The newspaper says the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who said earlier this week he was leaving the Trump administration after his work with DOGE, was using drugs "far more intensely than was previously known" as he became a close ally of the president near the beginning of his second term.

He forcibly and potentially illegally gained access to wildly sensitive government data that he hired a bunch of unvetted 20-somethings to oversee ― and he was potentially blitzed out of his mind at the same time.