Elon Musk on irs: what the evidence says · JRE #2281
SUBJECT: IRS
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
He wanted to. I think he was trying to get at Trump and maybe me and a few others, but he stole like, 500,000 tax returns. Like, not a few. Like, it's a lot of tax returns.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
The IRS breach Musk refers to involves Charles Edward Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor who pleaded guilty in 2023 and was sentenced in January 2024 to five years in prison for unauthorized disclosure of tax return information. Court documents and reporting (NPR/AP) confirm Littlejohn specifically sought the contractor job to obtain Donald Trump's tax returns, which he leaked to The New York Times, and separately stole tax data on thousands of the nation's wealthiest people that he gave to ProPublica in 2020; Republican Senator Rick Scott is named as one of the affected taxpayers. The scope was initially reported at roughly 7,600 taxpayers, but the IRS later disclosed to the House Judiciary Committee (per the Committee's own February 2025 statement) that it had mailed breach notifications to 405,427 taxpayers, about 89% of them business entities, a figure close to Musk's approximate "500,000." Court records and contemporaneous reporting establish Trump as the clear, deliberate target and identify other wealthy individuals affected, but do not establish that Musk himself was a named or intended target of the leak. Status: mixed, the leak's overall scale and the deliberate targeting of Trump are well-supported, but the claim that Musk personally was targeted is unsupported by available evidence.