Elon Musk to join Trump for rally at site of first assassination attempt

Elon Musk has said helium is going to articulation Donald Trump for an predetermination rally astatine the site of a July assassination attempt connected the erstwhile president’s life.

Musk, 53, announced connected Friday that helium volition look astatine the lawsuit successful Butler, Pennsylvania, the pursuing day.

Trump, who served arsenic the United States president from 2017 to 2021, is successful the midst of a choky contention for a 2nd word successful November, and Pennsylvania is simply a cardinal plaything state.

Also owed to be connected Saturday are Trump’s moving mate, Senator JD Vance, and his son, Eric Trump.

“I volition beryllium determination to support,” Musk wrote connected his societal media level X, retweeting Trump’s ain promotion of the rally.

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO has go progressively adjacent to Trump successful caller months.

After Trump, 78, was changeable astatine by a gunman — the slug grazing his receptor — Musk announced helium would beryllium supporting the Republican successful his bid to triumph a 2nd term.

“I afloat endorse President Trump and anticipation for his accelerated recovery,” Musk wrote aft the incident.

He aboriginal posted: “The martyr lived.”

The shooting connected July 13, however, killed a Trump supporter, Corey Comperatore, who was listening to the erstwhile president speaking. Several others were injured.

Musk’s expanding influence

Musk has go much politically engaged arsenic the November predetermination approaches, often posting astir his enactment for Trump and attacking Democrats.

Last month, Musk deleted 1 of his posts saying “no 1 is adjacent trying” to assassinate President Joe Biden oregon Vice President Kamala Harris, the erstwhile and existent Democratic candidates, respectively.

Amid the ensuing outcry, Musk dismissed his remark arsenic a joke. “Turns retired that jokes are mode little comic if radical don’t cognize the discourse and the transportation is successful plain text,” helium said.

Earlier this year, Musk said helium was contributing $45m to a governmental enactment committee, America PAC, that was supporting Trump’s run.

Trump has often spoken warmly of Musk, adjacent saying helium backs the billionaire’s electrical conveyance production, contempt having agelong attacked the manufacture by claiming it harms workers successful accepted car plants.

In August, Trump agreed to beryllium interviewed by Musk connected X. During their hour-long conversation, the erstwhile president said helium admired the information that Musk fired immoderate of his employees aft they complained astir moving conditions.

“I emotion it,” Trump said. “I look astatine what you do. You conscionable locomotion in, and you conscionable say, ‘You wanna quit?’ They spell connected strike. I won’t notation the sanction of the company, but they spell connected onslaught and you say, ‘That’s OK. You’re each gone … Every 1 of you is gone.'”

Trump besides pledged to marque Musk the caput of a projected “government efficiency” office that would slash regulations and audit different branches of the government.

Musk’s backing of Trump is not his archetypal foray into politics. Musk has publically feuded with Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, and successful May 2023, helium hosted Florida Governor Ron DeSantis arsenic the Republican person announced his short-lived bid for the presidency.

As with Musk’s August speech with Trump, that speech with DeSantis was broadcast connected X and marred by glitches.

I volition beryllium determination to support! https://t.co/nokR0g3dn1

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2024

Butler rally a rebuke to ‘evil assassin’

July’s assassination effort successful Butler has spurred ongoing discussions astir governmental unit successful the US, arsenic good arsenic questions astir the staffing and grooming of the Secret Service agents tasked with protecting Trump.

The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed astatine the country erstwhile snipers returned fire.

Last month, Trump was the people of a 2nd assassination crippled arsenic well.

The effort was foiled by a Secret Service cause who was escorting the erstwhile president arsenic helium played astatine his backstage play people successful Florida. The cause reportedly saw the tube of a firearm pointing done a obstruction and opened fire.

The suspect, Ryan Routh, 58, has pleaded not blameworthy to 5 charges including “attempted assassination of a statesmanlike candidate”.

Several members of Comperatore’s family, arsenic good arsenic different radical who had attended the archetypal rally successful Butler and exigency unit who responded, volition besides be Saturday’s rally.

“President Trump’s instrumentality to Butler volition basal arsenic a tribute to the American spirit,” his run said successful a statement.

“In America, we bash not fto monsters similar that evil assassin person the past word.”