Posted on 02/16/2025 7:06:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Like father, like son. Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) has been interested in auditing Fort Knox since the early 1980s to see if the hundreds of billions of dollars of gold are actually there as the government claims. Rumors have abounded for years that the gold bars have long since been spirited away from one of the most secure facilities in the world.
Spirited away to where? Who knows.
Now his son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), is also pressing for answers, and he wants Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency to help him find out:
The world’s richest man got encouragement Sunday to bring his cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) into one of the most secure places in the world: Fort Knox.
Sen. Rand Paul called for a review of the massive gold reserves — worth an estimated $425 billion based on market rates — in response to the tech mogul’s musings about the stash.
Musk, 53, drew attention to a user who asked him to “take a look inside Fort Knox just to make sure the 4,580 tons of US gold is there.”
“Surely it’s reviewed at least every year,” Musk replied to X user Zerohedge.
“Nope. Let’s do it,” Paul (R-Ky.), 62, chimed in, referring to the Army installation south of Louisville.
Nope. Let’s do it. https://t.co/4sgVpaCwwz— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) February 16, 2025
The site is shrouded in secrecy:
🚨Update: The US Government claims it has almost 5000 tons of Gold, but Fort Knox US Gold Reserve has not been audited since 1974, almost 50 years ago. No one has seen any of it. It’s time for Elon and DOGE to conduct a full audit of every single ounce of Gold!! It’s our money!!
pic.twitter.com/U8wCFpd0QU— US Homeland Security News (@defense_civil25) February 16, 2025
(Note: the above account is not an official government source).
More DOGE: Speaker Johnson: Dems Are Right to Be 'Afraid of the Final Result' of DOGE's Digging
Very few people know what’s really behind those fortified walls:
It’s unclear the last time the facility underwent a comprehensive audit, as the vaults were totally off-limits for decades.
The first tour of the facility came in 1974 when journalists and a Congressional delegation were allowed in following claims the stores had been looted. The vaults were opened again in 2017, during the last Trump administration, for Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to view them.
Since at least the 1970s, Fort Knox has been plagued by conspiracy theories that the piles of gold supposedly held within don’t exist – and that the riches were instead sold off by the US government.
Former Rep. Paul’s attempt to get inside in 2010 even included legislation that would see the fort audited, using similar language to what his son is now employing.“My attitude is, let’s just find out what’s there,” Paul said at the time, according to CBS News.
When Mnuchin visited in 2017 — bringing along Rep. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) — the gold stores they saw were intact.
I’m not usually a conspiracy theorist, but when people get very secretive about something—I want to know why. If it’s all there, let’s get an updated photograph.
I’m with Rand Paul -- let the DOGE loose, and let’s find out!
I wonder what Auric Goldfinger would have thought?
I want Elon to make a field trip to Fort Knox.
https://t.co/w5h2BakhsS pic.twitter.com/zxmIdvDvck— Alan Cornett (@alancornett) February 15, 2025
50 current and former Treasury officials have stated that any calls for an audit of gold reserves has all the hallmarks of a Russian Disinformation Campaign.
The Clintonians probably stoled it all waaaay back when.
Most of the Gold is already long gone and has been since the 70’s.
M-T
What you will find is 200 million Viles of Morphine.
The really touchy problem though is that much of our stored deposits of gold is other countries gold we store for them. Things get awful ugly if it ain’t there anymore.
Post 1971 there was no reason to keep it there. I wager it has been raided and sold off outside of a few impressive looking racks for show purposes.
I expect it to be like Al Capone’s vault.
Yes, there may be a point where things come apart at the seams and really blow up. Fort Knox is one of those that could rock the world.
I think DOD audit could also do it but in a different way.
Oh I’d bet it’s still there; the question is: Who owns it?
Maybe Musk could sub the job out to Geraldo Rivera?
BS
It was there in the 70s. I was there, I moved it in 77 in support of an audit. There had been audits in 75, 76, and there were audits after my year for at least a few years, not sure when they quit, lost track of it.
You sound like someone who knows something. I saw that room.
Where was the gold kept before it was moved to Fort Knox?
Well the Morphine is there in the event of a nuclear war and the nation is mostly dying of radiation sickness.
Yes. An easy, early heist.
Nearly a half trillion dollars of worth is 25 percent of our budget deficit every year. Meaningless if it is there.
I was told a major war, I assumed another WWII.
Original documents from founding fathers?
Gold coins that were sent into space?
Other extremely rare mint coins?
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