Elon Musk Deletes Tweet That Asked Why No One Is Trying to Assassinate Biden and Harris
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- Sep 16, 2024
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Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp., speaks at the Milken Institute's Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,on May 6, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.
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Hours after the FBI arrested a man who was carrying an AK-47 outside of Mar-a-Lago, Elon Musk posted something on X he would later come to regret.
“And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/ Kamala 🤔,” Musk said in a now-deleted post.
It was the kind of dumb and reactionary thing lots of people post online in the wake of a horrific breaking news story. The kind of dumb thing anyone could rattle off without thinking about it. But Musk isn’t just anyone. A lot of his money comes from government contracts. He has a security clearance. This is the kind of post that, should it come up during a clearance review, would typically see the poster lose such privileges.
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“I had a security clearance for most of my adult life. If I had said something like this, I would’ve lost it instantly. And yet this guy is still a major government contractor,” Tom Nichols, a retired professor of the U.S. Naval War College turned The Atlantic contributor, said in a post on X.
For Musk, it was all a big joke. “Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on 𝕏,” he said in one follow up post. “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.”
Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on 𝕏
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