Democrats convinced a Manhattan jury to convict Donald Trump on 34 felony counts and called it justice.
They swept the House and Senate and Elon Musk just became their next Donald Trump.
What they have assembled against him now is not an investigation – it is a demolition.
Hillary Clinton Called for the Elon Musk Subpoena Before Democrats Even Had Congress
Hillary Clinton sat down on the Pivot podcast with left-wing journalist Kara Swisher and professor Scott Galloway and explained exactly what Democrats would do the moment they controlled Congress.
They would subpoena Elon Musk, and Clinton was not the only one saying so.
She also had a message for Trump if he tried to run interference with a preemptive pardon.
Clinton argued that a pardon would actually work against Musk – because a pardoned person faces no legal jeopardy and therefore loses the right to invoke the Fifth Amendment before Congress.
"So let him pardon Elon," Clinton said, "and then let's call him in and figure out what he has to say."
Galloway had been promising listeners on that same podcast for weeks that Democrats would deliver "the mother of all subpoenas" the moment they had the power to enforce it.
Jasmine Crockett had already tried it – interrupting a House Oversight Committee hearing to formally demand a subpoena for Elon Musk over his DOGE work – and Republicans blocked the motion before it moved.
By September, Democrats were privately confirming the plan to reporters.
Senior Democrats spent months assembling a list of investigations covering everything from his work dismantling federal agencies to his satellite network's role in a foreign war.
By election night, all they needed was the gavel.
They have it now.
The Congressional Investigation List: DOGE, SpaceX Contracts, Tesla and Starlink
Democrats are preparing to investigate Musk's four months running the Department of Government Efficiency – during which his companies collected at least $6.3 billion in government contracts while he simultaneously held authority over which agencies survived and which ones didn't.
That conflict of interest is the foundation of the case Democrats spent months constructing.
They are targeting SpaceX's multibillion-dollar contracts with NASA, including its position as a leading contender to build Trump's Golden Dome missile defense system.
They are going after Tesla's federal clean energy subsidies and safety investigations into its Full Self-Driving technology.
They plan to probe allegations that Musk restricted Starlink satellite access to Ukrainian military forces at a critical moment – a controversy stretching back to 2022, when Musk threatened to cut off Ukraine unless the Pentagon paid $400 million for the service.
Senate Democrats introduced legislation specifically designed to bar companies owned by "special government employees" from receiving federal contracts – a bill that did not need to name anyone to be understood.
Rep. Greg Casar made that pledge while fasting for nine hours in protest, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued the same one separately.
When Politico published its full map of the planned campaign in October, Musk fired back: "Live by the sword, die by the sword."
He warned Kara Swisher – who had been promising her podcast audience Musk was headed to prison – that she "really wants to go to prison."
He understood exactly what was being built and could not stop it.
Scott Galloway Called for Musk's Execution on the Same Platform Clinton Used to Plan the Investigation
Not one item on that investigation list exists because Elon Musk committed a crime.
It exists because Elon Musk spent $474 million trying to keep Congress out of Democrat hands in the midterms and Democrats intend to make that the most expensive political gamble he ever made.
He also bought the platform they used to silence conservatives, renamed it X, and handed it back.
This is the same playbook they ran on Donald Trump for four years.
Four courtrooms, two special counsels, one conviction in Manhattan, and a continuous stream of leaks and negative headlines designed to exhaust, humiliate, and damage him politically while keeping their base activated.
It didn’t stop Trump.
They are betting Elon Musk does not have the same armor.
The actual goal is hearings and subpoenas and leaks – years of negative press cycles designed to pressure Tesla's stock, threaten SpaceX's federal contracts, and consume whatever Musk might otherwise be doing – while sending a message to every major Republican donor watching from the sidelines: this is what happens when you back the wrong side.
Hillary Clinton called this fascism for a decade.
The woman who destroyed 33,000 emails under congressional subpoena, watched Comey reopen her case 11 days before the 2016 election, and walked away without a charge sat down on a podcast to explain exactly how Democrats would use the same machinery against the man who backed their opponents.
No crime required, no evidence necessary – just a list, a gavel, and a message to send.
The man who co-hosted that podcast with Clinton went further on election night.
At a live event with Kara Swisher, Scott Galloway called Musk a traitor to the West and invoked the Rosenbergs – the Soviet spies America executed during the Cold War.
"Elon Musk is a traitor to the West," Galloway said. "We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall."
Days after the election, Galloway revealed he had defecated in his Tesla's passenger seat before selling it in protest.
CNN continued to platform him anyway.
Elon Musk told them in October he would come for them.
Democrats spent Tuesday making sure they get to go first.
Sources:
- BlazeTV Staff, "Hillary Clinton wants to subpoena Elon Musk after years of warning about weaponizing the system," The Blaze, November 7, 2026.
- Eric Revell, "Elon Musk says he will retaliate against Democrats who investigate him," Fox Business, October 21, 2026.
- Matt Margolis, "Elon Musk Will Have His Revenge on Democrats, and I Can't Wait," PJ Media, October 21, 2026.
- Daily Wire, "Dem infamous for 9-hour fast threatens Musk with investigation if Dems retake House," The Daily Wire, October 2026.
- Fox News, "Democrats vow political reckoning if they win midterms," Fox News, October 2026.
- Fox News, "NYU professor and podcaster calls Elon Musk a 'traitor,' compares him to Soviet spies executed during Cold War," Fox News, November 2026.
