‘This Is Crazy!’ Colby Hall Goes Off on Elon Musk’s Conflict of Interest Getting Ignored
NewsNation media contributor and Mediaite founding editor Colby Hall went off on just how “crazy” it is that “no one seems to care” about Elon Musk’s conflicts of interest despite his apparent “unfettered access” to government.
Hall’s take came after host Marni Hughes opened the segment examining Musk’s deepening financial entanglements with the Trump administration. Musk’s tech companies, she reported, have gained a staggering $613 billion in value since Trump’s election, she said, and some are speculating he could become the world’s first trillionaire by 2027.
In her intro, Hughes had pointed to a Washington Post report Wednesday that the FAA is considering canceling a $2.4 billion Verizon contract in favor of Musk’s Starlink — just one example of how his business empire is increasingly intertwined with federal decision-making.
Hall conveyed just how stunned he was: “I’m sort of shocked that there isn’t this isn’t a much bigger story. This is crazy that this dude has such unfettered access, and this is a guy that spent nearly $300 million to help Trump get elected, and now he is an unelected bureaucrat who is deciding where the money goes.”
He continued: “There’s an Emperor’s new clothes model here that I just can’t believe how it’s happening. What is going on here and why isn’t there more concern and outrage about this guy, you know, taking apart the government?”
The first test of Musk’s influence may come with the contract between Verizon and the FAA, as Hall noted, but even legal accountability from the courts is being tested.
“Elon Musk is right now attacking judges and saying that we need to impeach judges who are going against what he and sort of the MAGA America wants to do, which removes the checks and balances that the framers put into place,” Hall said.
He added: “And, you know, again, I am very loath to throw on big sort of scary words like for terrorism and fascism. And I don’t think we’re quite there, but these are symptoms of that very thing. And right now I’m shocked by how little people seem to care that this looks like a kleptocracy. It looks like he’s going in and setting up deals with the federal government.”
The problem, Hall concluded, is a lack of real pushback—not just from Democrats, whom he accused of failing to “message effectively,” but also from Republicans wary of “angering Trump and Musk”, whose grip on X and its power to shape political narrative against them.
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