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Two teens charged in attack on former DOGE official Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine


Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, the teenage software engineer and former Neuralink intern who became a prominent figure in the Trump administration's cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the teenage software engineer and former Neuralink intern who became a prominent figure in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). According to reports citing local authorities, Coristine — who left DOGE in June but returned to federal service at the Social Security Administration to help improve the agency’s website, a spokesman recently told WIRED — was with his girlfriend around 3 a.m. Sunday in Washington’s Logan Circle when a circle of roughly 10 teens approached their car and made comments about taking it. President Trump separately shared a graphic image of a battered Coristine on Truth Social, using the assault to call for prosecuting teens as young as 14 as adults.

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