As #Constitutional #Crises Mount, US #Press Sleepwalks Into #Autocracy. Elon Musk, unelected centibillionaire who threw Nazi salutes at inauguration has wrested control of #Treasury Department’s payment system after forcing out its most senior career civil servant, #DavidLebryk. As CNN (1/31/25) reported, Treasury #takeover happened after Trump’s team had repeatedly asked about the department’s ability to stop payments, to which Lebryk had insisted, “We don’t do that.” https://fair.org/home/as-constitutional-crises-mount-us-press-sleepwalks-into-autocracy/