In his first campaign appearance with Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday (6) asked people to register to vote while presenting Democrats as a threat to democracy.
“Register to vote, OK? And take everyone you know and everyone you don’t know. Drag them to register to vote. There are just two days left to register to vote in Georgia and Arizona. Forty-eight hours. Send SMS now. Now. And then make sure they actually vote,” Musk said at the former president’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “If they don’t, this will be the last election. That’s my prediction.”
The statement made by Musk sounded a lot like the warnings often made by allies of Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden about Trump. But it is the former president, not Democrats, who spoke to a crowd before the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 and then sat idle for more than three hours as events unfolded there.
The billionaire X owner and well-known Trump supporter used his onstage appearance Saturday to argue that the 2024 presidential race is no ordinary campaign and that Trump’s opponents “want to take away his freedom of speech. They want to take away your right to bear arms. They want to take away your right to vote effectively.”
Musk, who supported Trump over the summer and helped form a super PAC that has already spent tens of millions on the presidential race, painted a bleak picture of the election’s stakes, arguing that free speech in the United States as well as the preservation of the Constitution it will only happen if Trump beats Harris.
Musk’s comments were something of a departure from the general theme of Trump’s rally in Butler, the site of a failed assassination attempt on the former president in July. In his first visit to the site since then, Trump made a point of noting the rally location and at the beginning of his speech, paying tribute to Corey Contempore, a firefighter who was fatally shot at the rally. Trump also thanked the Secret Service for protecting him.
“Exactly 12 weeks ago, on this very night, on this very ground, a cold-blooded killer intended to silence me and silence the greatest movement,” Trump said.
The list of speakers was longer than that of a usual Trump rally. Speakers before the former president included his running mate, JD Vance, as well as son Eric Trump, daughter-in-law Lara Trump and conservative activist Scott Presler. During a moment of silence honoring the victims at Trump’s previous rally in Butler, opera singer Christopher Macchio sang “Ave Maria.”
During the rally, Trump said his supporters deserve a government that does not respond to special interests or lobbyists and that his opponents were actively trying to block that goal.
“For the past eight years, those who want to stop us from achieving that future have defamed me, accused me, accused me, tried to throw me off the ballot – and who knows, maybe even tried to kill me?” Trump baselessly suggested. “But I never stopped fighting for you and I never will.”
Following the attempt on his life at his Florida golf club last month, Trump sought to blame Biden and Harris for the second assassination attempt and claimed: “Your rhetoric is getting me shot.”
Authorities are still investigating the motives of the suspects in both assassination attempts, and there is no evidence that Trump’s political opponents were involved in any way.
This content was originally published in Musk portrays Democrats as threats in first appearance with Donald Trump on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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