Posted on 02/14/2025 6:49:18 AM PST by Red Badger
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was pulling a Rachel Maddow on Wednesday night when she attempted to set off a conspiracy theory about Elon Musk and the Trump administration.
The left-wing cable host devoted a segment of her show to accusing President Donald Trump and Musk of corruption and “self-dealing” over a potential $400 million purchase of armored Tesla vehicles through a State Department contract. However, Maddow omitted a crucial detail of the story: the planned purchase was listed in a procurement document published in December under former President Joe Biden’s administration, weeks before Trump even took office.
Tonight, Rachel Maddow led her show with a hit piece against the Cybertruck & Elon, suggesting the proposed $400M for armored Teslas was an example of "self-dealing."
Yet she conveniently left out that the procurement list was revised in Dec 2024, when Biden was President. The… pic.twitter.com/Hyu9uFrOe4— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) February 13, 2025
On Thursday, the Trump State Department pushed back on Maddow and other reports, saying that the plan originated in the Biden administration with the goal “to explore interest from private companies to produce armored electric vehicles.”
“The solicitation is on hold and there are no current plans to issue it,” the State Department said, according to The New York Times.
The State Department further shut down the speculation, telling Axios, “No government contract has been awarded to Tesla or any other vehicle manufacturer to produce armored electric vehicles for the Department of State.”
Musk also fired back, posting on X, “I’m pretty sure Tesla isn’t getting $400M. No one mentioned it to me, at least.”
UPDATE: The U.S. Government has edited the public procurement forecast document tonight and it now no longer says the word Tesla. Instead, it now says "Armored Electric Vehicles."
The contract amount is still listed as being for $400 million. Other details are the same. https://t.co/72Yksr7Xu8 pic.twitter.com/FoQDay8cn8— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) February 13, 2025
NEWS: The U.S. Government is currently planning to award @Tesla a $400 million contract to buy armored Teslas.
The State Department's most recent procurement forecast, updated in December 2024, names Tesla as the recipient of the largest projected contract. The anticipated award… pic.twitter.com/b68OfFivEo— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) February 12, 2025
He even called out the MSNBC host directly.
Hey @maddow, why the lie? https://t.co/gUZax7mvef— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 13, 2025
Of course, Maddow’s ‘report’ had all the trappings of MSNBC conspiracizing, much like the Russiagate Hoax: a tidbit of information that may have reflected poorly on Trump extrapolated to a baseless extreme almost comically untethered from reality. In other words, it was false and misleading.
IF I made a fraction of what she gets paid, I would do much BETTER job on my homework. “unfair and unbalanced” is her middle name.
She should be sued like the members of The View were sued by Karoline Leavitt. Maddow surely knew the full story as well as the timing of the story that places it in the Biden administration’s purview. Time for that bitch to realize she can blather on with impunity.
Agreed. Maddow’s ONLY purpose was to smear THIS administration and Musk. I would file a suit just to smack her around for a while. The details of a report like this that ignores the date of origin are malicious and purposeful.
Is your assumption it was an overlook on Mr. Maddow’s part? He knew exactly what he was doing.
Her job puts a heck of a strain on her miniature lesbo brain. Not very bright. Just another lesbo with a big mouth.
EV’s in a battle zone, sounds like.... Democrat.
If she wasn’t a lesbo, she would be reporting on some local TV station about the school budget meeting............
She is such a stupid man.
And I call her last name "Madcow".
And in case you didn’t already know, my Tagline is still accurate, perhaps more so than ever.
She gets the BIG BUX for LYING!
With a straight face!
LIE WITH NO SHAME, NO SELF-AWARENESS, AND CASH THE HUGE PAYCHECKS!
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Maddow is still very overvalued despite her 2M+ audience. Her biggest qualification is being openly homosexual. Her salary is more than $1/mo per viewer.
This means MSNBC is losing money on her. But, as devoted adherents to the LGBT+ religion, MSNBC executives do not appear to mind.
They can probably justify her job and salary based on her being the only non-Fox News show in the top 15 right now.
She’s got to keep feeding the raw meat to her audience, even if it means bald-faced lying, but that’s nothing new.
I wonder if that dude Maddow heard this “story” while standing at the urinal.
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