Tesla owner Elon Musk has claimed that on two occasions in the last eight months people have tried to kill him
Elon Musk has shockingly claimed that he too has had an attempt on his life this past year.
It comes after Donald Trump came within 0.3 seconds of death after the suspected shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks is believed to have fired at the former president.
Trump was giving a speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, when he came under fire and while he survived, two attendees at the rally were critically injured and another, father-of-two Corey Comperatore, died.
The 50-year-old volunteer fire chief has been dubbed a hero after diving on his children to save them.
The presidential candidate didn’t get away unscathed though, one of the multiple bullets fired struck him on, and pierced through, the top of his right ear.
Elon Musk in the crowd while the then president Donald Trump spoke about SpaceX’s achievements in 2020. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
He was then swarmed by Secret Service before standing up and raising his fist in defiance to the crowd – a moment many believe will have won him his seat in the White House.
This is despite earlier this year being found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal ‘hush money’ paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels – making him the first former US president to be criminally convicted.
Now, taking to Twitter – or X as he would call it – Elon Musk has suggested that if it wasn’t for the police he could well have been assassinated himself.
Trump narrowly escaped assassination on Saturday after a bullet pierced through the top of his right ear. (REBECCA DROKE/AFP via Getty Images)
One user posted: “Please, please triple your protection. If they can come for Trump they will also come for you. @elonmusk.”
Replying Elon Musk wrote: “Dangerous times ahead.
“Two people (separate occasions) have already tried to kill me in the past 8 months. They were arrested with guns about 20 mins drive from Tesla HQ in Texas.”
So if you’re a man who builds driverless cars and sends rockets into space, how would you protect yourself?
Well, when another person posted ‘You better beef up your security too @elonmusk’, he replied in typical Musk style.
“Maybe it’s time to build that flying metal suit of armor,” he wrote.
Now, hearing someone say, or suggest, they would make an Iron Man suit, you wouldn’t believe for a second it would fly or you could fire weapons out.
But, hearing the Space X owner say it, all of a sudden it seems possible.
