Elon Musk: Many Bureaucrats, Like Samantha Power, Are Getting Wealthy At Taxpayers Expense | Video | RealClearPolitics
DONALD TRUMP: And also, could you mention some of the things that your team has found? Some of the crazy numbers, including the woman who walked away with about $30 million?
ELON MUSK: Well, we do find it sort of rather odd that, you know, there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position, which is, you know, what happened at USAID.
We’re just curious as to where it came from. Maybe they’re very good at investing, in which case we should take their investment advice, perhaps. But mysteriously, they get wealthy. We don’t know why. Where does it come from?
And I think the reality is that they’re getting wealthy at taxpayer expense. That’s the honest truth of it.