"Any computer which can just make money out of thin air, that's magic money," Elon Musk explained, as he dove into exactly where they were being 'printed'.
On October 5 last year, the Tesla CEO made his first appearance at a Trump rally - it was on the stage of the same rural farm show ground at which Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump three months prior.
Of course, that was during his presidential campaign. His short appearance in front of the Republican's supporters was enough to hook him, and since that day he's been an ever-present in the Trump administration.
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But unlike the 78-year-old - and pretty much every vocal politician in the US - the 53-year-old is not an elected official, yet he has been granted powers that, until November 5, were inconceivable for a member of the public to obtain without being voted in.
The SpaceX CEO now heads up the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), alongside entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy.
Their mission is to streamline the US government through plans to axe thousands of jobs and drastically reduce the wage bill, and once they have finished their mission, they have vowed to disband the department - setting a completion date of no later than July 4, 2026... Independence Day next year.
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Now, in the process of doing so, the tech-mogul-turned-politician has claimed he and his team have came across 14 'magic money computers', he explained to host Ted Cruz, after being invited onto his Verdict podcast, which went live yesterday (March 17).
Cruz said: "One of the things you told me about is what you called magic money computers."
To which the father-of-14 replied: "You may think that government computers all talk to each other, they all synchronize, they add up what funds are going somewhere and its coherent and that the numbers you're presented as a Senator are actually the real numbers. They're not."
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He went on to claim that the figures that members of the government are shown are off by as much as five to 10 percent.
"Any computer which can just make money out of thin air, that's magic money," Musk added, before explaining how it works is it 'just issues payments'.
As to which departments the South African has encountered these computers, he said: "They're mostly at the Treasury, some are at HHS [US Department of Health and Human Services], one or two at State, there's some at DOD [US Department of Defense], I think we've found 14 magic money computers."
Musk alleges that the US fabricate payments before sending them across the world, adding: "They just send money out of nothing."
Topics: Elon Musk, Politics, Technology, Money
Joe Yates