Elon Musk said late Thursday that he will attend Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday in the former president’s return to the town where he survived an assassination attempt in July.
“I will be there to support!” Musk replied to a post by Trump on the social media platform X.
Musk, the CEO of Tesla and owner of X, called Trump “tough” and officially endorsed him after he survived the July 13 assassination attempt in Butler, cementing Musk's shift toward right-wing politics.
The rally Saturday will be held at the same ground where Trump was grazed in the right ear and one rallygoer was killed when a gunman opened fire. The gunman, identified as a 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, was shot and killed by a Secret Service sniper.
In September, the former president survived another attempt on his life when a gunman hid undetected for nearly 12 hours at a golf course in one of his Florida clubs.
