Elon Musk, the Tesla head who donated over $250 million to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has been tasked by the White House to seek and destroy government inefficiencies and waste, but critics wonder how effective the world’s richest man could be given that his companies pull in $20 billion a year in government contracts.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week that suspends enforcement of anti-bribery laws that banned companies or individuals from bribing foreign government officials to get new business—calling the law “good on paper,” but in practicality a “disaster.”
Christopher Heusgen, the head of the Munich Security Conference, warned European leaders last week that they should be prepared for the U.S. to announce a “massive withdrawal of American soldiers from Europe” under the Trump administration.
A key element of the Occupy Peace movement that Gerald Celente launched over a decade ago is for the U.S. to close its 800 military bases in some 70 countries and bring home the hundreds of thousands of its troops to secure the homeland.