“I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery,” Musk wrote on X, which he owns, 30 minutes after Trump was shot at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Trump was rushed off the stage after the shooting. AP
Musk also slammed the Secret Service for not thwarting the sniper, reposting a tweet from Jack Posobiec who asked “How was a sniper with a full rifle kit allowed to bear crawl onto the closest roof to a presidential nominee?”
“Extreme incompetence or it was deliberate,” Musk wrote. “Either way, the SS leadership must resign.”
He took aim at the director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, reposting a tweet containing her online biography that indicated her prior job before taking over the Secret Service was senior director at PepsiCo.
“So before being put in charge of protecting the PRESIDENT, she was guarding bags of Cheetos …” Musk wrote.
Billionaire Elon Musk officially endorsed Trump for president 30 minutes after the Republican nominee was shot in an assassination attempt at his rally in Butler, PA on Saturday. AP
Billionaire X, Tesla and SpaceX owner Musk went all in for Trump on his platform, saying “the last time we had a candidate this tough was Theodore Roosevelt.” AP
In response to a post from someone asking, “How the hell was such an obvious line of sight not secured,” Musk wrote: “Exactly.”
He added in another post, “The head of the Secret Service and the leader of this security detail should resign.”
The gunman who tried to assassinate Trump at the rally Saturday had positioned himself on the roof of a manufacturing plant more than 130 yards away from the stage.
The open-air campaign event was being held at the Butler Farm Show grounds, whose large, sprawling fields gave the sniper a virtually unobstructed line of sight to the former president from his perch.
An AR-style semi-automatic assault rifle was recovered from the scene, law enforcement sources told The Associated Press.
Trump was helped offstage by Secret Service officers after reportedly missing a possibly fatal shot by inches or millimeters. He said a bullet pierced his right ear but he was “fine.” AP
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