Raw Story: Elon Musk berated for latest 'absurd' Social Security fraud claims

[Dennis Donovan]

Raw Story - Elon Musk berated for latest 'absurd' Social Security fraud claims

Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams
March 28, 2025 4:39PM ET

Elon Musk, the de facto head of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, was berated anew Friday after insidiously tarring millions of Social Security recipients as "fraudsters"—a tactic critics called part of an orchestrated Republican scheme to destroy the vital earned benefits program.

Musk and seven DOGE staffers—all of them men—appeared on Fox News Thursday, where the world's richest person called the Trump administration's crusade to eviscerate the federal government under pretext of improving efficiency "the biggest revolution in the government since the original revolution" in 1776.

The DOGE staffers repeated unfounded claims that Social Security is riddled with fraud; that in some cases, 40% of calls to the Social Security Administration phone center are fraudulent; and that millions of people aged 120 and older are registered with SSA.

Acknowledging that DOGE's wrecking-ball approach to government reform is getting "a lot of complaints along the way," Musk said: "You know who complains the loudest, and with the most amount of fake righteous indignation? The fraudsters."

Bret Baier
@BretBaier
21h
My interview with the @elonmusk and the @DOGE team tonight on #SpecialReport

Martin O'Malley
@MartinOMalley
Hey Bret, this is Martin O’Malley former Commissioner of Social Security. Elon and his all male team lie about Social Security like other people chew gum. I’d love to come on your show and tell your viewers the truth.
7:46 PM · Mar 27, 2025

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[Raven]

1. Where are the receipts, Elon. Bring us the receipts.

[yellow dahlia]

6. Exactly

[Beartracks]

2. "You know who complains the loudest...? The fraudsters." ... Wow, that's some dumbass "logic."

That's the kind of bedtime story you tell yourself so you don't have to face being an ignorant hack that's terrible at your job.

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[lame54]

8. Like when someone loses the 2020 election and...

Screams about it for the next 4 years

[efhmc]

3. I almost hate seeing his face as much as I do fraud47.

[Grins]

4. Where's the "berated" part? NM

[senseandsensibility]

5. Jose Diaz Balart presented this claim as absolute fact

this morning on MSNBC. He did not question it at all. He then interviewed his R guest who was equally impressed. Disgusting. He is really turning into a RW shill.

[yellow dahlia]

7. I saw the same thing. And yelled at Jose. Can't wait for him to leave MSNBC.

Not only is he enamored of Rwing talking points - he sucks at the job. It is torture to listen to him frame a question.