Elon Musk joins call for audit of US funds to Ukraine after top Ukrainian judge sentenced to 10 years in prison over 2016 bribery scheme

Elon Musk responded to the senator’s post on Twitter, posting: “Some accounting of how American taxpayer money is being spent sure sounds like a reasonable request!”

The comment was in response to Paul’s tweet, which read: “The good news is that Ukraine caught their highest judge hiding some of his more than $2 million in bribes in pickle jars. The bad news is that Ukraine, consistently ranked as one of the most corrupt nations on the planet, still has high-ranking officials robbing it blind.”

“This might be a salient point when Ukraine returns to Congress to beg for more US taxpayer funds. Why won’t Democrats accept my call for a Special Inspector General to oversee the billions we send to Ukraine?”

Musk's sentiment echoes that of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly demanded an audit of all US taxpayer dollars "given in any form to Ukraine."

Greene suggested that the funds being sent for the war effort may "really funding something else that’s happening, maybe lining up Democrat donors’ pockets? Was that helping Democrat campaigns and candidates get elected?”

Rep. Matt Gaetz has suggested that defunding Ukraine should be a priority for the US. In early February, Newsweek reported that there were ten Republican lawmakers who backed Gaetz’s proposition.

They were Reps. Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Anna Paulina Luna, Thomas Massie, Mary Miller, Barry Moore, Ralph Norman, and Matt Rosendale.

The proposal to defund Ukraine came before it was discovered that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials had embezzled around $400 million of US aid that was meant to go toward the purchase of diesel.

However, it appears the Pentagon recently discovered an accounting error, which will see another $6.2 billion of American tax dollars going toward the conflict in Ukraine. The Pentagon stated that after discovering the alleged error, there was now more money to “support Ukraine as it pursues its counteroffensive against Russia.”

Additionally, Ukraine has just secured a deal with BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase, which will see the financial institutions attempt to draw private investors into Ukraine to help reconstruct the country. The estimated amount of capital it will take to rebuild Ukraine is $411 billion.

Many have been skeptical of BlackRock’s shadowy dealings, and this manifested in the recent revelations that O’Keefe Media Group released.

An undercover OMG journalist asked BlackRock recruiter Serge Varlay what they thought about the Ukraine-Russia war. He responded: “Russia blows up Ukraine’s grain silos. The price of wheat’s gonna go mad up.”

"So what are you gonna do if you’re a trading firm? The moment that news hits, within a millisecond, you’re going to pump trades into whoever the wheat suppliers are. Into their stocks. Within an hour or two that stick goes f*cking up and then you sell and you just make, I don’t know, however many mil."

"The Ukrainian economy is tied very largely to the wheat market, global wheat market, prices of bread, you know, literally everything goes up and down. This is fantastic if you’re trading.”

"Volatility creates opportunity to make profit. War is real f*cking good for business," the recruiter said, noting that "it’s exciting when sh*t goes wrong." Varlay went on to suggest that he is someone who “decide[s] people’s fates.”

"Every f*cking day, I literally decide how somebody’s life is going to be shaped.”

“I’m not actually a finance guy, I just know what happens because I’m recruiting people who do these things.”

At the time of this report, the US has provided Ukraine with more than $77 billion in aid in the conflict with Russia.