{"id":4167,"date":"2024-09-17T11:01:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T11:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/17\/white-house-criticises-irresponsible-elon-musk-for-biden-and-harris-assassination-comment\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T11:01:13","slug":"white-house-criticises-irresponsible-elon-musk-for-biden-and-harris-assassination-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/17\/white-house-criticises-irresponsible-elon-musk-for-biden-and-harris-assassination-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"White House criticises \u2018irresponsible\u2019 Elon Musk for Biden and Harris assassination comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has called Elon Musk \u201cirresponsible\u201d after he posted on social media that \u201cno one is even trying\u201d to assassinate Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire posted the comment on his X social media platform, followed by a thinking emoji. But he later deleted it and said it was intended as a joke.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>His comment followed the apparent attempted assassination of <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> on Sunday, which came after an attempt on the former president\u2019s life at one of his rallies in July.<\/p>\n<p>The White House rebuked Mr <strong>Musk<\/strong> in a statement. \u201cViolence should only be condemned, never encouraged or joked about. This rhetoric is irresponsible,\u201d said spokesperson Andrew Bates.<\/p>\n<p>The Space X and Tesla boss took the post down early on Monday, having earlier stuck by it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>\u201cWell, one lesson I\u2019ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s going to be all that hilarious as a post on X,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Musk is a well-known backer of Trump for November\u2019s <strong>US election,<\/strong> and routinely posts in support of the Republican candidate.<\/p>\n<p>He also hosted him for an interview on X last month.<\/p>\n<p>His decision to delete the post came as investigations continue into the incident at Mr Trump\u2019s Florida golf course, where Secret Service agents opened fire after seeing a rifle poking through bushes.<\/p>\n<p>Questions are being asked about how the suspect was able to spend 12 hours on the course before being spotted.<\/p>\n<p>The former president said yesterday that<strong> the apparent attempt on his life was a \u201cmuch better result\u201d<\/strong> than the first assassination attempt at a rally in July, as no bystanders were wounded or killed.<\/p>\n<p>One person died, and two people were critically injured, when a gunman shot at Mr Trump during the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump suffered a wound to his ear, while the gunman was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper team.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has called Elon Musk \u201cirresponsible\u201d after he posted on social media that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}