One of Elon Musk's geek army is trolling his new fans by charging $1,000 to read a manifesto about why he signed up with 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 plant havoc in the civil service.

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

Kliger sent out the instruction from a USAID email address he was supplied with as part of top-level access to its systems, together with fellow DOGE nerd Luke Farritor.

While the staff were kept home, DOGE gained access to the firm's IT system, developing security, and classified products, and began dismantling it.

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

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

However, those who were curious adequate to cough up the amazing charge found there wasn't even that - the post was completely 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 entitled: 'Why DOGE. Why I gave up a seven-figure wage to conserve America'. Despite a $1,000 paywall, it is entirely empty

'Poetically blank, please reassess your life choices,' one comment on the post read.

Kliger enhanced his elaborate trolling with an unusual voicemail greeting that pointed anybody who called his authorized phone number to the post.

'I just wrote a stunning Substack on this, the Weekly Byte, if you just go there, it's behind the paywall, but I think it will address that question for you ... it's quite excellent,' he said.

The one-minute greeting was an extended variation of the prank where the owner of the phone pretends to address, however it is really recorded.

Kliger initially pretended he was driving through a tunnel and having trouble hearing the call, then eventually exclaiming, 'They said what? No, no, I do not believe that's right.'

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

Despite its name, the Substack was not upgraded weekly, and just has 2 other posts - both of which are totally free to read.

Despite its name, Kliger's Substack was not upgraded weekly, and only has three posts

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

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

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

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

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

Hegseth was directly confirmed by the Senate despite 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 likewise suspicious as his economic sector work history didn't include such a function.

His newest job, according to his LinkedIn, was as a 'senior software engineer' at Databricks, a cloud computing company 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 leading end at $321,000, consisting of bonus.

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

The Berkeley graduate supposedly advised all employees at the company not to go back to Washington head office on Monday

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

Musk last month designated him a special consultant to the director for details innovation at the Office of Personnel Management, where many other Musk lackeys were set up.

The Tesla owner has actually basically taken control of the OPM, together with the General Services Administration, through his leadership 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, investigating system implementation, or working in some other sphere, I understand that I will contribute insight and creativity towards meeting the difficulties I deal with.

'In my extra time, setiathome.berkeley.edu I delight in playing the piano and clarinet and going to music concerts at Berkeley. Among my preferred pastimes is playing online blitz chess.'

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

Musk last month selected Kliger an unique advisor to the director for details innovation at the Office of Personnel Management, where various other Musk lackeys were set up

Who are Musk's other geeks?

Musk employed a performers of young males aged 19 to 25 - three of whom are thought to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering roles and cut expenses.

At simply 19, utahsyardsale.com Edward Coristine is the youngest of the fresh-faced bunch handling corporate America and longstanding government institutions.

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

Akash Bobba, 21, Ethan Shaotran, 22, and Luke Farritor, 23, along with Coristine, have actually apparently been given A-suite level clearance for their work, meaning they can work out of the company's top flooring with access to all physical spaces and IT systems.

Musk's DOGE has been quickly 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 keep delicate data including social security numbers, addresses and contact details.

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

Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has been named for koha-community.cz his role with DOGE, which is apparently on a 'volunteer' basis at this phase.

After widespread criticism about the males's youth, Musk launched a statement about the consultations.

'Time to admit: Media reports stating that DOGE has some of world's best software application engineers remain in fact real,' Musk wrote on X.

Luke Farritor, 23

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

Farritor, dropped out of the University of Nebraska in order to begin working for Nat Friedman, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur behind GitHub.

Friedman explained Farritor as 'a national treasure' after his consultation with DOGE was made public.

He won part of a $700,000 reward in 2024 after using AI technology to help understand a 2,000 year old file - part of the Vesuvius scrolls from Pompeii - which researchers had actually been trying, and failing, to solve for centuries.

The charred scroll was thought burnt beyond recognition.

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

Edward Coristine, 19

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

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

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

WIRED mentioned sources declaring Coristine has been conducting calls with staff in the department and making them 'discuss code they had actually written and validate their jobs.'

Employees were allegedly puzzled by his inclusion in the conferences, and later on expressed issues that they were not properly informed on his identity or role, even during the call.

Coristine's dad, Charles, is the primary executive of popcorn empire, LesserEvil. Coristine once worked as a group member for the brand.

Up up until recently, Coristine supposedly utilized a social networks manage called '@EdwardBigBaller.'

The youngest of Musk's elite team is simply 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 actually given that been erased, Bobba was a financial investment at a hedge fund.

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

Just six years earlier, Bobba was the organizer behind the Princeton Junction, New Jersey, regional model United Nations. His daddy is an academic in computer science.

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

" We reside in an age where simplicity reigns supreme, where 30-second TikToks and 280-character tweets pertain to specify our identities,' he said.

'This increasing determination to streamline even the most intricate stories into spectacular tidbits, perpetuates false information and at the same time divides the communities, 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 operating in the school's computing laboratory on self-governing vehicles.

Musk is notoriously trying to develop self-driving cars at his Tesla head office.

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

He likewise has a link to Musk, having actually taken part in his xAI 'hackathon'. He and his team were runner ups after they utilized xAI's Grok to produce plausible reactions from X followers to a theoretical concern.

Shaortran founded Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for experts. The startup made 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 capability remains uncertain.

The 24-year-old finished McGill University.

Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which concentrates on high-frequency monetary trades and algorithms

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Musk's DOGE boasts sweeping power

Musk is leading an amazing civilian review of the federal government with Trump's contract.

'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 simply a ball of worms. You've got to essentially eliminate the entire thing. It's beyond repair.'

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

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

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

Musk does not hold chosen workplace, however on Monday was officially designated a 'unique government worker' by the White House.

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