The US Secret Service is reportedly investigating a post by Elon Musk in which he noted that “nobody” was trying to assassinate President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Musk later deleted the post, claiming it was a joke.
On Sunday, after Trump survived his second assassination attempt in two months, the X account asked “Why would they want to kill Donald Trump?”, to which Musk replied, “Why isn't anyone even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala?”
After facing backlash, Musk deleted the X post and said it was meant as a joke.
In response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the Secret Service said Bloomberg said the records the authorities have about Musk's X posts were “compiled for law enforcement purposes” and were being kept secret because “disclosure of the records would reasonably be expected to undermine enforcement proceedings.”
Secret Service spokesman Nate Herring told the outlet, “The agency is aware of Elon Musk's social media posts.”
“As a rule, we do not comment on protected information matters, but I can say that the Secret Service investigates all threats related to our protected persons,” Herring added.
Bloomberg reporter Jason Leopold, accustomed to reporting on “famous people who have been subject to Secret Service scrutiny,” predicted that “the worst that could happen if the Secret Service were to visit Musk is that he's inconvenienced and has to prove that he poses no imminent threat to Biden and Harris.”
Leopold also suggested Musk “may never even hear from the Secret Service.” The Dukes of Hazzard Star John Schneider called for Biden and his son Hunter to be hanged in a post on X last year.
“The Secret Service determined that Schneider's post was merely an 'implied threat' and took no action,” Leopold recalled.
The Bloomberg reporter also 2018 incident Rapper Eminem was investigated by the Secret Service over some of his lyrics, and during an interview, an agent read some of Eminem's lyrics to him, and he began “rapping” along with the agent.
Meanwhile, Musk posted to X on Monday, “One lesson I've learned is just because I say something to a group and they laugh, doesn't mean it's going to be all that funny as a post on X.”
“It turns out that jokes are much less funny when delivered in plain text without people knowing the context,” Musk added in a follow-up post on X.
Alana Mastangelo is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow her at Facebook And X is Follow,and Instagram.
