SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has opened up about two alleged assassination attempts against him that have occurred over the past several months. The US-based billionaire made the comment on Saturday, hours after Republican hopeful Donald Trump was shot and wounded during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
Several shots were fired as the former president delivered a speech to a campaign rally, with one of them grazing Trump’s right ear. While the politician was whisked off stage by Secret Service agents, it emerged that the shooting had resulted in the death of one of the attendees and that two more were seriously injured. Authorities later reported that the 20-year-old suspected shooter, who had reportedly fired from a nearby rooftop, was shot and killed.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday, Musk wrote, “Dangerous times ahead,” adding that “two people (separate occasions) have already tried to kill me in the past 8 months.” The tech entrepreneur revealed that “they were arrested with guns about 20 mins drive from Tesla HQ in Texas.”
He made the statement in response to an X user asking the outspoken tycoon to “please triple your protection,” arguing that “if they can come for Trump they will also come for you.”
Commenting on Saturday’s assassination attempt on the GOP frontrunner in a separate post on X, Musk wrote: “I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery.”
The billionaire has repeatedly criticized the current Democratic administration, claiming back in May 2022 that the political force had “become the party of division and hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.”
Commenting on President Joe Biden’s disastrous performance during the debate against Donald Trump in late June, Musk suggested earlier this month that the US “obviously [hasn’t had a president] for a while lmao.”
In late May, the entrepreneur denounced the guilty verdict delivered to Trump by a Manhattan jury on 34 charges of “falsifying business records.”
“If a former President can be criminally convicted over such a trivial matter – motivated by politics, rather than justice – then anyone is at risk of a similar fate,” the tech tycoon wrote on X at the time.
Around the same time, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous sources, that the Republican frontrunner and the Tesla CEO had forged close ties in recent months, and were in secret talks over the possibility of nominating Musk as a White House adviser should Trump come out on top in the November election.