Elez was behind a deleted profile that backed a “eugenic immigration policy” and argued that “you could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” according to Long’s reporting.

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” he reportedly wrote on a separate account last summer.

Among other things, Long’s reporting highlights glaring oversights in Musk’s hiring practices. His team of 20-something DOGE boys aren’t just immensely underqualified for the job, but many of them have a colorful past like Elez.

Elez’s abrupt resignation also came as revelations were coming out that he had been making alterations to the US Treasury’s payments system, which paid out a gargantuan $5.45 trillion in 2024.

The blog Talking Points Memo reported this week that Elez had made “extensive changes” to the system before his write access was revoked on February 5. Whether he lost those privileges because of an ongoing lawsuit aimed at Musk and Elez is unclear.

Musk has long outed himself as sharing similar beliefs to Elez’s, making plenty of unabashedly racist comments in the past.