The presidential advisor and tech billionaire Elon Musk has shared a post on X claiming that Stalin, Hitler, and Mao did not kill millions of people, but rather it was public officials who did it.
Musk's sharing on his own platform is seen in the light of Musk having been tasked by President Donald Trump to cut down on the American state apparatus – which has led to thousands of public officials being fired.
Lee Saunders, chairman of the trade union AFSCME, which organizes public officials, is launching a counterattack. In a statement, he says that his members have chosen to make society strong and safe rather than becoming rich themselves.
"They are not, as the world's richest man suggests, mass murderers."
