Elon Musk has a nasty behavior of being a dickhead fool on the web, and for probably the most half that has labored out superb for the richest particular person on the planet. Now, although, his on-line shittiness might have caught up with him.
On September 15, simply after a second assassination try on former President Donald Trump was carried out, an X consumer known as DogeDesigner (in fact) wrote, “Why they wish to kill Donald Trump?” Musk determined to reply, saying, “And nobody is even making an attempt to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” with a couple of query marks on the finish. The submit was deleted afterward and he mentioned it was meant as a joke, however you recognize who didn’t suppose it was humorous – apart from everybody? The U.S. Secret Service, in line with a brand new report from Bloomberg. You see, they examine each time there’s a doable menace towards one in every of their protectees. Threatening the U.S. president or VP is a felony that may both lead to a giant superb or as much as 5 years in jail. They’re critical folks.
Now, the Secret Service has turned its consideration to the Tesla CEO, as Bloomberg reviews of their FOIA Recordsdata collection:
FOIA Recordsdata despatched Freedom of Info Act requests to the Secret Service’s Protecting Intelligence and Evaluation Division, Workplace of Protecting Operations and Workplace of Investigations for paperwork and emails referencing Musk’s submit.
On Wednesday, the company responded to the requests by saying data it has about Musk’s submit have been “compiled for regulation enforcement functions” and are being withheld as a result of “disclosure might fairly be anticipated to intrude with enforcement proceedings.”
We adopted up with the Secret Service’s FOIA division and have been advised that the Protecting Intelligence Division suggested that it can not launch any data due to “enforcement proceedings.”
I don’t wish to bust any Musk hater’s bubble, however this most likely gained’t quantity to a lot for the man, as Bloomberg explains:
The worst that can doubtless occur if the Secret Service pays a go to to Musk is he’ll be inconvenienced and he’ll must show he doesn’t pose an imminent menace to President Joe Biden and Vice President Harris.
He might by no means even hear from the Secret Service, which was the case when former Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider known as for Biden and his son, Hunter, to be hanged in a submit on X final yr. (The Secret Service decided Schneider’s submit was solely a “veiled menace” and declined to take any motion.)
Or, he might by no means have the chance to “rap together with” Secret Service brokers, as was the case with Marshall Mathers, AKA the rapper Eminem, after he was summoned in 2018 to reply questions on a few of his music lyrics.
Somebody clearly obtained the message to Musk that it was not an acceptable factor to placed on social media. After deleting the submit he wrote, “Properly, one lesson I’ve discovered is that simply because I say one thing to a gaggle and so they giggle doesn’t imply it’s going to be all that hilarious as a submit on X.” He later mentioned, “Seems that jokes are WAY much less humorous if folks don’t know the context and the supply is apparent textual content.” Amigo, that is simply embarrassing. None of this occurred. You don’t have buddies.
