New York Times columnist David Brooks suggested Elon Musk belongs to the greatest list of mass murderers in history, including Doge's cuts to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), including Pol Pot, Mao and Stalin.
“So far, 55,000 adults have died from AIDS in the four months since Trump’s election; 6,000 children have died from what Doge does. It’s just Pepfar, HIV. You’re going to add all together, 300,000 dead, we’ve been dead for four months, we’ve been four months.
Brooks added: "There are mass murderers in the world, Boer Porter, Maodington, Stalin. We don't have American people."
The New York Times' David Brooks cuts the USAID cuts for Elon Musk and Doge on Saturday's "PBS Newshour." (Screen shot/PBS)
Elon Musk said Trump “agreed” to shut down the US Agency for International Development.
The New York Times columnist admitted that he claimed that the alleged deaths Musk was responsible for were not the “genocide type” committed by the authoritarians he cites, but insisted that Musk’s closure put him partly in charge of mass deaths.
The Boston University digital tracker provides casualties Brooks cited by Brooks, which notes that its claim was a change in U.S. foreign aid created by global health professor Brooke Nichols. The tracker, in filtering down USDA cuts, noted that 99,528 adults and 207,680 children died from “termination funds” this year.
The Communist regime Khmer Rouge died in the Cambodian genocide between 1975 and 1979, when the group overturned large-scale violence against intellectuals and religious minorities, after overthrowing the Cambodian monarchy and installing Pol Pot as a dictator in 1975.
During Mao Zedong's huge leap and the famine that followed, three million people died of hunger. Mao’s biographers Jung Chang and Jon Halliday estimated that Mao Zedong caused more than 70 million peacetime deaths.
Stalin killed more than 6 million citizens in Gulags, huge horror and other operations.
Brooks suggests Musk's USDA cuts put him on par with some of the worst mass murderers in humanity. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
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Brooks deliberately was one of the few conservative voices in the New York Times. But columnists embrace liberal views and praise Biden for his presidency. He also positioned himself as a fierce critic of President Donald Trump.
"Trumpism can be seen as the highest aspiration of the human spirit of amputation and a huge attempt to reduce us to our most primitive, primitive tendencies," Brooks wrote in a recent column.
Founded in the early 1960s, USAID acted on behalf of the United States to provide assistance globally, especially in poor and underdeveloped areas. The agency now operates in 60 countries and employs about 10,000 employees, two-thirds of whom work overseas – although most of the field work is signed to third-party organizations funded by the United States Agency for International Development, according to a report from the BBC.
However, the Trump administration believes that the USDA is a corrupt organization that is defrauding U.S. taxpayers of the dollar. Shortly after Trump took office, Doge freezes USDA funds and sends many employees home. Musk, who pioneered the efforts to root for “waste, fraud and abuse” in the administration, said the agency could not be fixed. The Trump administration announced it would cut 90% of all U.S. Agency for International Development contracts in April.
Brooks claims that USDA cuts have killed 300,000 people since Trump took office. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent, file)
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U2 frontman Bono recently made a similar claim on Joe Rogan’s podcast, saying 300,000 people died from cutting the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Musk quickly shot on social media, calling the Irish rocker a "scammer/idiot" and claimed that it did not cut the deaths of the AID.
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Musk and Brooks did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Michael Dorgan contributed to the report.