CNN guest Arthur Aidala appeared to make the case on Thursday that billionaire Elon Musk shouldn’t need a background check to work in the White House because he has “gotten us to the moon.”
During a CNN NewsNight debate about Musk’s involvement in the second Trump administration, host Abby Phillip noted, “Elon has an office in the White House, he has a White House badge. As far as I know, he has not passed a background check. He hasn’t passed an FBI check.”
Aidala responded, “Because he’s achieved more than any American. Who’s gotten us to the moon? Who’s gotten us into space? He’s got the number one car company.”
Fellow guest Van Lathan laughed as he informed Aidala, “We went to space long before Elon Musk.”
“Excuse me, that’s the government,” replied Aidala. “It takes a lot of manpower, brainpower.”
Lathan argued, “What I would say is that Elon Musk actually is the government because a lot of what he did was subsidized by the government,” to which Aidala responded, “Because the government unfortunately wasn’t able to get it done and he was. Biden, everyone gave him money to experiment with this. NASA went down in a ball of flames. He’s our hope.”
Phillip concluded, “He clearly is a very important person. He has a lot of skills, he’s the richest man in the world, but the issue is there are usually guardrails, checks, and balances on wealthy people being able to basically control the entire government, and they’re not working right now.”
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