Elon Musk says the real threat to democracy is the people who accuse Trump of endangering it
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Elon Musk says the real threat to democracy is the people who accuse Trump of endangering it
Elon Musk gestures as he speaks at Life Center Church in Harrisburg, Pa., Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (Sean Simmers/The Patriot-News via AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Tech mogul Elon Musk , speaking at a town hall Saturday night in Pennsylvania to support Republican Donald Trump , played down the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and exhorted supporters to cast votes early in the presidential swing state while describing mail ballots as a “recipe for fraud."
The freewheeling session inside a ballroom at a hotel in downtown Lancaster touched on a dizzying range of topics, from space exploration and the Tesla cybertruck to immigration and the efficacy of psychiatric drugs. The town hall was part of Musk's efforts through his super PAC to help boost Trump in swing states ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election against Democrat Kamala Harris .
Musk, whom Trump has vowed to give a role in his administration if he wins next month, spent nearly two hours taking questions from town hall participants. While most were laudatory and covered a variety of topics, one was particularly pointed: A man wanted to know what Musk would say to concerns from voters that Trump’s election could lead to democracy backsliding in the U.S. considering his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
While calling it a fair question, Musk also said that the Jan. 6 attack by Trump’s supporters has been called “some sort of violent insurrection, which is simply not the case" — a response that drew applause from the crowd. More than 100 law enforcement personnel were injured in the attack, some beaten with their own weapons , when a mob of Trump supporters who believed his lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of votes.
Musk also claimed that people “who say Trump is a threat to democracy are themselves a threat to democracy,” a comment that was also cheered by the crowd of several hundred people packed tightly into the ballroom. Many more watched the event on X, the social media platform Musk purchased two years ago.
Trump, he said, “did actually tell people to not be violent." While Trump did tell the crowd on Jan. 6 to protest “peacefully and patriotically,” he also encouraged them to “fight like hell” to stop Democrat Joe Biden from becoming the president.
Musk, the world’s richest man, has committed more than $70 million to boost Trump in the election and, at events on behalf of his super PAC, has encouraged supporters to embrace voting early. Still, echoing some of Trump’s misgivings about the method, Musk raised his own doubts about the process. He said that, in the future, mail ballots should not be accepted, calling them a strange anomaly that got popularized during the COVID-19 pandemic and raising the prospect of fraud.
There are a number of safeguards to protect mail-in ballots, with various ballot verification protocols, including every state requiring a voter’s signature.
The question about Jan. 6 was an outlier during the back-and-forth with the crowd in which Musk was repeatedly praised as a visionary and solicited for advice and thoughts about education, arm wrestling, tax loopholes and whether he'd buy the Chicago White Sox. (He said he was a tech guy and had to pick his battles.)
Musk said he was in favor of “not heavy handed” regulation of artificial intelligence and railed against “woke religion” as “fundamentally an extinctionist religion.” He said the U.S. birth rate is a significant concern.
He said he believes Jesus was a real person who lived about 2,000 years ago and, when asked for the best advice he's ever received, replied: “I recommend studying physics.”
He also called a woman to the stage to give her a large $1 million check, part of his promotion to give away $1 million a day to a voter in a swing state who has signed his super PAC's petition backing the U.S. Constitution.
The giveaways are fine with Josh Fox, 32, a UPS driver from Dillsburg, Pennsylvania.
“That’s cool,” Fox said, waiting to get into the rally earlier Saturday. “It would be nice to have it.”
Fox, who plans to vote for Trump, dismissed any suggestion the money may violate federal election rules .
“It’s about driving in support and driving in people who are in support of the Constitution,” Fox said.
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MARK SCOLFOROSun, October 27, 2024 at 4:35 AM UTC4 min read
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Tech mogul Elon Musk, speaking at a town hall Saturday night in Pennsylvania to support Republican Donald Trump, played down the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and exhorted supporters to cast votes early in the presidential swing state while describing mail ballots as a "recipe for fraud."
The freewheeling session inside a ballroom at a hotel in downtown Lancaster touched on a dizzying range of topics, from space exploration and the Tesla cybertruck to immigration and the efficacy of psychiatric drugs. The town hall was part of Musk's efforts through his super PAC to help boost Trump in swing states ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election against Democrat Kamala Harris.
Musk, whom Trump has vowed to give a role in his administration if he wins next month, spent nearly two hours taking questions from town hall participants. While most were laudatory and covered a variety of topics, one was particularly pointed: A man wanted to know what Musk would say to concerns from voters that Trump's election could lead to democracy backsliding in the U.S. considering his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
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While calling it a fair question, Musk also said that the Jan. 6 attack by Trump's supporters has been called "some sort of violent insurrection, which is simply not the case" — a response that drew applause from the crowd. More than 100 law enforcement personnel were injured in the attack, some beaten with their own weapons, when a mob of Trump supporters who believed his lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of votes.
Musk also claimed that people "who say Trump is a threat to democracy are themselves a threat to democracy," a comment that was also cheered by the crowd of several hundred people packed tightly into the ballroom. Many more watched the event on X, the social media platform Musk purchased two years ago.
Trump, he said, "did actually tell people to not be violent." While Trump did tell the crowd on Jan. 6 to protest "peacefully and patriotically," he also encouraged them to "fight like hell" to stop Democrat Joe Biden from becoming the president.
Musk, the world's richest man, has committed more than $70 million to boost Trump in the election and, at events on behalf of his super PAC, has encouraged supporters to embrace voting early. Still, echoing some of Trump's misgivings about the method, Musk raised his own doubts about the process. He said that, in the future, mail ballots should not be accepted, calling them a strange anomaly that got popularized during the COVID-19 pandemic and raising the prospect of fraud.
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There are a number of safeguards to protect mail-in ballots, with various ballot verification protocols, including every state requiring a voter's signature.
The question about Jan. 6 was an outlier during the back-and-forth with the crowd in which Musk was repeatedly praised as a visionary and solicited for advice and thoughts about education, arm wrestling, tax loopholes and whether he'd buy the Chicago White Sox. (He said he was a tech guy and had to pick his battles.)
Musk said he was in favor of "not heavy handed" regulation of artificial intelligence and railed against "woke religion" as "fundamentally an extinctionist religion." He said the U.S. birth rate is a significant concern.
He said he believes Jesus was a real person who lived about 2,000 years ago and, when asked for the best advice he's ever received, replied: "I recommend studying physics."
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He also called a woman to the stage to give her a large $1 million check, part of his promotion to give away $1 million a day to a voter in a swing state who has signed his super PAC's petition backing the U.S. Constitution.
The giveaways are fine with Josh Fox, 32, a UPS driver from Dillsburg, Pennsylvania.
"That's cool," Fox said, waiting to get into the rally earlier Saturday. "It would be nice to have it."
Fox, who plans to vote for Trump, dismissed any suggestion the money may violate federal election rules.
"It's about driving in support and driving in people who are in support of the Constitution," Fox said
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'Elon Musk says the real threat to democracy is the people who accuse Trump of endangering it'
So sick of those dividing us saying we are doing the dividing.
... another criminal asshole hoping to elude felony charges with trump's election.
We see the same debate tactic used here every day by pro-life, pro fascist, trump trolls.
Last night Vivek Ramaswamy said (again) that Trump will unite America. I think he meant to say the Confederacy.
he'll need a bleach job done before that ...
I wouldn't cash that check right away....
Musk is slime. I suspect (strongly) that Musk sees Trump as his best shot at exercising his own zeal for authoritarian rule in the public sector and to secure lucrative government contracts due to having an unethical individual as PotUS.
Musk's ultimate goal is to turn Trump into his puppet. He's already got Vance and wants to complete the set.
We all know what the real threat is, Elon.
That is one ugly ass truck
Yeah, I do not understand why anyone would want something like that. I see them on the road now and just shake my head.