The U.S. Marshals Service allowed some members of Musk’s security team to sidestep experience and training requirements, according to emails.
Members of Elon Musk’s private security team were deputized as federal agents last year even though some of the billionaire’s guards lacked the required training and law enforcement experience, according to newly released government emails.
The emails shed new light on how the U.S. Marshals Service responded to Musk’s entourage during his five-month stint in the second Trump administration. The agency in February 2025 approved a request that it said came from the White House to deputize Musk’s bodyguards, a decision that allowed them to carry weapons in some federal buildings and continue protecting him.
The Marshals Service released the emails and related documents in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act filed by Democracy Forward, a progressive advocacy group that has been investigating Musk’s tenure in the Trump administration. The group, which filed a lawsuit last year to get the records, shared them with NBC News.
I’m okay with guards for billionaires being rank amateurs unable to tell their asses from elbows.
agreed, but i’m not okay licensing them to carry arms in federal courthouses.
Just take out the body guards first.
Drop an acorn and let them do the hard work for you?
If the billionaires enabling this shit don’t rot in cells, it will keep happening.
100%, this creates precedent and normalizes this type of ‘meh laws’ behavior.
Whoa. Are you saying “Big Balls” wasn’t carefully vetted to access and share restricted information? This comes as quite a shock.
One lucky desk pop is all it takes. I believe in you, P320-carrying mooks.
So the people protecting elon musk with their lives aren’t even the best of the best? Hmmm interesting to think about
Considering between then and now a million other illegal things have been happening, I don’t think this will be a high priority for anyone.
If we want justice, this is why we need to hire many competent federal prosecutors. Undo the gutting of the justice dept that happened with doge/trump2, and then add to their ranks on top of that. Then each of them can have their own handful of high priority cases to ensure none of these bastards flies under the radar. This is precisely the type of enormous task which governmental institutions should be well equipped to handle.
Rules for thee.
