I accept the premise that Trump ran on and elected on.

Fair enough. Two observations.

One. That means you have no actual basis to believe that Trump/Musk/Musk underlings intend to do what you believe. They haven't said that they want to analyze payment data. They only want access to it. They didn't say they want to analyze the data. That is your creation.

Two. You believe that a known liar, known con man, known fraudster is going to do what he ran on - what he said he would do.

I'm more than willing to trust people to do what they say they are going to do. But if they don't, my trust is eroded. And if they don't time after time after time, at that point I don't trust them at all. Not one bit.

Trump has lied so many times on just about every topic imaginable that I don't trust him to do what he said he would do on the campaign trail.

--Peter