Among Elon Musk's geek army is trolling his new fans by charging $1,000 to read a manifesto about why he joined DOGE - only to discover the post is blank.

Gavin Kliger, 25, is one of six baby-faced boys with little-to-no government experience handpicked by the 'First Buddy' to sow havoc in the civil service.

He was the one who sent out a company-wide email sent out to staff members at USAID informing them not to come into the agency's Washington DC head office on Monday.

Kliger sent the direction from a USAID email address he was provided with as part of high-level access to its systems, in addition to fellow DOGE nerd Luke Farritor.

While the personnel were kept home, DOGE gained access to the agency's IT system, constructing security, and classified materials, and started dismantling it.

Just hours before he sent out the email, Kliger made a post on his Substack page titled: 'Why DOGE. Why I quit a seven-figure wage to conserve America.'

Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'customer just' with a $1,000 - or $10,000 for an entire year - to access a single word of it.

However, those who wondered enough to spend the remarkable fee discovered there wasn't even that - the post was entirely blank.

Gavin Kliger, 25, is one of six baby-faced kids with little-to-no government experience handpicked by Elon Musk to plant havoc in the civil service

Kliger made a post on his Substack page titled: 'Why DOGE. Why I quit a seven-figure wage to conserve America'. Despite a $1,000 paywall, it is entirely empty

'Poetically blank, please review your life options,' one talk about the post read.

Kliger furthered his intricate trolling with an unusual voicemail greeting that pointed anyone who called his registered phone number to the post.

'I just wrote a gorgeous Substack on this, the Weekly Byte, if you just go there, it's behind the paywall, but I think it will respond to that concern for you ... it's respectable,' he said.

The one-minute greeting was an elongated variation of the trick where the owner of the phone pretends to answer, however it is in fact recorded.

Kliger initially pretended he was driving through a tunnel and having difficulty hearing the call, then eventually exclaiming, 'They said what? No, no, I don't think that's right.'

The recorded message then made its pitch for the caller to read his Substack.

Despite its name, the Substack was not updated weekly, and only has 2 other posts - both of which are free to check out.

Despite its name, Kliger's Substack was not updated weekly, and just has 3 posts

Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'subscriber only' with a $1,000-a-month cost - or $10,000 for asteroidsathome.net an entire year - to access a single word of it

They are both strident defenses of Donald Trump's most questionable cabinet elections - Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth.

Gaetz was chosen for attorney-general but withdrew after a damning House report discovered he paid for sex with 17-year-old woman and numerous other misbehaviors.

Kliger's post entitled 'The Curious Case of Matt Gaetz: How the Deep State Destroys Its Enemies' depicted Gaetz as an innocent victim who was 'framed'.

His other post, 'Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense: The Warrior Washington Fears', was an enthusiastic defense of the previous Fox News host's nomination filled with frequent Trump-ally talking points.

Hegseth was narrowly validated by the Senate regardless of his history of alcoholic abuse and claims of sexual attack and harassment.

Kliger's claim that he left a 'seven-figure task' to join DOGE is also dubious as his economic sector work history didn't consist of such a function.

His most current task, according to his LinkedIn, was as a 'senior software engineer' at Databricks, a cloud computing firm in San Francisco, from May 2020 to last month.

Salaries for that position at Databricks vary from $102,000 to $308,000 a year according to Certainly, while Glassdoor puts the top end at $321,000, including bonus offer.

Kliger was the one who sent a company-wide email sent out to employees at USAID telling them not to come into the firm's Washington DC headquarters on Monday

The Berkeley graduate reportedly instructed all workers at the agency not to return to Washington head office on Monday

Kliger graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2020 and interned at Twitter in 2019 - well before Musk's takeover in 2022.

Musk last month appointed him an unique adviser to the director for details innovation at the Office of Personnel Management, where many other Musk lackeys were installed.

The Tesla owner has actually essentially taken over the OPM, along with the General Services Administration, through his management of DOGE.

Kliger's now-deleted Github from his time at Berkeley claims he is an Eagle Scout, National Merit Scholar, National AP Scholar, a black belt very first dan in Taekwondo, and an accomplished pianist.

'I wish to do work that will influence the future,' it read.

'Whether that means developing software application, looking into system release, or operating in some other sphere, wiki.rrtn.org I know that I will contribute insight and imagination towards meeting the obstacles I face.

'In my spare time, I enjoy playing the piano and clarinet and participating in music performances at Berkeley. One of my preferred activities is playing online blitz chess.'

Kliger's daddy, Larry Kliger, is president of Lawrence Allen & Associates, a business property company.

Musk last month appointed Kliger an unique consultant to the director for details technology at the Office of Personnel Management, where many other Musk lackeys were set up

Who are Musk's other nerds?

Musk got a performers of boys aged 19 to 25 - three of whom are thought to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering functions and cut expenses.

At simply 19, Edward Coristine is the youngest of the fresh-faced lot handling business America and longstanding government institutions.

According to WIRED, he's been called an 'professional' in his field, and specifics about his function aren't yet clear.

Akash Bobba, 21, Ethan Shaotran, 22, and Luke Farritor, 23, in addition to Coristine, have actually supposedly been granted A-suite level clearance for their work, implying they can work out of the company's leading flooring with access to all physical areas and IT systems.

Musk's DOGE has actually been rapidly growing in power and broadening its remit, most just recently protecting clearance to access to restricted parts of the General Services Administration buildings and IT systems.

These systems store delicate data consisting of social security numbers, addresses and contact details.

Elon Musk employed a performers of boys aged 19 to 25 - 3 of whom are believed to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering roles and cut costs

Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has been called for his function with DOGE, which is apparently on a 'volunteer' basis at this stage.

After prevalent criticism about the guys's youth, Musk launched a statement about the visits.

'Time to admit: Media reports saying that DOGE has a few of world's best software application engineers remain in truth true,' Musk wrote on X.

Luke Farritor, 23

Luke Farritor has a recognized link to Musk currently, having actually interned for SpaceX prior to landing his new gig.

Farritor, left of the University of Nebraska in order to start working for Nat Friedman, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur behind GitHub.

Friedman explained Farritor as 'a nationwide treasure' after his visit with DOGE was revealed.

He won part of a $700,000 reward in 2024 after utilizing AI technology to assist decipher a 2,000 years of age document - part of the Vesuvius scrolls from Pompeii - which scientists had actually been trying, and cadizpedia.wikanda.es failing, to resolve for centuries.

The charred scroll was believed burnt beyond recognition.

Luke Farritor has a known link to Musk already, having actually interned for SpaceX prior to landing his brand-new gig

Edward Coristine, 19

The youngest of Musk's elite team is just 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston.

Coristine supposedly interned at Musk's Neuralink for 3 months last summer, after graduating high school.

Little is known about Coristine's role at DOGE, however he is noted as an 'specialist.'

WIRED cited sources declaring Coristine has actually been carrying out calls with personnel in the department and making them 'discuss code they had actually written and justify their jobs.'

Employees were presumably puzzled by his addition in the meetings, and later revealed issues that they were not appropriately briefed on his identity or function, even during the call.

Coristine's dad, Charles, is the president of popcorn empire, LesserEvil. Coristine when worked as a staff member for the brand name.

Up up until recently, Coristine reportedly utilized a social networks deal with named '@EdwardBigBaller.'

The youngest of Musk's elite team is just 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston

Akash Bobba, 21

Bobba is another 'professional' within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley.

According to a former LinkedIn account, which has considering that been erased, Bobba was a financial investment engineering intern at a hedge fund.

He had actually likewise formerly interned for Meta and Palantir - who was founded by 2016 MAGA donor, Peter Thiel.

Just 6 years ago, Bobba was the organizer behind the Princeton Junction, New Jersey, local model United Nations. His dad is an academic in computer technology.

Bobba spoke at his graduation ceremony from West Windsor-Plainsboro South High School in July 2021, informing his classmates to 'appreciate the complexity in life'.

" We live in an age where simpleness rules supreme, where 30-second TikToks and 280-character tweets pertain to define our identities,' he said.

'This increasing determination to simplify even the most intricate stories into marvelous tidbits, perpetuates false information and while doing so divides the neighborhoods, households, and relationships we value.

'What's the service, you might ask? Seek pain.'

Bobba is another 'professional' within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley

Ethan Shaotran, 22

Shaortran founded Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for specialists. The start-up made a $100,000 grant from OpenAI in 2023.

The 22-year-old said in September he was a senior at Harvard University, and was working in the school's computing laboratory on autonomous lorries.

Musk is famously attempting to develop self-driving cars at his Tesla head office.

Shaortran is part of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and worked as a scuba divemaster in Hawaii over a space year.

He likewise has a link to Musk, having taken part in his xAI 'hackathon'. He and his team were runner ups after they used xAI's Grok to produce plausible responses from X fans to a theoretical question.

Shaortran established Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for specialists. The start-up earned a $100,000 grant from OpenAI in 2023

Gautier Cole Killian, 24

Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which specializes in high-frequency monetary trades and algorithms.

Now, he is apparently working as a 'volunteer' with DOGE, although in what capacity remains uncertain.

The 24-year-old graduated McGill University.

Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which specializes in high-frequency financial trades and algorithms

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Musk's DOGE boasts sweeping power

Musk is leading a remarkable civilian evaluation of the federal government with Trump's arrangement.

'It emerged that it's not an apple with a worm it in,' Musk said in a live session on X Spaces early Monday.

'What we have is just a ball of worms. You have actually got to essentially eliminate the entire thing. It's beyond repair.'

Musk just recently hinted he was likewise the mastermind behind Trump's decision to purge federal staff members by publishing a symbolic picture on X harkening back to his infamous Twitter clean.

At the time, he sent a letter to personnel entitled: 'A Fork in the Road.' The very same title was utilized in Trump's current email proposing generous lay-off plans

Musk later on shared on X that he commissioned an artwork of an enormous fork standing in the roadway, showing it was all linked.

Musk does not hold chosen workplace, however on Monday was officially appointed a 'unique civil servant' by the White House.

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