T’row da bum out! Migrant crime!

From The Wall Street Journal:

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts, has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022. The discussions, confirmed by several current and former U.S., European and Russian officials, touch on personal topics, business and geopolitical tensions. At one point, Putin asked the billionaire to avoid activating his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, said two people briefed on the request.
Musk has emerged this year as a crucial supporter of Donald Trump’s election campaign, and could find a role in a Trump administration should he win. While the U.S. and its allies have isolated Putin in recent years, Musk’s dialogue could signal re-engagement with the Russian leader, and reinforce Trump’s expressed desire to cut a deal over major fault lines such as the war in Ukraine. Musk has forged deep business ties with U.S. military and intelligence agencies, giving him unique visibility into some of America’s most sensitive space programs. SpaceX, which operates the Starlink service, won a $1.8 billion classified contract in 2021 and is the primary rocket launcher for the Pentagon and NASA. Musk has a security clearance that allows him access to certain classified information.

Delightful. My tax dollars at work.

At the very least, that clearance should be revoked, tout de suite. If you want to suspend it “pending an investigation,” okay, but it damned well better be a gravedigger of an investigation and not a Washington investigation, where some committee takes it on so that the Republicans can yell about Hunter’s laptop and Her Emails until everybody gets sick of dealing with lunatics and nothing ever really gets revealed. The full force of federal law enforcement should be brought to bear, as should the entire weight of the intelligence community. Assets should be “temporarily” frozen, if not seized entirely. Passports should be “temporarily” confiscated, but t’row da bum out anyway. All of these institutions are part of the executive branch, so, as you may have heard, any action the president takes would certainly be “official acts” for which the president would be absolutely immune (cf. Trump v. US, USSC Docket No: 23-939).

Do it, Joe. Bring the hammer down.

And this suspicious migrant’s multimillion-dollar vote-buying operation has already been flagged by federal law enforcement, so the track has already been laid. Fire up the boilers and get the damned train rolling. We have to do something about migrant crime.