Scott Jennings Nukes Democrats Claiming Musk Is In Charge: ‘I Invite Them To Pick Up The WSJ’

CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings took a blowtorch to Democrat claims that entrepreneur Elon Musk — who will spearhead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) alongside Vivek Ramaswamy — is actually the one in charge when it comes to forming policy ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.

Jennings pointed directly to the Wall Street Journal — and the recent article that showed they were finally catching up with the obvious reality of President Joe Biden’s infirmity — and pointed out the fact that no one believed Biden had actually been running anything for much of the past four years.

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“I hear Democrats criticizing the idea that we have unelected people with too much influence over the government,” Jennings said, in reference to the myriad claims that Musk was controlling the outcome of the recent government shutdown-averting continuing resolution.

“I invite them to pick up the Wall Street Journal from this week and find out that unelected people have been running the government for the last four years,” he said. The article he mentioned laid out concerns — voiced by officials from within Biden’s White House — that Biden was not capable of even hosting long meetings, mush less large unscripted events, without fears of a major slip. Others had weighed in on his decision to seek a second term in office, saying that they were unsure how he would have the capacity to finish out his current term, much less embark upon another.

Jennings went on to point to the Democrats’ secondary complaint about Musk — namely that his status as a billionaire gave him leverage in government — and argued that too was irrelevant when stacked against the Democrats’ use of the same strategy.

“I hear Democrats criticizing the influence of billionaires on our politics, when you’ve got this Soros punk running around collecting Democrat politicians like my kids collect Pokemon cards,” he said. “I think all of the criticism of Musk coming from the left is totally hypocritical, totally over the top, and he is doing something interesting: bringing some transparency to the federal government, it’s not a terrible thing.”