Elon Musk Says His Deleted Trump Assassination Post Was Just a Joke

Elon Musk says a post he wrote and later deleted amid a firestorm of criticism on Sunday was meant as a joke.

Reacting to the second attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the Tesla billionaire responded to a post asking why people want to kill the former president. “And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” Musk wrote, adding a thinking-face emoji.

The condemnation was swift. Grassroots political groups DemsMight called the post “literally incitement.” Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg slammed Musk’s take as “appalling and indefensible,” while former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) advised the billionaire to “get help,” adding that his tweet was “unhinged and dangerous.”

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