 billion in federal contractsover the past five years.
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- As totally unaware of it as Trump was of Project 2025.
  
  Trump may not be aware of P2025. Not because he hasn't been told, repeatedly, about it, but because he has the awareness of a pile of sterilized garbage.
- Can’t find government corruption at his own company, but he’s gonna find it everywhere else!
Didn't this guy break one of the "bulletproof" windows on a Cybertruck with a metal ball he threw at it?
Why would anyone serious trust this company to make a.legitimate military vehicle?
- anyone serious
  That's the catch - there are no serious people left in any position of authority in the US.
- Because this is an obvious handout from the government to musk. You know all the fraud and waste his little department is supposedly rooting out? Here is actual fraud, in plain sight
- To be clear, the contract said "armored Teslas" which could mean a Tesla 3 being retrofitted with armor. It did not specifically specify the Cybertruck.
  
  My question still remains: why would you trust this company that demonstrated their own ineptitude on stage?
- For years the army wanted to junk one of their tanks because it performed poorly and was too expensive to maintain. But because of our limitless lobbying system, the makers of the tank made their factories in key House districts. Every time it came up for renewal it passed with bipartisan support.
  Because no representative wants to be the one that closed jobs for their constituents.
Why does this particular piece of corruption make me absolutely furious after everything else that has gone on the last month?
- Because everyone with half a brain KNEW this was going to happen, anyone with half a brain and a little self awareness SAID this was going to happen, and everyone else responded then with "you're being alarmist" and now with "so what?"
- For me it's because his whole shtick the last month has been about 'eliminating government waste' then there's half a billion being set aside for his companies shitty cars? I think it's the hypocrisy that really makes this particular thing frustrating.
"Oh . . uh . . Nuh uh!"

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