‘Musk’ Documentary Suggests DOGE’s Real Purpose Was Something Else Entirely

“What is Elon building? What are his goals?” former partner Ashley St. Clair asks in the film.

Associate Editor of Viral Content, The Huffington Post

Alex Gibney’s “Musk” documentary, out in theaters nationwide next week, has already been grabbing headlines for the alarming texts its billionaire subject once sent to a romantic partner, former right-wing influencer Ashley St. Clair.

St. Clair, who participated in the film, revealed that Elon Musk told her shortly before Election Day 2024 that he was feeling “optimistic” because “tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix.”

Asked what he meant, Musk pointed to “lasers from space,” saying, “I have over 10,000 lasers in space right now.”

Was Musk interfering in the 2024 election? Gibney has been careful to note that he cannot say whether Musk was bragging to a romantic partner or lying. At a Friday screening of the new film, the director said the texts to St. Clair seemed like a pretty important detail to include. He also shared his theory about what Musk was actually talking about.

“If I was to hazard a guess,” Gibney said, “it had to do with not the switching of votes, but with the reporting of votes, and that he knew sooner than anybody else did because, you know, out of the voting systems, there are things that appear on the internet, and if you know how to hack into them, you can get real-time data.”

“So if I was to hazard a guess, that would be it.”

Other questions the film leaves unanswered are even more unsettling, including whether Musk had private reasons for his involvement in President Donald Trump’s much-ballyhooed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

“Musk” walks viewers through the evolution of an ambitious businessman whose success grew out of his legitimate ability to speak the languages of both engineering and management as the head of electric car maker Tesla, rocket launcher SpaceX and other high-tech........

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