Donald Trump sat down with billionaire Elon Musk on Monday for a rambling and vitriolic interview that revisited many of the former president’s most divisive talking points. The interview on X, which is owned by Musk, got off to an inauspicious start, with technical issues that initially prevented many users from watching the conversation. Musk the delay on a “massive” cyber-attack, but the cause of the glitch was not entirely clear.
After the interview started more than 40 minutes late, Trump began the conversation by recounting the failed assassination attempt against him last month at Musk’s request. Although Trump previously he would only share the story once at the Republican convention last month, he again discussed in detail his brush with death at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which he said he would visit again in October. “It was a miracle.
If I hadn’t turned my head, I would not be talking to you right now, as much as I like you,” Trump told Musk. Trump then pivoted to discussing his usual anti-immigration views, warning about the “rough people” attempting to enter the country through the US-Mexico border. “These are people that are in jail for murder and all sorts of things, and they’re releasing them into our country,” Trump said.
Extensive has uncovered no link between immigration and higher levels of crime. Trump proceeded to attack his opponent Kamala Harris as the “border tsar” of the Biden administration, even though De.