Among Elon Musk's geek army is trolling his brand-new fans by charging $1,000 to read a manifesto about why he joined DOGE - only to find the post is blank.
Gavin Kliger, 25, is one of six baby-faced kids with little-to-no government experience handpicked by the 'First Buddy' to sow havoc in the civil service.
He was the one who sent a company-wide email sent to employees at USAID informing them not to come into the company's Washington DC headquarters on Monday.
Kliger sent out the instruction from a USAID email address he was offered with as part of high-level access to its systems, together with fellow DOGE nerd Luke Farritor.
While the staff were kept home, DOGE gained access to the agency's IT system, building security, and classified products, and started dismantling it.
Just hours before he sent out the email, Kliger made a post on his Substack page entitled: 'Why DOGE. Why I quit a seven-figure income to save America.'
Unlike the rest of his Substack, the post was 'subscriber just' with a $1,000-a-month fee - or $10,000 for an entire year - to access a single word of it.
However, those who were curious enough to cough up the extraordinary charge found there wasn't even that - the post was completely blank.
Gavin Kliger, 25, is one of 6 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 offered up a seven-figure salary to save America'. Despite a $1,000 paywall, it is entirely empty
'Poetically blank, please reassess your life options,' one comment on the post read.
Kliger enhanced his intricate trolling with a strange voicemail greeting that pointed anybody who called his registered telephone number to the post.
'I simply wrote a stunning Substack on this, the Weekly Byte, if you just go there, it's behind the paywall, however I believe it will respond to that question for you ... it's quite good,' he said.
The one-minute welcoming was a lengthened variation of the trick where the owner of the phone pretends to respond to, but it is in fact tape-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 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 just has two other posts - both of which are complimentary to check out.
Despite its name, Kliger's Substack was not upgraded 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 a whole 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 lady and many other misbehaviors.
Kliger's post entitled 'The Curious Case of Matt Gaetz: How the Deep State Destroys Its Enemies' represented 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 former Fox News host's nomination filled with frequent Trump-ally talking points.
Hegseth was narrowly validated by the Senate despite his history of alcohol abuse and claims of sexual assault and harassment.
Kliger's claim that he left a 'seven-figure job' to sign up with DOGE is also dubious as his economic sector work history didn't consist of such a function.
His most recent 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, including bonus.
Kliger was the one who sent out a company-wide email sent out to workers at USAID telling them not to come into the firm's Washington DC head office on Monday
The Berkeley graduate reportedly instructed all staff members at the agency not to go back to Washington headquarters 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 selected 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 essentially 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 he is an Eagle Scout, National Merit Scholar, National AP Scholar, a black belt first dan in Taekwondo, and an accomplished pianist.
'I wish to do work that will affect the future,' it checked out.
'Whether that suggests establishing software, researching system deployment, or operating in some other sphere, I know that I will contribute insight and imagination towards satisfying the obstacles I deal with.
'In my extra time, I enjoy playing the piano and clarinet and attending music shows at Berkeley. One of my favorite pastimes is playing online blitz chess.'
Kliger's daddy, Larry Kliger, is president of Lawrence Allen & Associates, an industrial property company.
Musk last month selected Kliger an unique advisor to the director for details technology at the Office of Personnel Management, where various other Musk lackeys were installed
Who are Musk's other geeks?
Musk enlisted a troupe of boys aged 19 to 25 - three of whom are thought to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering roles and cut costs.
At just 19, 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 'professional' in his field, and specifics about his function aren't yet clear.
Akash Bobba, 21, Ethan Shaotran, 22, and Luke Farritor, 23, along with Coristine, have actually supposedly been granted A-suite level clearance for their work, implying they can work out of the firm's leading flooring with access to all physical areas and IT systems.
Musk's DOGE has been rapidly growing in power and broadening its remit, most just recently protecting clearance to access to limited parts of the General Services Administration structures and IT systems.
These systems save sensitive information including social security numbers, addresses and contact details.
Elon Musk enlisted a performers of boys aged 19 to 25 - 3 of whom are believed to still remain in college - to fill high-powered engineering functions and cut expenses
Finally, Gautier Cole Killian has actually been called for his role with DOGE, which is supposedly on a 'volunteer' basis at this stage.
After widespread criticism about the guys's youth, Musk released a declaration about the visits.
'Time to admit: Media reports saying that DOGE has a few of world's best software application engineers remain in reality true,' Musk composed on X.
Luke Farritor, fakenews.win 23
Luke Farritor has a recognized link to Musk already, having actually interned for SpaceX prior to landing his brand-new gig.
Farritor, dropped out 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 consultation with DOGE was made public.
He won part of a $700,000 reward in 2024 after utilizing AI technology to assist analyze 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 charred beyond acknowledgment.
Luke Farritor has a recognized 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 squad is just 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston.
Coristine supposedly interned at Musk's Neuralink for 3 months last summer season, after finishing high school.
Little is learnt about Coristine's role at DOGE, nevertheless he is listed as an 'professional.'
WIRED mentioned sources declaring Coristine has actually been conducting calls with staff in the department and making them 'discuss code they had written and justify their tasks.'
Employees were apparently confused by his addition in the meetings, and later on expressed issues that they were not effectively informed on his identity or function, even during the call.
Coristine's daddy, Charles, is the primary executive of popcorn empire, LesserEvil. Coristine when worked as an employee for the brand name.
Up up until recently, Coristine apparently used a social media manage named '@EdwardBigBaller.'
The youngest of Musk's elite squad is simply 19 and a trainee at Northeastern University in Boston
Akash Bobba, 21
Bobba is another 'specialist' within the department still studying at the University of California, Berkeley.
According to a former LinkedIn account, which has given that been erased, Bobba was an investment engineering intern at a hedge fund.
He had actually also previously interned for Meta and Palantir - who was established by 2016 MAGA donor, Peter Thiel.
Just six years ago, Bobba was the organizer behind the Princeton Junction, New Jersey, regional design United Nations. His father is a scholastic in computer technology.
Bobba spoke at his graduation event from West Windsor-Plainsboro South High School in July 2021, telling his schoolmates 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 desire to simplify even the most intricate stories into sensational bits, perpetuates misinformation and while doing so divides the communities, families, and relationships we treasure.
'What's the solution, 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 earned 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 lab on autonomous lorries.
Musk is famously attempting to establish self-driving automobiles at his Tesla headquarters.
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 group were runner ups after they used xAI's Grok to develop possible responses from X followers to a theoretical question.
Shaortran established Energize AI - a scheduling assistant for specialists. 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 concentrates on 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 finished McGill University.
Killian was working as an engineer at Jump Trading, which concentrates on high-frequency financial trades and algorithms
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Musk's DOGE boasts sweeping power
Musk is leading an extraordinary civilian evaluation of the federal government with Trump's arrangement.
'It ended up being obvious 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 have actually got to basically get rid of the entire thing. It's beyond repair.'
Musk just recently hinted he was likewise the mastermind behind Trump's choice to purge federal employees by posting a symbolic photo on X harkening back to his notorious Twitter cleanse.
At the time, he sent out a letter to personnel entitled: 'A Fork in the Road.' The exact same title was used in Trump's current email proposing generous lay-off packages
Musk later shared on X that he commissioned an art work of an enormous fork standing in the road, indicating it was all connected.
Musk does not hold elected office, however on Monday was formally appointed a 'unique civil servant' by the White House.
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