The U.S. Secret Service has acknowledged being “aware” of a now-deleted X (formerly Twitter) post made by Elon Musk that mentioned assassination attempts on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris .
“[Secret Service] is aware of the social media post made by Elon Musk. As a matter of practice, we do not comment on matters involving protective intelligence. We can say, however, the Secret Service investigates all threats related to our protectees,” a spokesperson for the Secret Service, told Bloomberg .
Musk, who initially posted the message as a joke, later removed it. Now, Secret Service has collected records of the post “for law enforcement purposes,” noting that these records are exempt from open records laws due to ongoing “enforcement proceedings.” ALSO READ| Donald Trump addresses apparent assassination attempt in first X appearance: ‘It was quite something.
.. What Musk actually posted? The controversy began after the Tesla boss responded to a social media post on his platform X regarding threats against former US President Donald Trump .
When a user had posted, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?” to which Musk replied, “And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” adding a thinking face emoji. After deleting the controversial post, Musk followed up with an explanation, “Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious .