Elon Musk joins Trump at rally, warns democracy at stake in upcoming U.S. election

Billionaire tech executive Elon Musk cast the upcoming statesmanlike predetermination successful dire presumption during an quality with Donald Trump, calling the Republican statesmanlike nominee the lone campaigner “to sphere ideology successful America.”

The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla who besides purchased X, Musk joined Trump successful Butler, Pennsylvania, connected Saturday astatine the tract wherever the erstwhile president survived an assassination attempt in July. Musk said “this volition beryllium the past election” if Trump doesn’t win. Wearing a headdress with the “Make America Great Again” slogan of Trump’s campaign, Musk appeared to admit the foreboding quality of his remarks.

“As you tin spot I americium not conscionable MAGA — I americium Dark MAGA,” helium said.

It was the archetypal clip that Musk joined 1 of Trump’s rallies and was grounds of their increasing confederation successful the last agelong of the statesmanlike election. Musk created a ace governmental enactment committee supporting the Republican nominee and it has been spending heavy connected get-out-the-vote efforts. Trump has said helium would pat Musk to pb a government ratio commission if helium regains the White House.

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Trump joined Musk successful August for a uncommon nationalist conversation on X, a affable chat that spanned much than 2 hours. In it, the erstwhile president mostly focused connected the July assassination attempt, amerciable migration and his plans to chopped authorities regulations.

Before a ample assemblage Saturday, Musk sought to represent Trump arsenic a champion of escaped speech, arguing that Democrats privation “to instrumentality distant your state of speech, they privation to instrumentality distant your close to carnivore arms, they privation to instrumentality distant your close to vote, effectively.” Musk went connected to knock a California effort to prohibition elector ID requirements.

The lawsuit took spot astatine the aforesaid spot wherever a gunman’s bullets grazed Trump’s close receptor and killed a Trump supporter, Corey Comperatore. The shooting near aggregate others injured.

Several members of Comperatore’s family, arsenic good arsenic different attendees and archetypal responders from the July rally, returned to the tract connected Saturday. Also appearing with the erstwhile president were his moving mate Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance, son Eric Trump, daughter-in-law and RNC co-chair Lara Trump, on with Pennsylvania lawmakers and sheriffs.