The Fort Knox Audit That Wasn't: What Treasury Documents Actually Say
In February 2025, the most famous vault in America became the subject of an extraordinary public spectacle. President Donald Trump declared he would send his team to "Fort Knox, the fabled Fort Knox, to make sure the gold is there." Elon Musk, then running the Department of Government Efficiency, offered to livestream a walk-through. Senator Rand Paul wrote a formal letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent demanding an audit. For two weeks, the fate of America's 8,133 tonnes of gold (per World Gold Council data) was prime-time news. Then it stopped. Bessent said "all the gold is present and accounted for," Trump stopped knocking on the vault door, and the media, with its notoriously short…
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